Playing with the new toys!

Charlie got lots of musical instruments for Christmas. A drum set with other cool shakers and rattles. And a piano. He is having a great time making beautiful music!!!

And more presents....

On Boxing Day we went to Grandma and Grandpa Honeyman's. His Auntie and Uncle and all his cousins came to and there were more presents! Charlie got a really cool roadster car! He'll have lots of fun with that (his legs just have to grow a little bit more!!!)












On Christmas morning after opening our presents at home - we went over to Grandma and Granpa Booth for more presents and brunch! Charlie got lots of presents: some new clothes, some mega blocks, including a pirate ship, an animal train and a CASTLE PLAYGROUND!
Grandpa and his boys!
Playing in the castle!

Charlie's First Christmas Update!

Well after a busy few days (and kicking Daddy off the computer for a few minutes) I am finally able to update Charlie's Blog! This picture above is on Christmas Eve - I just had to take a picture of Charlie in with all the presents! (excluding the ones Santa still had to bring!) Christmas Eve we joined Ben's family at their Church in Abbotsford. Charlie was excellent thru the whole service - he loved all the singing! After chuch we went back to grandma and grandpa's place for yummy snacks!
Here is Charlie Christmas morning opening his gifts!

Charlie can't wait to play his new piano! But he'll have to wait! It's off to Grandma and Grandpa Booths!

Our Disney tree!

Here's the tree all decorated. (Yes I know I cut the Angel...but I had to include Mickey and Minnie and Pooh and Eeyore!)

Decorating the tree....

We actually put up our tree on the First of December (I just forgot to post the pictures!) Here's Charlie helping Daddy with the lights!
We put the tree up on a trunk...this was a good deterant for a while....then the ornaments were put on and Charlie wanted to touch them! A few days later we had our playgroup at our house so I moved the coffee table in front of the tree - to make more room for the kids to play...and this is where we left it! Now Charlie really can't get the tree! (What mean parents we are huh!)

This past week!

Well what a week it has been! Charlie cought another cold last Friday...and at first it was just a runny nose...the usual. But by Sunday night he started coughing. So Monday we bought some baby Tylonal Cold. Monday night, Tuesday and Wednesday night were BAD NIGHTS!!!! He wouldn't fall asleep until after 10pm and then wake every two hours....and then at 4am decided he wanted to be awake for 2 hours! He was just miserable! He didn't want to be held...but he didn't want down! He didn't even want to nurse. Finally when I stood up - he stopped crying and fell asleep (I had tried this earlier too and it didn't work!!!!) I was also putting Ambosal on his gums as the one top tooth looked like it was close to coming thru. We didn't even make it to our playgroup on Wednesday. Both Mommy and Charlie really look forward to this. But by Wednesday...Mommy was feeling miserable from lack of sleep! (OH yeah....When Charlie would finally fall asleep at 6...he was waking again at 7:30/8! (Thank goodness Daddy was home and his exams were finished...so he could help out...of course Charlie would just cry harder when Daddy held him....he just wanted his Mommy! Isn't it nice to feel so needed!)

Finally Thursday night he only woke once for about 20 minutes. Friday Charlie seemed back to his normal happy self! We went shopping with Grandma and Aunty Selena and Trent and Charlie was very content! When we got home from shopping Daddy went to change Charlie...it turned into a 2 person job! (Charlie is very wiggley these days! Makes changing him a big challenge...especially the poopy ones!!!!) As Daddy was distracting Charlie he saw that tooth had popped out! So now we know why he was sooo miserable for those few days!!!! First a cold and then a tooth!!!! (Now we really can't ask for his tooth front teeth for Christmas - he already has them!!!!) And in case anyones lost count...that's 4 (two on top and two on the bottom!)

Brunch with Santa

On Sunday with joined our friends Andre and Sonia and their two kids for Brunch with Santa at Newlands Golf and Country Club. This was a super yummy brunch...with lots and lots of food! Charlie was a big boy sitting in his own seat and got to eat lots of yummy food from mommy's plate! Watermelon, Honey Dew Melon, turkey, potatoes....and when Mommy wasn't looking...Daddy gave Charlie some chocolate dessert!!!!!! (mommy was not impressed! - And Charlie really could have cared less!!!)

We even got a smile out of Charlie with Santa.















