tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47509702064940374702024-03-14T05:51:36.796-05:00CragunsBlakely and Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15466783052021511263noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750970206494037470.post-48046950729548862312013-08-25T23:35:00.002-05:002013-08-25T23:35:50.285-05:00We found a house! Its a girl! And other Utah life catch upWe found a house! Hooray! We close on Sept 3 right after Labor Day so hopefully we will move in just over a week! Its a cute little old house just a couple miles northwest of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The kitchen and bedrooms are quite small which is not ideal but we are in a beautiful neighborhood, only 3 minutes from gorgeous canyon hiking and biking trails, and only 10 minutes from Blakely's work! And we have extra rooms. Visitors welcome!<br />
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Here are some pics from the current owners.<br />
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Other big exciting news is that we found out Baby C #2 is a GIRL! I'm still completely shocked because I though certainly we were having another boy but we are thrilled to have a little princess in the house. I continue to feel really good but I am definitely much lower energy this time around. I blame Charlie :)</div>
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While Blakely continues to put in long hours at his new job, which he loves, I am busy keeping up with this little crazy person. </div>
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Now that Charlie is past the baby stage he truly is my little companion and friend. Its so fun to spend my days with this little guy who carries on conversation, asks a zillion questions and loves going on adventures with me. </div>
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Ours days are spent with daily walks (where often his head is in a book the whole time), stops at the swings, library visits, play time with cousins and friends, and lots and lots of truck time.</div>
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Our new favorite activity is visiting Barnes and Noble and Ikea where Charlie will happily play for hours with the train set and I can sit and read a book. Win, win! </div>
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When we haven't been spending every spare minute house hunting, we have managed to squeeze in a bit of family fun as well. </div>
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Blakely and Charlie with the Instructure Panda at the company party at Hogle Zoo. Blakely and I laughed at the difference between Dell work parties (happy hour at a bar) and Instructure (first a huge carnival then a trip to the zoo for the whole family)</div>
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Family hikes to Cecret Lake, Alpine sliding rock, and Bell Canyon Resevoir. Utah you are amazingly beautiful. I wish we had gotten into the mountains more but many Saturdays were sacrificed to the house hunt.<br />
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Baby Noah's baby blessing. Blakely's sister and brother in law adopted this sweet little guy and we were able to attend the family sealing in the Mt Timpanogas Temple. It was was one of the most tender moments I have ever witnessed. How blessed we are to be a part of an eternal family!</div>
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4th of July, 24th of July and Draper Days parades. Charlie is the perfect age to enjoy parades with his fascination with cars and trucks. A parade made up completely with police cars and fire trucks is a little boys dream come true.<br />
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Visits with cousins to the Thanksgiving Point Farm</div>
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Afternoon at This is the Place State Park with Uncle Aaron and Emily.</div>
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Charlies favorite was of course riding the train</div>
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He also loved the petting zoo. "I hug the goat. I kiss the goat"</div>
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We are so lucky to have so much family close by and Charlie adores playing with his cousins. Nothing makes Charlie more excited than running around with other little people. I can't wait to watch them grow up together. Here he is splashing with cousin Annie in her backyard on the 4th</div>
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Riding in the Barbie Jeep with Grant. I wish you could see Charlie's white knuckle grip on the side of the car. These two boys are only a 2 months apart and they have quite opposite personalities but they have so much fun together.</div>
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Charlie and Daxton are the sweetest of friends. Since Dax just lives down the street from Blakely;s parents where we have staying, we have been able to spend a lot of time with him. I wish Dax could be around always because he makes Charlie laugh harder than anyone else and he can ALWAYS cheer him up.</div>
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I can hardly believe that summer has already passed us by. We are taking one last hurrah up to Island Park and Yellowstone this week with my family and then we will move into our house when we get back. I'm looking forward to organizing and decorating our home this fall just in time for baby girl to come in Dec. Hooray! </div>
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21 months old but as talkative and dramatic as a high school girl. Charlie is a total chatterbox. From the second he wakes up, life is a constant stream of Charlie narration." From his crib in the morning after he wakes up from his nap, you can hear Charlie have conversations with himself "Its a train! I see it! Mine monkey. I have it. I kiss him. Hug him." Although hes been stringing many words together, his first complete sentence was "Watch this Blakely!" as he tried to get his dads attention while throwing a ball across the room. Not sure if he associates his Dad with the name Blakely or if it was a phrase he picked up from his little 3 year old cousin but either way, so unexpected and funny.<br />
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Since we have moved in with Blakelys parents while we find a place to live, he has been surrounded by other family and cousins and has suddenly become very concerned with identifying the owners of everything. "Daddys keys, mommy's glasses, Charlies cookies." He is already sneaky enough to identify all treats as "Charlie's treats". Right now we are all sharing a room and Charlie is sleeping in a pack-n-play at the foot of our bed and we wake up every morning to hearing "Mommy's toes and Daddy's toes" as he tickles our feet sticking out from the blankets.<br />
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Animals: Charlie has no fear of animals and loves to give hugs and kisses to all the animals he comes in contact. Poor Sadie, Blakely's parents little Shih Tzu is smothered constantly with Charlies attention.<br />
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Cars: His complete obsession has taken a whole new level as he can now identify every different construction vehicle and is insistent on bringing a different toy car into the car with him whenever we go out.</div>
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Reading and the Library: So glad this little man still loves books. We are at the library at least once a week if not more and his face lights up everytime I tell that is where we are going. As we were leaving yesterday he screamed out in frustration "NO! Books fun!"</div>
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<br />Blakely and Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15466783052021511263noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750970206494037470.post-65837083808088059902013-07-12T00:15:00.002-05:002013-07-12T00:15:39.420-05:00MovingLife has been a bit of a whirlwind the past couple of months. In May Blakely was invited to come to Utah to interview with Instructure, a small tech company in Utah. While Blakely has enjoyed his time with Dell, he was thrilled with the opportunity to work for a small company. He interviewed and received the job offer to begin less than one month later. We felt completely torn because we love our life in Round Rock but we felt this was the right time for Blakely to make a change in career and the mountains have been calling our names since we left Utah 3 years ago.<br />
