Bonus Post

I couldnt fit all the pictures I wanted to on one post

Baby updates

Charlotte and two of her cousins, notice how close in size she is to her 4 month old cousin Jack!

So, Ive been scolded for not blogging in over a week...(sorry Aunt Deedee) Being that my life is consumed with baby Charlotte, I forget that everyone else only sees her in Blogland. Charlotte is continuing to grow and change every day, at her last Dr. visit her doctor said she was in the 95% for her height and weight. So she is a big girl!
Mine and Dave's 1st Anniversary was Sunday. Dave sent me out for a late morning massage while he took Charlotte grocery shopping...It was GREAT! We are two lucky girls to have such an awesome Daddy/husband. The rest of the day we just hung out with our girl.

Our Girl

her first "thumb sucking"

Proof of the "Pardo" nose (just like her Grama Karen's)
All stretched out
Uncle Noah
Charlotte entrancing her Daddy


Here are some more pictures over the last week of Charlotte and her fam. We are still getting alot of visitors and so many people wanting to help us out with anything they can and Dave and I really appreciate that. In fact I think Im going to have to draw straws for who will get to babysit first!
Yesterday we took a trip down to the Santa Cruz wharf where they had the "Art on the Wharf" festival, which was really fun, we had Dave's brother Dan, Kelly and Jack and Cody. There was great music and food, Charlotte was kind of oblivious to the whole thing except the loud music and her first ride in the stroller.
Here are a few personality traits we've noticed about Our Girl in the 2 weeks we've known her:
1) She hates to be bundled, she has to have her arms free, and her legs too if its not too cold.
2) She loves Dave's beard (she doesnt even mind his prickly, tickly, kisses)
3) She is entranced by her "fishy friends" in her aquarium
4) She will let out two little squawks if she is hungry and thats it
We will add more as we learn them!

A New Frontier

Over the last few days Dave and I have started our initiation into the sacred club of Parenthood. Today Charlotte is one week old and I have to say that she is making life really easy for us. She is either a really laid back and mellow baby or she is biding her time to unleash her wrath until after all of our help has gone, ie. Grama and Grandad.
She sleeps a good percentage of the time, in fact we usually have to wake her up to eat. When she is awake she looks around so inquisitively or stares at your face intently, its so fascinating how she seems to be soaking things in and learning with every second. We have had a parade of visitors over the last few days and she has been very understanding with being passed around from Grama to Aunt to cousin etc etc. Here are some pictures over the past week.

Thankyou for everyone's thoughts and well wishes over the last week the blogging family is truely a caring one!

we took her home today

one of these days we will post pix of her with her eyes open.

we took Charlotte home today and she is sooooo cute (and we are'nt even bias) the three of us are in high spirts. it is good to be home. just wanted to post some neew pix and say thank you for all the kind comments. love Dave, Meg and Charlotte.

Charlotte is Here!!

She was born on July 1, 2006 at 11:57 am. Weighed in at 8 pounds 3 ounces, 19 inches long and ten fingers, ten toes -- all is well!!