6 months

*baby girl turned 6 months on st. paddy's day

*we celebrated with some green pancakes, she was in heaven

*she loves baby food and any other food item you give her; especially some ice cream. she does not like to share the yummy treat as you can see in the picture!

*loves animal crackers, pizza crust, and the peanut butter sandwich she stole from her brother. she really wants to eat anything even with no teeth

*rolls both ways

*sitting up on her own

*almost up on her knees

*wakes up once during the night to eat

*loves carter & caitlyn

*19.2 lbs, 28 inches

*still no bottle :(

Making their debut appearance...

Last night was a talent show at church. Caitlyn had worked hard with a friend to make up a dance and then her friend couldn't be there. Luckily, Carter and I had been over when the girls were working on the dance so Carter had the whole thing memorized (his memory seriously amazes me). Caitlyn asked him to fill in for her friend and he said he would! On one condition of course...that I do it with them. So in our debut appearance, I give you "Dynamite."

5 months

*finally loving stroller rides and rides in the bike trailer

*rolling over both ways

*laughing a lot (mostly at Wendy & Steve & Caitlyn! -they can always get her to laugh)

*sleeping 6-8 hours at night. yea to no more every 3 hours!

*always smiling

*always spitting up!

*loves to suck on her two fingers

*drools like crazy

*especially for grandma's viewing pleasure

Disneyland in (lots of) pictures

*side notes:

1. the characters LOVED Char and she loved sucking on their noses or pulling whiskers. sometimes it was awkward though because they would spend so much time playing with her even though there was a huge line

2. Carter was scared of Baloo

3. Carter didn't want to do the fast rides at first. After I made him try them (i know i'm mean!) he loved them. he says space mountain was his favorite ride. but we did the teacups and the toon town roller coaster at his request like 5 times

4. I threw up in the car on the drive there and let me just tell you it was the funniest and most disgusting thing at the same time. another post for another day? maybe.

5. Is it weird that random people asked to take char's picture because of her cuteness? she was seriously such a good baby on this trip.

6. we had so much fun on carter's first trip to disneyland and our first trip in nearly 20 years! thanks to russ and katie for talking us into going!!

4 months

*25 inches

*16 lbs

*smiles like crazy

*loves to hold onto her silky that nana made

*takes several 1 hour naps throughout the day

*doesn't like the bottle anymore

*loves to be up looking around/talking to everyone

Future babysitter?

I asked Carter to play with Char while I finished getting ready. Here's what I saw when I came back in the room. He was as happy as could be to play with her but only if he had the headphones on when she was crying. He may be onto something...

Christmas recap 2010

*lots of cuteness*checked out the zoo lights
*climbed the rock wall at glendale glitters
*traditional christmas cookie decorating (the kids finished and we off playing so the adults partook of the fun!)
*a month full of fun activities from our advent calendar
*more cuteness
*just opened her first present christmas morning
*opening my new bike trailer from santa!
*checking out his new sled from santa
*caroling in the hall on christmas eve. classic memory made.
*performing the traditional nativity christmas eve. carter really wanted me to be a donkey so he could pull me. the things mothers do...
*i heart christmas time and this ultimate cuteness.

the stockings were hung

when we moved during the heat of the summer, christmas was the last thing on my mind. so i forgot to get out our christmas stockings. i needed a new one for char this year so instead of digging through the storage shed to find my box where my stockings were i decided to make us all new ones.
i LOVE how they turned out. special thanks to my mom for helping me figure out the lining--that was tricky!
now we are officially ready for this guy.

Santa

Our ward Christmas party was last Friday. Carter was so excited to see Santa! My sister Amy was Santa's helper. Sean was in charge of the event and did all of the cooking by himself! Primary was in charge of the decorations so I was at the church the whole day too. It was a long day but it was worth it...the food was great and so was the program. But I am glad it is over!

Vote for which Shutterfly card YOU like the best.

Have you seen the Christmas photocards at Shutterfly yet? LOVE. LOVE. LOVE them. There are so many to choose from. It is hard to pick a favorite to use this year. Here are my top 6 faves (I know it should be 5, but I just couldn't decide!). You tell me which one YOU like the best!*I like that you can have more than one picture on the card, because just like I can't decide on my favorite card, I also can't decide on my favorite picture.
*Wouldn't this one be so great to add your Christmas letter right on with your picturs?! Perfect, right!
*LOVE how simple this one is.

*Both of these cards would look great with my pictures because the brown backgrounds match what my kids are wearing in their pictures.
*LOVE the snowflakes, and again the simplicity of the card. Classic.

Now YOU decide. Tell me which one you think I should use this year. Ready, go!

To see the cute photo cards I've posted here and the other designs, click here.

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