One Month

Today my little guy is ONE MONTH OLD!  What a month it has been, it feels like he's been here forever, but it also feels like he was just born yesterday, if that makes any sense.  (If it doesn't it's because I'm still sleep deprived - I have not had more than 2 1/2 consecutive hours this month!)
Our little man has grown so much already this month.  He went through 150+ newborn sized diapers, and is now in size one!  He has officially outgrown his newborn sleepers  and truth be told, he is on his way to filling out the 3 month sized ones!
Here is a little week to week look at our Carter Boy:

My lovely sister and a few friends came over for a "Celebrate Carter" evening :)  I was so blessed and am so thankful for such a great group of girls!  Carter loved the attention and gave snuggles all evening!

We are trying to give Carter some "independant play time"  Today Nicole thought that he might enjoy looking at the baby section of the Toys R Us flyer.  I'm sure he picked out some Christmas Wish List items!

Here he is, the official One Month Old shot!  Love this guy!

Fun Facts about Carter

Well we're pretty pleased with our little man so far.

Here are a few things to know about him.

Carter's name means "one who uses a cart".  Now we've never picked names based on their meaning, and we didn't this time either, but I kind of like this meaning because it can basically be translated as "Driver".  Driver is a nickname that one of Mark's friends calls him all the time and so I think it suits our little guy!


 

Carter's middle initial is D.  He has no middle name.  This is after his Papa who is Peter D. and when Mark's parents were choosing Mark's name, they chose a D name for Mark's middle name.  We didn't love any specific D names, so we decided to be a bit different and just give Carter an initial.

Proud Papa

Carter and his 6 week older cousin Andrew

Carter is grandchild number 10 on the Letkeman side.  He evened things out to 5 boys and 5 girls.
He is grandchild number 12 on the Sawatsky side and again, he evened things out to 6 boys, 6 girls.

Carter shares his birthday with Johnny Carson, Ryan Reynolds and Dwight Yoakam.  So I guess this means he will be funny, good looking and throw in a bit of country to keep it real!