Time FLIES when your having fun

Cleared for takeoff! On August 19, 2010, Carson officially flew on his first airplane. Although we were worried about how he may react, he did wonderfully. We flew on Southwest and it was great. Southwest truly is an excellent airline to fly. Trying to keep a 10month old confined for more than an hour was tough and thankfully he slept the entire flight, well at least for 3 of the flights. The last flight home, from Baltimore to Ft. Lauderdale, he was awake the ENTIRE time. Wiggling and squirming to get down. We let him play with the tray and the magazines and that kept him happy. Luckily we happened to be surrounded by Grandmas and they just ate him up to pieces.

The best part of the flight is when Carson was allowed to sit up front with the Pilot once we landed. I wish I would have gotten his name because he was sooo nice. Talked to Carson and Carson just loved it. The pilot even pulled the steering controls down for Carson to play with. This is my favorite photo. The pilot had him giggling. It was just the neatest thing. Imagine if my little man becomes a Pilot one day. Momma's going to Europe, Hawaii, the Caribbean. ha!!

Our journey led us to Averill Park, NY. My favorite place to be. Where as children, my brothers and I spent the majority of our summers with Nana, Poppi, Aunt Marion, Uncle Bobby, Carin and David (My mom's family). Averill Park, NY is where my mom grew up.

Now my cousin, Carin has her 2 girls, Emma and Claire. Love those girls! We stayed in Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts. It was beautiful and up in the mountains. The weather was AMAZING! Even had the girls up for sleepovers at JP. We had so much fun.

On Friday, we spent the day at Aunt Marion and Uncle Bobbie's and had a delicious lunch. Carson is definitely not use to all this fresh, clean air. After awhile of playing outside, he had enough. He was out like a light!

We spent Saturday at Eastfield Village in NY for my mom's reunion and then we headed to Glass Lake. Glass Lake was one of the lakes that we swam at as children and also where my cousin Lori grew up, who also traveled with us. I really wanted Carson to see NY. I know he won't remember it now, but this won't be our last trip there. I want him to see that there is so much more than South Florida. Everything is so peaceful and beautiful in NY. I just love it there. While we were there, my cousin Lori and I went for a quick, COLD, swim in the lake. Take it to the Edge!

(At Glass Lake)

We also spent some time with Poppi, Carson's Great Poppi.

On Saturday, Carson also met for the first time, his Uncle Rich and Aunt Candie. They live in a couple hours north in NY, but happened to be in the area over the weekend. So they stopped by and showered Carson with love and cute gifts!

On Sunday, my mom, Lori, Geoffrey, Joey and I did the Aerial Adventure at Jiminy Peak. Whew!! Now that was nerve wracking, but we did it!!!

And for the big news, which we all said was going to happen....Carson took his first official steps on his own. There he was holding on to the couch, when within a blink of an eye, he let go and walked to my mom. Thank goodness she was paying attention. Of course I couldn't get my camera out at that moment, but we tried our hardest to see if he would do it again. In this photo, although I was egging him on to "come here" he let go and came to momma.

We had such a wonderful vacation. It was over so fast, as my title says.. Time FLIES when your having fun. Such nice visits with Carin, Emma, Claire, Aunt Marion, Uncle Bobbie, David..Then Geoff's, Uncle Rich and Aunt Candie. And wonderful traveling partners, Mommy, Lori and Joey. Wonderful Memories.. Can't wait to do it again.

You can enjoy many more photos in my New York 2010 album on the right side of the blog. Enjoy!

10 Months Old

Carson 10 Months Old

Height: 30.5 inch 93rd%
Weight: 21lbs 2 oz I think it was 47%

His dr appt this month was a big one. I had a ton of questions and a very patient dr to answer them all. I've been very concerned with the fact that I soon will not have a baby on my hands, but the making of a toddler. That being said, a toddler eats different than a baby.

We've tried to put the formula in a sippy cup, 1 feeding a day or even just a little. Not sure how he takes it during the week, but he will drink 2 oz at home. Speaking of which, the kid is extremely picky about his sippy cups. We've have made quite a few purchases in the sippy cup department, only to find that he prefers the straw over anything else.

We've also let Carson have just a little bit of milk every now and then. He really likes it and I love the way he smacks his lips afterwords.

We've started giving him table foods. Anything that is easy for him to get down. He is starting to like ravioli's and just loves pasta. Little by little we are getting there.

This past month, we spent alot of time with our cousins in Fort Myers. We had 2 wonderful weekends. We celebrated Alesia's 13 birthday and had so much fun. My cousin Caroline also gave us ONE of the best tips ever. As simple as it is, Carson is thanking her in his own language. KIX! We traded out Gerber Puffs for Kix. He loves them. LOVES LOVES LOVES them! He also got to push around the chair that has been through 6 children and Carson was the 7th! Even after being away for 2 weeks, as soon as we were back, he went straight for the chair.

We also started sleep training Carson. If I could do it all over, I would have had Carson going to sleep in the crib earlier. Don't get me wrong, I loved every second of his snuggling, especially being away from him all day. But I learned, it is much better for him and for everyone else for him to sleep on his own. The first couple of days, he screamed himself to sleep. Thank goodness for the support of Geoffrey, my mom and Caroline. I thought I was going to throw up, I had to walk out of the house. It got better and we learned what works for one baby, may not work for all. Carson was passing out, not falling asleep. He would wake up every house screaming. So we changed it up a bit. After snuggle time, we lay him in the crib and sit in the room with him. After a couple nights, he was falling asleep, without screaming, in about 15 minutes. Not only this, but he was sleeping through the night and waking up well rested. We are working on putting him in, and him falling asleep without us there. We are getting closer every day.
The pediatrician explained to us that as long as he is laying by himself and falling asleep by himself, everything else will fall into place. He may just take a little bit longer, but he is grasping the concept and does not need us to rock him to sleep anymore.

Nap time.. Well that's another ball game. ;)

Carson is also the proud owner of his fourth tooth, second top tooth.

Life is getting much busier with an extremely active 10 month old. Hopefully next month I can blog on time!!