2 month update!

Can you believe that our sweet little one is already 2 months old!?!? Crazy how the time flies! We took her in for her 2 month well baby check up and the dreaded first round of shots. Yikes! Mommy was not excited about this visit at all.

As it turned out, Charley did absolutely wonderful with the shots, but Mommy had a little melt down as they were being administered, I just couldn't take it. But all is well. She is up to 10lbs, 14 oz. and 23 inches long. That puts her in the 50th percentile for weight and 75th percentile for length. What's so funny is she was only in the 10th percentile for length when she was born, so maybe she won't be as short as we originally expected. Everything checked out beautifully and she didn't have any side effects from the shots. Praise God!!

See below for some random pictures that we took during the past week around the 2 month mark.

Finally...everyone is asleep and mommy can get some things done! Better hurry, one of the three of them is bound to wake up soon!

These pictures are actually in the wrong order. Recently we discovered some interaction between Charley and Rocky that actually involved physical contact. This is a close up to prove that it really happened. :)

Rocky is not really sure about this new relationship.

I'm gettin outta here!

Before now I don't think Charley or Rocky knew that the other one even existed.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could all wake up this happy? I took the camera in one morning when I went to wake her up to get some shots of her laughing and smiling in action. This is her actually laughing.

There's that smile! :)

Going for a walk with mommy...doesn't she look like such a big girl in that stroller ?

Promise to be better with the updates. Yall come visit us!!

Visits from the Grandparents!

Since our little one has come into the world, we have found that it doesn't take much to get some visitors to come to our house. In the past two weekends we had both Papa and Nana (my Dad and Sandra) and Ganny (my mom) come up for weekend visits. We decided that this is almost easier than going to Hawkinsville and trying to get around to everyone all in one weekend. See below for some of the shots we took while they were here.

Charley getting to know her Papa....yes, he is crazy, get used to it baby...Mommy has lived with it all her life ;)

Playing with Papa

Charley checking out her Nana....thinking are you really married to that crazy man!?! :)

Charley and her Ganny hanging out.

Talking to Ganny!

What a difference 6 weeks makes!

Wow! Mommy almost cried today because I finally had to break down and put up all of Charley's newborn clothes. She grew out of them about a week ago, but bad mommy has continued to stuff her in them hoping it would stop her growth....no luck. So we are officially wearing 3 month clothes. No...you are not going crazy....you're right....she isn't even 2 months old and is wearing 3 month sizes.....that's what I said too!

Yes, our little munchkin is growing like a weed. At her last Dr. visit about a week and half ago, she was 9 lbs, 2 oz....so she is more than likely over 10 lbs. now based on her growth rate over the past 5 weeks. Although this makes mommy sad, it is actually very good considering the fact that we have discovered that she has a severe case of acid reflux. We took her to the Children's Hospital of Atlanta this past Friday to confirm for sure. She handles it like a champ and it really doesn't seem to bother her too much at all. So we praise God for that blessing. We also pray that she will soon grow out of it. But other than that, she has a perfect bill of health.

Below are two pictures of her in the same outfit. The one at the bottom is the day we brought her home, while the one at the top was from church this past Sunday. Robert and I both knew she had obviously grown, but it is just amazing the perspective you get when you see her in the same outfit....she grew legs!!! :)

Taking Charley to Jesus' House!!

Yes, we were nervous, but what better place to take our child than the House of the Lord? We took Charley to church this morning for the first time and it was such a blessing. Not only was everyone so ready to see her, they all gave us such a warm welcome back as well. After we got her settled in the nursery, we walked into the Sactuary and all of a sudden we heard all of the youth in the balcony shouting "Robert and Courtney!!" It brought tears to my eyes, and I realized that we really do have the most amazing church family!!

She did wonderful! It does help that we have the most fabulous nursery workers you could ask for :) She slept most of the time and made it a very easy transistion for mommy and daddy. As nervous as we were (almost to the point of dreading it a little), I'm so glad we did it and we are already excited about next Sunday!

So,we didn't even think about taking pictures until after we had finished eating lunch. We went back to the church and had to figure out how to take the pictures ourselves. The camera was actually sitting on top of the car here....this was about the best we could do.

Did I mention that she slept the entire time :)

Photo Shoot by a proud Mommy :)

I have been getting a little better at getting some things checked off of my to-do list during maternity leave, one of which is getting birth announcements ordered. But before I do that, I needed some pictures to put on the announcement. So please forgive me for spoiling the surprise, but below are some of the pictures (which I must say, I am pretty proud of, given our very average quality camera and the fact that mommy has never really had a lot of experience editing pictures before) that will be on the birth annoucement that you all will receive. The last two pictures of Charley and her daddy will not be on the announcement, but will be in a frame at home.

LOVE it!!! So sweet!!

We all know that mommy is obsessed with her toes!

Does it get any sweeter than this. Look at both of their faces.