One Step Closer to Crawling

Posted on January 2, 2015 by playinghousewi

The tiny one has been in SUCH a mood. She’s been making this nonstop whining noise. This sounds horrible to say out loud, but it’s been suuuper annoying. Sorry, Charlie. I love you, but you’ve been a little annoying these past couple of days. Anyway, yesterday she took a much welcomed break from spazing to share SUCH a precious little moment with her dad and I.

She woke up early from a nap and still seemed tired (and cranky)… so, I gave her a toy and put her back in her crib. She played in there, squeaking about, for almost an hour until she started fussing to get out.

Mark and I went into her room to discover her popped up in crawling position. I’m so grateful that Mark immediately grabbed his camera and caught this adorable little gem on tape. Not to mention the excitement and craziness that is this little woman! She gave us SUCH a great laugh and is well on her way to figuring out the magic of crawling.

Enjoy!

HAPPY New Year!!

Posted on January 1, 2015 by playinghousewi

Had a great night with my family! We let Charlie have her first 3 minutes of actual screen time tonight with this little New Year’s Eve countdown for kids that Netflix had. Yes, she’s seen the TV during football games, but we always try to block or distract her.

Not gonna lie… She loved it. Sorry, Charlie! That’s all till next New Year’s Eve!

After the weird little cartoon creature counted down, we gave Charlie her new year’s smooches (at 630pm) and it was time for bed!

Happy new year from our little Fam to yours!

Matching Jammies & Tons of Cute

Posted on December 31, 2014 by playinghousewi

We had such a great Chanukah with our tiny one! Here are some pictures of our matching jammie celebration…

22 Week Update

Posted on December 30, 2014 by playinghousewi

Sweet little Charlie had her first Christmakkuh party this week! This is an annual tradition we have with friends. Our friends have an adorable little 18 month old and it seems that Charlotte is finally at an age where she can appreciate their little girl, Madison. She was smiling at Maddie, reaching out to her and just all around loving on her…

Even better, Charlotte was SO good with our friends (let them hold her without crying and all that good stuff). THEN, she went right to sleep in a pack and play in their guest bedroom and let mom and dad enjoy a night out. So fun!

Charlotte also had her first Chanukah celebration with her cousins! I decided to start a new holiday tradition… MATCHING JAMMIES for the cousins!!! YES! I am that person. I searched forever to find inexpensive matching jammies in boys, toddler and infant… and finally, found some cute penguin jammies made by Carters. Only $12ish each!

Check out the cuteness…

I think I’ll have to do a separate post with the rest of these cutie pie pics!

And now, here are Charlotte’s 22 Week photos…

Week 21 Photos

Posted on December 30, 2014 by playinghousewi

Oy… I’m sorry, Charlie! I can’t remember the details of week 21… but here are some pics…

What I do remember is that you’re so cute and silly and I just love you.

Yeee Haw… 23 Weeks of Fun!

Posted on December 30, 2014 by playinghousewi

I still need to put up Charlotte’s 22-week photos, but while my memory is still fresh, I’ll focus on this past week. Little Charlie girl is getting big. It’s crazy how fast time is flying.

This week, she’s really been working hard to get moving. In fact, check out her attempt to inch worm!!

She’s such a little love and soon, she’s going to be on the move. We had her on the carpet the other night and she literally rolled herself across the room. This girl’s gotta go!

She also celebrated her first Chanukah this week. I know I mentioned this before, but the little one loves wrapping paper. Here she is opening her presie from Nana…

And here are her pics from this week… please excuse her silly outfit. I was feeling a little “hipster meets cowgirl.”

A Present for Dear Charlotte

Posted on December 25, 2014 by playinghousewi

Last night, Marky and I created an email account for our little one. Not for her use, but as a gift.

Someone recently told Mark about an idea to create an email address for your babe and use it to send advice and stories for your child to read at a later time. We loved the idea, so that’s exactly what we’ve done.

I don’t know when we will give her access to the account, but it seems like such a special gift. A priceless collection of love and memories and advice for our sweet little one.

And until then, we will continue to email her recollections of our sweetest moments and finest advice.

We hope you love it, Charlie! Xo

Shiny, Happy Lights

Posted on December 24, 2014 by playinghousewi

Tonight we took the princess downtown to check out the Christmas light display. Being that her fifth favorite thing (only behind mommy, toby, daddy, and pinching/clawing faces) is lights, we figured she’d love it.

Unfortunately, miss thing has an early bedtime, so we didn’t get as many smiles as we hoped… But she did seem pretty mesmerized by the lights! And, we even got a swing session in. All in all, a successful fun time!

No one needs to know that she cried the ENTIRE 40 minute drive home, right?

High School Mommas’ Play Date

Posted on December 22, 2014 by playinghousewi

Today I got together with six other mommies from my high school. We all graduated 11 years ago and many of us haven’t seen each other since then. However, with Facebook, somehow we’ve all kind of “kept in touch.” So, with everyone home for the holidays, we decided to get together for a little play date.

I have to admit, the whole thing gave me anxiety. I’m not the most outgoing and tend to avoid situations like this, but I knew it would be nice to be around other mommies (especially ones I know) and more importantly, it would be great for little Charlie to play with other mini people.

All in all, it really was a great time. It’s just way too much to see so many little pumpkins in one room. Charlotte doesn’t get as much time with tiny ones as I would like, so it makes me happy to see her lunge towards other babies, laughing all the way. She’s a little hug lover.

For your enjoyment, here’s the baby gang…

All the babes… 7 weeks up to 12 months!

Mini people

Baby chaos.

Charlie was such a good girl!

This is one of my faves. So funny.

Happy Chanukah!

Posted on December 17, 2014 by playinghousewi

Charlotte definitely loves presents… But she’s totally in it for the paper. Man does that little girl love shoving wrapping paper and tissue paper in her tiny baby mouth.

Maybe by the 8th night, she’ll enjoy more than just the wrapping.