3 Months

Our sweet baby is three months old!  He has really found his feet over the past few weeks and is starting to move around a lot more when playing on the ground.  He is all smiles and they melt my heart!  He has mastered nursing and I am happy to say we finally got rid of the nipple shield we had been using.  It was an easy transition that I probably should have pushed sooner.  He has had a major sleep regression over the past week and momma is hoping that it passes quickly as he had been a great sleeper up until that point.  He has become a pro traveler going on several road trips and even his first plane ride!  We are still working on our schedule, but our lack of one is highly contributed to our travels.  We are hunkering down at home these next few weeks to try and really work on that.  He is not a fan of his car seat, but Auntie Brooke and Auntie Brienne introduced him to Baby Einstein on our latest road trip and that really seemed to help.  We love him so much!

Brooke’s Wedding

My best friends wedding was so much fun!  She was such a stunning bride and the whole weekend was beautiful.  The bridal luncheon was at the yacht club, the rehearsal dinner was at Harborside East, and the wedding was at Lowndes Grove.  All are such pretty venues.  My mom came in town to help with Charlie Banks and I was really worried and sad to leave him Saturday night as he still will not really take a bottle.  But, we survived thanks to NanJan’s help!

We couldn’t be happier for her and Bryson!!  Such a fun celebration!

Little Cutie Pie

Just a few pictures of our little cutie pie.  It’s a wonder we get anything done around here because Jimmy and I just stare at him all day! 

Jimmy has been studying and I have been trying to start getting ready for a busy wedding weekend followed by a week of travel!  We took Charlie Banks on his first of many golf cart rides this weekend in the pretty weather!  He was an angel at our supper club and has been sleeping better and better at night!  He slept from 9-4:45 last night.  No complaints here.  I am getting very anxious about this weekend because he is still not wanting to take a bottle…but I know somehow it will work out.  I am also a little anxious about his first flight but I think he will be fine!  Say a prayer!!!!!

Showering Brooke

On Sunday, we threw a bridal shower for Brooke!  It was so fun and Charlie Banks enjoyed lots of attention!  My bestie will be a married woman in less than two weeks!

Chunky Monkey all dressed up and ready to go!

Ahhhh I just love him so much.

Sweet girls!

Yummy breakfast food.

How pretty are the flowers Lauren arranged (as usual)!?!?!

In other news, the weather has been fabulous the last few days and we have been able to get outside and enjoy a few walks.  Jimmy comes home TODAY!  For a month!  YAY!

TWO Months!

Our sweet Charlie Banks is two months old!  He weighs 11 lbs (25th percentile) and is 23.5 inches tall (75th percentile).  He did not like getting his shots…and mommy did not enjoy watching!  I think he is the cutest thing.

He loves it when mommy and daddy talk to him.  He also really likes looking at fans!  He loves his activity mat and his mamaroo.  He loves his sound machine.

He is sleeping good at night…usually only waking up once…sometimes twice.  He usually likes riding in the car.  He spits up a lot!  He does not like tummy time!  He has lost most of his hair!  He loves bath time!

He has been to some of our favorite restaurants – Santi’s and Home Team!  He has gone out to dinner to Bacco for his Auntie Mercedes’ birthday.  He has also been to eat at Moe’s, Skoogie’s, Americano, Tavern and Table, and to the new pizza place whose name is escaping me!  He is usually an angel!  He went to his first Sunday Brunch at the Yacht Club!  He has been shopping with mom a lot…to Belk, Publix a bunch, Walmart, Old Navy, Target…Dad is ready to take him to do some boy stuff so he doesn’t end up liking shopping more than hunting! He has been shopping for guns with dad at palmetto state armory, though!

He is just the sweetest.  And I still can’t believe he is ours.  We love him more than words!

Life Lately…

Some randomness to catch up on the happenings in our life…

• I am laughing thinking about this now…but at the time it was far from funny!  We had a chimney fire and had to call 911!  We were settling in for a relaxing evening by the fire…Charlie Banks was asleep in the wrap on me…Jimmy was getting the fire going.  And he really got it going!  Ha!  We were talking about how big it was and I looked out the windows and was laughing that there were even sparks coming from the top of the chimney…clueless!  Jimmy ran outside and came back in…in a panic!!!  He said the flames were shooting about 15 feet out the top of the chimney!  I called 911 and Jimmy was carting pans of water back and forth to put the fire in the fireplace out.  It was traumatic, but luckily short lived.  We were thankful it wasn’t a windy night!  Moral of the story…get your chimneys cleaned!
• Jimmy has come and gone again!   The entire time he was home he was studying for a test he has to take for work.  We are happy he will only be gone for two weeks this time…and almost a week has already passed!
• I am missing my BFF, Brooke’s, bachelorette party this weekend!  I know they are having so much fun…as evidenced from the videos, pics, and snapchats I have been receiving. 
• We did get to celebrate Brooke and Bryson at a shower in Orangeburg two weekends ago!  It was Charlie Banks’ first “road trip” and his first oyster roast.  He was an angel.

• We are really struggling in the nap department and haven’t been able to really nail down a schedule yet.  He is on a great schedule at night…still usually waking up twice which isn’t bad for me at all.
• I am within 5ish pounds of my pre-pregnancy weight!  Yippee.  It has come off pretty easily…but I have been making a more conscious effort to eat healthy.  I made a veggie soup this week that was SO good.  I had never had veggie soup before and didn’t think I would like it at all, but I am planning to make it again tomorrow!
• Speaking of cooking, my crockpot is literally my bff.  It is the only way I have been able to cook post baby.  I can chop things up whenever I have a free second and even put everything in the crock pot the night before when he goes down…that way the next morning all I have to do it put it on and dinner is ready! 
• So many of our friends are pregnant right now and I couldn’t be more excited!  Charlie Banks’ is going to have so many friends soon!  4 of our really close friends are expecting this summer/early fall!
• I am 3 weeks into invisalign!  I lost my retainers many moons ago and my teeth had really started to shift.  When my permanent retainer popped off at the end of the year I knew it was time to do something.  It isn’t bad so far and I think this has been the perfect time to do it since with a newborn we really aren’t going too much.  I have 12 weeks left!
• I wrecked our new car. Jimmy had someone come clean our house as my Valentines Day present.  She parked her car right in front of our garage.  I went to run errands and backed straight into her car.  It happened so fast the sensors that tell me when I am close to something hardly had time to make a peep!  I am afraid to find out the damage this week!
• We are taking Charlie Banks’ on his first trip in a few weeks!  Jimmy has a class in Houston for a day so we are going to go with him and make a trip of it.  We will visit with his family in Houston then road trip to Fredericksburg and Austin.  I am excited and nervous to see how he does on the plane/trip!

Well that is all the randomness I can think of at the moment.  I will be back soon with a 2 month update on our little guy!

One Month Pictures

I know everyone says its…but I really can’t believe he is already a month old!  He is such a big boy he is taking his first nap in his crib as we speak.  I am so proud of him!  I was quickly realizing that in order for me to get anything at all done I was going to have to start trying to get him to take his naps in his crib.  Trying to get him to take them in his rock n play in our room was just resulting in me holding him the entire time.  So I decided yesterday that today would be the day.

How cute am I?

Not that anyone is counting or anything!