Charlie's Surgery

Just a quick update on what's going on at our house. Charlie is having surgery next week on Thursday. Its a very minor procedure called a frenulectomy of the tongue. Basically Charlie is tongue tied (yes, it's a real diagnosis) and they will be clipping underneath his tongue. The whole procedure takes less than 15 minutes but he has to go under anesthesia.... which, of course, makes me a little nervous. The good news is that this will hopefully help Charlie with both eating and his speech!

Ella's Easter Bunny

Today we went to visit Ella's Easter Bunny. That's right... he's Ella's. Every time someone brings him up, Ella corrects whoever is speaking, "not THE Easter bunny, MY Easter bunny". Needless to say Ella was very excited to pay him a visit. She wanted to remind him that he needed to find her at Gigi's house this year.

It was a great visit... no lines, neither kid had a meltdown AND we got a cute picture. I call that a success! As we were leaving Ella waved goodbye and yelled to her bunny, "Don't forget to get Easter! Bye!"

Ella Ella Bo Bella

There is so much to tell about Ella, I hardly know where to start. Our toddler is almost gone and a little girl is in her place. Ella has imaginary friends, she likes to play dress up and she is always using her imagination... sometimes coming up with some pretty strange stuff. Ella loves to sing and dance and swim and play with her stuffed animals. Her favorite colors are pink and purple and her favorite thing to have for breakfast is Cinnamon Life Cereal.

Ella loves it when you give her a special job or task and she can be quite bossy! She likes to tell us what we are doing instead of asking us and she can be a bit of a tattle-tale! She is funny and silly and very smart. Ella's vocabulary is excellent and its hard to remember she is only 3 years old because she carries herself like she is much older.

Ella has finally given up her afternoon nap...which I was DREADING but have come to find that its not that bad. She will still go in her room during Charlie's afternoon nap for some "quiet time" if Mom needs a break and every ONCE IN A WHILE she actually falls asleep for a bit.

I cannot even begin to tell you how wonderful Ella is with Charlie. Just this morning we were shocked to find Ella in his room. She heard him crying and went in to cheer him up! She entertained him with her singing and dancing and Mom & Dad got an extra 20mins of sleep! What a wonderful big sister!!

Charlie = 9 months!

Our little guy is 9 months! He has been so active lately that its hard to keep up. Charlie is waving, giving high fives and kisses and even starting to learn to drink from a sippy cup.

Lucky Charlie STILL has the beautiful blue eyes he was born with. We are crossing our fingers that they don't change... I hear they can still change until he is 1 year.

Charlie is moving ALL OVER THE place. He went from starting to crawl one day to RACING across the floor the next. He has been crawling for less than a month and he is already pulling up to stand and trying to climb stairs. Talk about a rude awakening. We can't leave him for a second and Ella is having to learn to be better at sharing since the 1st think he always goes for are her toys!

At this weeks docs appt Charlie measured in at:

Weight- 21lbs 6oz (70%)

Height- 29in (80%)

Head- 18.75in (95%)

We are having such a blast watching Charlie grow before our eyes.

Spring Break Trip

We headed back to FL for spring break this year. It's the trip that almost didn't happen. After our germ-infested Christmas trip, we thought about canceling this one and staying home in Denver but we are SO glad that we didn't. As usual, we didn't take nearly enough pictures because we were too busy having fun.

Ella & Charlie both enjoyed the pool and the beach and it was so much fun swimming with Ella since she is so independent in the water. This was actually Charlie's 1st official trip to the beach since we didn't get to take him in December. We had a wonderful time with both sets of Grandparents and Great Grandpa Peterson... and Mark and I especially appreciate the babysitting that they all did so we could have a few "adult nights" on our vacation.

The weather was amazing and the company was perfect. We wish we could have stayed longer. Here are some pics from our trip: