Eight Months

 

Charlotte Grace,

Little Miss 4th of July! You are full of life, laughter and of course those precious smiles. You can light up any room with your adorable personality that is shining through. You are such a sweet sweet baby! I love that you are already saying "mama" and "dada" and I just love you too much it hurts! So blessed and thankful for you everyday. I love you sweetheart.

Love,

Your Mama

 

8  month Stats

Weight: 20.2 lbs

Length: 27 inches

Head: 16 1/2 inches

Eating: nursing exclusively 5-6 times a day. Continuing to eat breakfast every morning and dinner every night. New foods that you've had are: broccoli, plums, kiwi and yogurt

Bedtime: You are now sleeping through the night... EVERY night! Whoo hoo! Every night you sleep 10.5-11 hours.

Awake: You are awake all the time now except for your two almost 3 naps a day. You love to play with your toys, practicing scootin' on the floor and run errands with mama... still my little sidekick and I love it!

Naps: Still taking three naps a day but you are ready to drop the last nap very soon. We are starting a stricter "time" to take naps now instead of always following "eat, play, sleep." I'd like to have you on a 10 & 2 schedule. Hopefully we can get that nailed down soon!

Diapers: size 3

Clothes: 6-12 months in most brands, 9 months in Carter's and 12 month jammies, you haven't grown too much this month from last month.

Favorites: You still LOVE to sit up! That's your favorite way to play because you can pull your toys closer to you and see better. You like to scoot on the floor except instead of crawling you are scooting backwards. You'll get there soon enough baby girl!

Latest Tricks: Scooting backwards on the floor, scrunching up your nose when you smile and laughing, saying "mama" "dada" "baba" and "pop pop." We are working on "bye-bye!" :) Oh you also refused the bottle this past month a few times... a post on that soon! You are just the sweetest thing ever and I just love your new tricks that you are learning.

 



Celebrating the 4th {Weekend} Deep in the Heart of TX!

Little Miss 4th of July excited for her vacation!

Taking a short break at Buc-ee's before getting to SA

We were so excited to hit the road for our mini vacation in San Antonio. We left on Thursday (the 4th) and as soon as we got in town we checked into the historical St. Anthony hotel. We had stayed here before for Keith & Elizabeth's wedding two years ago and since we loved it then we decided to stay again for this trip.

It opened it's doors in 1909 so it's very historical, old, supposedly haunted but most of all beautiful! Our room had a gorgeous 4 poster bed and the bathroom had vintage black and white tile. The entry staircase is to die for and the chandeliers are out of this world. We loved it!

GORGEOUS!

We're here!

After checking in, we packed up the stroller with lots of bottled waters (it was 108 degree folks!) and walked a few blocks to the famous... Alamo! I hadn't been here since probably a field trip in like 5th grade and even though my grandparent's and aunt have lived in San Antonio forever, it's not like you visit these places all the time. So we were excited to be "tourists!" We felt so patriotic visiting such a gem of Texas on the 4th. They even had people doing impersonations and acting out all sorts of patriotic scenes.

Daddy and C at the Alamo!

So Texas... So American!

Happy 4th ya'll!

We left the Alamo after awhile and went across the street to Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum. This was so funny... and random! But we enjoyed it! Lots of crazy things there people... CRAZY! But it was fun to see such odd/interesting things. Definitely gave us a laugh :)





We were ready for dinner, so then we walked to the riverwalk. I LOVE the riverwalk! It's one of my favorite things about San Antonio. We ate at my favorite restaurant, Casa Rio. I've grown up going here with  my family for years so it was a treat to take Drew & Charlotte there. Margaritas were amazing and so was the food... YUM!

Beautiful Riverwalk!

precious little mama duck & her babies!

So delicious!

Cutest little one in red, white & blue :)

Waiting to be seated

We were beat after a long day of traveling and walking around in the heat so sad to say but we hit the sack after dinner. We didn't even stay up for the fireworks! Although... I did hear them blasting outside the hotel windows :)

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The next day (Friday), we  woke up late and lounged around our room before getting ready for the day.

this cutie loves vacation!

hey mom & dad!

