Friend’s Christmas

Christmas is always my favorite time of the year, and to say that I was disappointed to not host our annual Christmas party would be an understatement; however, Court offered to have our Friend’s Christmas Dinner at her house which gave me a reason to make punch...and punch definitely helps with my party fix!  Charley must get her Christmas excitement from her Momma, because she was so excited to go over to Aunt Court’s and Uncle B’s to play with Baby Finley and Baby Harper.  She practiced all day giving the babies their “ba’s,” rocking them, and making them go “night-night!”  (If only it was that easy!)  We enjoyed a fab dinner of our favorite party foods, punch and Christmas candy for dessert.  It was so funny to look around the table and see how things had changed over the years.  Having friends that are like family is a blessing that I am beyond thankful for!  The girls finally got to open the presents that I have had in my gift box since the summer...all three cuties with be sporting red and white, Kate Mack tankini’s this summer...the cuteness makes me giddy thinking about it!!!

Fun Fact: I originally purchased all three of the girl’s outfits...luckily we all have girls and my shopping abilities can be utilized to their greatest potential :)

21 Months

Weight: 25 pounds, 6 ounces

Height:

Teeth: a lot…looks like very few open spaces and 2 of those are coming in

Words: too many to count...there isn’t anything she can’t or doesn’t try to say (except “I love you” and “thank you”….we did finally master “pease,” which makes me very happy!)

Clothing Size: 24 months

Favorite Foods: black beans, blueberries, cookies, sweetarts, pizza

Drinks: whole milk, watered down juice, water

Sleeping: Her bedtime has gotten pushed back a little, but she’s usually in bed by 8:00 and gets up between 6:30 and 7:00…one nap, if we’re lucky!

Favorite TV shows: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, “Hook” (Jake and the Neverland Pirates) or “Prempess” (Sophia the First)…she loves to watch Disney on our phones and asks for it all the time!

Tricks: Really good at identifying colors and is starting to count…every day she amazes me with something new. 

Favorite Person: depends on the day…”Ne” (Granny), “Ama” (Gramma) and “Mike” (Granddad)

Favorite Restaurants: Chuy’s

Buddies: Baby Finely, Baby Harper, Keyton, Sam, Parker, Lily, Hadlee, Hunter, Chelsey, Brooke, Logan, Emmy, Kobey and Laney

Favorite Animal: she still loves dogs, but is getting so good at naming all of the animals and their sounds

Favorite Toys: Her horse purse with all the Disney character’s that Granddad Mike got her…we can’t leave home without it and she’s constantly taking them out of the purse and putting them back in…I may need to get an extra set! 

Funny Story: A few weeks ago Charley and I were in Kentucky, and we were sitting around the dinner table at Granny Martha’s house and our conversation went something like this:

Me, “Charley, tell us how a dog goes.”
Charley, “afoo, afoo”

Me, “How does a cow go?”

Charley, “moooooo”

Me, “How does a lion go?”

Charley whispers, “rarrrrrr”

Me, “How does a cat go?”

Charley, “Meow.”

Charley, “Dadda????”

Me, “Ok, how does Dadda go?”

Charley, “Pooped!  Shew!”

hahahahaha

iPhone pics from 18-21 months

We’ve moved...

This past week has definitely been a whirlwind, but also an important milestone for our little family.  We sold our first house on Aidan Lane, and bought our “forever,” “move and stay,” or “father of the bride” home.  If I really sat and thought about it, I could probably get emotional about leaving the first place Charley called home, but Craig and I are so excited about all the future memories we plan to make for Charley and any other kiddos that may enter our life in this house.  Since it is literally two weeks before Christmas, and we only had about a day and a half to get out of our house (timing wasn’t the best), I haven’t really decorated or taken many pictures!  Maybe after the holidays!  I did make time to put up a Christmas tree...after all, Santa needs a place to deliver Charley Robinson’s toys!!!

1204 Abernathy Way...Home Sweet Home!

Closing and Moving Day

Thanks to Gwen Moss for making us look our best for our Christmas/Moving cards!!!

Thanksgiving 2012

We have so much to be thankful for, that I don’t think I can put it all into words.  Our Thanksgiving pictures this year pretty much sum it up.

Happy. Family. Food. Laughter. Funny Faces. Friends. Tradition. Love. Yummy. Thankful. Together. Blessed. Legacy. Prayerful. Healthy. Memories.

Annual Friend’s Thanksgiving with two new additions...Harper and Finley

Gramma helping with our Thanksgiving Feast

Granny Martha heating up her yummy corn

Granddad “Mike” and Miss Priss enjoying some RC

The “first” table getting to eat...still not sure how that is fair for men to eat first!  Only in the south!

