Bates Nut Farm

Grandma and Charlie on the hay ride

Uncle Jeff and Aunt Debbie with Bear

Cousins Aaren and Zoey, Aunt Wendy and Uncle Atom, Granddad

Uncle Brad and Jeff

Time with the guys

Our little happy famiy

He's starting to get heavy

Charlie fell asleep at the end of our day

Redlands

Three babes in a car was quite the "adventure"(that's what Gracie called it at least)...

When I thanked her for being such a good helper she simply responded, "I'm a big sister."

Sweet Baby Joey made Baby Charlie look like a big boy

All the kiddos lined up from youngest to oldest

The boys hanging out

Gracie loving Cami's microphone and singing us a song

Cami Claire handing me my things (spread all over the place)

The star of the day!

Slow down everyone you're moving too fast

My Charlie Bear is growing so fast. While I love watching him do new things (smiling, laughing, grabbing, rolling over) it also scares me that he's changing so much, so quickly.

Dan and I bought Charlie his first Christmas gift on Sunday and when we were leaving the store we both got a little teary-eyed. For the first time, WE are Santa Clause. Then we talked about how it's all going too fast. I want to slow it all down. Remember each moment.

And I guess that's the beauty of blogging, right? Capturing the each moment as it fades into the next.


Please tell me that stuffed animal is shrinking!