Rock On Yo

I know it wasn't Carson's first Christmas this year but my sister made him this last year and I just liked the way this picture turned out...plus it was the only clear bulb that I could play around with! I got Dave a Wii for Christmas. It FINALLY came yesterday. We spent some time last night playing around with it. It's actually really fun. I rocked Guitar Hero....Haha. My parents are out of town this week so I think my sister is going to come over and hang out with us on Sunday and give it a try. She'll have fun!

How about a Carson update? I can't believe how big he's getting.

• Has 6 teeth
• Will say "momma" "dadda" "bye-bye" and "santa"
• Can take 3 steps un-assisted
• Knows to put a phone to his ear and "talk" (he gets close, puts it to his shoulder)
• Knows to use the brush on his hair, will "brush" our hair
• Points to EVERYTHING
• Gives "hugs" to his stuffed animals. He'll hug them and pat their backs. It's soooo cute!
• Is only drinking whole milk, no more formula and only 1 bottle a day now
• Ate 3 pieces of pizza last weekend!!

I just can't believe how quickly he picks up on things now. If you show him something once, he's got it down for good. He's still sleeping really well. He goes down around 7:00PM still and will sleep until 8:00AM most mornings (if we let him). During the week we have to get him up earlier than 8:00 to get him to daycare on time. He's always been a fantastic sleeper.

So my parents are off having fun in the sun. Jealous. Totally. They come back on the 12th. Dave and I have my work's holiday party on the 11th. I'm not quite sure what we're going to do with Carson or if we're even gonna go. I haven't gone to the last 2 for various reasons and I feel like I "should" go to this one. We'll see. I literally just realized yesterday that my parents won't be in town to watch Carson. Our daycare lady offered to watch him...so that might work. It would be nice since they're so close to us.

Work has been busy. It will be for a while too. I actually really enjoy when things are crazy around here. It makes my day go by pretty quickly. But, I can't waste anymore time this morning so I'll be back another day!

Well actually, I cannot leave without showing you the newest member of the Walgrave household. Here he isWe haven't figured out a name yet...we keep arguing. I'm fighting for Tater (like tater-tot) but Dave doesn't want to seem to budge. HOW CUTE THOUGH?! He's still only about 4 weeks old, we won't get him until Februaryish. We're going out to visit this weekend though and then hopefully we can pick a name. Ok, now I've really gotta go!

Back and Better Than Ever!

I've been avoiding the computer as much as possible lately! But I'm back at work now, so no more avoiding! I've had a ton of time off the last 2 weeks (thank goodness this is a short week) and it's hard to get back into the swing of work today! I had two 4 day weekends in a row!! LOVE the holidays! Carson was home from daycare for 12 days and I guess it sounds like he had a tough time this morning...he cried when Dave left. He's been spoiled being home! It's just been a blast too...we didn't have any plans to leave the house at all this last weekend and we spent all of it inside enjoying our time together.

Christmas was GREAT! Carson got so incredibly spoiled! He sure has great family! I don't think I need to buy him clothes until he's 2!! Haha! We've got lots of new books and toys and he's just had a blast playing with everything.

New Years we invited over our friends Kate and Erik and our other friends Erica and Brent. We had two 3month old babies, a 4 year old and Carson...we sure had a house-full but it was fun! We ate chicken wings and the boys played video games and the girls talked about kids. Haha. Being that we all have kids, by 12:15 people were packing up to go home! New Years is sure a different experience when you're a parent to a young child. Pretty un-eventful but a blast anyways!

Jessica and I got the chance to re-connect with some old friends last weekend. WOW! It was so fun. They are 2 kids that we went to daycare with when we were younger and they were like brothers to us. It's amazing to reconnect with people like that, it's not awkward at all. I guess when you're that close with people even at a young age you retain that connection. Besides growing up, they hadn't changed a bit. It's comforting that people keep such key pieces of their personalities with them as they grow. We're hoping that we'll get to see them again in the summer...maybe to do a picnic and invite our moms. I don't think they've seen each other in years either! I'm looking forward to it!

Well I've got to get back to doing some work. I've got a lot to catch up on! I promise I'll get back to updating regularly as well! Happy New Year!