Charlotte - Week 22

I can't believe Charlie's 5 months old already! Time sure is flying. We started her on rice cereal this weekend and she LOVES eating. She was more than ready and she took to it right away and is a pro already. Ruby loves to help feed Charlie and does the airplane really well. :) Rubes is so sweet with Charlotte and just loves her so much, it's really awesome to watch. Charlotte is on the move! She can roll a good distance and I can't take my eye off her for a second. Gone are the days where I can just lay her on the bed while I putter around the room. I have a feeling she'll be an early crawler. She's really starting to sit up more and more on her own and she loves to do it. She's so smiley and cuddly and curious and happy. An overall joy of a baby!

Rubes is the best big sister and seems to have rounded the corner from the really challenging behaviour we were having in the past few months. Several times I've come up to get her out of quiet time and she's cleaned her whole room and pulled the covers up on her bed and she says, "Mommy, I cleaned my room for you to make you happy." Oh things like that just make me want to cry it's so sweet. She'll also clean the living room for me now and she does a great job! Her newest discovery is that she can zip her jackets/sweaters up all by herself now. She was over the moon the first time she did it. It was so fun sitting down with her after school on Valentine's Day and having her show me all of the Valentines she got. She read who each one was from one and got them all right! She amazes me sometimes. Love that girl!

Rubes can always get a giggle from Charlie.

Stinker and stinkette.

Sleepover fort with Ben & Lucy!!

Bedtime story. Yup, I just laid there and let Doug do the work. :)

2 of my favorite people.

Aww, Charlie, I love you!

She sure does love her Mommy, too!

Heading out the door for their Valentine's Day breakfast date and Dunkin' Donuts!

Big girl with a spoon!

A baby in jeans always makes me giggle.

Especially when they're this cute.

So I put her on her play mat, turned around and chopped up a carrot and turned around and she was all the way over there!!

Charlotte - Week 20 & 21

Hi everybody! We've had a busy couple of weeks! Grandpa and Gretta came last week for a few days and Ruby of course loved the extra attention and I loved the help. We had a great time and Charlie loved meeting them for the first time.

As I predicted in my last post, Charlie is now rolling over both ways. She started the day after I posted that I thought she was going to be rolling over soon. She's so strong and just flips herself from her back to her belly so quickly. She now sleeps on her belly most of the time. She's also really wanting to sit up by herself and can do it for a little bit at a time. She's growing much too quickly, I don't want this baby stage to end too soon! :) There's a little something going on with Charlie right now and I can't put my finger on it. I think it's either stranger anxiety coming on or teething. She's just not quite herself and wakes up in the middle of her naps crying and generally just wants to be held (read: nursed) by me. Other than that, she's still her happy self and is really finding her voice (read: screech). I took the girls to the library for story time this week and Charlotte would not stop happily screeching away very loudly - she doesn't quite understand "shhhhh" yet. :) Luckily she's pretty cute so I didn't get too many dirty looks.

Ruby's doing great and had her first trip to the dentist last week which she LOVED. She wants to go back already. She didn't have any cavities and everything looked great! She was so brave and was such a good girl. She loves to tell stories now and can go on and on for quite a while, creating elaborate stories. The funny thing to me is, that she doesn't even pause to think about what she should say next, it just comes out - I just love her imagination. She continues to love school and really wants to go 5 days a week but I can't bare to let her do that just yet.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone, I'm excited to be celebrating this year with my complete family, my best friend and my two sweet girls. xoxo

She did a great job at opening up wide.

No cavities!

Nothing better than sister giggles.

Taking silly pictures on Grandpa's computer.

Singing the song Grandpa wrote for Ruby appropriately titled, "I can do it all by myself!"

Charlie meeting Ebee Baby.

Captain Ruby!

Hanging out with Grandpa.

I don't think you're going to get any milk from there, Charlie!

Ruby was SO excited to take a bath with Charlie for the first time.

Hi sweet girl!

I love to swing.

Watch out for your ankles, yup, that thing's motorized!

Look who's sitting up!

Awww!

Listening to Grandpa's music.

Grandpa and his girls.

Park playdate.

Playing "Simon Says" with Daddy.