1 Month

Don't mind me, I'm still playing catch up. I refuse to just skip all the good pics so I can be up-to-date instantly. I don't care that I'm 7 months behind (Gavin keeps reminding me). I am getting Henry's "First Year" book started too. Because I WILL dedicate a book just to him.  Charlee will have 3 solo books and then I'm turning them into family albums with narration. I hope if I die Gavin will learn quickly how to pick up where I left off. Ill be pouring on the guilt from above if not.

No problem mom, I got this. She is so proud of herself that she can hold him. She did really well 99% of the time. There was one or two times that Mr. H got some air time when released a little too soon.  He didn't seem to mind, besides furrowing his brow. I'm still not positive it was an accidental misjudgement on how much further she still had before his but was actually touching the carpet. She is only three knows what shes doing. Stinker.

Photo taken by: Charlee Groninger

Dad and Little Man

What? I remember thinking it was the fastest month ever. He is a very good baby so far.

She was jealous of the 1 Month photo shoot that was taking place in the living room.  So I had to get some of her, but it wasn't in a timely fashion so I got some backlash from Buckets.

You know shes dying to smile at me, she wants me to work for it. I'm sure shes smiling under there actually. Oh how I love her.

1 month means daddy gets to actually feed his child.  He gets to practice for when I go back to work.  Gav was a pro at this bottle thing. He just wanted to make sure Mr. H wouldn't throw a wrench in the plans and not take a bottle (like his little cousin Miss G).  Daddy knew he would get his time with all the baby duties and would tell me I can go ahead and do it because hes going to have plenty daddy/baby nights when I go back to work. He tried to use that excuse for diaper changes, outfit changes, paci duty, and baths too. He does have to do a lot when I work nights, and go to work the next day. Most guys wouldn't be able to hang, but my guy gets the job done. Love him.
Daddy missed the memo:   Dress in formal Fairy attire for 1st bottle feeding.
Nope, we aren't going anywhere special, this is one of many wardrobe changes throughout the day. Remember, its November and we don't get out much.

Oh PicStich and Instagram... what would I do without you. One good thing about Instagram is I can directly upload all the pictures to shutterfly. SCORE. lets hope they look better in albums that the face book pictures do.

So we were stir crazy and the only thing for a 3 year old to do in the winter is dance.  We put her in a ballet class and a tumbling class at Infinity Dance Academy.  She was obsessed instantly. And we now had an exciting new thing to do on Tuesdays. It was a family event, all four of us went even though all 256 parents had one small window on the door to the classroom to peek at their tiny dancer through.  It was the highlight of our week.  And the outfits... oh, legwarmers! It took some convincing and a tiny lie (that her buddy Alex would be sporting the same ones) to get her to rock the legwarmers.. but she did, and I was happy, happy, happy!

Miss Angie is her teacher. Shes super nice and so good with the wee ones.

Daddy cant help himself, he loves his favorite girl.

Henry slept through most of the class.

Um the stamp might be the highlight of the class.

This first class is now complete.
 with a bun.

Swinford park. first outing mid November when it was crazy warm. I was excited because I just purchased my Moby wrap and used it for the first time after studying the "hold" in the car on my IPhone so I could put Mr. H in it while sis played.  It was in the low 60's and windy so I ended up cuddling H with an extra blanket. He was probably sweating snuggled up to my hormonal/sweaty self. Charlee wouldn't leave even though her cheeks were rosy from wind and cold. It was nice to play outside for a bit.

Just a normal day.

Nina found this masterpiece on her full-length mirror in the bathroom after Charlee had asked for some "chap stick"- how can you get mad at that? I'm impressed.

 Another highlight of our weeks would be when our Hoosiers would play. We would get all geared up, and call Manny to see how good her seats were. I was so jealous. Brought me back to my Freshman year at Bloomington when IU was good. We totally got sucked in this year. Loved it.

Cousins!! Purdue vs. Michigan

Go Blue

I love the pic of Hank and uncle Chad taking a nap. Football season at its finest.

Halloween

 

 

Carving Pumpkins

This is better than last year... she is actually touching the sick innards of the pumpkin. She didn't like it though, but because everyone else was doing it she figured it was harmless.

She eventually opted for a spoon. I have to shout out to those pumpkin carving kits.. those tools work the best out of anything Ive ever tried. Ill never doubt you again.

This year we made two different batches of pumpkin seeds. One with just sea salt and the other with cinnamon and sugar... yum, they both were delish.

He doesn't look to happy... but seriously Nina I know you only have girls, but I'm sure his nuts don't enjoy that! Nina fail. Poor baby... happy Halloween, I'm going to pose you with this pumpkin poking your business. Haha. I'm sure it wasn't the pumpkin causing his grump face... hes probably hungry. Just ask Gavin, any time he cries... "He's hungry"

Haha.. NO Gavin isn't dressed up for Halloween, he has a league game and had to hurry up and carve his pumpkin. If I remember correctly, he just dug out the grossness and I may or may not have carved his this year. Hmm...gotta make sure these traditions keep going whether he likes it or not.

Must have a full belly.

Happy Halloween

Charlee has been wanting to be Dorthy for at least 6 months because I happened to be at Kids-Go-Round looking for summer toys and they had this old costume for 3$... SCORE!! It probably was a tad bit small length wise, but it worked just fine. We had to keep telling her she had to be careful and keep it clean since she wanted to wear it every day for about 2 months.

Gavin sent me this picture after he dropped her off at Lala's one morning. Lala had found Gavin's old set of "The Wizard of Oz" characters and Charlee was in heaven. She was obsessed. Lala got her Toto for her birthday and Tia got her some ruby red shoes she had been wanting. This obsession went on for a while. The movie was watched daily and she would even act out some scenes if you were lucky. Oh I love her.

She was "in character" from the second she put that dress on. Daddy downloaded "Were off to see the Wizard"(not sure of actual title) on his IPhone so we could listen to it on repeat while we drove to all the grandparents for some trick or treating.

We were going to have Mr. H be Toto, but then I'm sure Charlee would be pissed when she couldn't shove him in her basket so we went with a Super Hero. Just a simple mask and cape because he isn't even a month so costumes aren't really awesome yet.

Yeah, my boy lost all his hair so looking at these pics are crazy because now he is totally blonde. Sigh.... I guess I have to have more kids so maybe one will keep their dark dark hair.

Ringing MiMi and Papaws door.

Batman showed up!

Grierson was Batgirl. Super hero's all around.

Great Grandpa Don

Lala with her kiddos. They both love their Lala.

We had to talk her into taking a picture with the blow-up cat a few houses down from Poppys so we could put it next to every other yearly pic. This year she wanted to stay far away from the cat. This is the best we could do. Haha.

Poppy and MaeMae.

I think we started wearing festive clothes Oct 1st. So cute.

batman, IU, Ariel, Super Henry.

I had my first "foot-paint" craft with Henry.
I'm trying to catch up on my blogs... sorry we are just now to November.