Yep, Mama and Dada are running a little behind on a milestone post. But we're willing to bet that if you spent all day with the most active little man ever, you'd be behind on other tasks (eating, bathing, posting on the family blog) too!
Carter has welcomed his tenth month with a flurry of activity. I have taken to calling him "Mini Mighty Mouse" because he never. Stops. Moving. Ever. Around seven a.m., I am called to his nursery with squawks -sometimes growls, growling is a current fascination and preferred form of communication - to find him standing up, a big grin on his face. From that moment until roughly twelve hours later, Carter is on the go. Crawling, rolling, pulling up, standing, turning, cruising, grabbing, banging, toppling towers of blocks, crashing... it's hard to find an action verb that doesn't apply to one Mr. Carter Christopher White. Thank goodness for affordable on-site daycare at my gym and for the carpeted, block-and-platform-filled space at Gymboree! These outlets for action were especially important to my sanity last week when we were snowed in for a day during "Snow-pocalypse 2011." A special thanks to Dax for quickly shoveling 20+ inches of snow so that Carter and I could emerge as soon as possible from our house.
Here are two pictures taken on February 7th, two more post-blizzard and a final shot I snapped yesterday showing the little man taking a brief moment to stop and grin.