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With our last month, we managed to only be home for few days spending time at a friends wedding in Utah, a few days at the beach in Galveston with Austin friends and a 7 day Carribean cruise just days before our move date. It was a little overwhelming to not have any time to process our huge life change. We are going to miss beautiful Austin and the many wonderful people that became our family for the past three years. Luckily we were able to squeeze in a few get togethers with our dear friends before we began our trek across the country.<br />
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A girls night outing to my Kawaii Ice snow cones. My number one craving while pregnant.<br />
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Picnic at Old Settlers park with Dell work friends from the FDP.</div>
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Last CGAO pool clubhouse party with all of our dear neighbors and ward friends.</div>
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Cavenaugh fam and grumpy Charlie.So sad we wont be around when baby boy Cavenaugh comes in Sept.</div>
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Reichart fam and stubborn Charlie. Kristen is due just a couple of weeks before I am!</div>
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Darling Kellers, McFarlands, and Seely families. No Charlie present as he was currently throwing a fit.</div>
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Sweet Allison and naked Charlie. Allison is due with her just one week before me! </div>
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Evans fam.Kaytie was one of my dearest friends since 6th grade. She and her husband just moved to Round Rock about a month before we moved. I'm heartbroken we never got to enjoy being neighbors and that I won't be around when her sweet baby boy is due in August. </div>
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Sadly we didn't get pictures with everyone. Lees, Macias, Bradshaws, McBrides, Nields, Hamiltons, and countless others, you are all greatly missed! My heart hurt as we drove away from all these wonderful people.<br />
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Luckily our 22+ hour drive went as nearly as smoothly as we could have hoped. The only major flop was when our trusty Mazda Protege started breaking down halfway through day one driving (boo) and we had to end up towing it behind the truck. I was proud of myself for the driving the truck and trailer a huge chunk of the time even though I ended up having major shoulder pain from stress. </div>
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Safely in Utah, we are staying with Blakley's parents (bless them and their generosity) while we house hunt. Unfortunately its been a bit of a slow process especially since we had to pause looking for a house while we went car shopping. The past few weeks I have felt somewhat stranded living in someone elses house without my own transportation. One month later, we finally have a new car, a 2010 Hyundai Sonata (which feels like a Fararri compared to what I have been driving the past 7 years) and we are hopefully <b>close</b> to purchasing a home.</div>
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What a treat it was to spend a week in beautiful Utah for my dearest friend Christyn's wedding. When Christyn moved into my ward when she was 3 years old, we immediately became best friends along with Maren and the three of us were inseparable through high school. Since we graduated and went to different universities and moved all over the country (and world for Christyn) we haven't been close physically the past 7 years, but these girls will always remain my bests. Maren flew in from Oklahoma and I flew in from Texas and we had the best week being able to spend so much time together as we celebrated beautiful Christyn and her wedding to Stephen Lundquist. We drove around with loud music, stayed up late laughing and chatting on Christyns bed and squeezed in a Jakes Shake run for a Peanutbutter cookie dough shake. It felt high school again. Except for going home to take care of our one year old boys....Almost like high school :)</div>
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The week of wedding festivities began Wed evening as I was able to accompany Christyn as she went through the temple for the first time. We attended a live session at the Salt Lake Temple which was a new for me as well and it was such a sweet experience to be able to share this special evening with her. Temple Square was especially gorgeous in full bloom with spring flowers and the whole night was perfect. </div>
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On Friday, Maren and I hosted a small bachelorette party which included pizza at a darling Italian restaurant and viewing of The Great Gatsby. Of course we gave Christyn her confidence boa and a few other honeymoon essentials. Thanks Maeg for the best tradition. Hope it was put to good use!</div>
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We loved getting to know Christyn's darling friends from college, DC internship, and Salt Lake roommates. Left to Right Annie, Lisa, Maren, Christyn, Michelle, me and Julie</div>
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The only picture Maren would pose in without being the middle. Only for Christyn :)</div>
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On Saturday night, a few days before the actual wedding, Christyns family hosted an wedding open house at the Eccles Art Center in downtown Ogden. I have fond memories of this building since I played in all my piano recitals here under Carol Hurst and it was a perfect venue for a wedding especially since the weather was perfect. I loved being able to run into past high school friends and sweet family friends from my home ward. <span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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Maren and I with her awesomely adorable little man Leif. I can't believe this was my first time meeting him right before his 1st birthday! </div>
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A rare shot with me and my Dad. I'm so glad I was able to spend so much time with my parents as well this week.</div>
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Wedding day was perfection. Christyn had planned every tiny detail and everything went beautifully. She and Stephen were sealed in the Draper Temple and felt so blessed that I was able to witness their sealing along with Maren. Nothing could make me happier than having my friends and family share in the blessing of a temple marriage. I just wish Blakely could have been there to share the experience as well.<br />
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After the temple ceremony there was a wedding dinner at Sea Salt restaurant in Salt Lake City where the whole night revolved around a travel theme. You checked in and received your luggage tag which told you which location you would be seated. Each table was a different city/country that wedding couple had either visited or were going to visit on their honeymoon. At the table was your passport which included a dinner menu for the night. The whole event was done with gorgeous presentation and execution. I wish I had taken more pictures!</div>
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Wedding week also fell over Mother's Day so I got to share the holiday with this wonderful lady for the first time in three years. I love my sweet mother and her example of selfless service to not only family and friends but the whole community. I love being the mother to this awesome little guy. He brings me more joy than I ever have known.<br />
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When I wasn't attending wedding festivities Charlie and I were able to squeeze in some family time with the Ashtons and Craguns. We spent the day in beautiful Eden at my brothers house along with my sister Julie and her family. Charlie loved riding on the scooter and learning to share with his cousin Grant. I love watching these little guys learn how to play with each other. They are going to be such fun friends.</div>
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We were also able to take a trip to the park with Maren and her baby Leif. Since Maren and I have shared every stage of our life together, I think these little guys are destined to be best buddies too.</div>
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By complete suprise Maren and I ended up being on the same flight from SLC to Houston. Even though we weren't able to sit by each on the plane, we were able to watch each others babies so we could go to the bathroom etc in between flights which was a huge life saver. Yay for small miracles since traveling with a toddler is such a treat.</div>
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This little guy is 18 months old! </div>
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Some things to know about this happy little dude.</div>
