Toddler Room!

I know that I need to still post about Christmas, but January is always a busy, busy time and there's just no time to blog! So that will have to wait. ;)

For now, all I wanted to report is that I am officially the mother to a little boy. He is no longer my "baby". Well, as of tomorrow. Tomorrow, Carson finally moves up to the big boy class! He is officially a toddler! Of course, he has been for a while, but now it's official in the eyes of daycare! He will (finally) join his friends again tomorrow! Reunited at last. His buddies all moved up at the beginning of January, but there wasn't room for Carson. So it's just been he and Aubree as the only walkers in Infant II. He spent the first day without them wandering around the room. So sad! And he was SO FUSSY those first few days. He was also sprouting a mouth full of teeth at the time (TWELVE now!!). But I think a lot of it was to do with missing his friends. So while we will miss Ms. Kathy, Ms. Kirsten, and Ms. Molly SO MUCH, we're very excited to be moving up! It gets a little boring with all those babies!

With every exciting new thing, though, it becomes more clear that I have a little boy now and not a baby! I joked with Lucas last week that he doesn't even need us anymore! He's now feeding himself his entire meal w/ a spoon. It's so fun to watch him. He's so determined and so proud of himself when he gets that spoon to his mouth! He's getting really good at it. He won't let us feed him at all. It's actually not so bad because it means that I can eat a hot meal every once in a while too. :) But it's good practice, because they'll be using spoons in his new class. And Dixie cups! No more sippy cups. I still can't quite believe that one. We definitely will need to work on that - we're not even close on that one. They sleep on cots in the Toddler room too. No more cribs! I can't believe how quickly the time has flown by. I may get sad every once in a while that he's not a baby, but he is such an awesome little boy that I can't be sad for long. He's so much fun now. He makes us laugh every day. He chatters constantly - I can't wait until we can understand everything he's trying to say! Lucas was just telling a friend today that Carson is the best thing he's ever done. I would have to agree. We're pretty lucky...

What a boring post with no pictures, huh? Here's a recent one of him getting ready to brush his teeth. He LOVES it, but just this week, he's getting to the point where he won't let me help so we've had some battles. He utilizes the less effective "suck on the toothbrush" method. We'll keep working on that. :)