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christmas 2011 rewind
If you're easily offended by too many freaking Christmas pictures, look away, quick! If not...you're in LUCK!
Drechsel family Christmas exchange at Chris' sister's house on the 21st...way to kick off Christmas!
Christmas Eve candlelight service after dinner...with COUSINS!
Christmas morning! 7 freaking am.
Christmas brunch at our house. 10 am.
Christmas dinner at my mom's house. (where my camera battery died just as soon as we got there, so I stole some photos from my sister).
Drechsel family Christmas exchange at Chris' sister's house on the 21st...way to kick off Christmas!
Fast forward to Christmas Eve dinner at our house with Chris' parents, his brother (and family) and cousin Keith.
Christmas Eve candlelight service after dinner...with COUSINS!
That's it! I hope you had a Merry Christmas too! And please do have a very safe and Happy New Year!
charlie videos
feel free to ignore if you don't like hilarious things like Charlie not jumping:
and not wasting one drop of "dip":
and not wasting one drop of "dip":
wordless wednesday, but with words
I am totally breaking the rules and posting a video for wordless wednesday (but with words) today, because it is totally FULL of words. Charlie words. His little voice is so adorable, and he's learning so many words and I keep meaning to record it and I really haven't been very good at recording him so today I did that. And I'm sharing with you, because that's pretty much the only way I know how to save this adorable little voice.
Here's my confession:
I don't really "get" wordless wednesday. So let's call it what it is. Around here words are totally ok, and actually encouraged! So if you like words too and want to link up your wordless wednesday, but with words, please do. And if it's Thursday by the time you get around to it, well heck, that's ok too. 
what charlie learned today
I'm pretty sure he has no idea what he is saying.
There are still a couple days to enter my latest giveaway. Don't miss it!
I can't believe I'm doing this.
So, a bunch of blogs that I follow are doing this vlogging thing on wednesdays , or vednesdays, as they're calling it. (A vlog is a video blog for you technically challenged folk. "hi, Mom!"). I couldn't resist giving it a shot. Pretty sure I will never do this again, but, if I DO do it again I promise to put lip gloss on first. Geez!
this i what I'm talking about when I'm talking about painting my cabinets black.
i'm kinda scared though, maybe I'll practice on my bathroom cabinets first...like this
charlie's new tricks
Charlie "walking". Though he hasn't mastered the steering part yet.
He is getting "so big!"
POTD 306/365
f4 | 1/60 | ISO 400
also, big day around here! Charlie crawls now, with belly OFF the floor!
There's only one more day to enter my giveaway to win some fabulous notecards...don't forget!
funniest. thing. ever.
this was on our way home from Portland a few weeks ago, and was stuck on my phone until I was able to figure out how to get it off of phone and on the internet.
you're welcome...
Dear Charlie
Dear Charlie,Nine months! You've now been out as long as you were in! You are growing so fast I can't believe it. In the last month you have mastered your mobility, as well as your ability to pick up tiny things and insert them promptly into your mouth. What this means to me is that I am now spending much more time trying to keep the floor clean than I would like, simply because I don't want you to end up digesting something icky. Or worse yet, dangerous! You still LOVE to eat, (duh) and will eat pretty much anything (aside from green beans--you still refuse those). Some of your new favorite foods are steel cut oatmeal, tuna noodle casserole, homemade mac and cheese, whole wheat cinnamon pancakes, and the old standbys: applesauce, cheerios, bananas, and gerber puffs. What would we do without puffs? (actually, we are about to find out what we would do because we ran out of them today...so you're probably going to just have to deal with it). We also gave you gerber graduates 'lil crunchies', but we will NOT be getting those again because they made your breath stink. Like really really bad. Like babies shouldn't smell like that kind of bad. Costco is fun, because you love to sit in the cart and eat the samples, and the pizza, of course. So now, I can get one of those big ass pieces of pizza at the food court there, under the premise that my baby is hungry...not that I want it. So thanks for that! I'm still breastfeeding you, and you would probably nurse 11 times a day if I'd let you. But I'm kind of over feeling like a cow, so I may start weaning you down to 3 times a day and giving you a bottle if you need more than that. I'm thinking morning, noon, and night should be good. I'm sure you won't have a problem with it because have I ever told you...you are pretty damn chill for a baby. At least for MY baby. I've never had a chill baby before you.
