Grammy's House Edition

Well we're all moved out of our house and we're officially moved in to Grammy and Grumpy's now. Brandon and his dad left Saturday and as of last night had made it to just outside of Bakersfield, CA. Timothy is doing ok with all the changes, he got a little sad when Grumpy had to pack up his new train table to take it to the moving truck, but he survived. He's just been a little extra hyper and hungry...he's eating like a horse (or maybe it's a zebra?).

Speaking of zebras...the boy has become obsessed with them lately. Every horse we see is now a zebra and cowboys ride on zebras and the My Little Pony toy that they gave him in his happy meal the other day was a zebra. That was pretty funny, the best part was when we went back to McDonalds last night on our way home from church and he saw the picture of the happy meal toys and shouted, "oh look, I want a new zebra!". I'm sure daddy would be so proud to know how much his little boy loves My Little Ponies!

I think out of all of us, Charlotte has had the worst week. She has cut one tooth and I think the one next to it might be coming in as well. The most she's slept in one span all week has been 5 hours and I think that was a fluke...the average has been 1-3 hours and that's in the bed next to me where she has full access to eating all night to calm her down. It's great, boy do I love teething...I feel bad that she's in so much pain, I hope it's over soon!

Anyway, this is probably my last WA post for a while, my dad has to disconnect the computer today to clear out their office to get it ready for some new flooring so the next time I get on here will be at our new house! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Four Months Old

Here is what our sweet little girl has been up to lately! She checked in at the doctor's visit at 14 pounds, 14 ounces and 25 1/2 inches. He said she's in the 90th percentile for height and the 80th for weight...everyone says she looks so petite though, I think it's just because she's such a lady :)

I love to laugh and I'm a little bit of a daredevil...I like it when mommy spins me around or bounces me on her lap.

I still love to suck my thumb and ever since I found it I've been sleeping through the night (12 hours!!) and I don't mind riding in the car as much anymore!

I am working on getting my two bottom teeth and it makes me very fussy, thankfully Grammy finds cool toys for me to chew on and then I feel better.

I love to watch my brother and I think he's very funny. He calls me baby Charlotte or sometimes just "baby".

I can roll over now! I rolled over from my back to my front first and I'm just now getting the hang of rolling from my tummy to my back.

I love to scoot around on the floor and in my bed and mommy and daddy find me all turned around in the morning in my crib!

I like to play with toys now and I've almost figured out how to grab them!

I'm such a happy girl (most of the time) and mommy and daddy feel so blessed to have me in their lives!

Winter Wonderland

Holy cow have we had a lot of snow up here! We got stuck at my parents house all weekend because the snow was so bad we couldn't get out. They got well over a foot of snow at their house and we got about 8 inches at our house!! It was bad because we had so much snow and then Saturday night we got freezing rain so we had about half an inch of ice on top of the snow and then another four or more inches of snow on top of the layer of ice. Needless to say, I am going CRAZY from cabin fever and everyone's freaking out because they need to get out of their houses to get things done...like Christmas shopping, grocery shopping, etc...and the roads are so bad it's too dangerous to drive anywhere!

But, on the plus side...it's a lot of fun to play in! Saturday night my dad took Timothy sledding and then Sunday my mom and Brittany played out in the snow with him too. He loves it, he says we have to "stomp that snow". So here are pictures from our snow fun. I'll try to post tomorrow about Charlotte turning four months old and then who knows when I'll be able to get back on between now and January!! The house is packed and we're ready to go! Merry Christmas!!

Snow Snow Snow

Isn't it pretty! I'll post more pictures from Timothy playing in it later...just wanted to give the "before" shot of the deck and backyard before he demolishes it! The ones below are from a couple days ago, we only had an inch or so then but we have about 4 or 5 inches now and we're supposed to get more this weekend! Hopefully it'll stick around for Christmas and then melt off really fast so Brandon and his dad can have a safe drive through Washington, Oregon, and northern California!!

Timothy Michael York

So I felt bad that I was giving regular monthly updates on Charlotte and not saying much about Timothy because so much is going on with him as well.

He is picking up on the fact that something is changing in our house and things are different and I can't leave a room for more than 10 seconds without hearing, "mommy...where are you?"

He has such an imagination and I love to hear him play with his toys. He mostly plays with his red and blue Lightning McQueen cars and sometimes Chick gets to play too and we usually hear, "hey Lightning you ok? yeah, I fly away. oh no, you hiding? you all better now?" or some variation of that conversation.

He LOVES Star Wars and we have to play "light sabers" almost every day. Today when we were playing he told me I was Darth Baber and he was Luke Skyburger. It was so hard to keep a straight face.

He sings all the time and I love to hear his little voice. Yesterday morning in church he was just singing along through the service and most of it didn't make sense, but was pretty good at the "holy holy holy" part. His two favorite songs right now are Take Me Out to the Ball Game and Santa Claus is Comin' to Town.

He talks almost non stop. On the way to the airport when we were coming home from visiting Brandon's family he was talking and talking and talking and talking so much I had a headache. At one point we passed a lake or something and there were a ton a birds and he said, "Look at all those birdies mommy, let's count them...one, four, three, five, six...".

He is learning his letters and can point out a T whenever he sees one. He always says, "T for Timothy" and he can now recognize M for Mommy and sometimes D for Daddy. He has a puzzle that has all the letters and it has a picture of something that starts with that letter, for instance, the G has a picture of grapes, but he thinks G is for Grammy so instead of saying, "G for Grammy or G for grapes" he says, "Grammy for grapes". It's too cute to correct right now!!

He also loves to do puzzles, he will sit for hours putting puzzles together. Brandon's parents got him some 12 piece puzzles for Christmas and he has to do them every day and of course, he doesn't want any help...did I mention he's incredibly independent and wants to do everything on his own? He's getting pretty good at the puzzles now though and it's nice that he doesn't get so frustrated with them.

He is very concerned with who everyone is...he tells me at least three times a day that I am mommy and he is Timothy Michael York. He has to go over to the Christmas tree every day and tell me which presents belong to him and then he points out everyone elses' presents as well.

He's a big boy. When I took him to the doctor a couple weeks ago he was 33.7 pounds and he's well over 3 1/2 feet tall. It's nice that he's so big (and freakishly strong) but it's hard to find pants long enough for him that also fit him in the waist. I guess I should just get used to that, I already have that problem myself!

He is such a sweet little boy and he loves to cuddle and snuggle and hug. I have to remind myself every day that he is only two years old and he's still my baby boy and I am going to hug him as much as I can while it lasts! Love you buddy!!

Merry Christmas!!

I finally got a video of Timothy singing and I wanted to share it, but blogger won't let me add it in yet...my friend Candice made this adorable tutu for Charlotte and I got some really cute pics of her in it by the Christmas tree...enjoy!!

What to Say?

Read this article http://www.newsweek.com/id/172653/page/1 and let me know what you think...I cried, I don't know how people can think this way and it's obvious that they know nothing about the Bible. What made me the most sad was one of the comments at the end that said how Christians are committing a sin by refusing to accept homosexuals and the writer of the comment can't wait to see us on Judgement Day when that sin is revealed. I just hope that God will have mercy and grace for these people and somehow someone will show them what the Bible and Christianity is really all about.