Apple Picking in Vermont

September 26, 2009

While up in Vermont in the fall - what better thing to do but go apple picking? It was a beautiful day, so Mom, Aaron, Charlotte and I went up to Franklin to get us some fresh apples. I wish Charlie enjoyed it a bit more than she did (though she did good for us waking her up from her car ride nap!), but she lasted long enough for us to get some bushels.

Time to look up lots of yummy recipes and start the fall baking!

Budweiser Clydesdales

September 20, 2009

NASCAR weekend brought visitors this year - Paul, Lille, Erica and Ian. Sunday morning, Paul and Lille headed up to the Loudon race, while the rest of us headed down to Andover, Massachusetts to watch the football team Aaron's been helping to coach play their first game. It was a long day of opening ceremonies, but we were happy the Ravens came out with the win. After the game, we headed up to see the Budweiser Clydesdales at the brewery here in Merrimack, NH. I love seeing these - they're HUGE! The kids enjoyed them too.

Ian and a horse's bum!

A horse named Charlie!

Fun in the gift shop!

Charlotte's New Toy

Charlotte seemed to have been getting bored with the dragonfly on her papason chair and the butterfly hanging on her carseat - she stares at them, but they never do anything and she can't reach them. So, we went out and bought her a play mat to see how she would like it. The woman at the cash register thought she was a little young for it, but we thought she was ready to play. We got it home and laid her underneath and she just sort of stared for a while. She did seem to enjoy staring at the brighter colors and having some "new friends" to hang with. After just two days, she bats at them and grabs them and even puts her hand back to crinkle the monkeys ear by her head - she LOVES it. It's so fun to watch her grow - and these pics were too cute not to post.



And of course, I can't get enough of her smiles every day ...

Sweet Dreams & Big Smiles

Charlotte has a new sleep position that seems to be the most comfortable for her these days. It's almost as if she falls into bed - pretty cute.



And here's a couple of her smiles that we see a lot of these days.

Charlotte - 5 Weeks Already!

September 8, 2009

Our little girl hit a month too quickly, and now we're on our way to two months! She's getting bigger every day and she even gained another pound over the past two weeks - she is 9 pounds 12 ounces at exactly 5 weeks. (Was 8lbs 6oz at birth; 7lbs 13oz at 3 days old; 8lbs 12oz at 3 weeks old). She only has one long nap a day, sleeps great at night (sometimes I have to wake HER up!), loves spending time with Daddy when he gets home, pulls her own hair when she's mad (and wonders why it hurts!), and is now smiling at us and talking to us all the time. We love seeing her personality start to show and still aren't sure who she looks like. Here are some new pics I snapped of our little cutie:

sleeping beauty

This is her after changing her diaper and trying hard to wake her up - when she sleeps, she sleeps!

Talking-to-Mommy time

Her and I also had some fun the other day with my mac - she was wondering why I was laughing so hard - way too cute!

A Room Almost Done!

After many weeks of painting, renovations and unorganization - we have finally gotten the Nursery to a *nearly* finished point. I have calluses from getting all the furniture put together during nap times and am excited every time I walk into Charlotte's room. It's nice and bright and she seems to enjoy spending time in there as well.

The only things left to do are to buy/paint/install the molding over the ugly blue strip on the walls and paint and reinstall the closet doors. Then I can hang her wall decor and it's finished!! ... (until she's old enough to get bored of it and want to change it!)




Next week, we will be putting Charlotte in her crib for the night for the first time. I'm a bit nervous about not having her in our room ... but that's what all this hard work is for, right?

Luau Weekend in Vermont

August 22, 2009

We traveled up to Vermont for the Luau - Charlotte's first trip! She slept the whole way up there and we were happy to know she could do it and will need to get used to the road trips. It was a great weekend up there with the family and everyone at the party was excited to get to meet and hold Charlie. She was a very good girl with all of the action going on around her and being passed around to cuddle!

She got to meet Great Grandpa Bowler -

She met and was fed by Great Grandma Allard -

Four generations -

Here is the update pic to the ones from the last two Easters (see the April Easter post) -

And she did get some Mommy time at the party! -

While in Vermont, she spent the two nights in the bassinet that Grandpa Bowler slept in as a baby. She's small, but it was a tight fit compared to the spacious cradle she sleeps in now. Very cute though.

She must have been exhausted from the weekend and she slept the whole way back to NH as well! This was my view from the front seat when I turned around to check on her:

We hope to get up to Vermont some more through the fall - she's looking forward to it!