Spring is here!

On one of our many walks!

Rocking on all fours....but still army crawling!

He looks really long to me here...but he is still only 10th percentile in height! (and 75th in weight)

Charlie at 9 months- April 10th 2012

Happy Boy!

Spending Easter at the cabin with Grandma Weaver and daddy

Getting yet another breathing treatment...

If you're too little for candy...what better Easter gift than clothes!? (Although he enjoyed chewing on the card more than anything).

 

 

We spent Easter up in Peru with Andy's family this year. Charlie's pediatrician thinks he has bad allergies that trigger asthma like symptoms...so we have been staying away from my parent's house due to their dog (much to my poor mother's dismay). Easter Sunday was much colder than we had expected, but it was still sunny and we were able to get outside to watch the older kids hunt for Easter eggs. Charlie was lucky enough to get 2 Easter baskets this year too. He loves to get outside and go on walks. And has started to pull himself up on the furniture. I'm sure he will be walking before we know it! Crazy how time flies.

Giggling Charlie

This video was actually taken a few weeks ago, but I love to watch it when I'm stuck in traffic or needing a pick me up at work. Makes me smile every time! Charlie's little personality comes out more and more everyday. He is also starting to develop stranger anxiety and gets a little nervous when Andy and I leave the room. Not that I ever want him to be upset...but I must admit I like it when he recognizes me and reaches for me and/or smiles when I enter the room! :)

Eight Months

Baby Charlie is now 8 months old and it is hard to remember what life was like before he was here...but at the same time I feel like we just brought him home from the hospital yesterday. How is that possible? I really really LOVE this age because his little personality comes out more and more everyday. He loves to throw balls and his pacifier. (If you keep getting it for him, he will play this game for 20 minutes straight). So far he throws with his right AND left so we're thinking maybe he's ambidextrous. :) Before Charlie, Andy and I would hear parents brag about their children and we'd always just laugh. Andy would always say he would never ever brag about his children the way everyone else does...so it is hilarious to overhear him telling his brother or his dad how well Charlie throws. Or how he is so smart. haHA!

Nighttime Antics

Charlie has been a great sleeper since he was about 4 1/2 to 5 months old. He goes to bed around 6:30 p.m. every night and a lot of mornings I have to wake him around 6:30 a.m. to get him ready before I go to work. He never cries and if he wakes up he grabs one of the 5 pacifiers in his crib (an ingenious idea my husband came up with long ago) and goes right back to sleep. I typically never hear so much as a peep out of him. However, a few weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night to him shrieking. (I immediately assumed the worst and thought there was a kidnapper trying to climb through his window). I grabbed the baby monitor and he was just happily playing in his crib at 2 a.m. Once my heart stopped racing,  I thought it was so funny and grabbed my iPhone and started taking a video of the monitor screen. He put himself back to sleep about 10 minutes later...

Who knew playing with a pacifier could be so fun?

 

Daycare always tells me how happy Charlie is and how he is constantly belly laughing at them all day. Well, I almost thought they were lying to me because I never could seem to make him laugh. I can make funny faces, sing silly songs, or try to tickle him to death....and NOTHING. So I was thrilled that Andy got him to start belly laughing at home one day after work and actually got it on video. The quality isn't great b/c it was on his iPhone and then he sent it to me. But you can still hear that adorable giggle! 

The Charlie Scoot

Charlie started army crawling across the floor a little over a week ago. I call it the Charlie scoot because it looks like his legs don't work, so he just drags them behind him. He won't even try to get up on all fours, and when I attempt to make him, he face plants into the floor. (I suppose his chubby little arms can't hold up his body weight yet). In the last few days his scoot is getting extremely fast. He mine as well be crawling! Check it out :)

School fun with my best buddy, Tommy

 We are lucky enough to get photo updates from the ladies at daycare. They help get me through the day! Here are a few of my favorites from the past few weeks.

Woo Hoo! This stroller ride is SO fun!