January 31, 2012

Sweet baby smiles.

January 30, 2012

I'm a member of a local Buy/Sell/Trade/Free board, and a lady posted today that she had girl's 6-9 month spring/summer clothes for sale for $1 an outfit. I didn't know what to expect, but when I got there, I quickly realized what a great deal it was! ALL of her clothes were expensive (I'm know some of the dresses cost more than $30 alone), name brand clothes with not a stain on them. I spent $30 and got 30 outfits! Yay!

January 29, 2012

Charley tried rice cereal for the first time today. I don't think she was quite ready yet, so we're going to try again in a couple weeks.

January 28, 2012

Sometimes when I get ready, I put Charley in her little seat up on the bathroom counter. Today I put a little vanity mirror in front of her (even though there is a very large mirror behind it) and she was pretty smitten with the cute baby staring back at her!

January 27, 2012

I bought these pansies at the beginning of December to replace the dead mums in the pots on either side of the front door. But, nearly two months later the pansies still sit in their little plastic container while dead mums flank my door. But hey, at least the pansies haven't died yet!

January 26, 2012

It's going to be quite different for children born in today's world with information at our fingertips and the constant desire to be doing something. John and I are trying really hard to not always have a phone in our faces in Charley's presence, but, it happens sometimes and she's definitely taken notice of the shiny lit up contraption in our hands!

January 25, 2012

I'm posting this one day late, so if you've already seen the video I posted today then this is old news. But, yesterday Charley was SO close to finally rolling over, but she never could get her arm out from underneath her. She did this about 1,000 times, but never quite got it so I don't think it counted as her rolling over!

January 24, 2012

Who doesn't love a good list? I am a list lover, and have a chalkboard in my kitchen that I normally make my lists on. This was my list for tonight which I only partially completed. [& in case you were wondering, I decided not to make dinner and had a SlimFast instead since John wasn't here. ]

January 23, 2012

All I wanted was a pretty mommy/daughter picture.

January 22, 2012

This is not the greatest picture, but it cracks me up. Tuna got a bath today and after he had dried off a bit, John gave him a good brushing. He was way overdue for a bath/brush so he had a few big mats. Apparently John was in the midst of getting one of those mats out at this exact moment, and Tuna was voicing his displeasure about it too!

January 21, 2012

Just Charley.

January 20, 2012

Charley's latest favorites: eating her toes and being naked! It's Friday night so I let her go all out tonight...nakedness and toe eating!

January 19, 2012

Each morning I watch as John carries Charley, her diaper bag, and his lunch box out to his truck. There's something very manly about a man that has no shame in carrying around a brown and pink flowery Petunia Pickle Bottom diaper bag.

January 18, 2012

So many things I love about this. Baby in a nightgown. Beautiful handmade blanket from her great-aunt. & the sweetest sleepy eye-rub.

January 17, 2012

My little piggy started wanting more, more, and more milk. So starting today, I am now taking these supplements to help me produce more milk to keep up. Apparently, they make your sweat smell like syrup, and who doesn't love walking around smelling like a stack of pancakes?

January 16, 2012

There's nothing better than the weight of a sleeping baby on your chest.

January 15, 2012

John and I worked on making another bird mobile today. This one is for a little boy & was the 18th one we've sold!

January 14, 2012

I set up a nice little "studio" in my living room, got props ready, and then got Charley dressed to take some pictures. Only, she promptly let me know she wasn't in the mood for pictures. Another day, perhaps.

January 13, 2012

Just call me four eyes. I finally got new glasses today as my old ones got left/lost in the hospital when Charley was born. Luckily I only need them to drive so it wasn't a huge deal. Sorry to other drivers I have encountered in the last 4 months!

January 12, 2012

She may have been fussy tonight, but we like to remember the smiles, not the frowns!



January 11, 2012

We sold Charley's bird mobile the week before Christmas (because someone wanted those specific fabrics and I'm all out of them, and I had new fabrics I wanted to use for hers instead) so Charley has been mobile-less for a few weeks. We finally got the mobile finished and hung up tonight and she loves it!

January 10, 2012

Charley found her feet today!

January 9, 2012

Guess what I had with for dinnner? Fudge pot!

January 8, 2012

This morning we had brunch with John's family that we don't see very often & Charley wasn't even the youngest guest there...there were twin boys about a month and half younger than her. Yay babies!

January 7, 2012

Taken with iPhone - Instagram

It was another beautiful weekend here (why do I always talk about the weather on this blog?) so we wanted to do something outside to enjoy it. John likes to play disc golf with his friends, but since none of them were available, Charley and I went along to just walk the course with him as he played.

January 6, 2012

I see the budding friendship of a little girl and a little white cat beginning tonight. Little white cat (Tuna) simply saw a chunk of his hair in little girl's hand. Baby steps Tuna, baby steps.

January 5, 2012

She may have gotten her 4 month shots today, but she's a trooper and couldn't say no to playing by the warm fire tonight.

January 4, 2012

It is bitterly cold here today, so I decided I needed a nice, hot mug of hot chocolate tonight.

& also, why can you not ever break up all of the powder when you use a hot chocolate mix? I stir and stir and yet, little clumps of powder still rise to the surface every time.

January 3, 2012

This is one of my favorite outfits of Charley's, but I had to wait for a pretty cold day for her to wear it and we haven't had many of those so far this year. Since today the high was only 37, I couldn't wait to put it on her.

January 2, 2012

Charley has really just got the hang of picking her head up within the last couple of weeks, and every time she does it I'm running for my camera.

January 1, 2012

First day of the new year & Charley's first time swinging. It was 60 degrees and beautiful today!