Here's the whole group of us!

Charlie and Mommy's friends with Santa

Here's the whole gang with Santa!

Santa Claus!

Charlie joined his friends in meeting Santa on Monday. He wasn't too sure of this guy in the red suit and white beard! There was no smile for the camera today! But he didn't cry! We gave Santa our wish list and away we went!!!!

We got the picture from the "professional" photographer - but our scanners not hooked up so thanks Jacob's mom for snapping this picture for us!

Snowing In Chilliwack!!!!!

We took Charlie out to enjoy the snow for a few minutes yesterday! He kept looking up and getting snow in his face! He wasn't too sure of all this white stuff!
I can't wait til next year...when we can really go out and play with Charlie in the snow!
This is our backyard! It looked so pretty at night...I wish I could have taken pictures then...but I knew the camera wouldn't have done it justice!
About a month after Charlie was born - it snowed and I had to take a picture with him in the snow...of course he had no idea what it was! We've also been to Whistler a couple of times to see the snow....but this was more snow than Whistler has had when we've been there! So it really was Charlie's first look and feel of lots of snow!!!

Mr. Messy Face!

This is from a few weeks ago...Charlie was not interested in eating...Or being fed. So I let him "try" his food himself! I guess this was much more fun!

The two teeth....

Can you see them????? What a great picture of my two favourite boys!

10 months old! A wee bit late!

Look at this handsome boy! I can't believe its already been 10 months - well over 10 months now! He is getting soo big! I just love that he still poses for pictures! What a smile!!!!!

Well at 10 months Charlie has 2 teeth! (no bites to Mom yet!!!!) He has figured out this whole crawling thing! No more belling sliding for Charlie! He is eating food off of my plate - sometimes likely this more than his own baby food!
No big growth spurt this month....he weighs 20lbs 13oz and is 28" long.

And another one!

Now there's two front teeth on the bottom! I guess Charlie can't ask for his two front teeth for Christmas...well maybe the top (but they look pretty close as well!!!!)

I guess that's why Charlie was up for 2 hours on early Sunday morning (2am to 4am!!!!) I kinda had a feeling! I tried to put my finger in his mouth and he pushed me away! He didn't want anything touching his sore gums!!!!

While I'm giving a bit of an update....Recently...as of last week...Charlie has figured out how to go from the crawling position back to sitting.

Yesterday afternoon...he got up on his knees by the chair

Then today...it was up on his two feet at the coffee table...all by himself! Walking will be soon I think!!

Our little baby is growing up! sniff sniff!

First Tooth!

Yeah finally Charlie has his first tooth! I noticed it yesterday. I thought I saw something when Charlie laughed...so I stuck my finger in his mouth and sure enough on the bottom right I felt a tooth!

And last night...for the first time in weeks...Charlie only woke up once (at 3:30am) and then slept through til 8am!!! This was pretty exciting for Mommy! (for awhile it was every two hours!!!!!) I guess it was his teeth bothering him! Of course now I jinxed it...tonight he'll wake up lots!!!!

Oh well....

First Halloween

Charlie's first Halloween and Mommy got his costume from Ebay! Sooo cute...Winnie the Pooh dressed as a Bumble Bee! Charlie didn't even mind having the head part on! We even went trick or treating. First down the street to Granny's then over to Grandma and Grandpa's. All the candy was for Mommy and Daddy tho'! Charlie did get some new Baby Mum Mum cookies from Grandma. Also from Aunty Selena new feeding spoons.
Charlie had all his little baby friends over for a Halloween party...the Mommy's came too. Lots of pictures were taken. And then the Mommy's ate lots of really good food! We had a big assortment of costumes....an elephant, a turkey, a ghost, pumpkin, kitty cat, cowgirl, Winnie the Pooh, ballerina and lady bug! Too cute! Getting a group shot with all the kids was pretty tricky...this was about the best one!

some more pics from the pumpkin patch

Charlie and Jacob
Jacob wondering what the heck Charlie is eating and wants no part of it!
Charlie: "You don't know what you're missing, Jacob!"

Charlie and OwenOwen giving the corn some serious consideration!
Charlie: "C'mon Owen try the corn...it's really good!"

Charlie and his future girlfriend Kiera

"you should try the corn!...I'm trying the straw now!"

