Week 10 - double digits!

309.  Yep, that's how many pictures/videos that are "new" on my iPhone from just last week.  It's official...I'm a crazy mom that takes way too many pictures of you.  I'm SO happy we got our iPhones when we did because I literally do not know how I would survive or capture so many cutes pictures and videos of you without it.  Especially as I'm getting ready to head back to work - I'm already thinking of the pictures I want to take to put on my desk to stare at all day long!!

I'm not sure what happened to your sleeping - but it's totally regressed.  But we still love you. Even though I don't sleep.  You are worth it, right?

You were seriously SO much more fun this week.  Not that it hasn't been fun hanging with you before...but now you smile, laugh, make noises, look at me and all that fun stuff.  I feel like we are interacting a lot more and it's way fun.  We busted out a new toy this week - the jumper/excersaucer thing.  I just felt like you were getting bored just laying on your back...so I figured I would set it up and give it a whirl.  While you are still not 100% ready for it (your still too short...and head control is decent but it's not perfect!!)...you love it.  Mom is by your side the whole time.  You love the music and you LOVE the hanging monkey.  Not sure what your fascination is with him...but it's pretty funny.  You stare at him.  You smile at him.  And you laugh out loud at him.  Couldn't get enough of it!!

You met LOTS of new people and friends this week.  Your great aunt Pam and uncle Bruce came in town over the weekend from Iowa and you got to spend some time with them.  They loved you and said you were super cute!!!  We also went to watch the KU/KSU game at the Krumholtz's house and Kinley got to meet and hold you...it was good practice for her because she's going to have a little brother in December.  And guess what?  For our final event of the day, you got to also meet your BFF Arden!! We headed out to the Gower's house because Vanessa and Chris and Arden were in town.  The Matlocks came out with Jackson and then Heather and the Hartley's all came also.  It was so fun to have Jackson, Charlie and Arden all together.  Cannot wait until they get older and get to play all together!!!

We are also getting really really good at going places together.  It's fun!!!  So sad that our time together is almost over at home.  It goes like this.  Charlie in the car seat.  Milly and Willy in the kennel.  Lock the doors, strap Charlie in, grab mom's sunglasses and water and head out the door.  Boy our house is sometimes a zoo!!

You continue to grow and be so fun and cute and pretty much I cry thinking about not spending all day with you.  But it's good - for both of us.  You are going to try it out next week and I'm sure you will have lots of fun things to tell us.  Haha!!

There are tons of pictures this week - I had to pick from the 300 or so!!

Chubby baby!! 

Trip to the mall!!

Milly rocking the nap nanny - while the cover is getting washed

DROOL MONSTER

Rocking out on tummy time :)

Lucy!!

Charlie hanging in the crib checking out the mobile

Love this outfit!

Our trip to the plaza 

In his toy for the first time! 

Haha - mom in her hat

BATHTIME - lounging

Kinley and Charlie! 

Bffs nursing our babes!

Heather and Arden :) 

Molly & Charlie; me & Arden!!! 

Vanessa loving on Charlie

Love this picture!!

Another cute one :)

Playing with Bruce & Pam

Uncle Bruce loving on Charlie

Papa Rog with Lani & Lucy!

Nana B and her babies!

Jimmy's find at the Bruns house.  I wore this when I was 8

Lounging outside together

Love this outfit so much - he's growing out of it too fast!

NEW TOY!

Only one full week left with you my sweet babe!!

Oh the fun we have...

So it's easy to take videos...so I do on my phone.  I don't like listening to my voice on them....but what do you do when your 2 month old doesn't talk?  Haha.  Here are a few that I love from the last few weeks...

This one is really long (props to you if you make it the whole thing).  I kept trying to get him to smile and he kind of did!




This one is of him and Jimmy dancing - he was shaking his hips and then got pooped!



Yes, this is what we do.  Oh Charlie - you have taken over our lives for the better.

