Park Date with Friends

We have had beautiful Spring weather for the most part, so we've been doing our best to be outside whenever possible. A couple weeks back, we headed over to Grand Rapids Township park and had a nice park date with Koops and Damstras. Good times with good friends.

Mols

"Balancing"...or just standing...

Lucy

Cool cat Kadence

Love a merry-go-round

Wild Ride with Lucy

Charley wants to play too

Kadence

Damstra Boys, Ty and Max

Good Times

It's always a good time having the Leonards visit, and this time we even ventured out of the house! We headed over to Meijer Gardens to see the butterflies and had a beautiful day to play outside too. I was just looking back at pictures of the how all of our kids have grown up so much lately in the last few years. It's amazing how time is flying by!!

Grant and Taylor patiently waiting for a butterfly to land on them.

Zach and Molly very amused

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I swear they were all just babies yesterday

Buds

Peek-a-Boo

Boat time!

Children's Gate

Beautiful Lauren

My Girls

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I have to say, that when I first got pregnant, I thought that I would have all boys. When I had Grant, I was sure I was definitely not going to have any girls. When Molly came along, I thought, I am so blessed to have one girl, but if I have another, I'm sure it will be a boy. And along came Charley...a girl Charley. Most of my day is spent with my girls as Grant is at school all day every day. And I'm enjoying watching my girls change and grow, and love and hate each other. I am very blessed to have a sister, who love and cares for me, and I'm thankful my girls have each other too. Praying that they love each other and are friends for the rest of their lives too!

Easter

Family Easter Pic 2010

Watch this progression...

Mom...too...

bright...You can see how fast I take the pictures to try to get one to work...not so lucky this time. I took about 20, and not one turned out.

Charley "finding" her eggs that were just laying on the floor.

Silly bunny Daddy

Good find Grant

Pretty tricky hiding spots.

Molly with her load of eggs at Grammie and Grandpas house...look how nicely she matches them.

Grant's got a bunch too!

Good one!

Sweet girl

We praise and thank our God for sending His Son, Jesus to save us from our sin! Hope you all had a very Blessed Easter praising our Savior!

One Year Check-Up

Here are Charley's stats at one Year! Growing nicely!

Height: 30 1/8 inches (80%)

Weight: 20 lbs 10 oz (45%)

Head: 45.3 cm (60%)

I have tall girls...got me.

Let me just say that this one is a stinker. She loves to do what you tell her not to. Hmmm....we'll see about that.

She has her first ear infection on her second round of antibiotics. Ick. I'm getting her eyes checked to see if she has what Grant has. I feel like one of her eyes is off and we may have to do the patching with her as well. We'll see, but I seem to notice it more in pictures. Did I mention she has six teeth, four on top, two on the bottom. So that's eyes, ears, and mouth for you...in case you were wondering. (Oh and I did cute the baby mullet!)

My Baby is 1!!

One Day Old

Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby girl Charlotte Grace. I honestly do not know where this year went. It just flew by, and I really can't believe that Charley is one. She is an amazing child filled with a lot of love and happiness. She is always willing to give you a huge smile! She walks all over the place and is starting to climb a lot too...including the stairs. Her favorite spot right now is to climb up onto the fireplace and sit there with her legs dangling off. She loves to hear music and bops her head to the beat and may even spin in a few circles for you. Peek a boo is always a favorite as well as giving kisses and waving bye bye. She says mama, baba, ball, dada, bubba, all gone, all da. She does not sign. I cannot get her to. She does not want to cooperate on that one. She eats most anything, unless its orange. She does not like peaches, mandarins, carrots, etc. She is still taking a bottle. What a bad mom I am. Funny how with the third, you just don't care if you are on track with that stuff. Perhaps its because I still want her to be my baby. She is growing up too fast. She is sporting a baby mullet right now...and I don't know if I'll cut it. It's going to be a while for the rest to grow in. She does not like to cuddle. Hates to be changed.

I love her smile. I love her laugh. I love her chubs. I'm so thankful for a healthy baby girl who is one today! Thank you God! (Too many cute pictures for me to choose from, so here you go...shout out to Rach for taking pics...again).


One Year Old...Soooo Big

You talking to me?



Peek A Boo!





Love her

My baby girl

Her Favorite spot

Too cute