Updates - Part 1

I have been terrible at posting. I've just been having too much fun not working like crazy. In the evenings at home, I've been too tempted to just sit and enjoy a good book instead of posting. But I've finally procrastinated too long, so here's part one of the update.

The coloring on this one isn't great, but I love this picture of Daja and Austin.

What a smile!!

This is also a very common smile - the fingers automatically fly up to his mouth!


Since the last post, we've done some fun things. We took Austin to his first Easter egg hunt at church. He didn't really grasp the idea, but we all had fun with it. For the little ones, the eggs were just laid out in the grass and you were supposed to get the eggs shown on your piece of paper. We ignored the rules and just got a few eggs. Here is Austin and Daddy getting eggs.

"What else is in this basket??" Note the grass from the basket is all on the ground.

The bulk of our pictures from this event look something like this. Evidently plastic eggs are quite tasty!


We took Austin to the pool for the first time. I think he is going to be a water baby. He seems to love it.

The first time we just went in the kiddie pool. We got Austin a little ring float and put him in the float. He was able to touch the bottom and walk/float around in the pool, which he really seemed to enjoy. His favorite game is to take Daddy's hat off and throw it in the water. Luckily Daddy is a good sport about wearing a soaking wet hat!!



That's all for now. More pictures will be posted soon!

Mr Personality

A week ago on Sunday the space shuttle took off from Cape Canaveral. We were able to see the shuttle from our backyard. It was really cool!! We were able to even see the shuttle separate from the solid rocket boosters.

Sometimes I am confused as to who is the dog around our house.

Here is Austin standing at the coffee table. One of his favorite activities these days is stand at the coffee table, grabbing everything possible, or banging on the table.

Here are a few fun high chair pictures...




Saturday while I was at work, Nathan and Austin went to the barber shop for Austin's first haircut.
Checking out the cool cape!

"Not too sure about this, but hopefully Daddy will protect me if things get hairy."

Here we are, all done. What a handsome boy!!

The only downside to the haircut was the stylist's fragrance. Two whole days later, his hair STILL smells like the lady. And it isn't a pretty fragrance. I've even tried using adult shampoo on his hair to get rid of the smell, but to no avail.

Up and Moving!!

Yes, this post is quite belated, but there is this pesky thing called tax season that has been keeping me rather busy. The latest pictures will be posted soon, along with a video or two.

So tax season has been going well. Balancing work and family has been challenging, but the stress is mostly self-induced. I won't bore you with the details of my crazy schedule other than to say most mornings I feel like a zombie. I am trying to learn as much as possible and make up for my shortened tax season last year. Which brings me to another thought - At this time last year, I was on my second week of "house arrest" and wondering when this baby would come. Life has changed so completely for us in the past year and we love it!! We are so blessed to have such an amazing, happy, healthy little boy.

So here's what the Carr family has been up to the past month.
Somewhere around the middle of February, Austin began to army crawl over to you and try to pull up to a standing position on you. He needed only a little bit of help.

Feb 22 - Nathan leaves for his annual ski trip with work. The same day, Austin sits up by himself. It is a slow process, but he has it mastered by the end of the day! This is a great improvement because it means that he can sit up and lay down at will, and doesn't have to scream when he lays down and can't get back up!

Beginning of March - Tooth number six breaks through. Austin now has three on top and three on the bottom.

March 6 - Austin stands up by himself in the pack n'play at Karie's and stands for several minutes at a time.

March 10 - Austin begins cruising in the pack n' play. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, cruising refers to the action of holding on to something and walking. For example, holding on to the coffee table while walking. He is still very unsteady, but is ready to move!

March 12 - Tooth number seven breaks through. Austin now has the four center teeth on top and three teeth on the bottom. He is also chewing on his fingers like crazy, so I think another tooth is on the way.

As you can see, it has been a busy, busy month! Baby boy is SO much fun right now. He is saying all kinds of baby words - ma, da, ba, doe, la, etc. He finds beating on things to be great fun - anything that makes noise is fair game. I gave him a large plastic serving spoon from the kitchen a week ago and you would have thought I gave him gold! He waves it around and bangs it on stuff. One night he insisted on taking it into the bath, so for the time being it is a bath toy.

Lotsa Pictures!!!

Austin finally has enough hair to play with and so we had a little fun with it!!


Austin and Mommy having fun. If you look closely, you can see his single upper tooth on the left side of his mouth. He looks totally snaggle-toothed!


Whatcha got there mom??


Here is sleepy baby boy early one morning before going to Miss Karie's house. He looked so cute and snuggly warm in his car seat that we had to take a picture. Notice the cute hat on his head - this winter hat is a size 2-5T. Yes, that's generally for TODDLERS. He has a LARGE head!!



A couple of weekends ago, Grandma Short (aka GG to her great grandkids) came to Sarasota with Aunt Sandy to meet Austin for the first time. We had a great visit!


Tiger decided that it would be fun to see what the pack-n-play is like.


My two favorite Gator boys. Austin has finally learned to hold his own bottle.


Here are a couple of my favorites from our attempts at a Christmas picture.
These two definitely look like they will be getting into trouble together soon!!

This picture cracks me up every time I see it.