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He has been my running buddy the past couple of months and is always the perfect companion, never complaining and always happy to point out the birds, cars, dogs, and trucks along the route.</div>
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Focused: Charlie has never been one to jump from toy to toy. He knows what he likes anything with wheels and books, and spends 90 % of his time doing either of these things. (The other 10% of his day is made up of chilling in his booster seat eating or just hanging out. He oddly adores that chair). He plays very well independently and will sit with a stack of books for a half an hour at a time reading them by himself.<br />
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Here he is intently watching construction trucks at a recent park visit. He was glued to this spot for 25 minutes!</div>
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Affectionate: How blessed am I to have a snuggly baby? He freely dishes out hugs and kisses on demand and without asking. ( I should add, he freely shares hugs and kisses with Mom, Dad and other babies. This kid is a little on the shy side :) Whenever he is feeling sleepy, whether its snuggled on the couch or shopping in a store, he loves to lay his head on your shoulder and say "a song" until you sing to him. Its the sweeting thing. And you will see me singing in public in the strangest of places for this sweet little one.<br />
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At 18 months I feel like he have finally arrived at good night time sleeping habits. Hallelujah. Its been a long year. </div>
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He is a great communicator and probably has about 50 words in his vocabulary. 95% are only intelligible by me but he is very good at telling us what he needs and wants....or doesn't want His favorite word is probably "no" but some of my favorite words he says right are: ehmeno (his favorite book LMNO Peas), otter (water), affe (giraffe), basaball (basketball). The only TV he sees (besides our terrible long sick week) is when Blakely has ESPN on the mornings before work. so whenever he sees a TV when we are out and about he always exclaims "basaball!" </div>
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My other favorite is "burp". One day after drinking a cup of milk really fast he burped and got this huge grin on his face and looked up at me and said "burp". I have no idea where he learned this because we are not much of a burping family but now he tries to force a burp out all the time and he thinks its the funniest thing on the planet. What a boy! We have taught him to say "scuse me" afterwards so hopefully hes learning to be polite too? I fear for my future though because after he learned how to burp with his mouth, we were in the tub when he made a gas bubble in the bath.You know from the other end :) Immediately he looked up at me giggling and said "burp". What a stinker! but oh how I laughed.</div>
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Of course we are not all smiles and giggles around here. Charlie is quickly learning the art of a tantrum, and how to voice his strong opinions but I cant wait for the many future adventures with this awesome babe.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago poor little Charlie came down with a bummer cold which was accompanied by a high fever and double ear infections. </div>
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He didn't sleep because he was so stuffed up and his fever kept spiking. During the day we snuggled on the couch reading hundreds of books with Curious George on repeat. I definitely love the snuggles but after days of being confined to the inner walls of our apt, I felt pretty isolated. Especially since this was round two of sickness in the past couple of months.<br />
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Finally he started feeling better but his bad whiny habits lingered, temper tantrums abounded and my motherly patience was stretched impossibly thin. Dirty dishes hung around for days, laundry piles reached an unimaginable height, and my motivation was zero.</div>
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Then sometimes you have awesome mom weeks. Days where you are spent laughing with one another instead of screaming, where you are effective without feeling frazzled, and everything just flows.<br />
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With Charlie finally feeling better and fantastic weather we started the week off with multiple walks a day to throw rocks in the river, observe bugs in the sidewalk and race cars down the path. We were able to go to music time and story time at the library where we laughed together at the silly songs and I delightfully watched him try to coordinate his toddler arms and legs to follow along with the actions.</div>
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Mid week we were invited to a little friends Bubble birthday party where they get to blow bubbles of all different sizes, stomp on bubble wrap, splash in a pool of bubble bath and eat bubble cupcakes. The thrill of bubbles is not lost as you grow older. I was equally delighted to participate in all the activities. and Charlie is pretty thrilled with his new word "bubbles".</div>
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Along with the bubble party we were also able to attend a darling St Patricks Day Party that a cute friend of mine hosted. The party was complete with a delicious spread of green foods, festive thumbprint shamrock cards, green dress-ups, and a leprechaun hunt for treasure. </div>
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Nothing particularly exciting happened this week but everyday felt so full. Full of fun, exploring, laughter and learning. I ended the week feeling overwhelmingly grateful for the opportunity I have to spend my days with my little man. Observing potato bugs on the sidewalk. Reading books on the porch. Teaching him to be kind. Teaching him to pray. These are awesome mom moments.</div>
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Last weekend I joined three good friends at the Lost Pines resort in the hill country west of Austin for the Zooma Women's half marathon. We shared a hotel room at the resort (by far the most expensive hotel I have ever stayed at!) to avoid an early morning scramble to drive and and meet the shuttle. It was such a treat to have a ladies night away (my first from Charlie ever) but it was a little bit of a let down to have to try to go to bed early so we could get some rest. No all night giggle fest sadly. Another time!<br />
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Race morning was the perfect running temp of 57 degrees. It was chilly at the finish line but felt awesome during the run. The race made a couple of loops throughout the beautiful tree lined resort filled with wildflowers and some MONSTER hills. The first seven miles were a complete roller coaster but luckily the last few miles were pretty flat.<br />
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During the last couple of weeks my knee was been really bothering me during my runs. I got really nervous about injuring myself before the race so I pretty much quit running the last couple of weeks before the race in hopes that by giving it a rest my knee would heal itself. I was really nervous about how my knee would hold up during the race but gratefully, it felt great. It started bothering me a little about mile 3 but it never got bad enough to really slow me down.<br />
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I was hoping to get under two hours and I came in at 1:57 which is just under 9 minute mile pace, cutting about 8 minutes off of my first half which I ran in 2:05. I felt pretty awesome since a year ago I could only run a 5k in about 35 minutes. Go me!<br />
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In an effort to figure out Blakely's food allergies, we have been eating gluten free and lactose free since the new year. We have long known he is lactose intolerant but we have made better efforts to strictly follow a lactose free diet which means no milk, cream, cheese (whine, whine :( ). As a new experiment we are cutting out gluten also which means no bread, pasta, cakes, cookies etc (major whine :( ). Although I get a little depressed thinking about how much we can't eat (mainly no pizza!) I definitely feel better overall as we have made big strides to a more healthy clean eating approach.</div>
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Along with eating lots of salad and veggie packed smoothies, right now we are relying heavily on Asian inspired dishes (chicken rice bowls) and Mexican dishes ( black beans, corn tortilla tacos). I'm slowly widening my recipe arsenal but I just might die if I have to eat another dish with rice. <br />