Week 9 with Charlie Bear

This last week was a good one.  Lots of growing, some shopping, mom got to go out to dinner with her bff for her birthday (and dad did great with Charlie!), we had a fun day off as a family and hit up the pumpkin patch and had our first party since Charlie was born.  AKA we finally deep cleaned our house and it needed it really bad!!!  So much fun with little Charlie bear!

Some other pictures from the week....

Mom on the treadmill...baby asleep...#goawaypregnancyweight

Scratching his head thinking while hanging on the mamaroo

WHAT is my hand doing??

Bumbo time!!  Holding on to mom for help!

Snuggle time with dad on his day off!

Breakfast at a Mexican place??

YUM - Charlie likes it

Check out my sweet shoes!!  (thanks Aunt Lauren)

HEY cutie pie!!

Chilling watching some football....

Monday morning walk with mom on a chilly morning

Headed to get our shots :(

The shots...so sad....but it's ok because there was lots of mama snuggle time during the day!

Willy wanted to make sure he was OK too

Another fun week in the books - more to come with our little man!!!!

Charlie is TWO months old!!!

I am sure I will feel this way every month, but I cannot believe you are 2 months old.  I know you are still little, but I feel like you are growing up so fast.  I mean at Buy Buy Baby the other day I felt guilty and didn't park in the the "mom's with newborns/expecting mothers" spot because I mean...you are 2 months old and that's not a "newborn" right?!  Jeez...guess time flies when you are having fun, right?  I think so.  I didn't think I could love you any more, but guess what?  I do.  And your dad does too.  You like him a lot more now (probably because mom lets him hold you more now and do things for you - last month mom was a little selfish).  It's so cute to see you guys interact and fall in love even more.  You like his voice and his touch and his face when he shaves it.

You are still growing a ton...and guess what?  Sleeping is going much better.  Mom read this book recommended by our friend Ali called Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child and it was so great.  Mom read it when she was pumping this last month and just being more knowledgable on things made it so much better.  Naps are going ok still (still have to soothe you a lot, but I secretly like holding you) but nighttime is much better.  Once mom figured out that you don't need your diaper changed when you wake up now you pretty much eat in a "dream state".  You are so much more attentive and it's fun to guess what you are looking at.  You smile and giggle and it makes us smile and giggle at you.  Vicious cycle, but oh so fun!!!  You are starting to make a lot of noises and coos and some squeals.  They are pretty cute.  You follow our faces and toys and things with your eyes so well. And on your play mat, you love looking at the lights so much.  I just love staring at you stare at them.  It's so cute.  Pretty much I'm obsessed with you.  Not in a weird way, just in a way that I'm completely in love with this little man that is half me and half your dad.  Speaking of, it's 50/50 on who you look like still.  Some people say you look like me and some people say you look like your dad.  I think you look like your dad with my nose.  And I think your dad is super cute...aka you are super cute.

We went to the doctor today for your 2 month check up and check out these stats:

Weight: 12lbs and 14oz (75% percentile)
Length: 23.25 in (50% percentile)
Head Circumference: 16.25 (75% percentile)

The appointment was one that mom was dreading because of the shots.  And yep, they were as bad as I thought they would be...for me, not as much for you.  I had to hold down your arms and get really close to your face and talk to you and try to make you feel better while she poked both of your legs.  You screamed - like really loud!  Louder than I have ever heard you scream.  That made me cry.  Then right after the shots, they had me feed you and you seemed to feel much better (mom's boob will do that, right?).  But I kept crying.  Dad had to wipe away my tears before he went back to work.  You are going to get lots of extra loving from your mom and dad today.  Extra snuggle time (breaking our norm and not making you nap in your crib - that's where the extra momma snuggles come in).  But such is life that sometimes doing the right thing as a parent isn't always easy.  And it's so hard to see you so sad.  I'm sure it won't get any easier!!

You've come a long way baby from the 8lbs and 9oz when you came into our lives on July 31!  I love it and am getting so excited for you to play more and interact a ton.  AH - just so in love.

Check out how LONG I am!!

This next one month is going to be a hard one because I will have to go back to work and let other people watch you.  But it's for the better, right??!!  I need to think of the positives...like all the fun friends you will make!!