Gerber baby!

So I entered Carter into a Gerber photo contest. If you want to vote for him here are the steps. Go to Gerber.com and click on the photo contest. Click on enter now. Then click on vote for July photos then there will be a search box. All you have to do is type in 74241 and Carters picture comes up. Click vote and enter your email address. You can vote once a day until the end of this month. I need all the votes i can get so please vote. Thank you!

We're back!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my!!!!! has it really been almost a year since i have blogged? wow! Instead of writing everything down that has happened in the last year i will start with today and go forward. We have now lived in our house for about a year and a half. We love Claremont and love living so close to family. Ryan keeps busy with his work and i keep busy during the day with Carter. Carter is now 19 months old and is very active. He is such a sweet little boy but wears us out. Don't kids know that it is ok to relax every now and then? We also keep busy with our callings at church. Ryan is in the YM presidency and i am the nursery leader. I like being in the nursery because hey, its one of the few callings that you can have snack time too. Ha ha! Yes, as you can tell food is a priority in my life, as for Ryan he has been very disciplined with his diet. He has lost 65 lbs. this year and is still going. He is even training for a half marathon in September. I am very proud of him and for all the hard work he has accomplished. So for the whole 2 people that are reading this i promise i won't let another year go by without updating this.

Updates!

Updates coming soon.......

If your happy and you know it!!!!!

So we took Carter to babies "r" us over the weekend to get some pictures taken. He was in the best mood and smiled for almost every picture. I love the picture place they have there. It is called kiddie kandids. The people that work there are great. Here are a few of the pictures we took.

Big Boy!

Carter is getting so big. He has gone from 4 lbs. to almost 18 lbs. now. The boy sure likes to eat. He recently started eating baby food. So far he likes applesauce, bananas, carrots, and squash. He is a little piglet. He is getting quite the personality. He lets you know if he wants something or not. He is not the little preemie baby that used to sleep all day. There is no doubt that his lungs are fully developed. He is a really good baby though. He only cries when he is hungry or is tired. He is almost 7 months old now. Time flies, it seems like it was just yesterday we brought him home from the hospital. He is a really curious baby. He loves to look around at everything around him, but he will only smile when he is in the mood.

Carter update

He sleeps like this all the time. It is so cute
Exhausted as usual
Give a little whistle!
He looks so sad here.
Bathtime! He either loves it or hates it.

He poses like this all the time. He looks so comfy
Carter is getting so big. He was 4lbs. 3 oz. when he was born and now he is almost 9 lbs. I can't believe how fast he is growing. He is such a good baby. He has been home a little over a month now. We can see a big difference in the way he looks now then when he came home. He has already outgrown some of his clothes and continues to grow and develop the way that we wanted him too. I love being a mom and spending time with my baby boy.

An Early Christmas Present!

That's right. I had my baby 7 weeks early. His name is Carter Joshua Ward. He was 4 lbs. 3 oz. when he was born. He is so little i feel like i am going to break him everytime i touch him. He is doing a lot better now. He is breathing on his own now and is enjoying life so far. He is only a little over a week and he is already so alert. He also loves kicking his legs. The nurses wrap him up in his blanket and everytime he manages to escape out of it. Overall he is an easy baby. The nurses say he is the quietest one. We are waiting for the day that we can bring him home from the hospital but for now we are letting the nurses and doctors take care of him the best they can so he can come home soon.