Trying to play catch up

ok so I sorta gave up on the whole blogging thing for a while, but I've decide to make a come back and catch up on everything since the last time I posted. I will break it up into several posts so as not to overwhelm myself or anyone reading. Ok so here it goes..

5 Months
We started Charlie on a little food, he's not to sure about how to eat very well yet so it's pretty funny to watch. You can tell he wants to eat and really enjoys the new flavors, but is just having a hard time keeping it in his mouth. Here are a few pictures from the first food adventure...

 Nick, Charlie and I took a little adventure to the bears game on 9/11/11, which happened to be right on Charlie's 5 month birthday. We got up early and made our way to Chicago. It was fun having Charlie with us, he was definitely the hit of the game. People all around us the whole time were oooing and ahhhing about how cute he was ( we got him a little Cutler jersey), and asking if it was his first game ( which of corse it was he was not even born the last time they played lol) People were even letting us get in front of them in line to get into the game just because we had a baby with us. Here are a few pictures from the game.

On a little bit of a sad note, we found out in September that my grandmother has a cancerous tumor in her abdomen. It is an aggressive sarcoma, which means that it is rapid growing, and surgery ( if she even survived) would leave her with no quality of life because anything that the tumor is touching would also have to come out. Being that the tumor is already the size of a football it is touching a lot of stuff in there so a lot would have to come out. She seems to be in good spirits though, especially now that we have her home and out of the depressing hospital. My mom, Uncle, and hired nurses and hospice workers are helping take care of her. It's sad to see her so weak and dependent on other people as she has always been a very independent woman. I am thankful that I have had the time with her that I have in life, and I will continue to be thankful for the time I have left with her.

Back to the happy stuff, Charlie loves playing in the mirror with the " little boy on the other side" He lays on his side right in front of our closet doors and hits and kicks at his reflection. He also has really taken a liking to his jumparoo, and is getting very good at jumping!!! Here are a few videos of him playing...

On Sept. 22 Charlie slept in his own room for the first time. We got his new monitor ( one that doesn't make awful static noises all the time and lose reception like our old one) and got it hung on the wall in his room. He slept great, only woke up once but all it took was putting his paci back in his mouth and he was fine. 

Charlie has been going over to Megan's house once or twice a week while I work at the golf course in Metamora to make a few extra bucks. He seems to like playing with Kamden, but Kamden gets a little jealous sometimes :) 

On October 5th Charlie had his first tooth poke through. Here are some pictures...