part 2... got the pics to work!

Charlotte sitting in her Aunt Chloe's chair. She likes this chair... she probably feels like a princess... just what I need :)

She's been doing this a lot with her binkey while she's been teething. She makes lots of noises when she does it too. She's so goofy!

I love these next few pics of her. I just love the close ups of her face. She's so cute!

This was Christmas morning at my parents. She got a set of blocks. They are the shapes you put into the corresponding holes and they go in a bucket. She likes the lid off and anytime you put that lid on she takes it right off and makes sure that all the blocks are emptied out.

Here she is eating a block

My parents got her this bath toy. She loves to play in the bath and didn't have any toys so they got her this. She loves to play with it.

She also got a set of rings which she usually tips over and throws around. The usual.

Here she was trying to open her first present at my parents

I bought her a bubble maker for the tub that I thought she'd like. I think the sound kinda scares her cuz yeah.... she wasn't happy. Maybe when she's older.

This was before it made her upset

Here she is opening the bubble maker. We had her open one gift on Christmas eve. I wanted to try it during her bath.

She's getting ready to open her first gift Christmas eve.

One night after her bath I thought it'd be fun to give her a "faux hawk." It stayed that way for a while

Another view of the faux hawk. Her hair just sticks up anyway.

Trying to hold her bottle like a big girl

I love her eyes and eyelashes. So pretty.

This is what I sit down to every morning to feed her. She's so cute and so funny. I just love her fro hair. It's just like my sister Chloe's hair when she was this age

This is my favorite picture of her so far. I love it! She looks so cute!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Okay so I think the computer is not my friend today. For some reason it won't let me add more pictures so if there are two posts that's why. Anyway, to kinda update what's happened the last month..... Charlotte's gotten so much bigger! She sits up on her own and is just a character. She's getting her first tooth. It's a sharp little bugger on the bottom. She's been a little grumpy with that. This week she started saying "ba ba ba ba ba" a lot. That's her new thing and she loves when I say it back. She still loves to scream whether it's a happy yelling scream or if she's crying and screaming. She actually cried this morning when Scott left for work. She happened to wake me up at 4 and nursed until 4:30 then laid in bed with me and Scott and he left shortly before 5 and she didn't like it when he left. It was cute.

So we had a great Christmas. Money was pretty tight for us until I got the greatest phone call from my mom telling me that I got a $1000 check in the mail from my cousin. I guess when my mom's Uncle Gene died he wanted his sister's grandkids to have some money so that was a huge blessing. I paid off my Dr. bill... woohoo!.....and paid a little more towards some other ones then we were able to get more gifts for family than we planned for Christmas so that was fun. It was nice to be able to get Charlotte something more than a $5 toy at wal-mart. So Christmas was great. We got to spend time with my family on Christmas day. My brother was able to bring the kids up to my parents for the weekend then on Saturday we had a party with Scott's cousins at his Grandma Spence's house then we got to hang out with just his family at his parents. It was just nice to be able to spend time with family those two days. That's probably my favorite part of holidays is just to be with family. Oh and I was super duper excited about my new cookware my parents bought me. When Scott and I got married we didn't get a lot of kitchen stuff so we took my parents old pots and pans that were probably close to 10 yrs old. They did their job the 3 1/2 yrs we've been married but they were hard to clean cuz almost everything would stick to them. So my mom bought me this super nice set. I love it! Nothing sticks to it and it's so easy to wash!

Well I don't think there was much else that has gone on this past month. Oh we did take Charlotte out to Red Lobster and she did great for her first restaurant dining experience with us. We also went to see the lights at Temple Square and it was freezing. Hopefully I can post those pictures up. Also, my parents are moving! Yay! They are gonna rent this amazing house in Erda. It's 5 acres with horse property and like right down the street from Chloe's high school. It is a gorgeous home and so amazing! I love it! It's rustic and all westerny like. As soon as I can get in to take pics I will. I love it! They also can buy it in a couple yrs from the owner that lives next door so that's great news. So exciting! So other than that I think that's it. So here's a few pics of Charlotte and I'll try to do another post... hopefully it works. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

Here's Charlotte in the tub. We took a few tub pics when I got a new memory card for the camera. This picture reminds me a little of some of mine from when I was little.

She likes to eat the bubbles

I didn't think she'd like the bubbles this much but it's fun to put 'em on her and watch her try to get them off. She's a blast.

I love this face. She's my sweetie.

This was her Christmas morning at our house before we went to my parents. She had just opened her toys... well more like we opened them for her. She was too busy playing with the paper.

Thanksgiving Day come and gone...

Well today Charlotte is officially 7 months old! So crazy! Still no teeth thank goodness because I'm still nursing and she thinks its funny to bite! She's done really well on solids. Every evening she eats a full jar of meat with a full jar of veggies then for breakfast we do probably close to 1/4 cup cereal with a jar of fruit. She's probably about 15.5 lbs now so I'm chunking her up a bit. She's just getting so big and kinda will wiggle on her tummy to get a toy. Maybe by the end of the year she'll be crawling... we'll see. We had something wonderful come to Utah. We finally have In 'n' Out! Two locations just opened... Orem and Draper. I have pics below from the Draper one. Two more locations open next month... West Jordan and I think American Fork. Life is good now! Thanksgiving day was great. We went up to Scott's Grandma and Grandpa Bennion's house. His Uncle Gary and cousins were there. It was fun to see them all again. Then we headed up to the Robert's to see them. They've been friends with Scott's family for a while and he's friends with their sons. Then after that we went to my parents and my brother was there with the kids. We had a very eventful Thanksgiving but the food was great and it was fun to spend so much time with friends and family. Anyway, here's some pictures below. We haven't done anything too exciting but I'm sure we'll have a bunch of Christmas light pictures coming up soon so yeah....