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One of our biggest challenges has been trying to find a treat Blakely can eat. Without cookies, cake, or ice cream, there is little left for our major sweet tooth besides starbursts and skittles. (Which we have consumed at an alarming rate). Luckily we live in Austin which is mega vegan friendly and we found this awesome little ice cream shop called Lick which specializes in vegan ice cream, made from coconut milk, and offers a wide variety of other unique flavors. We checked it out one Saturday and Blakely enjoyed a scoop of spicy coconut and peanut and coconut, peanut butter chocolate swirl and I had a scoop of lemon poppyseed and sweet cream with strawberries. We will definitely be going back again. Maybe next time I'll even venture to try to the roasted beets and mint or the caramelized carrots and tarragon. Maybe...<br />
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I have also ventured into gluten baking. Its a little overwhelming to look at a recipe that has replaced flour with potato flour, rice flour, and xantham gum. Xantham gum? I dont' even know what that is! I have found a few recipes though that use almond flour though that have been pretty successful. Charlie is always eager to help and taste test of course :)</div>
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For the past few months they have been working on a music video tribute for their moms. They changed the words of "Gangham Style" to "That's my Mama's Style" and self choreographed the whole video.<br />
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What a fun night! The moms LOVED it. How often do Moms get to hang out with their teenage sons and watch them let loose. After viewing the video, the moms and sons had the opportunity to make their own Harlem Shake video. </div>
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A current internet you-tube sensation, Harlem Shake videos consist of 15 seconds of one person dancing while everyone else carries on normal, followed by 15 seconds where everyone goes nuts. You can enjoy our genius dance moves in back as I dance on top of Blakely's shoulders but my favorite is the Mom rocking like a baby on the couch in her sons arms downing a bottle of Sprite. Nailed it.</div>
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For Christmas I bought Blakely tickets to see Brian Regan live in concert in Austin. Two months later, we were finally able to redeem out tickets!<br />
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Because we have so many close friends with young babies and other willing neighbors we have rarely had to hire a babysitter. It felt like a true parent rite of passage to call up a teenage girl from the ward, write down a ridiculous number of instructions, and leave her completely in charge our little baby. Not to mention it made me feel OLD! I also felt extremely self conscious about the lack of good food in our pantry. Wasn't that always the highlight of babysitting? Raiding the pantry for fruit snacks and granola bars?<br />
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Brian Regan was of course hilarious and we laughed solidly for 2 hours . We were a little bummed though that his act was less story oriented (which we love) and more one liner, punchy like. Ah well, still a fantastic night out. A Merry Christmas present indeed.<br />
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Saturday morning I took my cub scouts out plant trees for conservation service project. They were a little wary of the 50 other girl scouts participating :)<br />
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When I get back it was perfect running weather and I headed out for a long run. Exactly 5 miles from home, I wiped out and got some nasty road rash. I was able to run the five miles back home but Ouch!<br />
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Saturday afternoon we headed out to McKinney Falls State Park with out friends the Trenholms. Blakely and I are always complaining about Texas outdoors but we decided we had never given a good chance so we decided to buy a state parks pass and explore the local state parks. Our first trip was a big success! Although the water was fairly stagnant and the falls were more of a trickle, we loved enjoying the sunny 70 degree day hiking around and wading in the water. We were all reminded how much we LOVE being outside, murky water or not.<br />
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Charlie and Meleah, rock throwing hiking buddies. It is the cutest to watch Charlie throw rocks because he first starts of dropping them behind his head. After a few minutes he gets the hang of it though and manages to throw them a few feet. These two diaper babies would have sat along the bank throwing rocks all day if we let them.<br />
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Sunday we enjoyed a Chinese New Year Asian dinner. Egg Rolls, fried rice, brownies, ice cream, and friends. It was the end to a perfect weekend.Blakely and Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15466783052021511263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750970206494037470.post-1947518185829535102013-02-17T21:18:00.000-06:002013-03-01T21:31:56.440-06:00Love Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few days before Valentines we had a little Valentine exchange with some of our neighbors. Charlie and Blakely made this adorable car valentine box and handed out cars valentines. </div>
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Our Valentines Day started with an early morning heart pancake breakfast. Since we are currently eating gluten free trying to figure out Blakely's allergies, I thought I would be a good wife and make him almond meal pancakes. And oh what a good wife I was. </div>
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Somehow between getting Charlie situated at the table while also preparing the pancake mix I inadvertently added TUMERIC instead of cinnamon! Yikes! Not willing to sacrifice an entire bowl of mix when almond flour is so stinking expensive, I added a bunch of sugar to the batter, smothered the pancakes with lots of syrup and strawberries and chose to not tell Blakely about my error until after he was done. Surprisingly, thankfully, they turned out okay! Not great but edible. The best part was that the little pancakes crumbs stained Charlie's hands and pajamas yellow. </div>
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The rest of the day ran much more smoothly and was quite lovely. Blakely surprised me with these beautiful yellow and coral roses (my favorite colors!) and a fantastic homemade card with a hilariously thoughtful poem. <br />
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"Without you, Chars and I'd be a mess,<br />
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For lunch, we met up with some of the other babies in the complex for a little picnic. Here, Charlie is sharing the love, leaning in to kiss his little buddy Sienna. This kid LOVES giving kisses. </div>
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And the goofiest valentines smiles you ever did see.</div>
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We finished the night off with a romantic whole family dinner at Qdoba where they were offering a free meal if you kissed someone in line. Blakely kissed Charlie. Of course. Ha! Then after quickly putting Charlie down to bed, our sweet neighbors watched Charlie so we could go watch Warm Bodies, the zombie love story which was actually very fun and entertaining.</div>
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Besides our great Utah trip, Charlie and I spent the rest of the month Sick, Sick, Sick. Charlie came down with a bad cold the last day we were in Utah and carried it back to Texas to share with the rest of us. After a couple of days of catering to a sick whiny baby, I began to lose my patience. I found myself thinking, "I know you're sick but c'mon! Pull yourself together!" I guess I totally asked for it when I got sick a day or two later and felt TERRIBLE! Probably the worst head cold and sinus congestion I have ever had. It knocked me out and we were both a pair of pathetic sickies confined to the couch for days. Blakely managed to escaped unscathed but Charlie and I were not out and about for about 10 days.</div>
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We did manage to peel ourselves from our beds and the couch a few times and find a few things to be happy about :)</div>
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Daily walks. This kid would spend every second outside if I let him. He gets this excited EVERY time I take him outdoors. </div>
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Charlie has mastered the leg cling.</div>
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Charlie with his buddy Sienna reading on the couch.</div>
