Three Months Already

Today Charlie is already three months!! I can't believe how fast it has gone, yet how long ago it seems that she was a brand new baby coming home from the hospital. We are having so much fun with our little Charlie and enjoy watching her grow, learn and do new things each day!

BUMBO FUN!

Charlie's new toy! She is still a little small for this, but she does really well holding her head up! She likes being in the bumbo. She has always liked sitting up and being able to see more, so this has been great!

Owyhees

This weekend Bodie and a friend went to the Owyhees to fly fish. They were spending the night so I decided to go to Parma for the weekend. Pop, Grammy, Great Grandma, Charlie and I went on a drive to the Owyhees to see the guys fish and just to get out.




Gramma bought Charlie a new toy! Although she can't quite touch the ground yet, she had fun sitting in it an playing for a little bit.

Bottles

I have decided to start Charlie on the bottle since I will be going back to work in a couple of weeks. I didn't think it would be too hard to get her to take it since she took it for a week after she was born and then a couple of times since then when my parents babysat her. My biggest concern was that she wouldn't like the taste of the formula, so I wanted to work on that more than anything. I am going to try and get enough milk for her, but just in case I don't have enough, I wanted her to be comfortable with eating the formula if she had to. Anyway, I tried to get her to take a bottle yesterday morning and she cried for quite a while and would never latch onto it. I finally felt so bad, that I just went ahead and fed her. I thought maybe she wouldn't take a bottle from me since she knows that I have the "real" stuff. So, when Bodie got home I had him try and feed her. This time she got all worked up and cried for about 45 minutes. Finally, I decided to feed her again because I can't stand it. I know that all I have to do is feed her and she will be fine and it breaks my heart to let her cry. After that ordeal she took a good 2 1/2 hour nap. We decided to try once more before she went to bed and she cried and cried again. I felt so bad. I try to leave the room because I thought maybe she would be more willing to eat from the bottle if I wasn't around. Bodie was so good with her!! She would kind of latch on and take a couple of sucks and then get really mad. We finally thought that maybe she was getting too much flow out of the bottle and it was kind of gagging her. We tried every bottle we had in the house and no luck. I finally went and got her and just started walking with her and just talking to her to calm her down. She calmed down, so I tried again. This time we tried the original bottle that the physical therapist told us to use when she was first born. This bottle makes them suck hard for the milk and it is more like breastfeeding where they actually have to work for the food instead of it just flowing into their mouth. We had tried this bottle several other times with no luck, but since she was calmed down a little I decided to try it again. She took it!!!!! She even looked up and gave me a little smile, which made me very happy!!! As she was finishing what was in the bottle I was telling Bodie to hurry up and get more ready so I could keep her going. She continued to eat almost 6 oz and was a happy baby! So, me feeling brave this morning, decided to try the bottle again. She took it!!! I am so happy and relieved that she took it. I asked Bodie what we were going to do it she never took it and he calmly told me that she will eventually take it......he was right!

All of the bottle choices.....

THE bottle

Hands to Mouth!

Charlie is starting to grab things now and she is putting them in her mouth. She is still at the stage where getting it to her mouth is kind of a chance rather than a coordination thing. She is getting better and better at it though. She likes to watch her hands come to her mouth, which is pretty cute! She grabbed onto a toy this week and inserted part of it in her mouth and was just sucking on it for quite a while. What a smart girl :)

Weekend with Family

Charlie had a busy weekend in Parma visiting a lot of family. My Aunt Jeanne and her husband Steve came to visit Charlie for the first time! Saturday we spent with the entire Hansen family and Sunday was spent with my family. We had a lot of fun, but were ready to get home Sunday night!!

Charlie and her Aunt Jenn

All of the cousins (Hunter, Piper, Sawyr, Tiler, Anderson, Kylee, Jeb, Marshall and Charlie) Four Generations....Great Grandma Melba, Pop, Mom and Charlie Charlie Loves her Grammy!!!!
Great Aunt Jeanne came to visit Charlie
"Trying on" Aunt Jenn's wedding dress for fun!!

Cavities

As I was watching the Today show I saw this interesting segment on kids and cavities. Check it out.....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22991716#22991716

TV Already?????

Watch out Dad, I'm going to control the remote!!!