half way there...

oh my has this pregnancy seemed to fly by! i'm halfway to having another baby in our home...CRAZY! things are going great, baby is great and healthy, and i'm feeling quite good! nothing to report or complain about yet, so that is totally a bonus! here's the damage for being 20 weeks....

I swear i'm pregnant...promise!

So anyway, everything's good as I reported above! This little baby is a mover, just like Charly was! In the ultrasound yesterday i couldn't believe how fast those little legs were kicking and cruising all over the place! oh ya.....and did I mention it's a BOY! So now we'll have one of each! Yay, we're excited and now I'm just trying to prep for two little kids!

more of this cutie....

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18 months...

Charly Monson
Weight: 23.4 lbs. - 40%
Heights: 33 1/4 in. - 90%

summer...

where has the summer gone? it's getting colder and obviously school is back in session, but i'm not saying summer is over yet! however, here is a recap of what i've captured so far...it's not much!

BEACH MOMENTS

NAT'S SHOWER

BOATING/SKIING

FIRSTS

cool new shades

swinging and enjoying it
piggy braids

tractor rides with grandpa

PLAYING WITH FRIENDS

cute kids!

bye bye binky...

friday night, corey and i decided it was time to adios the binky for real! i had planned on saying goodbye to binkies and bottles at 1...and no later. well the bottle went away but i didn't think charly was ready to give up her bink, or was it me who wasn't ready? it was me, because she did have a time when she didn't seem all that interested. soon after the non-interest turned into serious addiction. oh great! i was sure she'd be a five year old binky sucker...yuck that could not happen!
our plan: cut the binky tip off so that it lost its magic. and we'd do this saturday morning so she would have all day to adjust to no binky before bedtime.
day 1: corey snipped off the end, oh wait practically the whole bulb so that she really couldn't put it in her mouth anymore. she took a look at it and stared, tried to put it in her mouth, then stared some more. corey said, "it's broken, binky's broke". all day she would look at it and repeat, "broke, broke, broke". sometimes not even caring, other times completely sad. but at least she understood what had happened. that was the good part. nap #1 without binky was a complete failure. she didn't nap. she sat in her crib and bawled. later she fell asleep in the car and i'm counting that as a nap. night #1 she wouldn't go to sleep unless i was laying right beside her. awesome, now she has to go to sleep in my bed....wait she sleeps in my bed a lot in the morning after corey leaves for work! that night was rough, she woke up numerous times and wouldn't go back to sleep without me.
day 2: it was sunday and since she woke up early i thought we'd be able to squeeze in a nap before church so she could actually go! well, that also didn't happen! no nap, so we headed of to church. after sitting through sacrament i knew she wouldn't make it the whole block. so we brought her home to see if she'd take a nap. she fell asleep in the car on the way home....we live 1 minute away from the church. she was tired! her nap was short. darn that binky i thought! desperately wanting to give in and just give her a binky. too bad we didn't have a back up binky, actually not too bad, i couldn't give in! she seemed to handle the day well. only asking for her bink once. then she saw it and remembered it was broken. that night we got home late. she didn't fall asleep in the car and i thought for sure it would be another rough night. surprise, she went right to bed, didn't make a sound, dozed right off, slept until 10:00 am the next morning without waking once! what? after one night and she was cured? i could not believe it! this was easier than i thought! and now today (day four) it's like the binky never ever existed! how does this work? all i know is that for the next kid, we will not be so chicken about taking that binky away!

read the fine print...

hey, turn around!

that's right everyone, we are adding another kid to this family!
we're very excited, charly has no clue, but i know she'll be a very good big sister!

going private...

after playing the debate game, we have decided to make our blog private. we'd love to still have you visit so leave us a comment with your email. thanks friends!

behr's baby blessing....

stacie and carl blessed their cute baby behr on sunday! it was such a fun occasion that we could all be together at! congratulations to them on their super cute little boy! it was such a neat blessing and a great day with family and friends! of course i was in charge of taking all the photos so i have them all and they haven't seen them yet! there are too many pictures to explain it might take me all day....so use your imagination!

lovely....

what a joy it was taking pictures of little miss angela! slightly shy, but oh so sweet! please enjoy your sneak peak, i'll have the disc to ya tomorrow!

my girl...

i keep posting pictures of other peoples kids, but not my own... so here she is, 15 months old and as cute as ever!




what she's up to lately...
***BUSY BUSY BUSY**** i know i say this everytime but she is such a busy girl!
she...
runs, kicks a ball, throws everything (including things at her mama), twirls, dances, climbs, sits in her chair, smells flowers, loves her dolls, gives kisses and good hugs, blows kisses off her forehead, does itsy bitsy spider sorta, knows where her head, belly, toes, feet, ears, and nose are. still eats awesome. says: mom, dad, baby, ball, belly, dog, tractor, what, hot, eat, behr sometimes, shoe, uh oh, ow, hi, bye, oh, num num, and makes sounds like a: dog, duck, pig, chicken, cow, walrus, and i think that's it. most the time her animals sounds are the same for other animals but she tries. overall i'd say we've got a pretty well rounded gal! she's so quick to learn now and is going to be our little athlete! we love her so much! she just keeps getting bigger and so much fun!