9 Month Photo Shoot

What a month of change!!!  After all of my efforts for Charley's first word to be "Momma," she did exactly the opposite and said, "Da-da!"  To top it off, she says it ALL the time, "Da-da, Da-di, Da-da!!!!!"  Don't get me wrong, it is SUPER cute, but I am so ready to hear her say "Momma!"  I guess my time will come soon enough!  She also starting pulling up this month, which means she is one milestone away from being unstoppable.  She is already in to everything...well, everything that she isn't supposed to be in!  Plug-ins, Christmas trees, the dishwasher, remotes, cell-phones...just about anything that is not baby-friendly, she wants it!  We took her to the 9 month check-up, and the doctor saw first hand her rotten-ness!  She was a mess...a cute mess...but a mess!  We were changing her diaper and she stood up on the table.  I guess it was such hard work that she needed to stop and take a drink of her sippy cup....while she was standing and drinking (showing the doctor how good she was with the cup) she starting peeing everywhere!!!  It was like a fountain...I know this would be typical if she were a boy, but not something you see everyday from little girls!  Another favorite this month was when she crawled over to a vase she has really been eyeing for a while.  When I wasn't looking, she finally did what she had been wanting to do for days...she pulled up to and and stood there so proud.  Mom and I were in the kitchen and we looked at her and firmly said, "Charley...that is a no-no!"  She looked right back at us, stuck out her tongue and spit!!!!  What do you do when you are in our shoes????  You turn around and laugh...what else could we do!

9 month stats: 19 pounds, 5 ounces and 26 1/4 inches long

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Thanksgiving was so much fun this year!!!!  Charley loved getting to eat some of the yummy home-cooked food!  She enjoyed Granny Martha's mashed potatoes and a bite or two of sweet potatoes.  Of course I had to make a last minute trip to Nordstrom's before we went to Kentucky, because Charley had to have her first pair of Ugg boots to wear on Thanksgiving Day!  I mean who doesn't LOVE a baby in Ugg boots??? :)

Granny Martha feeing Charley mashed potatoes

Yum Yum!

Kobey and Charley

Best Buddies :)

Charley NEVER falls asleep like this...too much fun, I guess!

8 Month Photo Shoot

I guess a month late is better than never!  Between month seven and eight, Charley really turned on!  She finally started sleeping through the night, which is a milestone that makes Momma and Daddy really happy!  Hallelujah!!!!  Whoever said"all babies sleep through the night by four months" is crazy...and cruel, because I really got my hopes up way too early!  If only she could start her day around 7:00 instead of 5:30, but I guess that is something we can work towards :)  In the middle of the month, she started doing two things that we had been trying to get her to do for a while: clapping and crawling!  I'm pretty sure I have never seen such cuteness crawling around a room and stopping to sit up and clap her hands!  I'm not sure what her height and weight is since we didn't go to the doctor this month, but she is growing like a little weed.  We finally broke down and got a portable DVD player for the car, which has helped some...but I don't know which is worse, a crying baby in the back seat or Mickey Mouse reruns mixed with Nashville traffic!  Charley is definitely rotten...but I'm pretty sure we made her that way!  Its a good thing she is so darn cute!