Aggie Football Anyone?

Matt’s friend Travis brought this Aggie shirt for Charlotte when he went to an Aggie game a few weeks back. 

Gotta get ‘em started early!  Gig ‘em Aggies!

You can never have too many pictures…

She is just so beautiful!  How can proud parents not help but take ten thousand pictures!  The first month goes by so fast!  Here is how our little girl is growing!  All these pictures are from the first month that Charlotte was home.

Our pretty girl waiting patiently for us to get her bath ready.

Yes actually never cries in the bath, we think she actually enjoys it!

This was Charlotte’s first time to lay on her play mat.  She enjoyed looking around and practicing her daily tummy time.

A girl can never have too many pretty bows!

‘Tis the life of a baby…

Time for my next nap!

Charlotte’s First Bath

Wrapped up in a blanket
Cozy, safe and sound
You pick me up and smile
Then you strip me down.

You put me in water
And expect me not to scream
Well, I'll just tell you frankly,
Only in your dreams.

Don't wash behind my ears
And leave my toes alone
Just because I'm crying,
Try not to use that tone.

Please give me back my blanket.
Wrap me up so tight.
With lots of hugs and kisses,
I'll forgive you...I just might.

 

As most babies, Charlotte was not to fond of her first bath.  Since she is so much smaller than Grant was this was quite a production…both Matt and I felt that we needed to be holding onto her so that she didn’t slip off the sponge, and boy was she slippery.  Hopefully we will get better at this once she gets bigger.

First Day at Home..as a family of 4!

After a long wait at the hospital to be discharged we were finally on our way home!  We were so glad to be able to sleep in our own bed and to get Charlotte home and start our life as a family of 4!  We cannot get over how blessed we are!

When we got home Grammy and Grant were waiting anxiously for us.  After getting settled in we decided to give Grant his present from Charlotte and take some pictures.  We decided to give Grant a gift so that he would not feel left out of all the hustle and bustle of bringing Charlotte home.  We told him the gift was from Charlotte and he was thrilled.

 

Before Charlotte was born we bought her this super cute, super soft dress as her coming home outfit.  Well because of her size it just swallowed her so we opted not to wear it home but for her to wear something that would be more snug instead.  It was so cute so we decided to take some pictures of her in it anyways.

 

Then we decided to take our first picture as a family of 4!  (please excuse how I look…after you have a c-section you don’t exactly feel or look your best)

Big Brother “Hospital Hands”

Our hospital has a cute thing that every big brother or big sister of a new baby gets to do so they will feel special too.  They get to paint their hands and put their handprints on the wall of the nursery ward of the hospital.

We asked Grant what color he wanted to paint his hands and he said “blue, no red, no green”, so we eventually talked him into one color – red.

 

With daddy’s help Grant placed his hands on the wall for perfectly adorable Grant handprints that will remain on the wall as a special memory of the very special day that Charlotte was born and Grant became a big brother.

One very proud Big Brother!

Last Lazy Days of Summer

(The two below posts “First Day at Preschool and “Last Lazy days of Summer” have been posted out of order and should be posted before the “Happy Birthday Charlotte Anne” post)

"By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer."

All little boys must enjoy the simple things about the last days of summer…like drinking from the garden hose!