Wordless Wednesday

Happy Turkey Day everyone! Hope it's great!

4 years ago today...

I married the most wonderful, caring and supportive husband ever. How I got so lucky I will never know.

Happy Anniversary Baby Cakes!

xoxo~

Wordless Wednesday

Kara's Bachelorette Party (which resulted in a 2 day hangover, but was totally worth it!)

In Charlie's Mind

"Dammit Mommy. You know I hate tummy time! Get me off of my belly now! If you don't flip me onto my back stat I will bawl uncontrollably and spit up all over my play mat. If you know what's good for you, you will flip me over right this second!"

"Now this is what I'm talking about. I've got you wrapped around my little finger. Ahahahaha! (evil baby laugh)""Now put me in my bouncy chair devil woman. I want to bend it like Beckham and kick my monkey feet. Bounce, bounce, everybody bounce!"

(Needless to say, she always gets what she wants. I'm so screwed.)

Adorableness

In da hood

I want to try to document some of the stuff that our little Charlie Bear does and has accomplished in her eventful 3 months of life thus far so that we/she can look back on this and say what a great and silly little baby she was!

Hanging with her bro

* She smiles constantly now. If you look her way and she catches your eye a grin will automatically light up on her face and it is priceless. Sometimes even when I'm feeding her I'll look down at her and she's stopped sucking and is just laying there smiling up at me w/ the bottle still in her mouth. She’s such a ham. :)
* She will coo and talk to me nonstop. Sometimes she even talks to the TV! I think we’re going to have a gabby little peanut on our hands once she learns to talk!
* She finally reached out and grasped a toy for the first time on the 27th! She’d been swatting at them a lot before then but finally got her little fingers wrapped around it. Although she didn’t know she was holding it and promptly hit herself in the forehead with the toy thus causing her to startle and look at me like WTF Mommy?
* She’s still not rolling over and I think it’s b/c she HATES tummy time. She’s perfectly content on her back and side and I don’t think she even wants to try to roll over. She’s a little stinker!
* She sleeps with both arms up above her head and it is adorable.
* When she pukes it is seriously like she is in the Exorcist. It is scary and gross and gaggy. I hope that crap stops soon, even though she doesn’t do it often, it is awful.
* She kicks her legs and moves her arms so much that it looks like she is having a damn seizure. I knew we’d have an active baby just based on what she was like while still in utero, but damn girl, she is wild. Get her under her play mat or in her bouncey seat and she goes nuts!
* She is very vain. She loves to look at herself in the mirror and coo and smile at herself. It’s hilarious. She must think she is one good looking baby (which I totally agree with). :)
* She has long grown out of newborn clothes and diapers! She’s growing so fast!
* Her little monkey toes are so long (like her Daddy’s) that her feet don’t fit in all of the footy pj’s that we have so some of them don’t work! Finger toes! :)
* She’s definitely found her hands and loves to shove them in her mouth and sometimes does not know her limit and gags herself with them. She's even found her thumb now which I hope does not lead to a horrible thumb sucking habit but at least she's not attached to the paci.
* She’s also found her tongue and will lick anything that is in front of her mouth. Usually this is her bib or shirt which she tongues constantly and thus is left w/ a giant wet spot on her chest. Gross but funny to watch.
* She loves football. She will sit and watch football with us for hours just lounging on our stomachs.
* Her wild Danny DeVito hair style is still in full effect. We thought she’d lose some or all of her hair but nope, it’s still there except for in the front. And the long stuff sticks straight up and looks wild. I love it! She's definitely one of a kind!
* Her eyes have turned a steel blue and are beautiful. I hope they stay that color!
* We finally gave her a bath without using the newborn sling last week and she LOVED it! She loved sitting in the water and having me pour warm water all over her belly. Now I want to take her swimming in a pool! But the first thing she always does when put in the water is pee. Gross. But at least it's not poop... yet! :)
* She is finally noticing Kobe and will smile when she looks at him. He is still ignoring her and stealing her Boppy.

Boppy thief!

Well, that is all I can think of for now. She’s becoming more and more fun to interact with since she is noticing things more now. And her smiles still give me a high. I think she’s just the greatest little baby we could have ever asked for.

3 Months?!?!

Happy 3 month birthday Charlie! You make us so happy!

Wordless Wednesday

How you know you have a lazy dog...

Firsts

This morning I dropped Charlie off at daycare for the very first time. It was so hard to leave her there! It’s like you are handing your whole life over to someone you barely know and trusting them to care for it like you would. I’m sure she will do fine and probably even grow to love it there but it is hard on me! I finally had to just leave b/c I was starting to cry! And now when I think about her there I start to tear up so I’m trying my hardest not to think of her. (But that is impossible). I know, I’m a wuss.

Last night was Charlie’s first Halloween! She was a bumble bee and absolutely adorable! She’s so long though that she was already too big for the costume! Her legs couldn’t straighten out all the way and it was size 0-6 months! I’m not sure where she’s getting this height from. Definitely not me.

Anyway, things are busy around our house. Kara’s wedding is fast approaching and thus all the fun wedding activities are all going on. We’ve gone to 2 showers already and her bachelorette party is coming up on the 13th. That will be a lot of fun! And then after that it seems like it’s holiday season already and we’ll have to get started on the Christmas shopping! I can’t wait for Charlie’s first Christmas! She’ll be too young to really enjoy the gifts and all that but it will be so fun still! And then in January is the actual wedding down in Puerto Rico! We’ve got a lot ahead of us on our calendars and we are so blessed! Can’t wait for all this fun!

Tata!