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Sweet Girl

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Okay, it’s 11 am, I’m quite behind in all the housework, and I’m sitting here in my sweats… but I wanted to finally update you on sweet baby Charlotte! She is so cute and I love her!!! (duh.) I am just so happy she is in our life. She is “smiley” and we just love it when she goes for a few minutes of just smiling and shrieking! I love this stage where they start trying to “talk” by making all sorts of cute sounds. And of course I can never get over that intoxicatingly sweet, delicious baby smell.

Charlotte is relatively easygoing and predictable. I KNOW that if I’d had her first, I would wonder WHY people think newborns/babies are so hard! I mean, part of it is that I have learned so much about what I’m doing since we had Chase. And of course there IS still work involved and I’m still tired and all (getting out of bed is always a challenge for me), but when she naps I have time to do housework, do stuff with Chase, check the computer and snack on quick, easy, unhealthy things– haha!).

This would normally be the post where I’m supposed to record all her 2 month stats, but I decided that since I am still overwhelmed by all the costly bills we are paying off right now from her birth (although she’s COMPLETELY worth it!), I would just skip the 2 month appt. and have those first shots delayed ‘til next time. I WILL still have her get shots and all, but 2 months behind each time.  For your info: Charlotte is healthy and happy; she weighs 13 lbs. (is that big?) and I think she’s rather tall because she’s been in 3-6 month clothes since 6 weeks (some of those are even getting too short too).

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Here she was a few weeks ago with her little friend Elle (Ryan & Aubrey’s baby). They just stared at each other and Elle wanted to squeeze Charlotte’s face! And in that second picture Charlotte’s face just looked really cute although mine didn’t… hahah!

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Advice Please!

Charlotte poops up her back 1-2 times per day, and I’m wondering how to avoid this or how do I at least get the stains out of the clothes?!? We have special Huggies Supreme diapers for her that only somewhat work in blocking those back blowouts. So after it happens I soak and scrub the clothes, sometimes I put dish soap on them, I use the regular Spray n Wash, and stain remover in the warm or hot wash, and I still have to wash them like 3 times to get the poop out.  Advice???

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Charlotte Noel at Six Weeks of Age!

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Charlotte’s Baby Blessing

We had Charlotte’s baby blessing in church 2 weeks ago already! It was a fun day and it was really nice to be back at church.

Due to some technical difficulties, I haven’t gotten these photos up ‘til now. So finally, here they are for your viewing pleasure. Now all the family who couldn’t be here for the occasion will feel like they actually were here! (Some of these photos courtesy of my sis Jessica)

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Bath Time!

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Charlotte Noel McCulloch

Was born yesterday at 6:59pm. Her deliver was great, she came out without problems and quickly fell back asleep. I left Joy and Charlotte in the hospital last night while Chase and I crashed at our house at 10:30 (much too late for a 2.5 year old). Joy said Charlotte did wonderful, much better than Chase (prob b/c she didn’t get circumcised) Today has been chill, with lots of sleeping and eating. Joy is back to 90% already (she’s so tough) and Joy wants to come home tonight. So if you were planing on visiting the baby in the hospital b/c you like hospitals.. then you better get in the car. Here’s some media for those who can’t visit.

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