Happy New Year

What a wonderful year 2010 was.. its almost hard to watch it go... it brought us our wonderful Charlee!! She is a wonderful addition to our family and helped us celebrate tonight with games and pizza... Charlee is such a happy baby and smiles almost anytime you look at her... she is almost always smiling!!

We know that 2011 won't hold a candle to 2010 but here's to hoping it filled with a lot of laughter and love!!

She giggles!!!

Last night Jake was tickling Charlee under her chin and she started to giggle...It was the cutest sound, I had forgotten how a baby's giggle can melt your heart!!

First Christmas

Charlee had a great first Christmas. Christmas eve we spent time as a family hanging out, and then in the evening we went to church. Charlee was really good through church. Christmas eve Charlee went to bed right on time, she must have been excited to see have Santa come.

Christmas morning Charlee was up to open presents and loved everything that she got. She has worn the clothes and looks forward to playing with the toys very soon. She got a swing to put on the swing set from Santa and she can't wait for the snow to melt and to spend time in the swing, playing with the big girls.

Charlee had a great Christmas and we look forward to many many more when she can be a little bit more involved and stay awake to open presents:)

2 months old

I know this is a little late but better late then never and I will use the holidays as my excuse!! Charlee is over two months old now but she is growing and changing every day!! She now knows what her hands are and is pretty good at getting them to go right where she wants them to go. She is making more and more sounds every day. I also think that a couple of time I have heard a little bit of a giggle. She is still eating about every 2 to 3 hours during the day. We have made a lot of progress on her sleeping. She normally goes to bed about 8:30 and about half of the time she sleeps through the night. When she does wake up in the night she eats and goes back to bed very easily. She loves to watch her sister and smiles when Zoe comes around. She loves to be talked to but would preffer to not be snuggled all that much most of the time. She has had a little bit of congestion this last week, but she has been a real trooper and she doesn't let it bother her to much. She is also getting really good at holding up her head, as you can see in the pictures. She still hasn't rolled over again, but she does like to roll onto her side from her back from time to time. She loves to sit in her seat and watch everyone as well as playing under her activity gym on her back. She still likes to take naps in her swing and also doesn't mind sitting in her swing to watch the world go by. Charlee is a wonderful baby and really does make our family complete. We love her so much and can't believe how much she is changing and growing every day!!

2 month check up

We took Charlee for her two month check up and its official... she is a great baby!! She weighs 12 pounds and when the nurse was weighing her and said that she weighed 12 pounds Charlee gave a smile like "yeah I know I am doing a GOOD job" it was very very cute!!

Charlee is doing great!! she is starting to play with her hands a lot more and has a funny little way of holding her arm to make sure that her pacifier stays in her mouth. Very cute!!

Aunt Sue is here from Colorado for Christmas so Charlee and Sue have spent some time together. We are so blessed to have such great family in our lives.

Take  care

Charlee meets Chris and Jeff

And of course I don't have to tell you... she was a HUGE hit. She has been at Chris and Jeff's three days this week and every time I go to pick her up or call to see how she is doing Chris or Jeff is snuggling her. Love that they love her as much as we do, honestly its pretty hard to not love her... she is wonderful. So sweet.

Last night she woke up at 4 to eat, but she wasn't really crying just awake, talking and every once and awhile letting out a yell to let you know that she needed some thing. She makes it hard to put her back in bed and get some sleep myself.

Tonight is my work Christmas party so Charlee will get to meet the "famous" (In Z's eye's)  Kelsey Burke since she is babysitting the girls tonight. Z is beyond excited, I don't know if Charlee has much of an opinion on it:)

Have a great weekend!

They Finally meet

This weekend Charlee finally got to meet these two people we talk so much about.. Uncle Dan and Aunt Ali. She thinks they meet all of her expectations and almost everything she has heard about them is true:)

We had a great weekend. Friday we went to the airport and surprised Dan and Ali when they landed it was very fun. Saturday we spent most of the day with friends, it was a great day and of course Charlee was a little spoiled with all of the extra snuggling. She also loves to watch the older girls run around.. in just alittle while we will be watching her trying to keep up:) Sunday we braved the weather and headed to Mimi's for Christmas with Dan and Ali. It was great to see them and really nice to spend some time just hanging out with them.

Today Z had a late start so it was a girl morning, which of course means a princess movie, Charlee also loves watching those:) We spent the afternoon snuggling. Then this evening we took all of Charlee's stuff over to Chris and Jeff's house. Charlee will start at Chris and Jeff's on Wednesday she will be there off and on until the first of the year and then will start full time.

Have a great week! Stay tuned to find out how Charlee's first day at Chris's goes.

Love ya!

Long winters nap

Charlee did it again last night she slept from about 9 PM to 6 AM. She is starting to get the hang of this whole night and day thing:)

Big weekend ahead for Charlee she gets to meet her Uncle Dan and Aunt Ali for the first time.. she is beyond excited!

Stay Warm!

Yeah!!

I forgot to note yesterday that Charlee slept through the night on Monday night. Last night she was up about 3:30 to eat but we were both back asleep by 4 so not to shabby!!


She is doing great, starting to smile and reveal more and more of her little personality to us each day. We are having a ball!

Have a great rest of the week!

smiling

when she smiles the whole world smiles with her!!

Busy morning of Christmas shopping...

Will wear this little elf out!! We had a busy morning of Christmas shopping and now Charlee is taking a long winters nap:)

I know the outfit looks a little small, she is just growing to fast, it fit a week ago when I got it for her:)