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!

...and he's mobile!

I LOVE bathtime!

Charlie will be 8 months old in exactly 2 weeks and is growing and changing by the day. His two little bottom teeth have popped up and he started scooting across the floor last night. I guess it was really more of an army crawl, but at any rate, he gets were he wants to go. He's officially mobile! Bath time and meal time are his favorite times of day. He's still drinking 6 ounces 5 times a day and eating 3 meals of cereal and/or baby food. We also give him a nebulizer treatment twice a day because he is so wheezy. Poor baby! These milestones are so fun to watch, but it also makes me a little sad. My baby will be a toddler before I know it! Here are a few more photos from our recent visit to Mimi and Mumpy's house last weekend...

Trying on Mumpy's hat for size

Wow those prunes don't taste as good as my sweet potatoes!

Charlie's sweet cousin, Ivy

Bundled up and ready for our morning walk!

Look at all that hair!

Emergency Room Visit

Andy and I are in full "Weaver 2012 budget" mode right now in order to save for our new house. So I decided that I would save some money by attempting to take Charlie's 6 month pictures on my own instead of paying a professional. When Charlie was 5 days old, we paid someone to come to our house and she did an AMAZING job. So I decided to copy some of her tactics by recreating her set-up in front of our big sliding glass doors. I used my white comforter as a back-drop and threw it over a dining room chair and our end table. In order to get this heavy comforter to stay, I had to place an enormous phone book on top of it. Perfecto! Now all I needed was my little model. I stripped Charlie down to his diaper, sat him up, and began snapping away. One thing I should mention is that he sits up really well for the most part...but can fall overboard if he begins reaching for a toy or his tiny toes. Well sure enough, he started to topple and before I knew it he had dove into the comforter...which pulled the phone book off the end table...which knocked the picture frame over...and landed directly on his forehead. A goose egg the size of a walnut immediately formed as he turned red and began screaming. Although, I think I was probably screaming louder as I tried to call Andy from the bedroom to come help me. I'm glad Andy was there and somewhat calm because I was a mess. We sped to the emergency room as I bawled in the backseat with Charlie...partly because I was sure he had a brain bleed, and partly because I was afraid the hospital might call Child Protective Services on Charlie's irresponsible and careless mother. Two hours and many tears later (on my part) we left the hospital relieved to find out that there was no permanent damage...just a very bad bruise and broken blood vessel. Here is a picture of my brave boy at the hospital!

The worst part of it all, is that I put him through all of that...didn't get a great shot,,,AND ended up spending the $100 I could have spent on the professional photographer on the ER co-pay. Go figure! Here are a few decent ones I managed to snap before the head trauma.

Charles William- 6 months

Finally getting some hair!

Guess I need to work on the draping of my back-drop!

The last photo I captured prior to the incident :(

Baby milestones

Sitting up with my safety seat behind me!

Playing in my jumperoo. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Weaver!

On Christmas Eve Charlie began sitting up all on his own...for about 0.5 seconds before he would face plant into the floor. But he has gotten much better since Christmas and for the most part can stay upright unless he goes reaching for his toes. We still like to take a few safety precautions and will pile pillows and/or bouncy seats behind him just in case he decides to take a tumble. So he's really into sitting up these days and playing with anything that lights up and/or plays music. He's also started to splash around in the tub and loves his bath time. He's getting to be such a big boy!

Celebrating Charlie's 1/2 birthday!!

It is hard to believe our little boy is already 6 months old! He had his 6 month well baby check up on Friday and he was 17 pounds 4 ounces and 25 3/4 inches. Which puts him in the 50th percentile in weight and 25th in height. I'm not at all surprised considering how much my little guy has eaten since his 4 month appointment. We started giving him rice cereal, whole-grain cereal, barley and oatmeal around 4 1/2 months and he loves it all. One month ago we started giving him baby food as well and luckily for us he is not a picky eater! He will eat peas, green beans, squash, sweet potatoes...prunes...you name it! We haven't given him any fruit yet b/c I heard you should start with veggies. But fruit is next on the list!

I'm absolutely terrible with every new year's resolution I've ever set for myself...but I'm definitely going to try and update this blog more often. :) So stay tuned!

Sorry for the delay!

