Well now that we are home and I have some help I have time to catch up with this blog, which really needs to happen because I need to get it printed for the year soon! After my mom left there was more adjusting that needed to happen - two kids on my own - ah! It actually went ok once we got a better baby carrier (ergobaby) for Elly, then we could just go about our regular business of going to playgroups, the park, grocery shopping, the zoo etc. That girl likes to be carried! I honestly don't know where the time has gone - it seems like Elly was just born, but then I look at her and she's huge! As usual, I'll let the pictures do most of the talking... (and as usual I would like to complain that this stupid site never puts my pictures in in the order I download them in...)
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| Charlie likes to feed Elly bottles sometimes! It's so cute |
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| One month! |
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| Charlies friend birthday party! |
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| Happy Birthday Charlie! Dirt cake - yum! |
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| This was how we were watching General Conference... Charlie was quite good at listening! |
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| Elly-Belly! |
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| We were testing out Charlies earphones for the plane ride |
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| She's so cute! |
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| Ipswich had a giant water slide and there was a little free one for the children! Charlie loved it |
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| I realize we don't have many pictures of Elly when she was really little! So although this one isn't that good, it is one of the only ones we have - sad! |
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| Elly is a little houdini! She escapes swaddling like theres no tomorrow! |
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| Our first outing after my mom left was to playgroup at the park! Charlie had a blast despite falling off the teeter-totter and his extremely dirty face is proof! |
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| I had been planning to make coloured rice for ages for Charlie to play with and it finally happened! It is very messy... |
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| On Charlies actual birthday I took him to a special event at the library. Well it was outside of the library - they made huge sand pits and the little kids one had diggers and all sorts of sand toys and the big kids one had lots of jewels and seashells and treasure the kids could dig for. |
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| Charlie had tons of fun - not that you can tell from his face here! |
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| After school we took Charlie to a work site to see real diggers! |
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| Charlie has a hard time keeping the rice contained... |
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| First family walk with Elly - you can barely see Elly poking out of the bottom |
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| There was an amazing sunset! Australia has great ones constantly |
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| Another one so we can remember how small Elly is |
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| My mom bought Charlie a set of books for his birthday, and after reading a few of them a few times the pages started to fall out! So I wrote the publisher to tell them their books were falling apart and she said she would send us a replacement. Two days later this huge box showed up and she not only sent a replacement set but a bunch of other things as well! Good customer service! |
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| This was the little invitation for Charlie's birthday party! |
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| Charlie loves washing his diggers! |
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| At Charlie's birthday - Inflatable World! |
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| Sebastian - Toby - Charlie |
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| Charlie had so, so much fun! |
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| Elly had fun too... |
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| Presents! |
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| Elly's "o" face |
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| Charlie loves reading books - he knows all the titles of his books! |
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| Charlie testing out his sandpit with his diggers |
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| Two months old already! |
