The 4 Month Mark

Charly passed the 4 month mark on the 24th! Hurray! She continues to grow longer and heavier by the day. She is rolling over and inch-worming across the floor. She coo's and giggles easily and frequently- that's a lot of fun. :) Teeth are trying to break through, which involves lots of drool and gnawing. Her tear duct is still clogged, I wonder how long her pediatrician will want to let that go before we do anything about it.

Her hair is so wild!

Owen loves to pretend to do her hair. He will put every clippy we own in her hair.
Ofcourse that only happens when Daddy is at work. :)

Back Online!!!

After a few days of not having the internet I am thrilled to be blogging and looking for your updates. :) Since the last post we have spent our time like most days, playing inside, playing outside, playing with our friends. Saturday was an especially fun day for our family. We went to Hobby Town for a promotion of the new movie Fly Me To The Moon. We made our own real rocket and went an saw the movie at the theater around the corner from there. The rocket is cool, we plan on letting it fly on Saturday, I think. The movie was okay. What was very cool about it is that it is in 3D, you have to wear the glasses and all but it was really neat. I did stay motion sick most of the time, even so, it was still neat.

Sunday I taught Relief Society for the first time as a official teacher.
I think it went well, there was lots of participation.

Today we went to Chucky Cheese with our neighbors. It's so much fun doing stuff with them. Owen really enjoys having friends his age, they all play well together and alone so it works out great.

Here are some pics...

Owen trying out his new shark pool.

Playing outside.

Charly playing outside. This was the best picture I had of her from that day. Her expressions quickly changed from content to really ticked off. Oh well.

Owen working on his special project for his Daddy.

Excellent sign of a good day. Food on the face, a favorite
pair of glasses upsidedown and a nap in the back seat.

Owen's picture taking skills. We have about 100 pictures
of the celing, floor, our feet and arms.

We made it in to a shot!

Owen's new favorite movie. See the joy on his face? :)
We have watched this movie every day and sometimes twice a day.

Cheese!

Watch out! Ava's on the loose!

A Special Treat

Tonight we were blessed with a VERY RARE but SPECIAL treat. We had both Wayne and Billy visit. Wayne is Garett's younger brother and Billy has been Garett's best friend since they were 12, that was a while ago. :) Wayne was in town for business and was able to break away to come see us. Billy has been here for 3 weeks and is moving to Orlando on Sunday. I wish we all lived closer. It was so much fun watching the boys be boys. Wayne is a great story teller and kept us rolling in laughter for hours.

Wayne with his neice Charly.

Imagine it!

Last week was a fun week that I neglected to blog... So to catch up....Tuesday we went to a free summer movie, Owen did alright. Wednesday we went to the Bounce House again. I love that place! Thursday was Imagine it! The Children's Museum of Atlanta. It's located next to the Aquarium.

We went with our neighbors Rhonda (and her kids Logan and Drew)
and Erica (and her sweet Ava).

Owen spent the first half hour exploring all the corners with all of it's surprises. He ran right into the Plexiglas trying to go squeeze the over-sized veggies.

The cow area he explored but seemed to think it was boring.
He spent very little time there.

The big banana slide was great. It's cute and it's sliding.
There were kids on it almost the whole day.

Owen's favorite was driving the produce truck, loading and unloading it, but mostly he loved pushing the grocery buggy all over the museum. It would have been great if they had a few more of them.

Opening and closing windows, nice new skill to learn, until he tries it at home.

The Moon Sand pit. This was a great idea.
Owen had fun squishing the sand and building lumps of sand.

Drew loved the sand too.

Rhonda showed Owen how to use the molds.
Very cool.

The painting wall was another favorite.
I would love to paint on a wall, squeegee it off and start again, fun fun fun!

This is my favorite Owey picture of the day.

Excellent art work!

Drew - really getting into his work.

Choo Choo tables!

This area was a special area for kids 5 and under. It had something similar to a tree house, a slide, water to play in and a tunnel to crawl through.

I think Logan would have stayed here all day.

Ava found the puppet room and made herself at home.

Acquiring yet another skill. Rope climbing.

The day was long, fun and Charly was easy, she slept a lot and was content in my arms the rest of the time. The kids wore themselves out and Owen keeps asking to go back.

This sums up the car ride home.
They were all wiped out, so cute snoozing in their car seats.

Charly's First Soild Foods

Today the mood struck me and I decided to try Charly on rice cereal mixed with White Grape Juice. She liked it just fine and sucked down the food.

Owen just cannot sit back while Charly gets all the
attention so he had to try the cereal too. He said Yum!

Pictures for Christi

You asked for pictures of Charly... here are 2. :) She was sitting on the couch relaxing. She is holding her head up very well. If you recline her she will crunch her abs until she falls over. :) Doesn't know when to quit. Charly is so much fun to watch and to play with and she is getting so big. She a heavy load to carry around all day.

You cannot tell here, however, Charly's eyes are still blue!

July - So Far

So far July has been wonderful for us. Charly's hair is longer and I'm able to start doing cute things with it. It's really soft and silky so all the hair doo-dads slide right out. We weighted her tonight and she is 16 lbs!!! I knew she felt heavy, I had no idea she was this big. We were blessed over this July 4th weekend to have Garett's parents come see us. It was so wonderful to see them and to visit. We wish they could have stayed longer or lived closer. We all enjoyed a cook out with the neighbors and fireworks from the drive way. We pulled out our kitchen chairs and enjoyed the show. My favorite was picnicking at Red Top Mountain, I had no idea it was there and it was awesome! We skipped rocks in the lake and watched boats zoom by. The shade and the breeze off the lake felt so good. Oh- and no mosquitoes. I guess it was our lucky weekend.

She knows she is cute. :) Her bumbo seat is her salon chair.

Watching the fireworks, the neighbors all put on good shows.

Daddy and Charly

Giving Nana a kiss

Grandpa and Owen, Grandma and Charly

The happy bunch, great job working the timer Garett!