Christmas card 2010

Front of our card:

Inside:

Back:

I made them at Tiny Prints of course! We had so many cute pictures that I couldn't choose just one. Hope you enjoy!

Charlie's first school picture

It's not the most clear picture because I had to scan it in, but isn't this just precious?? Charlie's first school picture at 13 months old (November 2010)!! Gosh, I love that boy!! (even with his collar flipped)

Visit with Santa 2010

Remember this sweet Christmas picture from last year? Well, our bear was a little tired and fussy this year so we go the "classic picture with Santa"...

He wouldn't let go of his lovie for the picture and his pants are hiked up a little...

Ready to get down...

If Mom holds me I'm happy! :) If I recall, he asked for a Tonka truck and a rocking horse ;)

13 months old and walking!

Super behind on updates... sorry! Well at 13 months Charlie started walking!!!!! His first steps were at my parents' house over Thanksgiving break. He is still a little hesitant but he's getting the hang of it. Last week he was feeling a little adventurous and fell on a little shelf at daycare and got his first black eye. His teacher said he cried for a few minutes and then was back to playing in the same area in no time. This week he moved to TODDLER classroom! Can you believe it? He's growing up sooo fast!!!

His vocabulary consists of: duuh (duck), dough (dog), dada, cack cack cack (quack quack quack), da (that), dih (this). Are you seeing a trend? :)

He got 3 more teeth this month too! Two of them are molars!!!

Here are some cute recent videos of our little man: (click on the links)

Charlie walking

Charlie loves his milk (please excuse the messy play area)

Check out Charlie's new dance moves (he LOVES this Santa from my Granny):

More updates coming soon on our big guy!! Getting ready for Santa!!

1 year pictures

Charlie's 1 year picture proofs are ready! Pre-warning... I'm going to use some of these for our Christmas card this year so if you don't want any spoilers then don't take a peak, silly!! Follow these steps to view his pictures:

Click here
Password is "cake"

Let me know which ones you like best!!

Halloween 2010

We had a little Costume Chili Cookout for Halloween with our friends, the Triggers!

Honey, the bear, and a bee!!!!!!

Mickey and Minnie

Minnie and her mom (Ash A)

Bee keeper and B

Sock monkey (hat was gone)

Happy bear because he didn't have his hat on

Three bees

The hostesses with the mostess!!! (husbands were all pretty into the Ranger game)

Sweet boys Benjamin (he was a spider, but lost the costume) and Charlie

We had so much fun with all of our friends!

Charlie's 1st birthday party

Below is the precious invitation for our bear's first birthday party! I blocked out our address, my cell and my email since this is on the internet... hopefully you can still it's cuteness. I ordered it from this site. She's a friend of a friend, super easy to work with, and did a GREAT job! She just emailed me all the images and I printed what I needed.

Boppa and Papa Jess helped make the birthday breakfast

Below are some of the party favors (Teddy Grahams and gummy bears of course!)

All the grandparents with the birthday boy: Boppa, Noni, Gigi and Papa Jess

My dear friend and mentor, Tami... she's been like the sister I never had, so I hope Charlie calls her "Aunt Tami" :)

Mom and the happy birthday boy ( love this pic)

Bear cupcakes and the breakfast spread

Oh, just a few of the babies... just a little chaos!

Katie and William (it was his actual birthday)

Stacey and Hampton

Kate

Preston

Tucker

Alex and Caroline

Time for the cake!

Of course he loved it!!

REALLY loved it!

He still loves to rub his food in his hair :)

Lilla was party-hardy too!

Uncle Landon

I made a banner with a picture of every month of Charlie's first year of life...

And a birthday banner handmade by me! :)

And birthday hats too!

It was a great party and we all had so much fun!

Yay for being O-N-E!!!!!!!!

Charlie's school birthday party

For Charlie's daycare I made a few bear cupcakes! My friend, Emily, gave me the idea from this website and I think they turned out precious! It was a trial run before his real birthday party.

I was able to step away from work for about 20 minutes to see Charlie eat his bear cupcake.

And he loved it!

All gone!

His friend Peyton liked it too!

Thanks mom!

Still can't believe that he's 1!!!

Happy 1st birthday Charlie!

Can you believe this was me October 19th, 2009? (Well, because in case you forgot... I WAS in labor for 23 1/2 hours!!!!!!!!!)

Here is our sweet Charlie last year on his birthday!

Charlie turned one October 20th, 2010! This are a few photos on a day-in-the-life of Charlie's first birthday. (I copied my friend, SB's blog and took some pics throughout the day of our sweet bear). Here he is waking up, I apologize for the bright flash, honey!

Drinking his goat's milk from his bottle (which we finally dropped the bottle October 27th after only trying 4 different sippy cups!) Of course he's holding his duck call at the same time.

Birthday breakfast, which included his favorite... STRAWBERRIES, and grapes, eggs, and cheerios! (no we didn't stick with the sippy cup that's pictured)

Lunch at Central Market with daddy, Ashley K., Mac and Lilla

(I think he looks SOOOO grown up in this picture)

This is what he does with his food when he doesn't like something. Haha!! It's really hard not to laugh. He apparently did not like the blackberry.

Mac and Lilla enjoying the birthday boy's lunch

My beautiful family

Charlie's first time to wear jeans was on his birthday! :)

Playing with Uncle Justus

Bath time (love those sweet eyes)

Precious picture of the birthday boy

Our big boy

Well, we made the mistake of going out of order on his birthday. We bathed him and THEN fed him dinner. Oops! As we were fixing his dinner we fed him some cornbread as a little appetizer. We turned around and he had done this to his CLEAN hair with his cornbread... (Doesn't he look a smidge mischievous?)

Carson was pretending that Charlie was a newborn and swaddled the bear on his birthday and had a few laughs together before bedtime.

Charlie, you have brought only joy and laughter into our lives over this past year. We pray everyday for your continued health and happiness and for your salvation! We love you so much!!

Charlie's stats from his one year doctor appointment:

Weight=20 lbs 8 oz (23th percentile)

Height=31 inches (89th percentile)

Head circumference=18 3/4 inches (87th percentile)

Charlie at 12 months:

Still long and skinny like his dad! :)

Just babbles, but doesn't say any distinct words with meaning.

Signs "all done", "milk", claps when we say "yay" and loves to play the drums.

Eats only table food with milk and water to drink (no juice).

Still takes 2 good long naps everyday and sleeps 11-12 hours every night.

Pulls up on everything and cruises along furniture but not standing alone.

Loves to laugh, wrestle, be tickled, and roll the ball and can stack 4-5 blocks on top of each other.

Walks all over the house with his walker.

Snuggles all the time.

Wave hi and bye-bye.

Gives good slobbery kisses only when HE wants to.

Sings with me in the car and when I put him to bed.

Good at blowing his duck call (his gift from his daddy for his birthday was his own engraved duck call)

Loves to play with his friends at school, church and on play dates.

Puts everything into compartments (toys into his box or bucket, bath toys into the cup, etc), I think he likes organization like his mom! Maybe he'll be an engineer like his Papa Jess!! :)