THE BLAND FAMILY: February 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Mr. Elephant

We got this elephant for Carson and started taking his picture next to it so we could see how much he grows each mo.......Here are the first 5 mos! I can't believe how quickly it's flown by.

4 weeks

2 mos.

3 mos.

4 mos.

And of course Emma had to get one too......

5 mos.

And I have to throw in Emma on her 6th birthday......

The doctor told us at Carson's 4-mo. checkup that we should go ahead and introduce solids! I was hesitant as this means that he's not a baby anymore. :-( But we slowly started and Mr. C is really getting the hang of it now! We're up to cereal twice a day - breakfast and dinner. And have now added veggies and fruits. For now, 1/2 veggie at lunch and 1/2 fruit at dinner. He seems to like everything so far. I don't think he was too thrilled w/ the cereal or green beans at first, but he seems to be eating the cereal like a champ now, so we'll give the beaners a try again soon. Probably shouldn't have started w/ those. :-) But he seems to love sweet potatoes and squash....and all the fruits so far.

First bites of rice cereal

Green beans

Sweet potatoes

Applesauce

Squash

Stats

Here are the little man's stats so far......

Birth:
9lbs. 5.6 oz.
21 1/4 inches

2 weeks:
9 lbs. 3 oz.
22 in.
38 cm.

4 weeks:
11 lbs. 5.4 oz.

8 weeks:
15.0 lbs.
25 in.

4 mos.:
18 lbs. 12 oz. (97%)
28 in. (100%)
44 cm. (89%)

Friday, February 26, 2010

Catching up!

Well, I decided to finally start a blog as a way to keep up with all of Carson's "firsts". An online "baby book" that we can look back on. :-) And a good way to keep family and friends updated. So here we go! Guess we should catch up to today first!

We were blessed to welcome Carson Reed into the world on September 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM. He weighed in at 9 lbs., 5 1/2 oz. and was 21 1/4 inches long. He arrived 4 days late and via c-section. I hope that he doesn't stay as stubborn as he started out to be! So far, he's perfect (to us, at least!)

Excited for the arrival