5 months old

charlie has almost been here for half a year! crazy! he is the best baby and always happy (except for right now...he has yet another cold and is teething...not a fun combo).

i get compliments all the time about him being so good :)

about charlie at 5 months:
* rolling over from tummy to back
* loves to grab his feet
* smiles all the time
* is ticklish
* teething
* still won't take a bottle, but i got the NUK brand of bottles hoping that he would think they are his pacies!
* wears size 3 diapers still
* hardly wears size 3-6 month clothes
* nurses 8 times a day still
* wakes up atleast twice a night still (if he wakes up in between feedings either me or johnny will put the pacie in his mouth). i know i need to try to let him cry it out, but i swear we have only had like 2 weeks in between colds and well it just breaks my heart to listen to him cry! i wish i could be tough!!
* takes a morning nap, an afternoon nap, and an evening cat nap
* goes to bed at 8:00 and wakes up for the day around 7:00 or 8:00

mcwane

jack, charlie, and i played hookie from mama and me tuesday and went to mcwane center instead. i just wanted a day with my boys! we had a lot of fun despite all the field trips...either they have field trips everyday or else i always pick the day with tons of them!!


jack always goes to the space ship first...i think this is one of his favorite things at the mcwane center! it is one of those machines that flattens a penny and puts a design on it.


then he found this fun table...

he played with a little boy for a while. i would guess the little boy was 7 years old. and he was the nicest boy! every time jack would loose his ball he would reach over without saying anything and put it right back in front of jack. very kind! other boys that came to the table could care less about jack and would take balls from him. i hope jack is like the first boy when he is 7!

feet and rolling over

charlie has loved grabbing his feet lately. he noticed his feet on 11-27-11

charlie rolled from his tummy to his back today (12-1-11). he did it before, but i think it was an accident. i think today he was trying to do it!

he also took his afternoon nap in his crib and has now been asleep for 2 hours! maybe our swing days are over :(

can't leave out big brother...

who i would say is almost completely potty trained! i can't even remember the last time he has had an accident or even woke up with a wet pull up! (well he did wake up sunday with a wet one but that is our fault...johnny said he heard him saying he wanted to get up, but ignored him because he was tired and i was sleeping so hard that i didn't even hear him)
yay jack!!

school pictures

jack took his first school picture last month...

he is too stinking cute!!

all of them were good...it was hard to decide which one to order

sorry so blurry!

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas

we decorated our tree the sunday after thanksgiving.

jack really enjoyed putting the ornaments on the tree.

pretty soon we will have to take turns putting the angel on the tree

jack turning on the lights with the remote control.

yay!!
i need to take an updated picture of our tree because there are presents under it now :)

i love the matching shirts that ty and emmie gave the boys

harry the elf came to stay with us until christmas (jack named him). jack gave him one last hug because you aren't allowed to touch him because he is magic. (he really wanted to give him a hug)
i love harry!! he makes jack mind his momma and daddy!!

charlie gave him a hug too :)

jack went around the house saying ho, ho, ho over and over and over...it was cute!

columbus after thanksgiving

we went to columbus the day after thanksgiving to celebrate with my family. we had a lot of fun playing and spending time together. we missed ty, emmie, frank, and mamie this year though :(

we went to a new park and
we had races down another slide...

everybody (except for me) tried the swirly slide...

my mom fought the crowd at target at midnight on black friday to get the grandkids a mini cooper!!
jack LOVED it!

charlie will love it one day!!

thanksgiving

we started off thanksgiving day with watching the parade and eating cinnamon rolls :)

we went to johnny's mom's house for thanksgiving along with johnny's grandma, uncle donald, jimmy, sonny, and sue. it was a lot of fun and the boys did great!! jack ate a picnic on the floor while we finished up cooking. then he took a nap while we ate our lunch. charlie sat in his swing like a perfect little angel while we ate.

i made a pumpkin cheesecake from southern living. it was good, but i like normal cheesecake more. cheesecake is super easy to make too...i always thought it was too hard to even try!

charlie got to meet his great grandma ruth :)