Cousins at Granny Martha and Granddaddy Charlie’s house

Superstar Best Buddies 

Miss Priss with her Gramma and Granddad “Mike"

Spoiled rotten???

Cousins at Granny Katherine and Papa’s house

Our new “typical” family photo! 

Charley, Aunt Marsha and Pete...two of Charley’s favorites! 

Tracey and Parker...love that sweet face! 

Tracey and Lily...two more people to be thankful for...for Momma and Charley!!!

Happy Halloween

After missing Trunk or Treat in Kentucky last year, we promised Gramma that we would attend this year.  It fell on the Sunday that Gramma and I got back from our trip to NYC, which we thought would be perfect.  Well, as usual, we tried to fit way too much into one day so we had to scratch Trunk or Treat, again!  Next year…maybe?  We did manage to take the cutest little doggie to see a few people while we were in Kentucky!  We stopped by Uncle Allen and Aunt Sharron’s house, Euke and Nell’s house, Uncle Ed and Aunt Betty’s house, Uncle Chris and Aunt Katie’s house, Granddaddy Charlie and Granny Martha’s house, Uncle Mike and Tammy’s house and Catfish Kitchen to see Wes and Judy and have dinner since being a cute dog works up an appetite!  Charley filled her doggy treat bag with lots of her fav’s including: Smartie’s, suckers, M&M’s, gum, animal crackers and LOTS of $1 bills. 

When we got back home, she had some Halloween cards and money from Pops and Mamy, Mimi and Grandy, Mawmaw, and Gramma and Granddad.  We let Charley put the money from the cards and her $1 bills into her piggy bank…which was so cute! 

On Halloween we took our little doggy over to Josh, Rachel and Sam’s house to Trick-or-Ttreat with them.  Sam was the cutest Ninja Turtle…maybe with the exception of Uncle Justin back in the day when he dressed up as one.  We had a great time with the Artley’s, especially after we hooked Charley’s candy bag onto her stroller so she wouldn’t keep throwing it down.  About a week before Halloween, Miss Judy taught Charley how to open her own sucker…so we are pretty sure the only reason why she stayed in the stroller so well was because of all the suckers…Craig said he counted at 5!  Maybe we can go a whole year before she has suckers for dinner again…here’s hoping!

Oh, and her “How does a doggy go?” response was precious…sort of a backwards bark, “afoo! afoo!”  

Happy Halloween….”afoo! afoo!”

Baby Finley

I know I have said it before, but I couldn’t be more excited about Charley’s newest BFF!  Finley Cross Steele made her debut on 10.11.12 (which will be super easy to remember) weighing in at 6 pounds, 8 ounces and was 20 inches long and absolutely adorable!  Rachel and I debated on whether or not we should take the girls to see her in the hospital, and we ended up having to take them with us.  Our plan was to keep them away from her…but Charley leaned right over and gave Finley a kiss….luckily it was on her blanket…but I’m pretty sure our visiting privileges might have gotten revoked if one of the girls had passed on their snotty noses that are inevitable this time of year!  

Charley and I had a lunch date with Aunt Court and Finley when she was about two weeks old, so I think I was pretty successful at not letting Charley get too close!  We had the best time on our outing to Chuy’s and playing with Baby Finley’s new tea set.  Actually, Aunt Court and Charley played with the tea set while Aunt Jess had some quality time with Baby Finley…explosive diaper change, swaddling, rocking and giving her a bottle…just enough to get my baby fix!  I think Aunt Rachel and Aunt Court were hoping it would give me baby fever…but they will just have to keep hoping for a while…after all, we all know how much my hands are full now with Miss Priss!  

Miss Priss Goes To The Circus

A few weekends ago, Craig and I took Charley to her very first circus.  We have never really taken her to anything that lasted that long and required her to stay in her seat, so we were definitely apprehensive on how things would go.  Much to our surprise, she was great!!!  She sat in awe watching the clowns, tigers, elephants, the motorcycle on the tightrope, the dirt bike jumps and the human cannonball.  Since she wasn’t old enough to ask for any of the junk food, we decided to go to J. Alexander’s for lunch.  Unfortunately, we pushed our luck a little too far, because she was awful!  When Craig took her out to calm her down, the man next to us said, “You need to take that girl to do something fun!”  I said, “We just took her to the circus…how much more fun can get you get?”  After tossing my phone, pushing my plate out of her way and throwing a fit to get down, she and I skipped most of the meal and went to the car.  Of course, she was great after that!  We will all no better next time, hopefully!