9 months

Our Carter Buggins will be 9 months old tomorrow! And he is getting his first top tooth..He no longer wakes up to eat and go back to sleep at 5am in the night...hasn't for weeks...and sleeps 7-7 most nights...His napping is longer now too and we can really enjoy family naptime again on the weekends with both kids taking 2+ hr naps...we love it!

There are so many ways this little guy blesses us on a daily basis. His sister loves him so much and often calls him "Carter-boy, my friend, bro bro, or brudder"...I love to sing to him before naps and see his little dimples as he smiles up at me. He gets so excited to see Daddy when he comes home from work...those arms they start a flapping....A song that Mike just played for me yesterday sums up how I feel...it's really a good one for a good "cryfest." It's by the old lead singer of Hootie (Gotta love the group from the 90s) Darius Rucker, but he sings country now ...here are the 1st and last stanzas of the song (it's about a daughter, but I think of both kids)...Check it out on itunes if you are in the mood for a "bawl-a-rama"!

He didnt have to wake up

He'd been up all nite

Lay'n there in bed listen'n

To his new born baby cry

He makes a pot of coffee

He splashes water on his face

His wife gives him a kiss and says

It gonna be ok
It wont be like this for long

One day soon we'll look back laugh'n

At the week we brought her home

This phase is gonna fly by

So baby just hold on

It wont be like this for long..........

As he kisses her good night

And she says her prayers

He lays down there beside her

Till her eyes are finally closed

And just watch'n her it breaks his heart

Cause he already knows

It wont be like this for long

One day soon that little girl is gonna be

All grown up and gone

Yeah this phase is gonna fly by

He's try'n to hold on

It wont be like this for long

It wont be like this for long..