Last week, Carter went to North Carolina with my parents for the entire week. My dad has been doing work on the Georgia Pacific plant outside of Goldsboro, North Carolina and Carter wanted to go on the airplane back to "Caroline" as he calls it, with his Didi. Of course, all he had to do was mention this to Didi and he jumped all over it. Last Sunday, we said goodbye to our baby and set out to do some remodeling while he was gone. We had decided to convert his baby bed into a "big boy bed" and thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to do this. With the help of Mack Daddy (this is what the boys call Todd's dad), Todd took his baby bed apart and turned it into a full size bed. Mack Daddy also helped us rearrange his furniture a little to make more room for him to play in his floor. It was an emotional time for me, and while Todd didn't quite understand why I teared up, all I could think about was the day that my mom and I put his bed together because I could not wait for Todd to get home to help us. I was about 8 months pregnant and could not wait to meet my first-born child. It was hard for me to believe that he was old enough to sleep in a big bed full time! At any rate, with his room complete, we waited until he got home on Friday to tell him about the change. We told him that we had a surprise for him and took him upstairs for him to see. He stood in shock for a minute before saying "I have a big boy bed". It was too cute! He really seems to like his bed and is sleeping better at night-he doesn't toss and turn so much! We were scared that we would have a difficult time getting him to stay in his bed, but so far, it hasn't been too bad. The fact that we put bed rails up on both sides of his bed help out tremendously! He is very proud of himself for sleeping in his bed and we are too! He is becoming such a little boy, now if we could just conquor potty training!!
Jackson has decided within the last couple of days that he wants to totally feed himself. Before now, he was content with having some food to pick up on his own, and would allow one of us to feed him as well. Not anymore! He wants to do it all himself. It is so funny and it brings back so many memories from Carter trying to feed himself. Jackson isn't quite sure how to manipulate a fork or spoon so, after a few minutes of trying to get food on his spoon, he usually ends up holding it with one hand and picking up the food with the other and shoveling it into his mouth. He does not want you to try to take the spoon from him though! It doesn't matter that he isn't using it!! Today was no exception to his newfound independence. He wanted chocolate pudding but would not let me feed it to him. While he has tried feeding himself before, he has never tried anything quite this messy! He screamed until I gave him the pudding cup along with his spoon. He did a much better job than I thought-he actually managed to get some of the pudding in his mouth! I couldn't resist taking some pictures of him. For the life of me, I could not get him to laugh though. He really takes eating seriously!!
We hope you enjoy some of the firsts at our house-I'm sure that there will be more to come!! Keep checking back often!
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