9 Months! can't believe it

Enjoy some Charlotte Overload. Love my cute, angel of a baby!

Charlotte is now 9 months old. Smiley, Happy, Laughing!
She's sitting up pretty good now. She's getting so strong!

She loves playing with her sister. Kathryn loves having someone to play with too.

Her new physical Therapy ball. She gets to sit on it and lay on it like this to strengthen her back and oblique muscles. Her Therapists are all very good and are getting her to do so much more then I thought would come by this time!

She really loves this ball!

I have the cutest kids ever!

Charlotte is such a special girl . I can't believe I was so worried at the beginning. She's more then I could have ever wanted.

Love her hair! it's not as long as Kathryn's was but it's getting long and sticking up after baths I love it.

It's coldy, Coldy here. I'm so glad we have a car seat cover for her that's all warm and cozy.

She's started playing a lot more with all her toys. It's fun to watch her move around and get to the different toys all around the floor.

She really likes books, or rather she likes to play with them and eat the edges. Oh and the book in the picture is really cute, I highly recommend it.

Some stats on my sweet Charlotte.

Weight 19.6 lbs - 50%

Height 27 1/4 in - 75%

Head Circumference 17 in - 90%

She's rolling all over the floor, starting to army/ inch worm crawl, she has a little trouble with solid foods, but she likes sucking on apples and oranges. She takes good naps and sleeps through the night. She babbles all the time. So far for SB, we still cath her and she's had NO UTI's, no SHUNT problems, her Orthopedist thinks she's doing great and on track, her Pediatrician is pleased and thinks she's well taken care of. Her Opthamalogist thinks her eye's are fine and we'll keep watching them for any other changes.

We look forward to May when we get to go back to San Fran for the MOMs trial for her one year evaluation.

pants go on your... head?

Kathryn is so silly sometimes. She likes to twirl around until she's so dizzy she fallas over. And her favorite is to do that with pants on her head. Here's a few photo's of one of those events and well of course Charlotte has to have a turn as well.

Charlotte's new play table. The PT thought this was a great idea. She sits up pretty good to it now not all bent over. Hey any of you SB mom's do you think I should be worried about her eye's being to close together? Or did your babies look like this?

I am such a mean mom, laughing when she runs into the wall.

DC Temple Lights

We went down to the temple lights on the last night, Jan 1, 2011. It was a warmer night but a little rainy. The musical talent was the Baltimore Maryland missionaries. It was a nice concert and we even got to hear the bagpipes and a ukulele.

The lights were very nice. A little different then the lighted palm tree's. Definitely not as many lights as the AZ Temple but still beautiful all the same.

Tangled with Kathryn

Oh and she wanted to wear my bling necklace and bring her puppy in a purse. We hid the m&m's in that to bring into the theatre. She was really interested in this picture of what the little men were doing.

I took Kathryn to her very first full length feature film at the theatre on New Years Eve. We went to see Tangled. I thought she would like this one because I tell her the story of Rupunzel but I tell her the princesses name is Kathryn Rupunzel. We got some popcorn and some rootbeer and m&m's to make her first experience good and to have somethings to bribe her with she got to noisy. There were times I thought we would have to leave but she was a good trooper and made it through. I thought it was a wonderful movie. She was scared of the mean mommy but I think she enjoyed it. She said at the end, why did her hair turn brown? and then on the way home she said she wanted long yellow hair and yellow clothes and then it just turned into she wanted everything to be yellow.

Our first experience and probably close to last as movies cost so much and it's only $1 for redbox a few months later was a success!

Christmas 2010

Pictures not in any particular order but here is our Christmas in a nutshell. I didn't get a lot of pictures but Matthew did some video that someday he'll have time to download, edit and have her your viewing pleasure.

Matching Christmas outfits! I got these after Christmas at Walmart for $9 total. Two shirts and two pants!
Matthew got Kathryn these big foam letters. It was fun having a 'rug' in the family room for a few days. Now I think it will be a play mat for the girls bedroom.

