Carter's First Friend

Jason and Carter

Tiny baby!

Carmen and Jacob brought Jackson over to visit Carter last week (they also brought us dinner, which we greatly appreciated!). For those of you who haven't met Jackson, he's the cutest, most well behaved toddler I've ever met. He's an absolute dream. Jason and I hope Carter turns out just like him. We also hope they end up being the best of buddies. :)

First Bottle

Carter had his first bottle today. I continue to be amazed by how easy going he is. After all the horror stories I've heard about babies who refuse to take a bottle (especially if the milk factory, AKA Mom, happens to be in the room), I was totally prepared for him to look at us like we were nuts to expect him to drink out of one. Nope. He happily chugged the thing down as if he'd been doing it forever. We won the baby lotto.

Jason's First Father's Day

We did Father's Day at our house yesterday. Both of our families came up and we ate more food than anyone ever should. Man it was good though!

We also managed to take some rather adorable pictures and videos of Carter. :)

Andy's High School Graduation

Mommy and baby.

Uncle Duane with Carter. Why do I suspect that it'll be Duane who gives Carter his first beer and box of condoms??? Hahaha. Lets just hold off till he's at least, oh I dunno... 30 or so. Mmmkay?

4 generations of Didricksen men.

Great Grandma Rosie, Grandma Sandy, and Carter.

Well, I'm a little out of order here. The graduation ceremony and party were actually last Saturday (6/13), but I left my camera at Jim and Sandy's so I've been unable to upload them until now. I've also been unable to take new pics all week. Awesome.

Anyway, the ceremony was great and the party was a blast. I think the highlight of the ceremony (besides the fact that Andy graduated of course) was the student speaker who made several "That's what she said" jokes. Hilarious.

Let me tell you... Jim and Sandy throw one heck of a party! They turned their backyard into one big party area. It was excellent.

Weenie Update

Carter feels MUCH better today, as do I. He's pretty much back to his regular cheerful self. My evidence of this is the fact that he peed on me twice this morning and seemed quite pleased with himself. I was so relieved that his little boy parts evidently didn't hurt that I was actually happy to be peed on. Go figure.

My Poor Baby

Carter got circumcised today. It was definitely the most horrible experience of BOTH our lives thus far. No question. I didn't stay in the room during the actual proceedure. I just couldn't. I left that to Jason. Supposedly they numbed him up, but when I went in afterwords to try to calm him down the poor little guy was screaming hysterically. I mean SCREAMING like he never has before. He wouldn't even nurse for awhile and was obviously in pain. It was absolutely awful.

He fell asleep in the car on the way home and is still out (2 hours later). I'm dreading what will happen when he wakes up. They said we can give him Tylenol every 4-6 hours. Yeah... I'm sure Tylenol will be extremely effective when they just snipped off the tip of his weenie. RIGHT. His regular doc said to give him something called Arnica every couple hours. I guess it's supposed to help with swelling, brusing, etc. Hopefully between the two it'll at least take the edge off.

Ok, I'm off to continue feeling like a horrible person for hurting my baby. It might be time for another beer. Yes, I had one when we got home. And no, I didn't care in the least that it was only noon.

Carter's First Professional Pics

Last Friday we had some professional pics taken of Carter. Of course, the photographer wanted to get the adorable "Anne Geddes" type naked baby pics (don't get me wrong, I wanted them too). The only problem was Carter HATED being naked. Yeah... it was a little stressful. We got some great shots in the end though. They're not all up yet, but the photographer put several on her blog. They should be right at the top under the "6 day old Sneak Peek" section.

http://www.cmbcphotography.blogspot.com/

I'll post the access info when the rest of the pics are ready for viewing.

We have the cutest baby on the planet

Love the funny faces!

The First Week

Jason and Carter passed out on the couch.

Aw!

Hanging out in the bouncy chair.

Napping on mommy and daddy's bed.

Carter is such an easy baby. He eats like a champ (takes after Jason) and sleeps well. He never cries. Overall it has been an easy transition from "couple" to "family". We feel so lucky to have such a great baby.

I can't believe it's been a week and a half already. Sometimes it seems like he was born yesterday, and others like it was a lifetime ago. Time does funny things once you have a baby. I can no longer imagine my life without him in it. In fact, I hardly remember what it was like before he was here. We're so blessed. :)

Carter is here!!!!

Carter James Didricksen arrived on June 5th, 2009 at 6:12am after only 5 hours of labor. He weighed in at 7lbs. 8 oz. and was 20 inches long.

He is absolutely perfect. He is also the cutest baby I've ever seen. Of course, I might be just the slightest bit biased. Maybe.