Monday, February 28, 2011

The process of taking Charlie's 8 month pictures

Charlie is a mover, you can't just set him on a couch and set a piece of paper next to him like we used to


The minute you set him anywhere, he's off

and he's pretty much obsessed with paper, so he just wants to eat the sign

and.....he's down






and he's down again....bonk




Saturday, February 26, 2011

This is why we had to move the bed down in the crib





He has been pulling himself up for a while.  With the mattress on the higher setting we were afriad he would tumble out.  Now he's safe- but he likes pulling himself up even more.  He just stands and eats the railing.  It's hard for me to reach, Matt's going to build me a little step stool.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Charlie as Yoda

Our friend Rob Ritter photoshopped Charlie into a picture of Yoda.  Pretty creepy, but pretty hilarious

Monday, February 21, 2011

What's that?

Visiting Eliza

 Eliza is about 3 months old now- Charlie is going on 8 months.  She is so much bigger and starting to fill out, but she's still a peanut.  We had a good time with the babes.  Had to sit close to Charlie to prevent him from grabbing Eliza.  He thought she was a big toy just for him.  Both the babies went down early and the adults had some beers and played the Wii.  I was a good night.
 This is Eliza's bouncy chair.  It calms her when she's upset.  She's so petite she just sets in this little chair and barely moves it
 I didn't want lay Charlie on a bed.  If he were to wake up, he'd go straight for the edge.  I was just going to put him on the floor on some blankets, but we put him in Eliza's chair.  I hope he didn't do any permanent damage to the chair, he's so big it was bent almost to the floor. 
I think he loved it though, he was out like a light.  he looked so cute rolled on his side.  I had him strapped in, but he still rolled on his side.  He's like his mama, hates sleeping on his back.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Lunch for the two of us


Best part about homemade baby food?  Made lunch for Charlie and a smoothie for me!  I had some way over ripe bananas so I blended them up for Charlie and with the leftovers I threw some ice and a cube of my  mixed fruit baby food and had a smoothie.  Charlie loves, loves, loves bananas

Charlie with his bum up in the air



I find Charlie in the oddest positions in his crib some nights.  Matt is in Vegas this weekend, so it's just me and my little man.  We miss daddy.  

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Out of control fire pit

Matt got a little carried away.  We had the hose waiting.  But, we got to have bonfire in February!  It was 73 degrees here today.  Weird weather.

An abundance of bath time

 Charlie has started spinning around in his bath- it's pretty cute.  And if you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I can't get enough of bath time

Fruit Baby Food

Little sour for his taste

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Johnny Jumper




The video is annoying because I'm not computer savvy enough to know how to flip it correctly.  He likes his jumper much more than he used to.  He's finally getting the right size.  But now he can reach the wall and just wants to eat the wall.  Weird baby.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Brooklyn Paper

My mother was born in Brooklyn, Iowa on a farm.  When my grandparents sold the farm, grandma moved into town.  This picture was taken with her neighbors dog.  It was in the Brooklyn paper and this picture hung in my room for years.  It was in the box of baby stuff I got down the other day and I was able to scan it into the computer

Forward March!


We have forward crawling

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Charlie and me




Matt brought down a box out of the attic that had a bunch of stuff from my childhood including my baby book.  It had pictures in it!  I've looked through my baby book many times and I don't ever remember there being pictures.  I think Charlie looks just like his dad, but I hear it all the time that he looks like me.  But I found the picture below and I thought it looked a lot like Charlie.


Charlie 3 months

Mollie 3 months- picture taken at Daytons

And us now!