Goodbye Los Altos, Hello Danville

We moved 7 days ago!

Bye to Thursday night Farmer's Markets

Bye to Cuesta Park

Bye to our little house on San Luis

So far our new house is great.  It is very baby friendly.  I am happier here, we have more space and half the house has carpet.  The best part?  We have a dishwasher!  Charlie's room is far away from the common areas and the floors don't squeak.  We have a second bathroom, wow!

We have had a lot of visitors since we moved.  On Wednesday Aunt Jessie, Lucas, Wesley, Cassidy, and Nana (Scott's mom) visited.

Lucas and Wesley played with Charlie at the water table.

Cassidy fed Charlie lunch outside.

We all walked to the pool in the late afternoon.  Here is the new wagon from Nana for his first birthday gift.

Nana and Charlie after swimming.

Our house is still a major work in progress.  I can't wait until we are all unpacked and everything is baby proofed.  Right now Scott is working on the child locks on the kitchen cabinets and Charlie is napping.

I am glad the hard part is over, saying goodbye to Los Altos and all my friends I met there.  I was teary eyed when Charlie's room was all packed up.  We spent a lot of time in there his first year of life.  I will not miss how hot our house got in the afternoon or how squeaky the floors were but I will always hold that house close to my heart because of the memories.  It was Charlie's first house!

I loved our neighbors, especially Margaret and Betty.  I hope our new neighborhood will have people as friendly.  

Hello Danville!

Almost 12 Months

Charlie turned 11 months on June 12th.  He still has 8 teeth and he's still crawling but two bottom molars are coming in and they need to break through so that demon baby moments will go away for a little while.

He is communicating with us now in different forms of babble.  I can tell when he's frustrated, or wants something out of reach, or when he bumped something, or when he's tired.  It's so fun to see his progress.  He also understands the simple routines in life like when he sees a hairbrush he grabs it and takes it to his hair, or when he sees a sock he tries to put it on his feet (in his very uncoordinated baby way).  He also has a sense of humor.  He likes to make us laugh and to applaud him.  He claps and we clap.  His grandma taught him 'so big!' where he puts his arms up after we say, 'how big is Charlie?'  Now he just puts his arms up all day long so that we will yell 'so big!'  It's the new cutest thing ever.

Whenever we take a sip of something Charlie says "Ah!"

We got a new tricycle and he'll sit in it for a long time.  He's always had an aversion to his stroller (and everything else where he is strapped down) and so the tricycle is nice in that I have a way to get out and not be completely stressed out waiting for the meltdown.

He is a great sleeper.  Right now he sleeps 6pm until 6 or 6:30 am (although this morning he woke up at 5:30am) and takes an hour and a half nap in the morning and an hour nap in the afternoon.  I am obsessed with sleep, it is my most important thing and so I am trying to figure out how to get him to sleep longer in the afternoon.  Any tips?

Two weeks until his birthday!  I love you baby Charlie!!