I can't believe all of the firsts we have had lately or how much our little guy has grown! Carson's first Thanksgiving was great but I'm excited for next year when he gets to have real food!
This is one of my favorite outfits! He looks too cute!
My child is beyond animated! He laughs all the time and thinks everything is funny. He has also learned to make faces at his momma (see below). My thought after seeing this is not only do I have one person looking at me like I'm crazy but now BOTH my boys do it! Great! Well... they are my two favorite people in the world so I guess it's okay!
Yes, my child LOVES Santa! We had a special visitor come to our house. I had a hard time finding a good picture because Carson was laughing and smiling so big! I wanted to cry because it was so much fun! The best part of the story came next... our neighbor Brian started to come over to our house that night for something but saw we had a car in front so decided not to come by... a few minutes later he was grilling and happened to look up to see Santa walking out of our house and get in his Hummer. First he couldn't believe that Santa was visiting but then he was in shock to find out that Santa drives a Hummer the rest of the year. When he knocked on my door he was laughing and so was I. Of course Carson also thought it was funny that we were laughing but I can't imagine standing in my driveway and seeing Santa at someones house unexpectedly!
Once I get my pictures from Christmas uploaded I will share them as well. Carson did ABSOLUTELY AMAZING on the drive to Tulsa. He only requested that we stop once when we hit South Dallas... we gave him a pacifier and he made it to North Dallas (a much better option for the stop!) I can't believe we only had to stop once for him the whole way! Of course when we got there he was WIDE awake and ready to play but Mommy and Daddy were ready to sleep! The drive was long and weather was not great!
Christmas morning we woke up then headed to Chase's Aunts house to celebrate with his Dad's side of the family. Everyone was there except for Nicholas but we were so happy to have Grandma Hutto well enough to join us! She loved baby Carson and watching B play with all of her toys and her Cousin Kyla. Next we headed to my dad's house to visit my dad and Patti. My grandpa was there too and he loved seeing how much Carson had grown since the last time he saw him! We left my dad's and headed back to Tulsa and was able to visit with my Cousin's Brittany Dana Casey and nephew Jake! It was SOOO good to see Jake and see how much he had grown! I was also delighted to see Brittany since it may have been my wedding the last time I saw her! SO GREAT! I only wish Nick would have been in town too but we are all just glad to have him state side again!
The next day we did Christmas with our moms! We woke up and had a big breakfast at my mom's house and did Christmas. David 'got a new knee' the week of Christmas and he enjoyed playing with Carson but I'm sure he would have liked to get down on the ground and play with him. Next Christmas Carson will be a lot more fun anyway! Then we headed to Chad and Natalie's house to see Linda and Tom. It was great to see them and for them to be able to see B and Carson too!
Carson clearly has a lot of people who love him! He got lots of clothes and toys that we are trying out each day! He also got some help from a few people with his college/life fund. We are so excited to have help getting him set up going in the right direction of life! We are all truly blessed to have so many great people in our lives!
Oh I almost forgot! We did get to run into Lauren, Kristin and Kyle too! It's always great to see all of them but I was beyond happy with how well Kyle took to Carson. There is no doubt how much Carson means to him... he didn't even get grossed out when Carson sneezed in his face! Carson took to Kyle too... We went to eat dinner and he really just wanted Kyle to hold him (no not his momma!) so of course Kyle did. I'm just going to assume that it's because I had a wall behind me and Kyle had the whole restaurant behind him for Carson to look at!
It really was a great trip. Carson did great on the drive home too but was VERY tired on Tuesday morning. When I went to wake him up so I could go to work he rolled over mid diaper change! Usually that cold wipe wakes him up but he really just wanted to sleep! Chase and I are so glad we got to take him home for his first Christmas but we are ALWAYS glad to be home!