I learned to make better snowflakes. See a few Christmas tree's and the sort of Snowman in them!

Her new outfit and lots of toys that make up our floor. This was our floor for a few days. TOYS, TOY, TOYS!

These next few are our Christmas grinch/ santa clause. Matthew made a green suit for video but this worked out well for Santa grinch.

Christmas Tree snowflake!

Talking with the family on Skype for Christmas

Kathryn's gift from her Aunt Jolene. I think this is awesome!

Charlotte wasn't really into the whole tearing the paper like I thought she might but then again she was sick.

It snowed on Christmas for a few minutes. It was fun for some pictures and to say it snowed on Christmas.

Kathryn was funny at first. She got this in her stocking and wanted to go paint and not open up her other gifts. so we let her. after this painting though she got into the opening of presents and wanted to open them all regardless of who they were for.

My new PJ's

Charlotte's new PJ's

Kathryn's new Pj's

We tried to stay in a budget this year which I say I did pretty well staying with in that but I did get Matthew some pants and a long sleeve shirt. And Matthew said he wanted to get me something good since the last few years Christmas and birthday have been well in his words not his best times. So he with the help of my VT got me a nice Sewing Machine. Just what I need for doing little sewing jobs for clothes for the girls. I can't wait to get started and use my clothing budget on stuff I can sew! We'll have to see if I can have a craft budget too. we'll see.

Anyway it was a good Christmas even if Charlotte threw up on the foam letters.

Charlotte Rolling! and some not fun stuff

So it's been awhile since Charlotte has started rolling over from Back to Tummy but I had to put this video on here of her doing it over and over. She's been doing really good with PT and DT and just growing up in general. She gets all over the floor, well maybe not all over but she moves quite a bit now and is learning to wiggle forward a bit. It's amazing the places I see her in when I've left the room for a little bit. I have to admit some of the times its because Kathryn has taken it upon herself to roll Charlotte over and over and over or drag her to where her 'castle' is or something like that but left alone she still gets a good distance away. I love that she's starting to get herself moving.

On a sad note...

For Christmas or rather the week before and after Kathryn was sick the Monday and Tuesday before Christmas and then Charlotte got sick throwing up and refusing to eat the Wednesday before and was sick till this last Friday. a whole week and a half. Not a fun time for us. I was worried it might be her shunt or UTI or what ever it may be so I sent Matthew to the ER with her on Christmas Eve. They did a whole series of tests including CT scans of her brain and such and found nothing wrong with the things I was praying there was nothing wrong with. They said she just had a tummy bug of some sort and that it should go away soon. Well I was thinking Soon should be a day or two not another week so on Monday I called the after hours Pediatrician and not having luck the time I called on Christmas Eve I called my Ped from Arizona.

(side note) I would move back to AZ just because I LOVE my pediatrician there not because my family lives there. They would be a close second but it would be because of Dr Ciminello! Anyone else have a Doctor they would just die to live without?

Anyway he called back in like 10 minutes and remembered us and Charlotte and was very concerned and gave me such good advice. He was concerned about what the doctors here had not done and I got the impression maybe I should try another Doctor again but anyways. It's because of him she got better so quickly. He said if she's still throwing up everything tomorrow take her in and have her checked for a UTI then get some IV fluids soon but beyond that STOP all DAIRY. Push Clear liquids and thats it. So I went to the store that night and stocked up on some pedialyte, pear juice and Gatorade and that's what she got for the next 2 days and that cleared up her tummy problem leaving just a few days of some really soft poop and then to normal! I had to push fluids in her with a syringe but she soon got the hang of it and starting eating 2-3 oz at a time and then got better. I'm so relieved both my girls got better in time to celebrate the new year happy and healthy!

We had a good Christmas besides the sickness and a fabulous new year. pictures and details to come.