International Legion of Mommies

When I was in my second trimester of pregnancy, I started going to prenatal yoga at Yoga Yoga. I started going for the nice meditative stretches but soon realized I would meet some cool soon-to-be-mommies. Today was the first time I met up with two women I met in yoga and a few others they met along the way. Six moms and 7 kids met for lunch today at the Cheesecake Factory: one from France; one from Hungary; one from Japan; two from the Ukraine; and little ol' me. It was so cool to talk to all these woman from all over the world and gush over each sweet little baby. Carter was the youngest of the group and enjoyed the chatter of all the different languages so much he quickly drifted off to sleep. It was a lot of fun. I will try to get a photo of all the kids next time we go out.

Over the last few days Carter has become increasingly aware of his hands and his thumb. This was one of his successful attempts without our help.

First Smiles

Carter is just over 6 weeks and is beginning his social smiles. It's so exciting whenever we can get him to smile for something other than gas. Today we caught him in an especially great mood..enjoy the video and the little treat at the end....

Cradle cRap

Poor Carter G. The cradle cap has reared it's ugly head. I know it doesn't bother him, but it sure bothers the heck out of me. Today I decided to do something about it. After reading about it in our baby book I slathered his little head with Vaseline and then washed his hair really well. When that didn't work I tried using a little bit of Selsun Blue on it. Now his hair is a weird combination of crusty dandruff and slimy patches of Vaseline that I cannot wash out no matter how hard I try. Good thing he is cute...and good thing we bought this hat yesterday. Next time you see him, please, don't look under the hat.

Introducing Carter G

Carter George Anderson was born on January 29, 2009 at 5:45 in the afternoon. He weighed 8lbs 8oz and was 21 inches long. Now that I have a baby I figured it's a good time to start updating this blog but don't expect anything funny or witty. Kate, Maggie and Stacy set the bar too high for me. Mostly you can expect to see lots of pictures. I mostly post pictures on Picasa, you can view them by clicking HERE. Enjoy!