"Can you just stay this small Forever?"

It's been so bittersweet watching my little man grow up. He has gotten so big and so smart. It's seriously the most amazing thing to watch him explore, grow, and develop, and do new things. These past few days he has done some things that have just melted my heart and made me want him to stay this small forever. I love every stage they go through, newborn, infant, toddler, there's fun things about each stage and at each stage I remember thinking, "I just want him to stay this small."

Anyway...so the other day Carson was playing with his train and he would go sit on it and then run back to me and give me a big hug and rest his head on my shoulder and just hug me for a little while then go back to his train and playing for a about 30 seconds then would run back and give me a hug again and rest his head on my shoulder, he did this about 3-4 times. It was the most precious thing ever, I sat there and thought just how lucky I am to be his mom.

He is also so particular sometimes, he loves both me and Keith, but since I spend 24/7 with him and feed him most of the time he sometimes just wants his mom, so he's started to actually say, MOM. I love it! When I first heard it I got so excited! Now whenever he wants me or wants to eat he'll say, MOM, MOM, MOM. It's sooo cute!

The other day I asked him if he wanted to go outside and he said, "YEAH!" oh he's my little boy!
He also says, OW, WoW, and Thank You. OW is is new favorite word, I think he says that the most besides MOM.

Yesterday, I took off his shirt to change his clothes and he immediately runs into his room and into his bathroom to the tub and put his leg up getting ready to put himself in, I had to hurry in there and let him know I needed to do that, and take off his diaper too. It was just so cute to me that he immediately thought, since I was taking off his clothes it was bath time, he sure loves his baths!

He also is so particular when it comes to eating dinner, he wants to eat our food instead of his. He somehow believes that our food is superior to his and therefore wants to eat ours. We have figured out how to trick him though by putting his food on our plate and acting like it's ours. He will eat it if it's on our plate, he's hilarious.

He has this train that he got from his Grandma Penrod for Christmas. He is big enough to where he has figured out how to climb up on it and sit down on the seat. He loves to play with all the buttons that make noise. It's so cute to see him figure things out on his own.

so baby picture perfect. I can't believe he used to be this small!