He's finally here!

A week and 2 days overdue, lil Brayden finally decided to come out to play!  Weighing 8 pounds 7 ounces and 21 inches long, he was born June 25th at 9:19 pm.  And he is absolutely precious and I cannot wait to get to see his little face again!

Mama and baby doing well!

For some reason Charlie refused to hold him.  Maybe next time.

I'm one proud Auntie!

Omi showing off her 1st grandson!

So precious!

I love you lil Brayden!

Xoxo~
Auntie Kel  :)

Playing a little catch up...

I've been a lazy blogger lately.  We've had things going on, gone fun places and done fun things; I just haven't posted about them for some reason!  Here's a quick recap of the past couple weeks:

What a ham

We drove down to Des Moines for my sister, Kara's, baby shower.  She's going to have a baby boy in about 1 1/2 months!  I CANNOT WAIT!!!  The shower turned out great and little BS (the baby's temporary name) got a lot of great gifts.

Rattle cupcakes!

Isn't Kara just adorable?

Charlie walked "Waggs" around in circles all day

After the shower we had a lot of fun with bubbles.  Charlie LOVED it and kept saying 'bubble' over and over. 

The next day the weather was nicer so we broke out Charlie's new mower that Grandma B got her for Easter.  It's a bubble mower so we knew this would be a huge hit.  And it was.  Until Charlie had a meltdown b/c she was super tired and needed a nap right. that. second.

We've made goofy faces:

Had tickle wars:

Had a date with Louie:

Held a "book club" meeting:

And had a play date with cousin, Langston:

All in all, we've had a lot of fun!  All while looking cute.  It's a pretty damn good life we lead.  We are blessed.  :)

Xoxo~
Kel

Weekend recap: Boy or Girl?!?!

Still loving this fish eye lense (it's hilarious!)

Wade has been in Monterrey since Sunday and so it's been almost a week since Charlie and I have gotten to see him! We miss our hubs/dada! Luckily he comes home this afternoon! Yay! Since Wade was gone we spent some time down in DeMo over the weekend.  I threw out the idea of a ladies night on Friday since I'd have my parents to watch Charlie and was so excited when most of the girls said they could make it.  We went out to eat at Trostle's Dish which serves tons of different tapas and it was soooo tasty!  After a delicious dinner we headed to Bradley's Pub to continue on the night of celebrations.  After all, we had several things to be happy about.  I was down visiting, there was an engagement for Jenni, and we got to find out the sex of Kara and Todd's baby earlier that afternoon!  It was so great to see my ladies!  And we even ended the evening picking up Todd and his friend Conor and singing some karaoke.  Oh yes, it was that kind of night.  :)

Charlie and I had the privilege of joining Kara and Todd for their big sex reveal ultrasound on Friday afternoon!  We were so excited to find out and of course the ultrasound tech made us wait until the very last minute to find out!  It seemed like it took forever!  In the end though it was determined that Kara and Todd are having a little BOY!  Oh boy!  We don't know what to do with boys in our household!  It definitely will make things interesting and I'm oh so super duper excited to get to meet the lil booger in June!

Charlie & Uncle Todd

We are so thrilled for them and cannot wait for June to hurry and get here!  Charlie can't wait to have a baby cousin!  She loves babies!!!  :)

She also loves doggies obviously.

In other news, Charlie is now walking 99% of the time.  It's about time!  She's been able to walk for about 5 months now but just chose to continue with her little butt scoots.  No longer!  She's now up and walking (soon to be running I'm sure!)  She's such a little toddler now.

We have an escapee from diaper change time!

We had some quality family time the rest of the weekend and watched the superbowl and ate and drank a lot.  Charlie got her first tutu thanks to Auntie Kara and a pretty headband from Omi and looked absolutely adorable in them! 

Pretty as a princess!

It was a great weekend besides the fact that Wade was missing.

Charlie loved our old school keyboard!

Omi & Charlie

Hugs~
Kel

Toddling around!

My pretty peanut

This girl definitely has a personality!  Just in the last month she's changed so much!  I'd been told that around 18 months you'll really start to see their personality and they'll start to talk more and interact more w/ you and others and boy is that the truth.  Charlie will be 18 months old this coming Monday.  She's talking more although just one word, no sentences yet, she's throwing tantrums (yay!) and she's showing me what she likes/dislikes.

The things she is currently loving:
*  Shoes (she takes after Mommy on this one!)

Sparkle shoes!!!

*  Purses/bags
*  Animals and animal sounds
*  Headbands, barrets, bows, etc.

She kept handing me more to put in her hair so who am I to say stop?

*  Her "lovey" (aka blankie)

Lovie snuggle time!

*  Ranch dressing
*  Bath time

*  Lotion (her legs are SO dry this winter and she loves having me slather the lotion all over them!)
*  Cartoons
*  Wrestling/tackling us on the floor (she giggles like crazy!)
*  Books

Learning her shapes!

*  Music and dancing
*  Popcorn
*  Stickers
*  Climbing stairs
*  Elmo

Taking Elmo for a ride

*  Walking!!! 

One sock on, one sock off - the only way to stroll

Yes, that is right!  After being able to walk for the last 5 months but choosing to continue w/ her adorable gorilla butt scoot, she is finally up and walking!  Every now and then she'll sit down to scoot somewhere when she wants to get there fast but the walking is definitely beginning to win in the selected mode of transport!  So exciting!  She's still slow at it b/c I think she is afraid of falling but she's really good at it and hardly ever falters.  I'm sure next thing we know she'll be running around this house!  This spring will be fun outside!

Charlie and I are heading down to Des Moines tomorrow night to visit family and friends.  And the BIG reason we're going is so we can be there first hand when Kara and Todd find out the sex of their baby!  Yay!  We are so lucky to get to join them!  I can't wait to find out.  Friday morning can't come fast enough!  The only thing I'm dreading are the car rides alone w/ Charlie.  I usually sit in the back w/ her and Wade drives when we go long distances but since it will just be me and her she will have to entertain herself!  Let's hope it goes well.  I really don't want to have to drive w/ her screaming at me the entire trip!

Lastly, girl can still make one helluva "mean face".  It cracks me up, she loves to make me laugh, so she does it over and over.  It's a never ending circle of faces and laughter.  She also still makes her "ooooooooh" face constantly.  It cracks me up as well.  She's such a goof.