Golden Mickey Ears!

Had to take a picture of Charlie in his Golden Mickey Ears! And his "First Trip to Disneyland" T-shirt! Isn't he adorable!!!!

Jump - Jump - Sleep!!!!

Charlie's been enjoying jumping in his Jolly Jumper. We realized we should have introduced him to it much sooner! but really we had no room. Now that he's outgrown his swing - we put together this jolly jumper contraption. Charlie loves it!!!!!

Daddy recently put a mirror against the wall - this was brilliance! Now Charlie jumps and stares at himself for hours...ok not quite hours...but a long time!!!







Loving the jumping!!!











Too much jumping! He fell asleep! Too cute! I had to snap a picture before taking him out!!!

Mmmm mmmm good!

We gave Charlie his first taste of food on Thursday July 6. Just a bit of Rice Cereal. Well he gobbled it right up! So after a few days of plain rice cereal - I tried a mashed banana. Success with this too.

My good friend Lisa gave loaned me her book called "A Baby's Table". It has recipes and meal ideas for babies. (Pretty neat book) So I tried my hand at making some baby food. First I steamed some carrots - put it in the food processor and then put the mixture into an ice cube tray. Then I peeled and steamed some apples. Mushed them all up and put them in the ice cube tray. Once frozen I put them in baggies for later use. Pretty easy. I will definatly try some more fruits and veggies.



Not too bad!













Messy face!

Feelin' Hot Hot Hot!!!!

OK - it has been waaaayyy to hot to do any updates! Our computer is in our kitchen and our kitchen has been about a million degrees!!! Finally a cooler day!!!! Not that I'm complaining! Poor Charlie and the heat! He already is such a hot baby and this weather he's even hotter! Thursday night - the first of the hot nights! We put him down for the night...well 20 min. later he was crying...so I settled him down again....and 15 min later he was crying...we realized that he was tooo hot in his room! So we made a makeshift bed in our room (at the base of our bed) and he fell asleep instantly and slept the whole night thru! Oh yeah - we have A/C in our room! Should have thought - too hot for us to sleep without A/C - way to hot for Charlie. So the next night we brought his crib mattress in and he's been there since. He'll go back to his room when it cools down!

Our old house sure keeps the heat in! Friday morning - around 7:30 - I check the thermostat - it read almost 90 degrees!!!! yikes!!!! At one point the three of us - just hung out in our cool bedroom!!!! Then it was off to Grandma and Grandpa's Pool. Another way to cool off!!!!

Charlie's 6 months old!

Well today Charlie turns 6months old! How crazy...where did the time go!!! I saw a brand new baby at Baby Time yesterday...I can hardly remember when Charlie was sooo little! The time has flown by!

Last week we went to get his third set of shots. Not quite as tramatic for me as the last two! I only had the tears well up in my eyes...they didn't actually come down!!! I think those shots are worse for the mom's than they are for the babies!

We are continuing to have success with the rice cereal for lunch...I think tomorrow we will introduce some banana. Charlie is also continuing to sleep through the night! I no longer wake up in the middle of the night to check on him. I know he is OK and just sleeping soundly! He still goes to sleep around 10 or 10:30 and will sleep til 9am. Although last night he changed it up a bit and went to sleep at 9pm! and woke up a bit at 3:30am - I just left him and he fell back asleep after about 15minutes. He is soo smart he can turn the music on his projector/mobile thingy! So all of a sudden we hear music! Ben said to me "did you turn that on?" Nope - Charlie did!!!! Guess he wanted some music! Charlie then woke up to eat around 7am. then went back down - I had to wake him at 9:30 as I had a dentist appt and Grandma was babysitting.

We're also getting better at the afternoon naps as well. No real schedule but at least there is some actual napping happening!

Tummy Time

This is one of Ben's and mine favourite pictures of Charlie...so far! Such a cutie!

Here Charlie is doing Tummy Time. He used to hate tummy time! He would only stay down for a few minutes at a time. Didn't matter how many toys there were or me being right down with him...He hated it! Then all of a sudden one day (the last week of June) he rolled over and tummy time became OK! Now he holds himself up high and is even moving around on his blanket. This morning he did a complete 360!

When he first rolled over...he also did this in his crib...and decided to sleep on his tummy! Well this freaked Mommy out! We are told that they sleep on their back! (Gotta love those health nurses - their job to keep us freaked out constantly!) So I kept going in to check on Charlie - is he still breathing?!?!?! This only lasted the first night! Then I realized that he would be fine...his neck is strong enough to lift up and change postions if needed! Argh! Will there ever be a time I don't worry...NOPE!!!!!

Meeting Mickey

As some of you may or may not know...Charlie was a very lucky baby getting to go to Disneyland when he was just 5 months old! Daddy stayed home and Charlie went with his Mommy, Grandma, Aunty Selena, Cousin Trent and Great Granny. We had a great time! Charlie wasn't even afraid of the characters. He loved the Electrical Light Parade - the music and the lights were facinating to him! He even didn't mind the fire works! (which were amazing by the way)

We had beautiful weather - but it was HOT HOT HOT! It was pretty busy - so there were some long lines. We didn't get to see everything - but we saw what we saw! Charlie even went on some rides. Alice in Wonderland, Roger Rabbit Cartoon Spin, Casey Jr, and It's a Small World to name a few!

Next time Daddy will come too...maybe when Charlie's four! We'll start saving our pennies now!!!!

Charlie's Blog!

Hello!
Charlie has a Blog! What's a Blog? Well its a place that I can write my thoughts and goings on in Charlie's World! This allows friends and family to check in from time to time to see how he is growing! And he is growing!

I can hardly believe that next week he will be 6months old! This just blows my mind.
Last Thursday we started him on Rice Cereal for Lunch. Its going very well! This also seems to coincide with him sleeping better at night. Not sure if its a coincidence or what - but he was going to sleep at 10:30 or 11pm and waking at 3am...now he's going until 5 or 6am! This has been great! He'll then eat and then go back to sleep until 10am!!! Of course for some reason this means he doesn't have an afternoon sleep...we're working on this! It would also be nice if he went to bed earlier - but I can't ask for too much! We are so lucky to have such a happy baby!