This was after waiting a little over an hour and a half. We could finally see the pick up window! It was a long wait but worth it to me. I've really missed it.

The glorious sign I have missed ever so much :)

This was when we were still on the street. We hadn't turned into the parking lot yet. The line was crazy long!

This was the first line we had to wait in. You can't even see the restaurant from here. It was so long and they were taking our orders from here. It was insane but so fun to do.

I was trying to get a pic of her face when she looks at the lights in our house but couldn't quite capture it. Instead I got this funny little smile. She is such a cutie.

Yesterday Scott and I walked to Macey's to use our last WIC vouchers and we bundled up little Charlotte. I love her smile.

This was me and Charlotte after our Thanksgiving Day adventure. She was exhausted and barely napped at all. We were both so tired.

She loves her sippy cup now. When she gets fussy when she's eating I usually give her this to calm her down. She tries to hold it herself but it's kinda bulky for her.

Last week we went and took some family pictures with the Spence side of the family. They came out so cute too. But afterwards we went to IHOP and this was Charlotte's first restaurant experience in a high chair. She did really well. She ate her dinner I brought and just loved playing. I think she likes feeling like a big girl too.

She was in her saucer while I cleaned but started to get fussy and needed to keep her occupied for a few more minutes so I gave her a bell pepper to suck on. She loved it! She was rocking back and forth and just loving it. She had her hand on it and I told her I needed her to put her hands down so I could take a pic and she did. She just let it hang out of her mouth.

She loves this saucer. She rocks in it and it's so funny.

This was after her walk. She has a red nose from the cold.

I just love her hair. It sticks straight up. It's just like my sister Chloe's hair when she was this age.

Here she is all bundled up for a walk. She loves her walks.

Me and my little girl. I love her.

I am so happy right now!

So first off I want to say congrats to my friend Liz who is pregnant and has been for a while but I just found out! I am so excited for you Liz! Love ya! That just totally made my day! So we haven't done anything super exciting recently. We had Halloween with my parents since my brother and his kids were there for the weekend so that was fun. I have some fun pictures below from that. Charlotte is now on solids morning and evening. Can I just say I love being able to get like 5 or 6 hrs straight! She had a checkup last Monday and got her boosters and part 1 of her flu shot. She officially is over 14 lbs at 6 months old. She was 14 lbs 5 oz. and 26 long which means 91st percentile for her height and 25th for weight. Tall and skinny still. Dr. Gould says she will love her body type when she's older. Everything looked good so she's nice and healthy still. She is just a blast and makes me laugh at how goofy she is sometimes. I can only imagine what it'll be like when she's older. she'll probably be a fit thrower though. She's got a little attitude that makes me laugh now. We'll see how long I stay laughing :). Anyway, same old with our family pretty much. Scott works harder than ever so I can stay home and we can pay the bills. He's such a good husband and sacrifices a lot for us. He's the best! Love him! Well here's some new pics below...

This is the work of the master candy opener. I don't know how she did it but somehow Charlotte got this open perfectly. We gave her a twix while she was in her exercise saucer and then discovered this... I couldn't open it that well if I tried. She must have magic saliva. She was also very angry when we took it away from her. I would be mad too if someone took my chocolate :)
Scott and Charlotte playing with some glow in the dark bracelets her Grandma Christensen gave her. We had to make her happy somehow after the twix.

Her and her bracelet again

We recently had another snow storm that actually dropped a couple inches or more of snow and the day after I wanted to go for a walk to get Charlotte outta the house. My mom had bought her this suit thing so when I go walking and it's cold Charlotte can wear this so we tried it out. She was out cold so I brought her in and laid her on my bed to sleep some more. She reminds me of Randy from "A Christmas Story."

Charlotte loves to sit on her daddy's shoulders and then she licks the back of his head so Scott gets baby spit all over his head. It's funny.

I love these shoes! Charlott's Aunt Ashlee made them and made a matching headband. She made her a couple other sets too. They are so cute! I love 'em!

She always does this goofy little smile where she sucks in her bottom lip. Love this face!

Another silly smile in her whole outfit

I found this rice crisp things at the store she can munch on and they dissolve pretty quick. We just have to make sure she doesn't take too big of a bite.

I bought her this shirt like almost a year ago when I was pregnant with her and just love it. It looks really cute with khakis

Scott and I bought her this sweater a year ago too when we were picking out winter stuff once we found out she was a girl. I love Old Navy's baby clothes! I also love that Charlotte smiles for me when I take pics. We have family pictures on Friday so I hope she is smiley for those too!

Scott and I love to share with Charlotte. Scott had a dum dum and let her have a taste. Yeah, she's hooked. She loves to watch us eat now too. It's pretty cute and fun to let her try new things. I let her have a small piece of my kiwi I had at breakfast today but it wasn't super sweet so she wasn't too keen on it. I wish I had a picture of her face then!