You've learned how to give high fives and to wave. But you've decided that waving is for wimps, so you just stick your hand up all cool, like "wassup?" or something. You're at the age where you can be happy pulling out all the tupperware from the cupboard, or scooting around on the floor with really anything that's not a baby toy. It could be keys, a piece of mail, the clicker, anything really...you are also drawn to the dvd player and the dvr. Why wouldn't you be...they are right at your level, and they have all sorts of buttons and cords and stuff that you're not supposed to touch. Your favorite "game" is definitely the game where you drop something (anything) on the floor and then wait for somebody to pick it up. This game can go on for a while because there are four other people in this house who LOVE to dote on you. Your favorite book is one that has pictures of babies in it and on one particular page, you always kiss the baby. And you love to turn the last page to get to the peek-a-boo at the end. OMG it is so cute. I should totally get a video of that. I know I always say this, but you are so fun. Your smile makes everybody smile. You are constantly flirting with complete strangers, and they just melt in your itty bitty hands. One of my favorite times is when I nurse you for bed, and stick you over my shoulder to burp you. Your head nuzzles right into my neck, and your arm goes around my neck and holds on. Holds on! I love this time with you and sometimes I let it drag out a little longer than it needs to. Then when I do lay you down in your bed, I lay you on your tummy (with your binkie) and you close your eyes and reach for your blankie. It is a-DOR-able. OMG. I should totally get a video of that, too, because I am really going to miss it when you stop being so damn snuggly. In the meantime here are a couple of videos from last week that show you in action:
ANYWAY...we love you. You are the sweetest. cutest. baby. ever. EVER!
Love love love you,
xoxo
Mom
Dear Charlie
Crazy Eights
Eight Mile
Eight is Enough
Eight Crazy Nights
Eight Maids-a-Milking
YOU are EIGHT months old!
You are soooo delightful, young man. And now you are 2/3 of the way to a year. I can hardly believe how fast you are growing. When I nurse you now I can't believe how LONG your body is. You used to fit so nice and small cradled in my arms, and now you're all big and stuff! Today you graduated to your big boy carseat. And when I put you in it for the first time this morning you looked around, checking it out, like, "all right, this is sweet!" When Nanny Janis first saw it she said "Oh, what other patterns did they have?" But I like the cowmooflauge, and therefore you do too:
You're crawling very efficiently these days, but still haven't picked your belly up off the floor when you do so. I have taken to vacuuming the hardwoods every day now, because I don't like picking you up and having dirt and hair and fuzz and who-knows-what-else all over your tummy.
You are also eating really well. We have nearly depleted your second batch of homemade baby food from the most awesome Shannon, but I think we'll be ok because we are now giving you "real food". (Although I am almost certain that anything Shannon made for you was also "real food"). In the past week you have eaten:
applesauce
bananas
massaman curry (you loved this)
banana bread
you turned your nose up at pureed pears of all things, I think you know when I buy the stuff at the store, or maybe you just didn't like it served with cumin rice and beans?
Dad taught you how to high five this week. And he thinks that you know who we all are, by name. I'm not so convinced. We'll say "look at Gracie" or "look at Daddy" and eventually you do, but you also look at anyone else who is in the room and do a big smile.
You are definitely in the out of sight, out of mind stage. If you see me leaving the room, you SCREAM. But it takes about two seconds of me being out of sight for you to forget all about me. When I come back, you immediately scream again, as though you're saying, "HEY, YOU! How come you're over there and I'm over here? Come get me!"
You have learned what the signs we have taught you mean, though you're not doing them yet. Milk, Eat, and More definitely get an excited reaction from you, whereas the sign for All Gone usually results in an ear-piercing scream.
You've outgrown your fear of Papa's scary beard (which I can't quite understand because I'm still afraid of it!)
You love Curious George. (who doesn't?, it's the best. show. ever!)
Can't wait to see what month NINE brings. I bet by next month you'll be really crawling, and maybe doing some signs, and trying to pull yourself up. Please don't grow up too fast though. I love you too much!
Kisses!
xoxo
Mom
big day!
It was a BIG day around here yesterday when Charlie actually fed himself a puff for the very first time!
AND, he crawled for the first time (on video)...he has done it a couple of times before, but never on camera. He is getting so much more efficient with his mobility. Watch out world, here comes Charlie! Guess I need to start cleaning these floors a little more regularly. Now that he is mobile AND able to get stuff IN his mouth!
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