We dedicated Charleigh on September 20. Grandma, Grandpa, Mimi, Pops, Aunt Meg, Uncle Jeff, and Kohen came to church with us for the special ceremony.
Charleigh got to see her first snow up in the mountains in mid-October when we went up for the Woolly Worm Festival. We got her all bundled up, and she was a trooper as we went to two festivals, enjoying the yummy food, art, and cool air.
Ready to go into the cold
Cold Rudolph Nose
It just snowed at the top of the mountain. It was cool to see the fall foliage on the trees covered in snow!To enjoy more fall weather, we went with Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Jeff, Aunt Meg, Kohen, and Aunt Laurie up to the north Georgia mountains to Burt's Pumpkin Farm and then to a yummy family-style restaurant, The Smith House, the weekend before Halloween. We were able to get a few cute pictures, but she really isn't sitting up on her own well yet, so propping against a pumpkin didn't work for too long.
We tried again at another pumpkin patch near us and she did pretty well.
We had lots of fun with Charleigh on Halloween. She wore some skeleton pajamas and visited with a few friends on our street before it was bedtime.
Sweet little pumpkin!
Look at those legs kicked out straight...always makes us laugh!
Ready for trick-or-treaters to come
The biggest new thing with us now is eating food! Charleigh started practicing sitting in her Bumbo seat a few weeks before we started solid foods so that she could build stamina. She got better and better at it each day, spending more and more time in it. She's now able to sit upright in her highchair at meal time. She eats two solid meals a day, consisting of a vegetable and a fruit, and sometimes a little cereal if she's still hungry. She absolutely LOVES food, saying "Mmmm" with each bite she takes. We thought we would get some really great faces from her, but she really does like everything, but her favorites are sweet potatoes and apples. She was eating store bought food to start with so that I could learn the consistency; now I'm making it, so it's quite a bit different texture than from the jar. The texture change definitely provided for some entertaining faces!
Whoa...hard to hold myself upright
Getting better...the smile says, "This is fun!"
Much better!
We started out with really thin cereal one time a day for two weeks
"I'm ready to eat, please."
It was first hard for her to concentrate on sitting and eating, hence the leaning
Before, and...
After
"I just LOVE food! And I sit in my highchair like a big girl!"
Aunt Elaine feeding Charleigh
Charleigh loves playing in her "exersaucer", and she's very interested in the dogs now, too. Riggs doesn't complain about the extra lovin'!
Everything is going straight to the mouth these days!
She also loves jumping in her doorway jumper!
Her feet dance back and forth...we call her our little Irish folk dancer
A little kiss to the face
You wouldn't know that she's obsessed with her feet, would you?!?
Mimi came to stay with us for a few days to keep Charleigh while I worked. They had lots of fun together!
Kohen came to spend a day with us. He loves to show Charleigh how all of her toys work.
He also liked helping feed her.