It has been way too long since my last post, but things have been very busy around the Weaver household. The holidays were busy and little Charlie has had a rough month with an ear infection, the flu, and his first fever. UGH! But thankfully he is better now. I thought I'd just post a few long overdue photos to catch you all up on the last few months...

3 month photo

Charlie's baptism- November 5th 2011

4 months and really not happy to get his photo taken!

Back to Work

So I made it through my first week back to work. I think I had mentally prepared myself for how terrible it would be to leave Charlie, so I think I handled everything relatively well. The hardest part is getting used to going from spending every minute with him to basically 2 1/2 hours a day. I get off work at 4:30pm, but by the time I make it through traffic and up to daycare in Cicero, it is just past 5pm. And our bedtime routine starts about 7:30pm and he's in bed by 8. So poor Andy hasn't got much time with him this week because I haven't put Charlie down between the hours of 5 and 8pm!! Luckily, this weekend we didn't have any big plans so I was able to cuddle with Charlie all weekend long! Hoping this working mom thing gets easier...

Taking a quick picture just before mama left for work. And yes, that is spit up coming from Charlie's mouth!

Charlie time on Monday after work...

I never get tired of snapping pictures. Charlie is only 3 months old and he's already over it!

He's just discovered his little hands...

Belly time...not his favorite!

His daddy dressed him for school this morning :)

A great example of me not putting him down after work.

Snuggling with his DaDa Saturday morning!

Ready for his visit with his cousin, Ivy.

Awh Ma, another picture!?

That's ok... I love you anyway!

Alot!

Charlie turned 3 months old my first day back to work. Here he is dressed up in his outfit from the Knotts!

October 10th 2011

1 year wedding anniversary

Andy and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary this past weekend. My parents took Charlie for the night and we went to dinner at Cooper's Hawk winery and restaurant on Saturday night. For those that haven't been, I would highly recommend it! We both ordered steak and the wedge salad and it was SO good. We had planned to go to a movie afterwards, but this girl indulged in a little too much wine as well as the complimentary glass of champagne they brought to us. So instead we went over to a friend's house to continue the celebration. :) Here are a few photos of our dinner...

Andy and I at Cooper's Hawk

The glass of champagne that put me over the edge...

Viruses viruses everywhere!

Little Charlie starts school Monday when Mommy goes back to work. Somehow it makes me feel better if I call it school instead of daycare...so that is what I'm going with. He has been sick twice since he was born, which makes me think maybe God is trying to build up his little immune system to prepare him for "school". Well I hope it works! The Weaver household has had a really rough week as we've all been battling bad colds. No fevers or ear infections, though, so all we can do is wait it out. Charlie's pediatrician did prescribe a nebulizer treatment to help open up his bronchial tubes because he's been coughing so bad he's wheezing. :( Here are a few pictures of his first treatment....

Doesn't this one just break your heart?!

Let's hope this works...

Smiling through it :)

This morning I'm soaking up every moment with Charlie because my parents will be here in a few hours to pick him up. He will be spending the night with Mimi and Mumpy so Andy and I can celebrate our 1 year anniversary tonight. We had big plans to stay downtown, shop, and go to the Colts game tomorrow. Unfortunately, these colds we all have changed the plan a bit. So instead, we will be dining out tonight on the north side of Indy and maybe going to see a movie. BIG TIME! ha. How things have changed in just one short year. :) But definitely for the better. Happy Anniversary, honey!

Alabama Getaway

Huntsville Street Festival

Andy, Charlie, and I traveled to Huntsville, AL last week to visit Andy's brother and his family. Believe it or not, Charlie did amazing on the 8 hour drive down and 8 hour drive back! He slept almost the entire way. We stopped at Cracker Barrel about half way and fed him and played with him before hitting the road again. Andy's nieces are really into dance and they were performing at the street festival in town. So we were able to see them dance and shop at all of the antique stores and craft booths set up along the street. Ella is 7 and Macy is 5 and they are IN LOVE with Charlie. I don't know what he will do without all the attention. Here are a few more pictures from our trip!

Charlie and Mama

Dad and Charlie

Macy trying on Andy's backpack for size!

Miss Ella and her brand new glasses :)

YAY! This play gym never gets old!

A snapshot of what Charlie looked like all the way to Bama and back...

It is a shame they don't like Charlie :)

Cousins :)

Macy wanted to burp Charlie so I let her give it a try!

Charlie looks absolutely enormous in this picture! Getting so big!