MAMA :*)

The title says it all :)

Carter said Mama last night, FINALLY! He only said it a few times, but it was great anyway. I dont have any pictures with me to post here at work, but i have a TON of pictures at home. hopfully tonight i can put some up!! He is getting so big. Next month is his 1st birthday :) I STILL cant believe he will be 1 already!

As for other news.....

Most of our family & friends know how hard it has been to get Carter to sleep through the night. well, after 10 LONG months he is finally sleeping through the night :) As a newborn Carter had Colic and that lasted until he was almost 4 months old...that was hard let me tell you! But he never slept more than 4 hours straight at night. From 4- 6 months old he slept better but, was still waking up at least once in the middle of the night. After teething started it was all over from there....he started waking up SEVERAL times at night, wanting to sleep in our bed. This lasted from about Christmas until March! So finally the day before his 10 month old birthday CJ & I both decided we were going to give the cry it out method a try! Both of us were exhausted and willing to try just about anything to get some rest and help Carter sleep better too! We were both hesitant to try this method because neither one of us wanted to hear our precious little boy cry, but after only 30 mintues of crying a miracle happened! He fell sound asleep and slept the whole night through, Im talking 10 hours straight! From that night on Carter has slept through the night :) He falls alseep between 7:30 and 8 and I have to go in and wake him up for daycare. Sometimes he falls asleep by 7 if he hasnt had a good nap during the day. This is a complete turn around from what I used to go through every night with him. Somtimes I would have to rock him for an hour before he would fall asleep. So anyway, we are so happy about all of this and he is a much happier baby now too. Also, the next morning after our first night of peace, lol...Carter woke up to a brand new top tooth :) The top left tooth poked through on his 10 month old birthday!! I can see the second one under his gums but it has yet to come out. It will soon I hope. And lastly.....Carter has been crawling since march 10th, but about a week before Easter grammy got him a little Mickey Mouse push train that he can ride on or push while walking. Well, on Easter (4-12-09) he mastered this and has been pushing it around the house ever since!! I really feel like he will be walking by his 1st birthday =) He is SOO much fun at this age, I wish he could stay this way forever. I am behind on alot of these posts because I have been trying to put videos of him crawling and walking on here but its not working. I will keep trying and hopefully will have everything up to date soon.....bye for now ;P