sorry!

so its been awhile...to say the least. but let me tell you, once your child starts to leard how to army crawl (and gets faster at it every minute) your life turns upside down. Carter is now hearing the word "No!" several times a day. He loves to play with everything he isn't supposed to. The fireplace screen, the cords hanging from the phone, curtains, etc. Let's just say he is a very curious child.

If you haven't seen him in awhile you would be in shock at how much he has grown up. He is so big! He has so much hair now! He is sitting, crawling, can go from all fours to sitting up, and...saying "Mama". And yes, I do understand that he isn't saying it at me, he has no idea that I am Mama, but once he does realize it at least he will already be able to say it! YAY!

He is eating three meals a day of baby food. I still make my own organic carrots, peaches, green beans, peas, and sweet potatoes. I buy the Motts All Natural applesauce and most other fruits. Pears are hard to find, blueberries are way too expensive, and other fruits are a pain to make. He also started eating yogurt for breakfast. He LOVES it! (But the wallet doesn't, baby yogurt is expensive!) He eats the Yo!Baby Soy yogurt. Why? Because babies have to have whole milk yogurt, no lowfat or nonfat and whole milk yogurt is so hard to find! The only things he does not like are banana's and apricots. I am really trying to get him to work on his self feeding skills with Gerber Puffs but he can't quite get down the "claw" grasp. So the end up sticking in his fist for awhile. Poor kid. He also gets around 27 ounces of formula a day.

He is sleeping from 8pm-6:30am. Wonderful...now if I could just get him to sleep until 7am. Or 7:30am...hmm...that would be lovely. He usually goes down without a fight, we have a small bottle, read a book, then it is off to the land of nod and party time for mommy!

Well, I think you are caught up with Carter. Words can't explain all his talents right now. You have to see him in action to understand. He is amazing. Period.

a little late

okay, okay- i am in late. but in my defense i did get the 7 month pic emailed to everyone.

anyway- so my little man is 7 months old. which means i am less than half way there to 1 year. holy crap. i swear i still look at him like he is a tiny, helpless baby. everyone always says "oh he is so big!" i swear i don't see it. he still looks like my baby to me. i guess that's a mom thing, huh?

before i know it i will be planning his first birthday party, buying him his first school supplies, and then arguing with him about his first car, then....dropping him off at Ball State. Okay, so i am getting a little ahead of myself, but i swear i need to quit blinking. it is all going way too fast. now i know why some people have so many babies. they never want to stop being 'momma'.

speaking of having more babies (and NO I AM NOT PREGNANT) it has come to my attention that i need to seriously get my butt in shape. one reason- someone asked me at church if i was expecting. now WHY ON EARTH would you ask someone that if you weren't 110% sure??? chad says he would never ask a lady if she was pregnant unless he actually saw a baby coming out of her. nice... so- ab workouts here i come!!!! :)

here is a list of my little man's accomplishments thus far:

sitting up unassisted

getting on all fours

rocking on all fours

a very very very slight army crawl on all fours

can "wave" bye bye except for when you say bye bye (we're working on it)

can stand while holding on to things

has one tooth on the bottom and the other one pushing thru

blowing raspberries...constantly

eating three meals a day

he is fully weaned from nursing

and my favorite one of all...the day i thought would never come...he is sleeping 7:30am-5am (then he will fall back asleep until 7am). YAY!

so there you have it. my baby. all grown up.

Sunny Day

my olympic boyfriends

i'm in love with this man.

and this man.

yes. i am in the olympic spirit. chad undertands- all i hear about is womens beach volleyball and jenny finch. so we are okay with eachother lusting after this years olympic athletes.

a nice weekend

so it was a pretty quiet, normal weekend in the Leduc house. on saturday we hung around until it was time to go to my nephews bday party at my moms house. it was fun....he got a lot of wonderful presents for his birthday and carter was a very, very good boy. mamaw even gave him some icing and icecream (when my back was turned). we stayed out there for dinner (ribs, chicken, baked taters...YUM!) and then came home. sunday was our usual-mass, grocery, etc. carter went to aunt debbies house for a couple hours while i shopped and while daddy watched the USA bball team play. then we went to my grandmas for my cousins bday dinner (mexican chicken, ribs, baked taters....YUM!) if i had to sum up the weekend in two words it would be "I'm full."

i took some pretty good pics of carter today outside- stay tuned!

amazing blog

yes, i am a blog addict. and yes, this one is truly amazing. take the 15-20 minutes to read this blog- start from the beginning- it is a story of faith, hope, loss, and love. really makes you appreciate what you have and to not take any second of life for granted.

here it is:
Mom4Life

and here is her store she runs:
Mom4Life Store

some six month pics

MORE TO COME LATER!!!!!

my son doesn't want me to sleep...only daddy

so last night when i went to tell chad goodnight (i do homework all night long) he told me he was going to get carter when he woke up in the middle of the night. AWESOME! carter has been getting up around 3:30am and then again around 5 or 5:30am. he doesn't want to eat you just have to soothe him back to sleep. rub his back, give him paci and blankie, etc...

so chad took the monitior and put it on the table next to his side of the bed. well, guess what happened? carter didn't wake up once. what a punk. he is so grounded. but it was nice sleep! of course i woke up when chad did at 5:30 in a panic...i went to check on him and he was just fine!

of course.

pictures I wanted to share

Bliss. I am having this picture drawn. Can't wait!

Chaos in the form of grandchildren

9 of the 14 grandchildren + 3 great-grandchlildren

My aunts, my grandma, and me at the surprise party