Happy Valentine's Day!

Charlotte's Valentine's Outfit



We had a great time today celebrating Valentine's Day. We started off the festivities this weekend by making homemade Valentines. I had great hopes of getting hand and feet prints of Trey and Charlotte for the Valentines, but Trey did not quite understand the whole idea of painting his whole hand, so I settled for letting him make fingerprints in the card. He had a blast coloring and finger-painting his Valentines. He also put stickers on to the Valentines, his specialty.

Today I took the kids to my class' Valentine's Party at school. Charlotte slept through the whole thing in the Moby Wrap, but she did enjoy visiting some teachers after school when she woke up. Trey had fun watching the kids, handing out Valentine's and playing the computers in the classroom. Every time we went into a new room, he would find a book to look at! Sorry there are no pictures of this event, keeping up with 2 kids left me no hands to take pictures with. Then when we got home Trey and Charlotte had a visit from Grandma and Grandpa. Trey was completely exhausted by the time bedtime came around!

This is Charlotte in the Moby at 1 week old. I love wearing her and being hands free!

I also made some Valentine's treats. We had whole wheat heart-shaped soft pretzels. They were very fun to make! For dinner we had a heart shaped pizza and I finally found a successful whole wheat pizza dough recipe. Don't worry, I didn't waste the cut off pizza dough, I turned them into breadsticks. Finally no Valentine's Day is complete without a little chocolate. I made Jay a Chocolate Chip Cake for dessert.







We hope you had a great Valentine's Day too! Love, The Hipes :)

Blue crayon.... yum!

Trey will not eat any meat, cooked vegetable, or most family dinners. I can easily list the foods that Trey will actually eat. I never had to worry about him picking up bugs or dirt and eating them. He won't put (much) real food into his mouth if it looks new to him, so he would never put any non food item into his mouth, or so I thought. Today Trey decided these looked appetizing.

Seriously? He never eats any new food put in front of him and while coloring today at the table, Hmm... maybe that is the connection..., he decides to put a crayon in his mouth. I was putting some dishes in the dishwasher and I when I turned around-there he is with the blue crayon coloring his tongue. Gross!

I promptly take the blue crayon away and tell him crayons go on the paper not in our mouths. Fast forward a few hours later and he does the exact same thing with the black crayon! I knew it may happen so I was trying to pay close attention while he was coloring, but as soon as I look away (because I do have another child) he does it again! Cakes and ice cream are yummy, but he will not eat them. Instead he prefer to eat crayons.

Wordless Wednesday

Happy One Month Birthday!

Happy One Month (and a day) birthday to Miss Charlotte Rose!

Stats at one month: 9 lbs 5 ozs, 21 3/4 inches long and head 13 1/2 cm

I can't believe you have already been in our lives one month. You love to look at people's faces and hold your head up. Every morning you play on your brother's bed and stare at him. I think he will be the first person you smile at. He loves to give you hugs and you let him count your buttons on your sleeper and tickle your feet. You are a big fan of sleeping with your arms spread eagle. I think you get that from your daddy.

I love to dress you in pink and purple. So many of our friends and family have been generous so you have some girl clothes to wear. You love to snuggle in the moby wrap and in your swing but do not enjoy your car seat. You eat like a champ and never miss a meal :) You are such a happy baby and fuss only when mommy eats black beans, which she will never do again while you are nursing. You are already so strong and your doctor can't believe how many expressions you already make! I can't wait to see you grow and change each month. I love you!








And just because so many people ask me if Trey and Charlotte look alike, here are some pictures of Trey at one month. You can definitely tell it is a different season!

Bad Hair Days

To my amazement, my oldest child was born with a head full of strawberry blond hair. I say to my amazement because I was practically bald until I was three. I loved his baby hair, but having a boy with a lot of hair means haircuts. I was able to get by with just trimming a few pieces here and there until he turned one- then it was time for the professional hair cutters. This is also a good time to mention my husband hates getting his hair cut. He puts it off and acts like a little boy grumbling the whole time he goes to get it done. This has impacted getting Trey's hair cut because anytime I suggest it, it is like pulling teeth to get Jay to agree that yes, his son's hair is too long.

Trey had super fine long baby hair at 9 months old.



Trey's first "real" hair cut when he was 13 months old.


We have taken him to four different places in the past 8 months to get hair cuts. He has to get it cut every other month. At the beginning of January we all got hair cuts because I knew when the baby was born that would be the last thing anyone wanted to deal with. Trey sat in Jay's lap for the haircut because at 9 months pregnant I had no lap :) This led to a not so great hair cut. Not that I am blaming anyone, but as the mommy I should have been there to oversee and say, can you please cut it shorter? Because as a result Trey's hair four short weeks later looks like this.



Today after church we had a friend cut Trey's hair. She does the best job cutting his hair and she cut it nice and short on the sides and bottom for me! Sorry my musician did not want to look at the camera :)


While it is a pain to get his hair cut every other month (especially since it is a 45 minute drive somewhere to get hair cut) I am thankful that he is a boy and that means I don't have to fix his hair every morning. Luckily Charlotte doesn't have too much hair yet, so we (mainly meaning myself because I don't see Jay doing any hair) have a while until we have to fight the tangles and the hair bows :)

Looking up to Daddy

I've got some big shoes to fill!

Bathtime

Most babies scream when you take off their clothes, but Charlotte does not mind diaper changes or bath time. Her umbilical cord fell off when she was two weeks old, but we kept giving her sponge baths because it was super cold outside (thus a little bit chilly inside our house) and she was fighting a cold. Here is her first bathtub bath. You will notice the absence of her big brother in these pictures. That is because he has a 7 pm bedtime. Right now she sets her own bedtime around 11:30. I am GREATLY looking forward to when she goes to bed at 7:00 as well :) Although in the evening is when she gets lots of daddy and mommy time on her own, which her brother gets while Charlotte naps all day.

What is going on?





I am so awake after my bath!


Do you think my eyes will always stay this blue?



After the bath we thought it would be a great time to take some pictures of Charlotte, but she did not.