Carson is 2 months old!

To celebrate Carson's two-month birthday, we took him to watch the finish of his first professional bike race, the Tour de Georgia. We saw George Hincampe, Lance's former teammate come in second in today's stage. We parked in Mike's parking garage and walked over to finished at Centennial Park in downtown Atlanta.
Collin really enjoyed watching the bikes go by but crashed on the way home since he stayed up too late last night at a friend's house while we were at our neighborhood's progressive dinner. Carson went with us and everyone got to see how good of a baby he is. He was awake through appetizers and most of dinner and deserts at the clubhouse but stayed in his seat most of the time greeting many of our neighbors with smiles.

Carson has had a few more nights where he's slept all night (11 to 6), which is very nice of him. Still, the once a night waking isn't too bad since he's so close to us and I barely wake up to feed him. I thought life would change much more than it has - so far we haven't let having a newborn slow us down too much. I'm sure once he's crawling or needing to sleep in his own crib things will change, but until then we're enjoying being on the go as usual. Last week we went to the car show as a family, and during the week we're still running and errand or two after Collin's school and playground time. Carson has days where he's awake much more, but other days he still sleeps a lot. He is definately more alert and following sounds well. We're looking forward to his two-month doctors appointment to find out how much he weighs.

Spring Break

It's kinda funny to think preschoolers have a Spring Break but it's was good preview of summer not having anywhere we had to be so we decided to make the most of it. Monday we did our usual Monday morning run and playground visit with our friends Annabel and her mom Melinda. Tuesday we went to the zoo with our new friends Alex and his baby brother Bo (and mom Erika). Bo is just three days younger than Carson. Wednesday we enjoyed a walk and lunch with our friends Katie, Shelby (and mom Kim), went to the park and made some deliveries. Thursday we took a big trip south to Callaway Gardens with our friends Cameron and Conner (and mom Stephanie). Here's a picture of Cameron, Collin, Conner and Carson (lots of "Cs"!) in the Callaway sign outside the Butterfly House. The Azaleas were beautiful but the boys probably enjoyed the boat taxi the most. Friday we were able to meet with some friends from church who had a baby a few weeks before Carson was born. The week flew by quickly and it was fun to catch up with friends that have opposite school days as Collin. We had a great week visiting with friends and enjoying the beautiful spring weather and flowers!

Six weeks

It's hard to believe how big our little baby is getting - he graduated from "Newborn" to size "1" diapers around 1-month, and now he has already grown out of several of his 0-3 month outfits which is sad. He doesn't even seem like a newborn baby to us, probably because of his hair and size. His head is still wobbly, but he's beginning to be able to pick it up and hold it for short stretches of time. Carson actually enjoys being on his belly sometimes, so we try to get in tummy time as much as we can, but a lot of the time he's in his car seat or bouncy seat, and we just got out the swing this week.

He does still sleep much of the day, but we've had a few days where he's decided to be awake, and a few evenings where we've needed to hold him. I read somewhere that an average 6-week-old baby cries for 4 hours a day, and collicy babies cry 6 hours a day. Wow- we do have it good! The amount of time Carson cries is directly proportional to the number of times I change his diaper a day and the speed that I respond to his hunger cries, since usually the only time he cries is if his diaper is off or if he's hungry - usually a total of only about 10-15 minutes a day.

Most days Carson wakes up when we do (I usually put him in his bouncy seat while I eat my grapefruit and then feed him), then he's awake while I'm getting lunches and Collin ready in the morning, falls asleep on the way taking Collin to school around 9:30 AM. Dependng on my morning he usually sleeps in his carset while I do a facial or get something done until I wake him for lunch around noon before I have to pick up Collin. He continues to sleep until 3 or so and sometimes stays awake for an hour or so and other times goes back to sleep until 5ish. He's up most of the evening - here's a picture of the boys after Collin's bedtime around 10 PM when Carson is wide awake. I feed Carson before I go to bed around 11:30 or midnight and then put him in the pack & play next to our bed. He wakes around 3:30 AM and then 6ish. One day I'll get brave and put him to sleep in his own room to see if he'll sleep even better (Collin was in his crib the 2nd night home from the hospital). He did actually sleep through the night once (midnight- 6 AM) at 5 weeks old, on March 31st.

We haven't taken as many pictures lately because he's got a bit of baby acne but he's still super cute as you can see. We're often treated as celebraties when walking through places with everyone gawking and commenting on his hair, asking how old he is and how they've never before seen a baby with so much hair. Apparently an old wives tale says that when the mom has heartburn during her pregnancy, the baby will have hair. While I don't normally believe such tales, it is ironic that heartburn was one of my only symptoms of pregnancy and both my boys were born with a full head of hair.