My growing boy!

I have been a little absent for awhile, caught up in the joys of being a new mom! And boy do I love it! My baby boy is a little angel! Anyway, I have no idea where to start and I don't feel like playing catch up so here are some pictures of my growing boy.

NEWBORN

1 Month

2 Months

3 Months

Charlie is a joy to have in our family he has been smiling and laughing tons. His best sleep stretch was 11.5 hours. (Which was after a lot of screaming) One month ago he weighed 12 lbs 10 oz which is in the 50th percentile for weight and 75 percentile for height (apparently he is tall and skinny for his age) We get to go to the doctors again in 3 weeks. He has brown eyes and a dark brown mullet. He will never stop eating until we force him to. He laughs really hard when Max attempts to beat box. ( I don't know if he likes the sounds or the spit in his face) He likes to go on walks and read picture books. Charlie now has his own room and has been sleeping great! (With the exception of last night)

And that's all I can think of now.

Christmas Photo shoot

We got the best gift in our stocking...It's our baby boy Charlie! HAHA, he was so cooperative to go along with his crazy parents' ideas and do this photo shoot.

We luckily were given this lovely santa suit which belonged to my younger brother when he was a baby. He's growing quickly, we had no idea he would fill this stocking so snugly!
We got our tree set up on Monday and wanted to keep the festivities going and involve Charlie as much as possible.

He's such a little cutie

This is my favorite!

"Daddy is so mean to me!"

Sitting up like a champ...hehe

Merry Christmas!

Introducing....

Mr Charles Gorden Baertlein

Born 9:31am 11/12/11

8lbs 4oz (After pooping on his Mommy)

His parents are thrilled by his long awaited entrance into this world.

We love you Charlie!!!!

Due date

Baby boy's due date has come and nearly gone. I was kind of expecting this to happen. This post is mainly to convince myself that I'm not depressed about it. I really am feeling pretty good. I haven't really had any painful contractions, I'm still able to go on walks, cook, do yoga, and occasionally sleep. Luckily I don't have too many pressing responsibilities in my life so I am able to take naps during the day if needed. Max and I have decided to make sure we do something fun daily with just the two of us to take advantage of this time.

40 weeks 11/3/11 Baby's due date

We started to see some progress with the cervix dilating and effacing a couple weeks ago so we started getting really excited thinking the baby was close. So it was somewhat disappointing to not see as much progress during the following appointments. This last appointment there was slight progress. Yesterday we scheduled an induction date for 41 weeks just in case baby boy hasn't come by then. 41 weeks just happened to be 11/11/11 so we are excited for that. If we have to have an induction we might as well get the perk of a fun birthday. Anyway, we are very excited to have our baby boy come to us soon but we are learning a lot of patience in the meantime.

Halloween 2011

Hurray for Halloween! And not having a Halloween baby, unless he comes in the next 8 minutes. So here are a couple of our Halloween activities. We carved pumpkins with my brother Danny, Max's brother Justin, and my dad. My red grandma supervised! Here are the pumpkins in all their glory. Max and My pumpkin, Max spent several hours longer than me on his pumpkin while I watched baseball with my grandma.
On Saturday we went to a pumpkin patch with Max's brother's family. We opted out of the corn maze because I didn't want to have the baby in there. But we had some fun times with our nephews.
Later that evening we had a ward Halloween party, we didn't want to spend time preparing costumes because there was a good chance we would be in the hospital so these are our 5 minute costumes. I was a mommy pumpkin with my baby pumpkin. Max just threw on some costume-like clothes. We didn't know what he would be so we decided to have people at the party guess what he was then just say he was whatever the post popular choice was. (Does that sentence even make sense? It's late and I'm tired!) Anyway, the popular choices were Rambo or Ringo Starr. We eventually decided he was Rambo, he later added a headband and some weapons! Anyway, it is 2 days until my due date but we are feeling like this little man will come any day now! Max and I are getting a little anxious but finding fun things for just the two of us to do every day. Ummm, that's all, it's bed time.

38 week photo shoot

Today we had the perfect weather and it was mixed with the most beautiful fall colors so we decided to do a 38 week maternity photo shoot. These pictures are really weird for me to see but I'm hoping, in the future, I will be grateful I took them. We were lucky to kidnap Max's cousin Danika as we saw her walking home from school, so she took most of these. Little did we know she's currently in a photography class!

Anyway, if nothing else we enjoyed climbing trees, rolling in the leaves, resting in the hammock, and playing at the park on this beautiful fall day. Enjoy the pictures.

We are so excited for baby boy to come!!

Chubby Grandpa

We got to see our baby's face again today. My new doctor needed to see some thorough anatomy ultrasound pictures and my previous Utah doctor was very lame and didn't check our baby's anatomy as thoroughly as needed ( he spent two minutes, and took three pictures with no written explanation) so good news to us, we got to see our baby again weeks before his grand appearance!

Here is one of the scariest pictures ever...he is just getting ready for Halloween! This is a straight on shot of his face. (36 weeks)
And here is our chubby grandpa baby. His cheeks are getting so big and I love his pouty lips! (36 weeks)

You can see how much he has grown, this was taken at 28 weeks.
We were so grateful to have this thorough ultrasound done, she spent a lot of time looking at all of the organs and we feel more confident about the health of our baby. I really am pleased with this whole doctor switch thing.

Anyway, Little guy, it looks like you are getting plenty chubby so we will welcome you into our family whenever you are ready. Please come soon!