Charlie is 18 months old!!

Weight: 23lbs 10oz (20th percentile)

Height: 33 inches (70th percentile)

Head: 19 1/2 inches (95th percentile).... super brains!!

He can make about 20 animal sounds and say about 40 words!!

Awesome Dance Moves

Charlie has a new found obsession with Thomas the Train and he loves to dance... you can now witness both of these passions in this video.

Watching this video makes me and Carson laugh so hard that we start crying!! These are some SERIOUS dance moves!! You can sign up for private dance lessons with Charlie by emailing me. Enjoy!! :)

Good times

Carson and I went to a friend's wedding last weekend. They had a photo booth so of course we had to take some pictures!! We obviously like to have fun and still love each other like crazy!!

I have the strip with the sunglasses hanging on my locker at work.

Makes me smile.

Love you babe!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's day to all the moms but especially to my mom and mother-in-law!! We love you so much and could not ask for better moms. We are truly blessed!! Charlie wants you to know today that he loves you too... soooo much!!

(Wendy and Carson)

(me and my mom)

Thank you both for teaching me how to be such a great mom!

Tonka trucks

Charlie has inherited Carson's love for Tonka trucks. Charlie refers to his as "ti truck" which is "big truck"!!

Carson loving on his Tonka truck as a little toddler

Happy with all of his trucks around him

Charlie pushing himself around the living room in his truck

All smiles

Easter 2011

These are a little out of order but, as you can see, we had such a fun Easter weekend in Kerrville!!

Easter bunny came too!!

(If you can't see, the train in front is named "Charlie")

Charlie painted these eggs for Gigi, Noni and Caroline :)

Charlie driving us home :)

Our friends at a big party/cookout on Saturday at their summer camps, Vista camps, by the river. It was so fun and beautiful outside! And we got to love on our God-children too. Below, me and baby Caroline!

Blake is loving the watermelon!

Noni and Boppa updated the landscaping in their backyard and built a sandbox.... Oh my!!!! He was in heaven. The hardest lesson was learning to not throw the sand! :)

Serious fun! And lots of sand ended up in his hair.

Here's my new favorite family photo from Easter Sunday!!

Mattie came over to play on Saturday. Does this qualify as their first date? The John Deer didn't move though...

Hanging out with Boppa

Eating some yummy apple!

Uncle Andrew and Charlie are the only blue-eyed, blondes in the family

There were lots of eggs in the yard too. The Easter bunny was very smart to only put 1 M&M in each egg!!! Once he figured it out, he would run to the next egg, open it, eat the M&M, and then throw the empty egg behind him... little litter bug!!

He loved it!

I love these pictures of my sweet bear!

He put the empty eggs in Uncle Andrew's mouth

I think he looks like a little baby model here. If anyone needs a cute kid to model for their clothing store, call me up!!

Exploring the eggs with Mommy

He loves this whole Easter gig!

Sharing with Daddy

Tried to get a picture with Noni and Boppa (M&Ms on his chin)

Bubbles with Uncle Andrew was fun!!

Egg party!! (Noni found that cute Tonka truck Easter basket!!)

The Henrys came over for Easter lunch and Charlie and Blake got to play trains together!

We attempted a picture of Charlie and Mattie in their cute Easter outfits, but they weren't interested! Precious babies!

My bestie from college, Allison! Always fun to see her and Jeff!

Charlie's artwork from Easter Sunday!!

Christ has RISEN, He is RISEN indeed!!!!!!!!!!!

Carson's 30th birthday party

In April we also celebrated Carson's 30th birthday! I am slowly training my husband to the importance of birthdays in our family... so this year we went out with a bang. Here are the super cute invites I made for the party. (courtesy of my sweet friend, Katie) We celebrated by going to our favorite restaurant in Fort Worth, Ellerbe's. Yummy!!!

The birthday boy! I love you babe!

