Ruby Rubes and Charlotte Too!: Charlotte

What an amazing few weeks we've had! We spent a full week on Oak Island, NC celebrating mom's 60th b-day and Stephen & Stephanie's wedding. I can honestly say it was the most amazing, enjoyable week I've ever had. To wake up every morning knowing that I had the whole day to hang out with my siblings and my mom was priceless. Ruby and Charlie were spoiled rotten and it was so great for Doug and I to get a break.

Charlie is walking!!! She took her first steps on Oak Island and hasn't stopped since. Every day she gets so much better and now she's walking around so fast and can go from sitting to standing to walking all by herself. The video I'm posting seems almost irrelevant now compared to how she's walking, but cute all the same. :) She's walking about 3 months earlier than Ruby did.

Charlie is a fire-cracker. She definitely has a fiery temper at times but is equally sweet and loving. She's become VERY attached to "buddy", her little lovee that she sleeps with. If it was up to her, it would come everywhere with us but I'm really trying to limit it to her crib. Usually when I try to to take it from her to put back in her crib, she shrieks and writhes and cries so I always end up giving it back to her. This is new to me, Ruby was never attached to a lovee like this. I had to sneak it away to wash it the other day, it was getting pretty funky.

The girls were so great in the car (it was a 12 hour drive), Ruby is pretty easy now and with Charlie still taking 2 naps, we timed it around those so she slept a lot of the way. Ruby and Charlie just loved being at the beach. Ruby would have stayed in the ocean the whole time if she could have. Charlie liked eating the sand. We swam, we played, we found "creatures", we built sand castles and we RELAXED. I could have stayed for another week, easily. Charlie and Mae actually played together a bit on this trip, Charlie liked watching her and I really think that's why she started walking. It will be so cool to see how their relationship continues to develop since they are so close in age.

The wedding was unbelievably beautiful and perfect. I think everyone enjoyed every second of it and watching Stephen watch Stephanie come down the "aisle" was heart warming. They make a beautiful couple, inside and out. Welcome to the family, Stephanie!

Whenever Charlie's around, you can be sure buddy and doggy are not far behind!