Charles' first 11 mos.

Wow, I can't believe we've had this sweet boy for 11 mos. Here's proof :)

Christmas 2009

Our Christmas vacation was fabulous!!! In the mids of the GRE, graduate school applications, ten page research papers, comprehensive tests, and cleaning the house, we got a TWO-WEEK vacation! Woo hoo! Some of the highlights from our vacation were seeing GG, making and giving gifts to people (including a small piece of fabric with some old buttons sewn on from my mom for Charles, a couple of fun games for Chas, a $1 picture album with a bunch of pictures of family, friends, pets, places and cars for Jack ;D, and a date-night for my parents), game nights with GG when we played Chas' new games and listened to GG tell stories, taking lots of pictures, a daddy-daughter date with my dad, going to a home-studio to record a Christmas song I wrote (Chas and Camilla and I all sang together), having Mom teach me how to make a baby quilt for Charles :), going to Aunt Dar and Uncle Gary's house for dinner Christmas day and seeing everyone meet and play with Charles, going to see “The Blind Side” as a family while my sweet Aunt Dar babysat Charles, taking care of Charles while he was sick with a high fever, receiving Camilla's home-made cards for everyone in the family, going to get haircuts from Aunt Dar, seeing my best friend from high school (Janine) who is now engaged, splitting wood with Dad, going shopping with Chas and getting a beautiful new blouse (one of his gifts to me) and watching “The Grinch.” !!!! - We had such a wonderful vacation and now Chas and I are both back in school, and Charles is learning just as much including picking up food and eating it, rolling over back and forth, pulling himself up to his toy bin, going forward in his walker, getting a new tooth and saying new things, making new faces, etc.! All is going well and we're excited for 2010!