8 months and growing!

Well this past month has been a busy one!  Carter is doing more and more everyday. He is creeping very quickly and getting very close to an actual crawl.  I think he would just rather do what he knows how to do because he is faster.  He is pulling up on things and trying to take a step or two.  Carter has started eating meat (making me want to puke at every feeding) and is even working on the sippy cup.  We took our first trip with Carter to Houston for four nights and we survived.  Carter was a great sport and did not get too loud in all of the restaurants and hotels.  He was not too big of a fan of the pack n play, so he would end up in the bed with us every night.  He slept great, but of course, I was totally freaked out about rolling over on him.  Carter loved looking out of the hotel windows and he was quite the cutie at the Nursery and Landscape Exhibition at the Convention Center.  Carter really worked on his screaming ability on the day that we checked into our hotel downtown and could not get enough of his own voice.  His love for his reflection is also hard to beat, so he loved the mirrors in the hotel rooms.  Carter took his first bath in the actual tub and just loved it.  It was a little hard to get his hair washed, but he fell in love with the drain cover.  Carter does not have a doctor's appointment this month so we don't know his exact weight and height, but he is in 12 Months clothing now!  He is so big.  The other night, he woke up and needed to be held (he was a little freaked out for a few days after we got back in town) and he would barely fit in my lap in the recliner.   Carter is dealing a little with separation/stranger anxiety and he especially freaks out when SheShe's fiance, Michael talks to him.  It seems so mean because Michael really likes Carter and tries really hard to make him smile--Carter just cries about 70% of the time when Michael tries to interact with him.  Hopefully this is a short phase!