Charlie's Newborn Photos

The very talented Paige Horras captured these images of baby Charlie when he was just 3 weeks old. I love having these to remember the short time he was so small, and still. Nothing is more precious than a sweet sleeping baby!

4th of July 2011

We had a big 4th of July of activities, especially considering Charlie was only a week old. My sweet friend Jennifer, who also lives down the street, organized a 4th of July parade in our neighborhood, so Ethan was so excited to decorate his monster truck and lead the parade of kids. Then we were off to the country club to enjoy the pool and inflatables and have dinner. When we got home, both boys were exhausted from all the excitement and activities, so it was family naptime on the couch with mommy!

Charlie's Coming Home

 All dressed up and ready to go home

 tired just thinking about it!

 Daddy ready to take his boy home!

Big brother is back home and excited to hold Charlie

Charlie's Hospital Days

 Ethan checking out his new baby brother!

 proud big brother and daddy

 Ethan's so excited to hold Charlie for the first time!

 Sabra and Garrett came to meet Charlie

 Aunt Terri and Charlie

 Mommy and Charlie

 Papa and Charlie Newton

 Mimi and Papa and Charlie

Sweet sleeping Charlie

Charlie Newton's Birthday

 Charlie Newton arrived 6/23/11

 11:05 pm, 9 lbs, 2 oz, 20 1/4 inches long

 Baby Charlie with Mimi and Uncle Chris

 Baby Charlie with Gaga

 Baby Charlie with Papaw

 Charlie and Uncle Chris

Charlie Newton and Papa Newton :)

Riverfest 2011

This post is to remind me how crazy I was at 9 months pregnant! I worked Riverfest for 3 days when I was EXTREMELY pregnant, swollen, and out of mind. I really did have a good time and wanted to work with Ashley...the girls finally made me leave mid-sunday for fear I was going into early labor. Of course on Friday morning I got the fun opportunity to be on 103.7 the buzz with Ashley, David Bazzel, and Roger Scott and then they surprised me with an appearance on Channel 7 with Melinda Mayo and Beth Hunt. It was really fun, just embarassed looking at these photos of how swollen and miserable I must have looked!

Big Brother Class

 Big Brother Ethan!

 Dr. Big Brother Ethan

learning to hold a baby and support his head

 learning to change diapers so he can help mommy!

best part...cookies and punch!

We took Ethan to a Big Brother class at Baptist to get him kind of comfortable with the hospital and maybe what to expect when it was time for mommy to go there. He was so sweet and really paid attention to how to care for a baby and even drew Charlie a picture for us to take to the hospital. We were so proud of him and still having trouble believing my first baby is about to be the big brother and not the baby anymore!