Happy 1 Month Bday, Charlotte!

Happy 1 Month Birthday, my little girl (yesterday)!! I wake up each day praising our Lord for your sweet life.  Your Daddy and I are blessed beyond measure with the two of you.  Our lives feel more complete than ever before.  Thank you, Lord, for choosing this child for me to love! I'm honored to be your Mommy and am so anxious to see what God has in store for your precious life. 

What a month it has been. We are learning everyday, more and more, how to be a family of four. Wow, a family of FOUR!  I love how that sounds.  Todd and I are working out the kinks of the nighttime (and morning) routine with each sunset and may I just say...he is the best Daddy ever.  His heart is so open to love thes

e girls how THEY need to be loved.  He can make Caroline laugh harder than anyone.  Last night I watched them play hide and seek with a broken comb for over a half an hour.  They were laughing hysterically.  Only a Daddy could make something so simple become a fun game.  Thank you, baby, for loving our girls so much!!

Charlotte is becoming more aware of the world each day.  She's really gaining control of her head and loves to look around at everything. Her cry is one of the sweetest I've ever heard, and thankfully, I don't hear it very often!!  We struggle during the "witching hours" (3-7), then she starts to settle down and is pretty stinkin' precious the rest of the night.

Big Sis, Caroline, is just smitten by her.  I have to keep my eyes on both of them CONSTANTLY because she definitely thinks she is the Mommy sometimes.  But, each day it is getting better and we are both learning where the boundaries need to be.  

When I started this blog, I said I wanted to record stuff for the girls about our everyday life. So, humor me with this story.  Caroline had opened her sippy cup during her nap and poured her water EVERYWHERE.  This is a pretty typical Caroline moment.  She "just wanted to see what was in there, Mommy." So, after I washed and dried the sheets, she and Todd worked on putting them back on.  Todd was telling her that they had to put the sheet with the elastic on before the other one and she looked up at him, quite like a little lady and said, "Oh, I was not aware of that."  Seriously, I was not aware!!  Where does this child get her vocabulary!!  

Some of our new pictures!

Our sweet friends, Joe and Rhonda, have a fabulous photography business.  www.joehendricks.com 

They came over last weekend and took some great pics of our little sweets and a few silly ones of all of us.  They were troopers and we HIGHLY recommend them.  You can't beat their price or quality.  I'll post some more later (as I continue to figure this stuff out).  Until then, here are just a few....

Ok, girls...tell us how you really feel about getting your pictures made for over an hour??I think this could be one of the sweetest pictures ever taken of Caroline.  She truly loves Charlotte.  Maybe a little too much at times, but if I can just step back for a moment it is really precious to watch her admire her little sister.  She is very proud!
This will be the "baby" picture I will always remember of Charlotte.  I think it is so sweet. She looks like a porcelain doll to her Mommy.  

Well, I've finally given in!  I've decided that I can no longer live as a mere "blogstalker", but must join in on the fun and start my own.  Not sure what will become of it...I'm still working on the first year of Caroline's baby book and have started 1,000 journals in my lifetime that only have 2 or 3 days entered.  So, we'll see how long this lasts!!

My hope is that this becomes a chronicle of our daily lives for my girls to look back on.  They are so amazing and Mommy is doing a horrible job of capturing their precious lives on paper...so, maybe I'll do a better job on here!

So, in advance...forgive me for my doting, bragging, rambling and typos as I share the Tale of Two Lee Sisters!

Stephanie