Little Stinker!!!

Charlee has turned into a little stinker!! She decided that she is going to do something and NO ONE is going to stop her from it. The other day Charlee wanted to put her hand on the garbage can and wouldn't move her hand from the handle for nothing!! We talked about it for over a minute with me telling her no and her removing her hand for a minute to then put it back the whole time staring at me... I just love her spunk but wow is its this at 14 months what will be at 14???

Pray for us:)

Christmas!!!

The weather was so nice this christmas season we took advantage of it and spent some time outside on Christmas Eve Day, going for a walk and playing outside. It was very nice!!

We went to church on Christmas eve and of course Charlee in her little dress was the hit of the service!! She had a great time playing with her friends and running around!!

We came home, had dinner, opened a couple of present and then Papa John read "The Night Before Christmas". Charlee was very tired and she headed to bed pretty quickly!!

Christmas morning came and Charlee was up nice and early, she just couldn't contain her excitement. We snuggled until 7 and then Charlee went in to wake up her sister and got the party started.. and a party it was.. Charlee had a great time opening christmas presents and she didn't care what the name on the package said, she was the a present opening machine and started tearing into present left and right... it was so fun to watch her and no one minded when she was opening other people's presents.

Charlee was such a present opening machine that she was ready for another long winters nap... and nap she did she ended up sleeping almost 4 hours during the day on Christmas Day... which is just what Chrismas day is made for.. playing with new toys and taking naps.. this girls got it down!!

Christmas night we headed to a friends house where Charlee was a little late she was busy napping again:) We had a great time playing with friend and celebrating the season.

This christmas was so much different then last christmas with Charlee, she was really into the holiday spirit looking at the tree, eyeing the presents, eating the sweets and spending time with family.. I LOVE the little person charlee is turning into and can't wait for the next big celebration with her.

Love ya!

My little monkey

Tonight we went up to the Whites for awhile and the older girls were busy putting on show and playing while Charlee was busy climbing on the couches so she could climb up on to the tables and have the best seat in the house.. such a little money!

Dan and Ali Visit

This weekend we celebrated the first of many christmas's this year and it was WONDERFUL. Friday night me and the girls made cookies and covered pretzels, charlee is a great help with the covered pretzels since she throws them all in the bowl, Zoey is the decorator at the end and also does an amazing job.

Saturday we were up early and headed to Vinton for one very important reason... Dan and Ali were here!!

We started out the day by opening present and there were so many present to open... Charlee was very excited about the first present she got which was a puppy dog buddy from Dan and Ali she was so excited to play with it and stand and marches in place while smiling and squealing just waiting for it to be ready to play with!! She also did a much better job of opening a couple of present, she had a great time.

All of the playing in the morning with the new toys and getting to know Dan and Ali again wore Charlee out and she was ready for a nice long nap!!

Later on Saturday night we headed to the bowling alley, Charlee had a great time watching everyone bowling, cheering for everyone, giving high fives and clapping.. she had a great time!

We headed back out to Mimi and Grandpa's for a fondue super... this is kind of a tradition in the LaGrange house, Charlee wasn't old enough this time to partake in  much and she was much to hungry for dinner to wait for the fondue she had her normal dinner and then of course snacked on the pound cake for dipping in the chocolate. She had a great time watching TV with her sister, running around Mimi and Grandpa's house and playing with Dan and Ali. She was still going strong when we left at 9:30 but she was asleep in the car pretty quickly.

Sunday we headed back to Vinton after church for Sutton Christmas, it was great to get together with everyone and of course fun to watch the kids open present and fun to watch the adults swap presents. 

It was a wonderful weekend that went way, way way to fast!!

Talking on the phone

Last night Charlee decided to chat on the phone for awhile.. it was the cutest.. she would push all of the buttons and then put the phone to her ear say "hi" (in her cute little charlee voice) and then mutter a little bit and throw her head back in laughter it was to stinking cute!!

Also last night we made almond bark coated pretzels and Charlee was a great help.. it was her job to thrown the pretzels into the almond bark I was the stirrer and then Zoe fished the pretzels out.. it was very fun!

This morning her and Zoe were busy building all sort of tower out of blocks and they had a great time building the towers and then knocking them down.

all dressed up

We had a great weekend!!

On Saturday we hung out at home in the morning then headed to Marlee and Maddies to decorate cookies.. Charlee did more eating and less decorating but she had a great time.

Today we went to church and then we headed to Zoey's christmas program. It was a fun reason to get all dressed up and take pictures so of course that is just what we did!!

Fun Wednesday night

Last night Zoey and Jake headed to church and it was just mom and Charlee. For a quick second Charlee was very sad to see sister leave but then she looked at me and I think it all clicked that it was the Charlee show and we could do what ever she wanted, and that is just what we did.

We snuggled and read the same book over ten times, played with toys, of course played with her ball and had a great time playing just the two of us.

Also, a couple of times now Charlee has stood on the ground at the edge of the bed and makes a noise that both Jake and I swear she is saying "I want up"... of course we both know thats probably not it but she is really getting the hang of using her voice to get exactly what she wants.

Great Weekend!!

We had a wonderful weekend.

Saturday morning we went for pancakes but of course Charlee couldn't wait so she had to eat breakfast at home... not that it stopped her from eating plenty of pancake at the pancake breakfast as well!! Saturday afternoon Charlee helped me make some cookies while Zoe took a long nap. It was very fun to have just Charlee help and she was a great helper and of course she ate plenty of chocolate chips as well!

Sunday we headed to church and then hung out for most of the after noon. Mimi and Amy came to visit  and Charlee loved showing Amy all over and playing ball and reading books with her.