PLay Group trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

Here's some pictures of our Play Group's trip to the Pumpkin Patch. This time even the mom's got their pictures taken! We were so lucky the rain held out for us to venture out to the pumpkin patch - not 20 minutes after we left it started to rain! We just had to get our cuties pictures with the pumpkins! (Thanks Amy for creating the collage!)

9 months old!

Well its hard to believe that Charlie is already 9 months old! He is getting sooo big! Yet he is still little!

I had him weighed and measured on Monday and he is weighing in at 20lbs! He is 27 inches long (this is just an estimate as he moves around too much to really get a good measurement!) Charlie is moving all over the place. Still doing the army slide but we call it crawling! We think its what we're going to get with the hardwood floors! Maybe he'll go right to walking! It's funny in the last week or so he discovered there's other rooms inthe house besides the living room! So now he ventures to the kitchen, bathroom, and bedrooms. So we have to make sure all the doors are closed.

We've been having some issues with Charlie sleeping thru the night lately....he's sleeping great for his morning and afternoon naps...but settling down for the night isn't going so well! He's also been waking up one or two times throughout the night as well. We think its because he's teething and he's growing! I spoke with the Health nurse on Monday and she said these little babies minds are growing soo fast that they wake themselves up at night. So lets just hope this is the case and Charlie's working on his genius status!!!!! I'm sure this is temporary...and he'll start sleeping again!

As I mentioned, he's teething...just no teeth have popped out yet! We are waiting patiently for this! Almost all his friends have teeth - we don't want Charlie to be left out!!!!

Another trip to the pumpkin patch!

We went on another trip to the pumpkin patch (this one is on Lickman Road - just past the highway overpass) over the Thanksgiving long weekend. There were lots of pumpkins to choose from. Plus lots of photo ops! Daddy searched and searched for the biggest and roundest pumpkin! Charlie was more interested in the dirt!
"I think this one Daddy!"


Charlie and his Grandma in the pumpkin patch.






Daddy trying to find perfect pumpkin"

Thanksgiving in Vancouver

For the Thanksgiving weekend, Grandma and Grandpa booked two hotel rooms in downtown Vancouver for all of us to stay over night! Our room was very high up - the 28th floor! The view was amazing!Charlie wasn't sure what to think of it! But he did like to look out the window!


On Sunday, we went to the Vancouver Aquarium! Charlie was amazed by all the fishes! Above he is sitting with Trent and Grandma by the Shark tank. Swimming by is a big Sea Turtle. Trent liked the fish tanks with the fishes from Finding Nemo. In this tank, he saw Bruce - the shark and Crush - the Sea Turtle! In a differnt tank he saw Nemo's, Dory's and Gils! (When Trent came over on Tuesday - we had to watch Finding Nemo!) The picture below is Charlie and Daddy watching the Dolpins. They were swimming very fast that Charlie didn't know where to look next! We had a great time at the Aquarium!

My first Pumpkin!

After the tour at the Farm we got to go pick out a pumpkin. Trent wanted a really big one! Charlie got a baby pumpkin...just the perfect size!

Mommy and Daddy still have to carve it!

At the Pumpkin Patch

Charlie joined Trent's pre-school class at Greenhill Acres Farm. Mommy took a bunch of pictures of him in the pumpins.

"Can you tell me how to get....

....how to get to Sesame Street!" Charlie loves to watch Sesame Street. He doesn't watch much TV...but I have to say it is a great babysitter when I need to have a shower! Just stick him in his Hop n' Pop and turn on Sesame Street or Treehouse! Charlie's all time favourite is ELMO! Maybe for Christmas he'll get the new Tickle Me Elemo!!!!

Matching T-shirts

Mom got Charlie and Trent matching shirts from Old Navy! here they are modelling the shirts with Granny!

Play Group at Ellenor's house!

Here is a group photo of our group last Thursday at Ellenor's house! Starting on the left standing is Kaelen (she is almost exactly 1 month younger than Charlie - I met her mommy at our Prenatal class), next is Keira (we met at the Baby Tme at the Health Clinic). Then sitting on the left is Owen (also met his mommy at Prenatal) then is cutey patutey Charlie! then Ellenor (met at Baby Time), Then Olivia (met for the first time here) then lying down is Presley (she only 3 months old so she can't sit yet!)