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Back in Sept, Blakely set a challenge for his Teachers quorum to read the New Testament by the end of the year. If they completed their reading, their reward was tickets to see the All American High School Football game in San Antonio where the best high school players from across the country gather for a game. All 8 boys completed the challenge and they had an awesome time enjoying their 8th row seats.</div>
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We were thrilled that we had the opportunity to fly back for 8 days to attend his homecoming and spend time with both the Ashtons and Craguns.<br />
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Aaron gave a great talk and I was able to accompany Bailey, Addy and Aaron as they sang "Ill find you there my Friend" Aaron even sang a solo in Japanese! What a stud! We enjoyed lunch afterwards at the Craguns with all of the extended family.<br />
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We spent a day and night up at Matt and Nikis house (resort) in Eden Utah which truly is a little bit of Heaven on earth. Tommy and Erin's family joined us as well as the healthy half of Julies family. We worked on discovering our inner Katniss practicing on the new archery range Matt has set up in his backyard. Some families get bikes or games for Christmas. Matt's family gets bows and arrows. <br />
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After practicing for the next hunger games, we piled on the hockey gear and played a quick game on their frozen pond. We didn't last long before we collapsed of exhaustion. Skating is hard work!</div>
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When we were not busy playing the freezing outdoors, we were playing hundreds of games of Mario Chase, the new game on the Wii U. A blast. </div>
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Phoebe and Charlie, the cutest cousins and friends.</div>
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Charlie,<br />
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Happy first birthday to my sweet, active, curious, little munchkin. It truly has been the greatest thrill of my life to watch you grow up from a tiny newborn into a little boy full of spunk and personality. A year ago you lay snuggled tight in my arms and I could only imagine what kind of little person God had sent me and now I can't imagine my life without your sweet presence.<br />
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A boy through and through, you are obsessed with anything with wheels. I don't know how little babies pick up on gender stereotypes, but without any prompting by your Dad and I, you discovered a little lego block with wheels and it has hardly left your hand since. Not long after you discovered this "car" I heard you say "vroom" as you pushed it along. Where do you learn this stuff?!<br />
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You LOVE to be outside but I hate taking you outside because you get so dirty and either your pants get all worn out or your poor knees get all scraped up. Just yesterday, I took you outside and while you were enthusiastically crawling towards the dirt (yay!) your foot got caught on your pant leg and you face planted into the cement, scraping your poor little nose and upper lip. You cried for a moment but were more mad that I tried to keep you in my arms instead of continuing to play. The real tears came when I tried to take you inside. I can't wait until we can explore outside together walking. No pressure though :)<br />
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Since you were such an early roller and crawler I was so certain you would be walking by now, but you still seem pretty content with crawling. Its actually hard to imagine you walking because you are so efficient and FAST at crawling. When you are not crawling, you are permanently attached to your walker flying around corners and navigating around furniture with reckless abandon but impressively managing to stay upright. Walking on your own has little appeal when you can cruise around the house at high speeds behind your walker. The walker was loaned to us by a friend, continues to be the only toy you play with consistently every day since you were four months old. We may just never be able to give it back!<br />
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We had big plans for a combined birthday kickball game with your Dad but sadly we got rained out. We still had a great time moving the party indoors, eating and enjoying company with good friends. Of course I gave you your own cupcake to eat and as everyone anxiously watched, in true Charlie fashion, you threw the cupcake off your high chair. You've never been much for public performing. Ah well. Happy Birthday anyway little boy!<br />
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Love Mama<br />
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<b>Other Charlie Favorites: </b><br />
<b>Cupboard Discovery</b>While you are not racing around the house behind your walker or making car noises, you are busily emptying every cupboard and drawer in the kitchen and bathroom. It never gets old. You are especially excited to discover the kitchen aid and all its attachments.<br />
<b>Music: </b>I sing songs with you all day and you like to bob your head along to the beat but you love when your Dad comes home and you two discovers songs on the computer together.<br />
<b>Blanket:</b> You have slept with the same blanket since you were a new born but we don't bring it out of your crib so that it will remind you its bedtime. You have recently discovered how to pull it out of your crib though and you love to sneak in to grab it so you can snuggle on the ground with it. Too cute.<br />
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This month we spent 2 weeks in Utah where you could spend time with cousins, aunts, and grandparents. Spending time with so many people, your talking exploded! You are now an endless string of babble, screams, yelps, and giggles. It may sound incoherent but your sincere enthusiasm shows that you are clearly trying to communicate. My favorite "word" you use? " Dog, "DA" which refers to all animals. The best part is that you always say it like a question and look up at me as if to say "Am I saying it right Mom?"<br />
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Your Cragun grandparents have a little Shih Tzu puppy, Sadie. You were a BIG fan of Sadie but I think she was less enthused. You loved to chase after her, giggling as you went along, while Sadie tried to find new hiding places to escape your chubby little baby hands. During the trip, we visited Hogle Zoo for the first time as well as the Thanksgiving Point Farm where your curiously took in all the animals. You are always such a quiet observer though as if it takes all your energy to soak in your new surroundings.<br />
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Although you are a very independent baby and have many little activities you enjoy doing by yourself, you are a snugly little guy. In between playing with your toys and reading your books, you will crawl into my lap where will stay 5 secs before leaving again. A few minutes later you will return for another moments snuggle. Bedtime of course is the snuggliest part of day. You still let us cradle you like a newborn as we sing Primary songs and hymns before you go to bed and you lay there sweetly gazing up at us with pure admiration. (We won't talk about the grouchy nights that you fight us every second until we stop short short of just tossing you bed to sleep off the grumps).<br />
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Sometime in the past few months you have associated my hair with comfort. Whenever you are tired, hungry, hurt or sad you grab onto my hair. If my hair is pulled back into a ponytail or bun you will grab at it until you have pulled a few strands loose. Although I have probably lost a couple hundred hairs in the process, I find it very sweet. Also you only suck your thumb when you are holding onto my hair or your blanket. Hopefully that makes it easy to break the habit later on? We shall see.<br />
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<b>Other Charlie Favorites:</b><br />
<b>Swimming</b> In August, we frequent 100+ temps so we take many trips to the pool. You love to splash around in the pool. Its hard to take you though because you would love to crawl around in the baby splash area but you aren't very good about holding up your head so you keep dropping your head into the water dragging along until your choking.<br />
<b>Walker or Anything Else you can push: </b> You are obsessed with pushing around your walker. You hardly crawl anywhere but use your walker to get everywhere around the house. If your not using your walker you find anything else that you can push along; ie laundry basket, rolling chairs, strollers, to get around.<br />