We decided to go out to Sea World! Drew and I went to Sea World a few years ago with some friends and before that with family but this trip we were especially exciting to bring our little one along. It was H.O.T! Again like 109 people... but it was FUN! Charlotte had so much fun! She actually showed so much interest in watching the shows and seeing Shamu :)





Excited to see Shamu!

Watching the ski show

gotta have our sophie!

About to see Shamu!

cuties :)

Our little family

After we left Sea World, we headed over to one more museum that was close to our hotel, just one block! The famous Buckhorn & Texas Ranger Museum. The Buckhorn features wildlife from all over the world, including animals from every continent and comprised over 520 different species of wildlife including the world records. The Texas Ranger museum has different artifacts including guns and memorabilia from famous Texas Rangers- also including an old Western replica town and the exact replica of the vintage Ford V8 Deluxe which was the getaway car for Bonnie & Clyde!

The Buckhorn

a hunter's dream!

C in front of a polar bear

lots of wildlife...

All of those are chairs made from horns

TX ranger/sheriff badge from every county in the state of Texas

by the covered wagon :)

Bonnie & Clyde getaway car!

Drew and his girl



We left the Buckhorn and walked back to the hotel to get ready for dinner with friends. We were meeting the Leal's, the McLellan's and Matt & Liz at La Fonda on Main. Another family favorite of ours! It was delicious and such a treat to have dinner with such great friends. It was also the perfect end to our mini vacation.

how cute is this cutie??

What a fun trip!

The next morning {Saturday}, we ate breakfast on the riverwalk for the last time and then packed up the car to head home. Can't wait for the next vacation. Taking trips with my little family is just the best!

Weekend at G&P's and a Wedding!

Charlotte and I hit the road to head to my parent's house last Thursday. Charlotte must have been so excited to see her grandparents because she was a HAM that night! She was talking away at the dinner table, making goofy sounds and laughing so much. She even started saying her consonant p's and can now say "poppa!" It's so cute!

Lucy riding shotgun in the car

Charlotte and her Poppa

I love going to Grammy's!



On Friday we headed to one of our favorite places close to my parent's... the outlet malls in San Marcos. We got some super cute stuff for little C at Janie & Jack, Carter's, Hartstrings & Baby Gap.

Trying on shades at J&J

Grammy got her these floral ones... "hey guys!"

My little "movie star!"

shopping is one of our favorites!

love this little love bug

laughing with Grammy

cute as a button!

 

Drew had some work to do in San Antonio, so he met us back at my parent's later Friday night and we went to dinner. My parents got Charlotte this cute door jumper and we tried it out after dinner. She was a little unsure at first but she LOVED it! I think we have a new fun activity to do and maybe I need to go get one now for the house... :)

what do you mean I can jump?

This is FUN!



The next day we had a lazy morning while Drew and I got ready to go to the Deleon wedding in San Antonio. I was excited to see some friends at the wedding and have an afternoon/evening break away from C and my parents were excited to babysit for a few hours. Ryan Deleon is a good childhood friend of Drew's from Corpus so Drew's parents were going to be there along with some buddies from growing up. Drew is so blessed to still have such a good group of guy friends that he's known since he was 5 and the Padre Little League days :)

Love him

Love having a night out with this guy :)

"the real housewives of padre little league" thanks Elizabeth for the tag line! I'm cracking up!

Drew and some of his buddies

The wedding was so much fun! We enjoyed catching up with some friends and having a little break from being a full-time parent but I will say at 11 o'clock that evening when we got home, I sure was missing my little baby. She had so much fun with my parents though that I got these pictures while we were away... I think it's needless to say that at Grammy & Poppa's you sure must be having a good time because she's shirtless! Haha!

Having so much fun mom!

cheese!



This Thursday we are headed back to San Antonio for a little family getaway on the Riverwalk. Can't wait to spend 3 days with my little family. Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July!