We decided to get together once a week - trading homes as we all get together at the Health Clinic - and it can get pretty noisy and busy. and this is a nicer way to get out of the house and visit! Something nice to look forward to every week! It'll be too bad when we all go back to work in the New Year! We'll have to figure out a way to still meet up!

Is this Irony or what?

In case you can't quite read his shirt...it says "I can't read"....and he's looking at a book! OK, I set this photo up...but I thought it was funny! Aunty Kristen made a bunch of these kinds of shirts for Charlie when he was first born...and now they fit him!

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A Brief Update...Now that Charlie is 8 months old!

As it has been a while since our last update here you go....
As of Monday Charlie weighed 19lbs 13oz - so close to the 20lb mark!!! He is still very close to crawling...well he does crawl just not the tradition crawl! He kind of slithers! but if he really wants something...he can really move! His favourite is the gas fireplace!!! Yes - fireplace! Yikes! We did an experiment and discovered the bottom part of the fireplace does not get hot - a bit of a relief. Still, when he starts to get close to it - He gets a firm.."THAT'S HOT"! And then we take him away. He has started to cry a bit when we take him away...so maybe he's figuring it out! Who knows! But at least we know if we leave the room...when the fire place is on...and he touches it...he won't burn his skin off!

Anyways...he also does this really hilarious butt slide! If I have him sitting playing with toys...he'll start to pull himself with his arms! It is hilarious! The first time he did it - it reminded up of a TLC show I watched where the woman was born without the bottom half of her torso (no legs) and she pulled herself around with her arms...so when Charlie started doing this...it kinda freaked me out a bit! But now I just think its funny!!!

Charlie is still eating really good! We even tried some chicken the other day. We had chicken for dinner - so I cut up some for Charlie...he loved it! Haven't tried any other meat yet....(oh and just in case you're curious....his poop after eating chicken...pretty nasty!!!!) Just thought I would share that little tidbit of info!!!!!

Charlie is pretty much sleeping through the night. He goes down (usually) between 8 and 8:30 and is usually good until about 4:30 (he's up for a bout 10 min) and then back to sleep until 7:30 or 8. He is also really good about having morning and afternoon naps...only about 45 min to an hour...but this works for me!

Mommy started curling again...and Daddy has had to look after Charlie. Well Charlie is in bed when I go...but I think he senses that I am gone because both times I"ve gone out...Charlie has woken up about an hour after I"ve left. So Daddy has to get him to go back to sleep. This usually entails going for a drive! Hey - gotta do what works right!

Mommy and Charlie enjoy going out once a week to our play group. This is a group of us that met at the Health Clinic Baby Time drop in. Our babies are all about the same age and we would get together every Monday and visit...we just decided why not do this at our homes instead. This is great for the Mommy's to get out of the house, talk to other moms about baby stuff...or not about baby stuff! and good for the baby's to get to play with other baby's their own age! I only wish we had thought about this sooner! (I have some pictures of the kids playing...but for some reason I am having trouble uploading pictures! Will have to see what the deal is!)

Wow! I think that is quite the update....will try not to be so long for the next one! Hopefully I can firgure out why I can't upload any pictures...I have a bunch that are really cute!

Car Washes...bad!

So we are trying to sell my car...I love my car...but its a two door...and I'm just not a contortionist (sp?) to get Charlie into the back seat!!! So we are attempting to sell my car - and get a four door. Anyways...we have a girl coming to look at it on Monday (fingers crossed) so we went to get gas last night and thought we would go thru the car wash as well - get it all nice and clean and shiny! Well it started out good...but very sooon...as the car wash covered with soap...Charlie started to get a little freaked out! Then he got really freaked out!!!! We figured we've scarred him for life now...

So note to self...never take a baby into a car wash...it will be a long and loud experience! (He was still crying on the way home!!) Poor little guy!

Just hanging out reading!

This morning while making Charlie's breakfast I left him in the living room. He's not really crawling yet so I felt ok just leaving him alone for a few minutes. I could hear him playing with his toy...then I didn't hear any noise...so I was a bit concerned. Wondering what did he get into I went to the living room. I found him reading his book! Too cute. I quickly went to get my camera to take a few pics! Our son...already knows how to pose for pictures! he heard the beep beep of the camera focusing and looks up with a huge grin!