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After months of nearly exclusively hanging out on your stomach you have finally discovered the convenience of sitting up. You were always too busy to be bothered by sitting in one place but now you realize how much you are better able to play with your toys and you are quite pleased with the discovery.<br />
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These days you are infatuated with your books. I always leave a stack of board books in the corner of your bedroom next to the rocker and you will spend hours spreading them out all over the floor; opening and closing the cover, flipping the pages, pointing at all the faces. Whenever you crawl off on your own, I know you are headed to your room to "read" your books. You also enjoy your books for non literary purposes using them for what I like to call the "book slide". You put your hand on top of the book in crawling position and slide across the carpet. I find it quite hilarious especially when your hand slips off to the side and you fall on your face :)<br />
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Right behind "Mama" and "Dada" your first word was ball or "BA". We got you a big rubber blue ball and you love to chase it around the house, pushing it along as you crawl. Your Dad is thrilled that you are now able to play catch with the ball. We are still working on your aim and your technique but we're convinced you have a real future. In the beginning when you were still a little unsteady sitting up on your own, you would pick the ball with your feet and then bring it up to your hands. You continue to use your feet as another set of hands which makes me laugh.<br />
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When we put food on your tray you love to swipe everything off as fast you can. You know we will get a reaction from us so you always wait to will have your attention before the swing begins and you laugh. Little stink. Despite your meal time antics you are surprisingly a pretty good eater mainly eating whatever we are having for dinner but your favorites include sweet potatoes, black beans, roasted zuchinni, grapes and bananas. LOTS of bananas.<br />
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<b>Other Charlie Favorites</b><br />
<b>Clenching your right hand while eating: </b>You never relax your hand the entire time your eating and will only pick up food with your left.<br />
<b>Skinny Little Baby Bum: </b> Still in the 10% for height and weight, there is not a lot of chub to hold onto :)<br />
<b>Cheerios: </b>You have mastered the pincer grasp and are loving being able to feed yourself<br />
<b>Chasing Dad: </b> Everyday when Dad gets home, he says "Where's my baby boy?" and you crawl around the corner as fast as you can and chase him around the kitchen island. Over and over again.<br />
<b>Crawling All Over Mom:</b> At the end of the day when all else fails to beat the afternoon grumps, I will lay on the ground and you crawl all over me, poking in the eyes and trying to put your fingers in my mouth, patting my tummy like a drum. It never gets old to you. Not gong to lie, it gets a little old for me :)<br />
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Charlie,<br />
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You, little boy, are a mover and shaker. I have heard rumors of babies that will sit and play with a group of toys at their side for long stretches of time but I don't believe them. Since you learned to roll over at 3 1/2 months old, you have been on the move. In fact you skipped sitting up altogether moving straight from rolling to army crawl. Neighbors and friends at church are baffled at the rate you can scoot around in your army crawl and you have become so proficient that I began to doubt if you would ever crawl on your hands and knees.<br />
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Turns out all you needed was a good reason. While visiting Schlitterbahn water park with Aunt Ashlee, Aunt Addy, and Daxton you were playing in the kiddie area with your Dad. Soon you realized that it hurt to crawl on your arms on the rough cement so you moved to your hands and knees. The only problem was that you got so excited that you kept crawling deeper and deeper, the water rising over your mouth and head. Clearly you are not to be trusted in the pool.<br />
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Not long after, I went to get you out of your crib to discover you standing up leaning over the crib rail ready to jump ship. Of course we lowered your crib that night to prevent a broken head and limbs, but thus began the weeklong Standup Saga. So amused by your recent discovery of pulling yourself up, you began to wake yourself in the middle of the night to practice! First I would hear a giggle of delight that you had pulled yourself up again, than cries because you had not figured out how to get back down. I would go into your room to lay you back down to sleep but you would wake your self up again 45 minutes later! This went on for several days before I finally had to teach you your first life lesson. Many hours of tears later, you learned that sometimes you have to learn how to fall down by yourself without Mom's help.<br />
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<b>Other Charlie Favorites:</b><br />
<b>Blueberries</b>- The only food we have to cut you off before you eat yourself sick.<br />
<b>Anything in the bathroom</b>- Yes, especially the toilet. YUCK!<br />
<b style="text-align: center;">Reading with Dad before bedtime</b><span style="text-align: center;">-Only the ten board books you approve of though</span><br />
<b>Helping mom with the chores</b> -You love to pull out anything I put in the dishwasher and dump out laundry basket while I fold clothes<br />
<b>The vacuum</b>- off or on, you can't get enough of that thing<br />
<b>Your adorable crossed ankles when you sit in the stroller or your car seat</b><br />
<b>Your toothy hillbilly smile</b>- one on top and two on bottom<br />
<b>How you say "mama" when your sad and "dada" when you are happy and excited-</b> clearly you have already pegged who is the fun parent and who is the save you in the middle of the night parent<br />
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Loving every minute with you little guy!<br />
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Love Always,<br />
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Mama<br />
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<br />Lindsey Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12059620097097963017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750970206494037470.post-85754772656179722072012-06-01T21:32:00.000-05:002013-02-17T20:48:31.074-06:00Eight Months<br />
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Baby Charlie,<br />
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You got your first two teeth! Although your Dad said this isn't anything to be proud of or congratulate since you had nothing to with the natural process of your teeth coming through (except endure many painful sleepy nights), I was excited nonetheless. Now I don't feel as guilty feeding you much of the food from our dinner (which you love!) instead of strictly pureed food most mothers feed gummy babies.<br />
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Earlier this month Grandma Ashton and Aunt Christyn came to Texas to visit. You were thrilled to have some new faces around the house to play and sing songs with (not as entirely thrilled to be sleeping in our closet however). One day in response to something funny my mom said you made this hilarious stink face scrunching up your nose and squinting your eyes. We immediately responded with enthusiastic laughter and you haven't stopped making the face since. You will now make the face on demand, mimicking your Dad and I whenever we make the face.<br />
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Figuring out your stink face was the mark of a whole new level of social interaction. You are now so anxious to communicate and play with us and love being able to make us laugh. We now spend our days playing hide and seek throughout the house, reading Helen Oxenbury's baby board books hundreds of times(you really will only read books with babies in them), and listening to your endless babbling while you scoot around following me like a puppy dog from room to room.<br />
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My favorite time of the day is going to pick you in the morning or after your nap. We recently put your crib bumpers back on, (having taken them off when your first started rolling around in your sleep) and you have found that when you pull down on the bumper you can see when I am coming to get you. I love seeing your little dimply hands pulling down on the fabric and your bright eyes peeking above. Makes me smile every time.<br />