(sorry I didn't take the time to take our red eyes out)

Me and Caroline

The boys end of the table: Buc, Alex, Carson, Justus, Chris and Matt

With three of my dearest friends, Emily, Debbie and Ashley

The food and fellowship was wonderful!!

Happy birthday Carson, we love you!!

April 2011

I have always loved this precious picture of Carson in the bluebonnets when he was a boy...

So we attempted Charlie's picture in the bluebonnets like Daddy's and he was more interested in touching the bluebonnets and talking about his "shoes" as you can see here! Too funny!

We had some fun in April playing outside, naked with the water hose. Copper usually doesn't get close to Charlie when he has the water hose, but I guess this day he didn't mind.

Precious boy

I bought him a train table from a friend at work and if you didn't know better, you would think I just put heaven on a table in his room. He's in L.O.V.E. with those trains!! He wakes up saying "choo choo" and goes to sleep saying "choo choo"!! In true engineer fashion, he leaves the train tracks in place and doesn't move them around.

Santa was supposed to bring him this rocking horse in December, but he accidentally left it in the attic for a few months because Charlie was too small. The Easter Bunny called up Santa and they arranged for Charlie to get his rocking horse for Easter! (He loves to kiss Daddy too!)

Playing outside again and obviously having a grand ol' time!

My boss, Whitney, got him this shirt for his birthday!

We went to a fun Easter egg hunt with our friends in their neighborhood the weekend before Easter. Charlie loved looking at all the animals. He said "quack quack" a lot!

All smiles with Daddy

Our sweet bear looking in the eggs

Finally a picture of me with my sweet boy

(I'm usually behind the camera)

How about that cute Easter basket he got this year?? My mom ordered it from Pottery Barn Kids and I monogrammed it myself!

Charlie loved the Easter Bunny even though I thought the big bunny might scare him. He kept sniffing his nose (because of course that's what the bunny says) and touching his nose!

My sweet friend, Joyelle.

He may have boogers but he's all smiles!

(I monogrammed that outfit too)

Is that not the cutest darn cowboy ever? With his sacred lovie too... Looks like Linus from Charlie Brown.

I made Charlie and Benjamin these cute matching shirts but they did not want to take their picture!

Charlie turned 18 months old this month and is

learning to use his spoon better everyday!

Birthday card that Charlie made at school for Daddy

Inside of the card

Our electricity went out during a storm in April and we typically just buy some dry ice to put in the freezers until the electricity comes back on. Here's Charlie and Carson playing with the dry ice and having fun!

You know I take pictures of all of Charlie's artwork... eventually I'm going to put them in Shutterfly albums for each year of his artwork. I love this picture of little bear hands sneaking in the picture!

Caroline (Justus' girlfriend) gave Charlie these cute bunny ears for Easter! This was the best shot and quickest I could grab the camera to take a picture of him in them. Too cute for words!

Charlie's Easter party bag that he decorated

Glitter artwork

Star sponge artwork

Updates from Charlie's daycare... sounds like fun!

Tissue paper and glue artwork

Charlie continues to love trips to the zoo. When you ask him what the penguin does he dances side-to-side like the movie Happy Feet. So he was excited to see the African penguins this trip!

There is a beautiful building at the zoo where you can get a close look at lots of reptiles and amphibians. He loves those turtles!

He even got to touch a Honduras milk snake!!

(but never let go of that dang lovie blanket)

We rode the carousel for the first time too! I'm sure we'll be doing this often because it's only $1.00!! Charlie said "neigh neigh" the whole time we rode.

Tucker and Debbie came over for dinner one night and he walked in the house with this balloon tied on him. If you can't read it, it says "Over the Hill"!! I died laughing and she said that's the one he picked out at the grocery store.

These two giggled and laughed while playing outside, naked in the baby pool! You can just see the joy on their faces... and you can also see that they will be up to no good before we know it!

We are enjoying this beautiful spring weather!!