date knight

 saturday night jack and i went on our first date! it was soooo nice to go out with just him. i told johnny that i wanted to do it once a month. he was so excited and i think he felt really special. i was really excited beforehand and even got excited butterflies...corny and weird, i know. i think it was almost better than when johnny and i go on dates...maybe that is weird too. don't get me wrong...i LOVE to go on dates with johnny, but i NEEDED that time alone with jack. i got plenty of one on one time when jack was a baby, but since charlie came along my poor jack has kinda been left out i think. i really really enjoyed my date and look forward to many many more!

 chick fil a did a "date knight". it was for moms and sons. when you walked in a hostess sat you at a table and then you went to order your food. a jester brought our food to us and then refilled our drinks through out our dinner. 

jack was so excited about seeing a knight and the cow. he said it was a "real live cow". 

at dinner they had a question sheet to get conversation going :) one question was would you rather live on the moon or under the water and we decided that we would want to live under the water in a submarine. jack and charlie would have bunk beds and jack would be on the top bunk. 

i can not say enough how much fun we had and how much i love that little boy! he is just plain wonderful!!

11 months

 i know this picture is not the best but it shows his cute tooth

 charlie loves to pet pete...as you can see pete isn't so sure! haha

 i have had to use the babygate a few times lately...he is obsessed with pete's bowls so it makes doing the dishes really hard because i am constantly having to go stop him from eating his food or splashing in his water

charlie is 11 months old as of yesterday. i can't believe that in one short month he will be ONE!! this year has flown by!

about charlie at 11 months:

* has 1 tooth (getting another)

* is gaining more confidence when standing (will hold on with one hand)

* can pull up on furniture super fast now

* still nurses 2-3 times a night, but went over 7 hours 2 nights ago 

* nurses 6-7 times in a 24 hour period (went on a nursing strike for a few days and went 12 whole hours without nursing...he is over the strike now!)

* eats about 6-7 jars of baby food a day

* loves to eat gerber puffs (still gags on them every now and then)

* not a huge fan of solid food other than puffs...has tried strawberries, peaches, bread, carrot

* loves pete

* still army man crawls, but has started to crawl the regular more often, but decides it is too slow and goes back to being an army man!

* whines almost every time jack hugs him...sad, but true...jack is so sweet and wants to hug him all day, but it makes charlie mad because he can't do what he wants or move around. 

* still takes 2 naps a day (he is awake for about 2 hours in the morning and then naps for about 1.5 or 2 hours. then he is awake for about 3 hours and then naps for about 1.5 hours. then he is awake for about 4 hours and then it is bedtime)

* can wave

* says "uh oh" and "mama". has said "da da" but not very often.

beerfest

 we went to beerfest saturday. johnny enjoyed trying all the beers and i enjoyed the food. i was the DD. the pretzel necklace was for the beer munchies...supposedly beer makes you have the munchies??? anyway, our friend made them for everybody. one guy came up and asked us where we got it from...like he wanted to buy one. we should have sold ours!! a lot of people had them on.

 cheers!

dirty feet!

national donut day

 june 1st was national donut day so we (along with everybody else in town) went to krispy kreme to get our free donut! 

charlie even got one, but he threw his bite on the ground...he prefers puffies (crazy boy!)

pools

 i got the boys some baby pools to make into ball pits. turns out we need some more balls! they didn't care that it wasn't full of balls.

these pics are a bit out of order..oh well.

 

 charlie LOVED being in the pool with water in it!

 pete enjoyed it too

he's not in a pool, but i had to add a picture of my naked boy!

jack made beds for him and simba

uh oh

charlie started saying uh oh on the 29th. he dropped a ball and i said uh oh and then he repeated. he was sooo proud of himself and said it over and over. 

he is laughing in the video but it is his "i'm tired" laugh. i just really wanted to get a video of him saying it the night that he said it first.

he is also making a new noise...

dora exhibit at mcwane

 johnny had the day off yesterday so we went to the mcwane center to check out the new dora and diego exhibit. it is really a great exhibit! jack LOVED it and so did charlie!

 jack could probably stay at the "acorn" area for hours. he really did stay for like 45 minutes. you can fill a car's gas tank up with the acorns too.

 charlie loved the aquarium area.

 we went back today with some friends and after lunch i let jack go down to pet the sharks because he didn't get to touch one yesterday. the sharks were very friendly today and he got to pet them like 4 times!

i am so thankful that i get to stay home with my boys and take them to do fun activities! i am one lucky girl!!