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P.S. You got your first taste of the ocean this month when we went to Galveston with some friends for the weekend. You were a big fan.</div>
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Baby Boy,<br />
I knew you would be moving soon and sure enough the day after you turned six months you started crawling! A stomach dragging, worm-like army crawl with just your arms, but a crawl! Whatever you call it, you have become quite proficient and fly around our little apartment finding all sorts of baby hazards I wasn't aware of like internet cables, extension cords, and wobbly furniture. Dont worry, we haven't had any major disasters with long term damage, but only time will tell :) The first few days you ventured only as far as the kitchen and would stop to slap your hands on the tile but there is nothing holding you back now and you are thrilled to be exploring so much unchartered territory.Your dirty, stretched out shirts serve as my daily reminder of what a bad housekeeper I am. I thought I kept my floors relatively clean but you continually prove me wrong :)<br />
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Since you went straight from rolling to crawling, you kind of skipped sitting up altogether. Why sit still in front of toys when you can move wherever you want?<br />
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This was a big month of firsts. Not only did you begin crawling, you experienced your first swim, your first hike (Lake Georgetown), your first camping trip (Lake Georgetown), and your first road trip (7 1/2 hours to Tulsa to meet aunt Maren). Following in your parents footsteps, you remain a big fan of the outdoors. Water, grass, leaves, trees, sun, bugs, you love it all. It is a delight to watch you explore new surroundings.<br />
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I guess now would be good time to break the bad news to you. Charlie, you are good at many things but you are not a good sleeper :) Since you were about 4 months old, you have consistently woken up 2-3 times to a night to eat, say hello to mom, tell us about your nightmare, remind us you have a healthy set of lungs....we are not sure why. We tried the whole "cry it out" thing but either you are much too stubborn or your Dad and I are too weak to make it work. After a couple of weeks of listening to you scream for hours, we decided to ride it out hoping you were just going on through a phase. Three months later and you are still going through a phase. You have teased us a few times by sleeping though the night but your nightly antics always return. I think you like to remind us who is really in charge around here.<br />
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Upon further discussion with your Dad, we decided you're worth keeping around depsite your bad sleeping habits.<br />
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Love Always<br />
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Mama<br />
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Lindsey Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12059620097097963017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750970206494037470.post-5941323863379928202012-04-01T21:37:00.000-05:002013-02-17T20:44:25.633-06:00Six Months<br />
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Happy half birthday to my little stomach sleeping(sadly you still wake up a couple of times a night), thumb sucking, rollie pollie! You don't leave your stomach much these days. Trying to change your diaper or get you into your car seat has turned into a daily wrestling match for the second I set you you down you flip your entire body over, ready to roll. Rather than sitting in my lap you would prefer to lie superman style across my knees, arms outstretched and legs kicking. I imagine you will be crawling in no time!</div>
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Since you were born, everyone has thought (myself included) you looked exactly like your dad. Its been fun watching other little traits you have picked up from your dad. One of the silliest little quirks is your obsession with fiddling with your feet. You will roll across the room just you can kick your feet up on the couch, console, table or wall. Putting your feet up and through the crib slats is your personal favorite. Even when I am leaning over you changing your clothes or playing a game with you, you like to put your feet in the air and wrap your legs around my arm. </div>
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I was beginning to wonder what part of me you inherited. Looks like you cashed in big time and were lucky enough to get my terrible skin. A trip to the doctor tells us you have eczema and are very sensitive to any irritants. We have changed your diapers and detergent and lather you multiple times daily with thick skin cream but we still find you scratching your belly and legs. Itching has become such a habit that whenever you find my skin, you immediately begin scratching that too. So sorry little one! <span style="font-size: 100%;">Luckily, besides scratching, it doesn't seem to bother you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Your current loves: spending time outside, and playing with Dad. At the end of the day when you have become bored of your toys and I have exhausted all my songs and games ( I guess I should probably work on increasing my </span>repertoire<span style="font-size: 100%;"> of 3) the only fool proof way to put a smile on your face is take a trip outside. We sit on the porch where you curiously soak in the scenery and passerbys, waiting anxiously for your Dad to come home. Once Dad is home, there is no separating you two. If I try and take you into another room, you head is constantly whipping back and forth, trying to figure out where Dad is and how you can go play with him. I don't blame you. He's a pretty entertaining guy and I can't wait to see what adventures you two will have together!</span></span><br />
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Lindsey Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12059620097097963017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750970206494037470.post-26947369885883291072012-03-14T13:29:00.009-05:002012-03-14T21:12:25.508-05:00Five Months<div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><br /></div><span style="font-size: 100%; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHX7FJjUrh1k0CLbtvJfCjIsYpgUQPoE7yiufQJXqo-BDbW7HFycVXvA32A2W9T7Pix-p-wN2EK6wwb0wescx1LOM0LokE_61-R8zAILB0OhX-pdw_ARkedY9CbsLLNl30bDGgyYzuk4w9/s1600/IMG_0474.JPG"></a></span><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><span><u><br /></u></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8Xk6kHqAlpnRtBHSZ1uhsvygyDUY5DUGUZnXXHYyyZqvvqlAIBHn905DRErlRz8YtGkmSlUzCKOgOWQPRkUWuG7dJEhMmm4yzxKpYhWouXHX1poGna1qepA3cHSYrUf7UNdzCeRvPBh6/s1600/DSC_1116.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8Xk6kHqAlpnRtBHSZ1uhsvygyDUY5DUGUZnXXHYyyZqvvqlAIBHn905DRErlRz8YtGkmSlUzCKOgOWQPRkUWuG7dJEhMmm4yzxKpYhWouXHX1poGna1qepA3cHSYrUf7UNdzCeRvPBh6/s320/DSC_1116.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719833080364570706" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left; "><span>Little Man, </span></div><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidpX1i9-zKg0McP7f6i7VcTZpH2tIWZAsO7JRyQckbI8fhNmway-o8vcogID2sbaUHFComBW-rTOiBH_1UZLmri78Fp3dZWI8YIetLw_GaUomASWjqZH-5OXhxB3gCVtIyG3EncfAdIM6s/s1600/DSC_0959.jpg"></a><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Oh how much fun you are! I thought I knew and loved you when you were teeny tiny but I didn't even know what a hilarious, fun, little boy you would become! You have recently started experimenting with different sounds your voice can make and your current favorites are a fake cough and a wheeze that sounds like you are choking. You look so pleased with yourself at your recent discovery. A few nights ago, we were having dinner with friends when you made your choking sound and Allison immediately jumped in alarm at what might be wrong. We all had a good laugh as you gave her the biggest grin and smirk that said "Tricked you!"</span><br style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Your current loves include sucking on your toes and your recent discovery of your thumb when you sleep (much to your Dad's dismay. I think its pretty cute :) You have officially become bored of staring at the walls all day long and I am frantically trying to find new toys that can keep you entertained. In a desperate attempt to reach toys out of reach, you developed a mini scoot. You stick your bum in the air bury your face in the ground and manage to slide forward like a slug. Unfortunately you found the mere couple of centimeters you moved not worth the effort and you quit trying after a couple of days.</span></span></span></span><div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><span style="line-height: 18px;">I love when I get you to smile, you give me a big grin and then turn away in bashful embarrassment. It makes me feel like feel so loved. I hope you know how much I love you!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Mama</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidpX1i9-zKg0McP7f6i7VcTZpH2tIWZAsO7JRyQckbI8fhNmway-o8vcogID2sbaUHFComBW-rTOiBH_1UZLmri78Fp3dZWI8YIetLw_GaUomASWjqZH-5OXhxB3gCVtIyG3EncfAdIM6s/s1600/DSC_0959.jpg" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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Little One,<br />
