Brothers & trains

This is how Titus loves playing with Oscar. This is how Oscar loves playing with Titus.

Preschooler

I am starting a preschool type structured play time with Titus and Elsa. Mostly Titus, but Elsa is so interested in what Titus does I have to include her somehow.

Today Titus is using kid scissors for the first time! I knew all that scrap paper would come in handy someday. Right? He loves "doing school." Even though he wants to ride bus to get there.

Elsa joins in the fun today by coloring. She does such an amazing job at holding her crayon correctly and drawing shapes and straight lines.

I am in awe at how different these two are. I really look forward to seeing them develop further and to see how Oscar resembles and differs from them too. (it's his nap time)

Oscar is 6 months

Six months ago a little 3 1/2 pound little baby boy waiting sleepily in a NICU for us to hold him. Now at six months old, Oscar still loves being held. But, he is close to sitting up by himself and he is learning to "swim." (aka pre-crawling!)

He is so much fun to hang out with. Tummy time is a family favorite! He's even enjoyed his first swing. Big brother Titus loved pushing little Oscar in his swing. And Elsa loved swinging next to him.

Yum!!

Rice cereal time. Oh yeah. Oscar had been watching us eat for a few weeks now, so we decided it was time to start the messy fun!

Bath Time and Playtime

Just a couple of fun new pictures to share.

Here is Oscar at bath time. He loves his baths and both Titus and Elsa love to help out.

Titus and Elsa enjoying the playground. They really are each other's best friend right now.

Bouncing Baby Boy

I firmly believe Oscar is going to walk sooner than Titus or Elsa did. (Not that the bar is set too high. Both Titus and Elsa didn't start walking until 16 months.)  However Oscar absolutely loves to stand and is a lot more stable than Titus and Elsa were for this age.  Correcting for him being 7 weeks early really puts it in perspective.  Can you image a 16 week old doing this?

Titus and Elsa don't stand still long enough to be documented by video anymore otherwise I would have loaded one of them.  I do have some old posts to link from when Titus and Elsa were about 5 months old so enjoy these from the past:

Titus - Daddy's Birthday
Elsa - In the Bouncy Seat

It is finished

Today I am happy to announce Oscar Reid Carnahan is an officially and legally recognized member of this Carnahan Family!!!

The courts are finally catching up to the knowledge we have had for a few months now. Oscar has been a Carnahan for a while now. Even in the NICU we saw his stubbornness, and the Carnahan one eye peek, just like Titus, Daddy and Grandad. Oscar fits right in the mix of this family. A good baby. Easier than Elsa, but maybe not as easy as Titus. Titus and Elsa love on him constantly. We have to ask them to give him space. And to leave him alone while he sleeps.

Oscar,
 We have loved you and prayed for you for two years now. God knew when you would be born and where you would grow up. He knit you together in your mothers womb. The tapestry of your life has been woven into the tapestry of our lives. Our threads are forever intertwined. We love you, and we are thankful for this day of finalization.



Psalm 139:13-18 ESV (emphasis mine)

"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was non of them. How precious to me are you thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you."