Charlie update

Today Charlie had his 4 month checkup. (He officially turns 4 months on Monday). He weighs 13 pounds 12 ounces (25%) and 24 inches (10%). So still skinny and short! He has followed this curve since birth, so not too concerning. He is still taking his Prevacid for his reflux, but still spits up a lot. Not sure if this is contributing to his slow weight gain, but we are upping his dose so maybe that will help. We shall see.

Yesterday Charlie rolled over from his front to his back! It's exciting to see how he is growing and changing every day. I also think he will be sprouting some teeth really soon. He drools constantly, always has his hands in his mouth and his gums are swollen. My sister and I got our teeth early, as well as my niece and nephew. So I don't think it will be long.

Tomorrow we are leaving on a short trip to Louisiana for a friend's baby shower, my grandmother's birthday dinner and my niece's birthday party. Whew! That's a lot! I'll have pictures from the weekend and some recent ones of Charlie next week. Stay tuned!


PS. I lied! Here is a picture:

Baptism

This weekend, Charlie got Baptized. We had a lot of the family come in for this special occasion and it turned out really nice. Charlie did great! He didn't cry at all. I think because he thought it was a bath! He loves baths!

His Godparents are my sister, Nicki and Jeff's brother, Clayton. Unfortunately, Clayton couldn't make it because he and his wife just had a baby girl, Annika Grace, in California!



After the Baptism, we all gathered out the house and watched the Saints stomp the Cardinals. A great day all around! Here are a few of the pictures from the day.

Charlie in the family christening gown. Many babies in our family have been christened in this gown.






Nicki (Nanny) and Charlie:




Here are the rest of the pictures:

Christmas Pictures

Here are all the pictures from all of our Christmas's. There are a lot (go figure!) so have fun!

The last few weeks...

So, after many travels, we are home now. We spent Christmas in Lafayette with my dad and Charlie gave us a great Christmas present...he slept through the night! It was great. He has only done it once since then, on New Year's night. But he is sleeping better and waking up to eat and then going right back to sleep. We were only home for a few hours on Dec 26 when we got bad news that Jeff's grandmother had suffered a massive heart attack and passed away. She was 84 years old and will be greatly missed. We spent last week helping out with arrangements and housing Jeff's family that came in for the services.

Grandma Bratton and Charlie:



We left on Thursday night to head to Fredericksburg to celebrate our Christmas/New Year's with Jeff's parents, sister and husband, and godparents. We had a great time watching football (except for Friday's game, still bitter over that loss) and visiting. We got back on Sunday evening where my aunt and uncle were here staying with us. They left on Monday morning. Jeff took the day off on Tuesday so we could celebrate our 8 year wedding anniversary. We didn't do much, cleaned up and got the house ready for the next round of guests (who are arriving today!), but he did let me go get a much needed massage! The last one I had was the day before Charlie was born! It was great! All in all, a very low key day, which was fine with me.

Jeff's parents are due to arrive any minute now. They are coming in to watch the National Championship game tomorrow night. We are confident that Texas will win! We are having some family over to watch it, so it should be fun. Jeff's cousin is in the UT Marching Band and will be performing at pregame AND halftime. Pretty impressive for a freshman. We'll be looking for him on tv!

We have tons of pictures from Christmas, so I will be putting those up soon. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We got a new camera for Christmas, so as soon as I learn how to take the pictures off of it, I can put them on here. :)