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You really aren't THAT little anymore. 14 pounds, 6 ounces at your last doctor visit; nearly double your birth weight. I'm willing to bet at least of couple of those pounds are found in your cheeks alone. They are the most delicious, round things that I could just eat them up. And I do. You receive lots and lots of kisses and every time I go to plant another big one on your cheek, you turn your little mouth towards me so I get a big, slobbery, open mouth, baby kiss. Nothing better.<br />
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You're rolling all around these days. The first time you rolled onto your stomach, you literally beamed with pride. You then spent the rest of the afternoon practicing to do it again. Oh how I beamed with pride to watch your baby determination to roll over again. Now we can't keep you on your back. Sometimes you get stuck on your stomach, forgetting that you can't roll back onto you back, and you bury your face into the ground with frustration. I cant help but laugh at the mess you make for yourself.<br />
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We were able to take your first airplane trip to visit all your family in Utah. Grandma and Grandpa Cragun and Grandma Ashton were able to come visit when you were born, but this was the first time all your aunts, uncles and cousins got to meet you. I had fun showing you off to my family and friends but I can't say you were all that thrilled to be away from home. You were awesome the first few days ( Except for the fact that you woke up every hour of the night the whole trip) smiling, showing off all your tricks, but then the lack of routine and poor sleep caught up to you and you let me know you were done. When we arrived home, I put your car seat in the middle of the room while I pulled in the rest of the luggage and you giggled in delight to be back at home. When your Dad came home shortly thereafter, you gave him the greatest welcome home a four month old is capable of. That night you didn't wake up once. Clearly you love your quiet little life.<br />
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I love my quiet little life with you too.<br />
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Love always,<br />
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Mama<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">We waited for Charlie's baby blessing until he was 4 months old because we wanted Blakely's dad to be able to come if he could . Crawford, Charlie's middle name namesake, was able to come in for the weekend, participate in the Priesthood circle and share this special time with us. Blakely gave a beautiful blessing and it was a wonderful meeting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Even though we missed having most of our family to celebrate this sweet baby in our lives, we were blessed the have the company of so many great friends. About a dozen of Blakely's coworkers came to support. They are all in the FDP (Financial Development Program) and started Dell at the same as Blakely. After the blessing during sacrament, we returned to our humble little apartment (stripped after being robbed the week prior) for a simple meal of pulled pork sandwiches, salads, fruit, and a few cookies and desserts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We were also blessed to have many of our neighbors and ward friends come over once the church meetings were over.</span><br />
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Lindsey Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12059620097097963017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750970206494037470.post-80145210854994217342012-01-02T22:40:00.000-06:002012-02-16T20:59:32.776-06:00Three Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Dearest Baby<br />
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You are moving from a little lump into a little man! And as you lose your lumpiness, you are gaining more and more personality every day. We are long past using an alarm clock, but instead we rely on your happy chattering to wake us up every morning. (I'm sure that will be to our detriment one morning) Your Dad and I just lay in bed laughing, listening to you try out new sounds and noises. You are content to lay in your crib for 20+ minutes before we come in get you but the second you see my face, no matter how happy you are, you mean business. You want food immediately. None of this holding off to change your diaper stuff. You want your breakfast and you make sure to let me know!<br />
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Besides your daily morning chatter, you don't talk nearly as much as you used to. You are way too curious about your surroundings to be bothered by making noises. You're most definitely a happy baby, but when you are in new places and see new faces it is difficult to get a smile out of you because you are too busy checking out the new territory.<br />
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You love all things hands. Your hands or mine. You're not picky, they all taste good. And they taste even better if you can manage to eat both hands at the same time. You also LOVE your pink pacifier. We received a bunch of pacifiers that our friends had gotten for their little girl that they didn't like but there is one in particular that you can't get enough of. Sadly your mom is too cheap to go buy you a similar pacifier in a more boy appropriate color, but I think you are man enough to handle the pink :)<br />
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Love Always<br />
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Mama<br />
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Baby Boy,<br />
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You kept teasing us with your gassy grins and the adorable half smiles you would give us as you fell asleep, and then you finally SMILED! I think babies can sense when moms need some payment for their many sleepless nights and their smiles come at just the right time :)<br />
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One night your dad got home from work late and you were already sleeping. He went into your room to give you a kiss and as he did you woke up. You looked him straight in the eyes gave him the biggest grin and turned over back to sleep. Pretty sure it made your Dad's LIFE!<br />
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Not only are you smiling but you are talking. You love to hear the sound of your voice and especially right after you eat, you will carry on for over half an hour. Every night as your dad sings to you, you look up into his eyes and sing along with him. It is my favorite moment of the day.<br />
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You are still our little snuggler and you can't seem to fall asleep unless its in our arms. You love being around people so much that you actually nap better if you are out in your swing where you can see me. If you momentarily stir in your sleep, you open your eyes and see you are still a part of the action and you are able to get back to sleep.<br />
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Speaking of the swing, you can't get enough of that thing. You don't even need to be moving but you could spend most of your day all snuggled in there. The other day, you discovered yourself in the mirror that hangs above and you were so thrilled by the darling face staring back at you.<br />
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Your Dad and I can't seem to get enough of you. You are still such a fun novelty in our house that since we can't seem to get enough of you while you are awake, once we put you to bed we have to get out our computer and camera and browse the thousands of pictures we have already taken of you<br />
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Keep being your adorable self Charlie, and you will continue to make me one happy lady.<br />
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Love always,<br />
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Mama<br />
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