Family of Four Photo Shoot!

When Grant was a month old we had a family photo shoot and it was important for us to do the same when Charlotte was added to our family.  Plus we needed a cute picture for Christmas cards this year.  Kris Evans (http://www.krisevans.com) was great!  She worked really well with the kiddos and Grant loved to play with her youngest daughter.  We got lots of cute pictures!  Thanks Kris, we will be seeing you again!

Charlotte is 2 months old!

Another month as flown by and Charlotte is now 2 months old!  It just seems like I blogged about her 1 month birthday!  Here is what she has done this month:

• you are still sleeping in our room in the pack ‘n play and you slept your longest stretch yet 9:00pm to 2:45am.  We loved the extra sleeping time.
• you like to lay on your activity mat and look at the animals.
• we have tummy time almost every day and you have rolled over three times…from your front to your back. 
• you started smiling at mommy and daddy!  The first smile mommy was changing your diaper and you  just looked up and smiled!  So sweet!
• you love to look at the ceiling fan in all the rooms and you give them lots of smiles too.
• you have started to coo and “talk”…we love to listen to you.
• you are still nursing about 5 times a day and taking a bottle about 2 or 3 times.  Although your feeding are getting farther in between.
• you are taking great naps during the day.  Your longest one in the afternoon.
• you outgrew your newborn clothes and are now in 3 month clothes. 

We are taking Charlotte to the doctor next week for her 2 month check-up and we are excited to see how she has grown!  This past month was so exciting with lots of milestones!

Let’s compare…

Growing bigger every day!

Two Beautiful Kiddos!

You can never have too many picture of your kids!  I’m sure that many times Grant and Charlotte get tired of me having my camera stuck in their faces!   This post is mostly for the grandparents and great-grandparents that can’t get enough of their grandchildren!

Thanksgiving “Feast”

Grant’s preschool had a Thanksgiving “feast” for all the kids and their parents on the last Thursday before the holidays.  Each parent signed up to bring a dish and all the kids “feasted”!  Matt went on his lunch break to eat with Grant and Charlotte and I came a little later. 

It was so cute, Grant was dressed as an Indian!  Matt and I were both surprised that he was actually wearing the headband and leaving it on.  There were tons of kids there and an equal number of proud parents taking pictures.

Grant got to feast on turkey slices, cheese cubes, cheetos, grapes, macaroni and cheese and ,of course, lots of desserts!  He had a great time with his friends and teachers. 

We thank God for Grant too…everyday!

Matthew turned the big 30!

Yes, it is true…Matt is officially out of his twenties and onto the thirties!  We were so blessed to get to spend this special milestone with lots of friends and family.  We organized a birthday party dinner for Matt and 20 of our friends and family at a restaurant we love called Cava Bistro.

We had a 4 course dinner complete with appetizer platters, salads and soups, entrees, and desserts platters.  The food and atmosphere was wonderful and the company of friends and family was even better.

Many of the friends there were Matt’s friends from high school and even some that he knew from elementary school!

We had a great time and everyone was very complimentary of the food, company and atmosphere!  We are so glad that we have such special friends to share these special times with! 

30 is the new 20 after all!

Desperate for some sleep…

Happy Halloween 2009

We had such a fun Halloween this year!  Grant actually let us dress him up and we were so happy to have Charlotte here to celebrate with us too! 

We started the day off with some Halloween treats for breakfast…banana ghosts and “bones and blood”.  The banana ghost were just bananas dipped in white chocolate and the “bones and blood” were cinnamon-sugar breadsticks and strawberry jelly.  Grant really enjoyed both of them!

Around lunchtime we headed to the front of our neighborhood for the festival that was going on.  They had games, a cake walk and lots of “bouncy houses” that Grant loved to play in.  He also enjoyed his first bite of blue cotton candy!  Unfortunately I did not have the camera so no pictures from there!  Lunch was also in the form of a Halloween treat.  We made mummy hotdogs!  Just hotdogs wrapped in breadsticks with mustard eyes…they were a hit and gobbled up!

Our kiddos are just so adorable that we cannot help taking lots of pictures of them…and now that Charlotte has come along it has gotten worse.  We tried to get them to pose together in the rocking chair and it worked for about a minute…

And then it turned into this…

Oh well, maybe one day Grant will like to be near his baby sister!  After a long nap for everyone it was time to get ready for trick-or-treating!  Grant was the cutest little fly fisherman that we have ever seen!

Charlotte was so little that it was hard to find a costume for her so we just decided on a cute onesie and bow.  Since it was chilly outside we thought that a hat might be better…but as you can see she did not approve and wanted her bow back.

Grant’s friend, from across the street,  Isabella stopped by for candy so we decided to trick-or-treat with her family.  She was the cutest angel ever!  They went from house to house together collecting lots of candy!  Grant would say “more me house” after he would get candy and was very polite saying “tank you” to everyone too! 

 

Grant got lots of candy and got to eat 2 pieces when we got home.  He also really enjoyed ‘helping people” that came to the door to get candy from us.  About 8:45 everyone was tuckered out but we had had a great Halloween day!