LBC - Photos by Jenny

My friend Jenny took some beautiful photos of Charlie while we were in Texas.  Below are just a few and here is a link to the snapfish album.  Thank you Jenny.  I am in love with these photos.

This hat was worn by Andy's dad when he was a baby.

This cute little outfit was a gift from Elizabeth.  In this pic, Charlie can't get enough of his feet. 

These overalls were a gift from Marme.

Charlie is an infant bathtub that belonged to my granny.

 

Week 10- 14 Charlie's Adventures

It has been several weeks since we posted and boy have we been busy. Charlie has seen the ocean, mountains and Texas! He has definitely been growing and now tops the scale at almost 15 pounds. His latest "thing" is looking at his feet. He just can't get enough of 'em. Mom and dad are getting a little more rest these days now that Charlie sleeps about 10 hours at night...well, he still wakes up for a middle of the night feeding, but all in all the Lyon family is seeing more sleep. I start back to work on Friday so we are all feeling a little nervous about next week. I will always remember these 14 weeks in which my life completely changed and everyday offered a new advedture with LBC. I never knew I could love someone so very much. Andy and I are so happy to have our little family :)

Here is a pic of me and my dad ... don't you think Charlie looks like me...crazy!

I have uploaded all of our photos from the past several months to a snapfish album:

http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=959281222643790673/l=428318307/g=5494283/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB

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Week 14 - Texas

Charlie loved Texas! He was so good on the airplane, sleeping most of the way. We had an exciting time introducing Charlie to all of his Texas family and friends. We have already decided that when Charlie gets old enough we will be sending him to Camp Nac where he will rotate between our relatives houses!!! I have lots of pics below and wish I had more of my cousins and fam meeting LBC, but during that visit he was a little fussy. My little cousin Shelby who is in the 6th grade was so cute holding Charlie while he screamed ... she too was a colicky baby :)

Family photo at the Lyon's farm where Andy and I got married. Uncle Milford took Charlie for a tour and showed Charlie where it all began.

Charlie with Granny (Charlene Kraemer, my mom's mom. This is who he is named after)

Charlie visits Granny (Novelle Odem, Andy's dad's mom). She also gave Charlie a cute hat that was Andy's dad's when he was a baby that was made by Charlie's great great great grandmother (wow!). We had a mini photo shoot with Jenny while in Nac so you will see some cute pics soon with Charlie in the hat!

My sister Kim and niece Andi play with Charlie. They would use the carrier to calm him down during his crying spells. Kim would bounce around the house and Andi would do squats.

Our friends Brad and Kandi had a little girl Addisyn just 10 days before Charlie. Brad and Andy have been friends since they were little kids so it was really awesome to see these two introducing their little ones to each other.

Andy shows Charlie the Longhorns and explains to him that he will be going to college in Austin, TX where their school mascot is the same animal.

Andy has been into homebrewing for a bit now and inspired my dad to grow hops. My dad and grandpa have both planted some in their gardens. The pic below is me showing Charlie the hops growing at Grandpa Hibbard's house. Andy said that this picture has his 3 favorite things....me, Charlie and hops. Now wait....if we had a bike in this pic then it would be Andy's heaven.

Marme has a studio where she teaches pottery classes. We visited her class and took a look at her pottery which is beautiful.

We visited my mom's sewing group SNAILS (Smart, Neat And Intelligent Ladies that Sew). He had fun meeting all of Gram's friends.

Bathtime at Gram's house. Charlie finally learned to play during bathtime. He just couldn't get enough kicking. No matter how long we left him in there he cried and cried as we took him out.

Charlie with his Marme and Papa just staring at his feet. In this pic he is trying really hard to grab it and since we have been home he finally was able to get a hold of 'em.

My last night in town I went out on the town with my sister and her friends while Charlie stayed with Gram and Granny. Charlie had to meet all the gals when Gram dropped me off at the bar :) Here he is below with Carmen, Shelby (birthday girl), my sister and Beth. OK girls the HARVEST picture of Shelby didn't make the blog...lets just say we had a good time at Flashback. 

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Week 13 - Tahoe

The family packed up for a weekend in Tahoe. We road the gondola up to mid-mountain and hung out while Andy road his bike. Unfortunatly, daddy took a little spill and scratched himself up pretty good.

Phil stopped by to get some bike stuff and got a chance to hold Charlie. For those of you that don't know...Phil runs a bike company called rideSFO and yes, we have a rideSFO sticker on our stroller and Charlie also has a rideSFO onesie :)

Charlie on the gondola. His eyes got so big as we went up!

Charlie sat in my lap forever just watching all the bike riders. I had never seen him sit so still for so long.

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Week 12 - Diapers, clothes, and sitting up.

We have moved up to size 2 diapers and to 3-6 months clothes. Charlie now can sit in his bumbo chair and has discovered TV. He has also started getting a little louder with his little baby noises...too cute!

Watching football with daddy.


Enjoying playtime after his bath.

Sitting happy in his Bumbo.

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Week 11 - Texas Visitors

Marme, Papa, Nana, Uncle Kent, Aunt Celli, Uncle Milford and Aunt Megan came to visit. We had fun touring around San Francisco. Charlie also had his first babysitter when Malin watched him for the evening...THANK YOU MALIN....while the rest of us went out for dinner. I think Charlie cried for about two hours straight while Malin did everything she could to soothe him, but she successfully got him sound asleep in his crib.

Everyone got their turn at holding and playing with Charlie...even while he was screaming crying. He was the happiest when we were in the stroller and in the car...he likes to be moving!!! We also went to the De Young Museum to a Dale Chihuly exhibit. Charlie LOVED IT!!! All the colors and lights...it was BEAUTIFUL. 

The "kids" in Napa

Charlie and his Aunt Meagan

Papa lulls Charlie to sleep on Haight Street while mama is shopping :)

Our friends Tim and Pilar who live in Portland had their first son Jaden just shortly after Charlie. They were in town for a wedding so we got to meet up for a brief playdate. Jaden and Charlie were too cute kicking away :)

Week 10 - Avila Beach

Andy had a business trip in Avila beach so Charlie and I packed up and tagged along. 

Charlie enjoyed sticking his feet in the sand.

Week 9 - who needs matching shoes

******** I wrote this on 8/26, but didn't have internet access in Avila beach..sorry for the delay...week 10 is also on the way!******

ok. Being a dad has thrown Andy off when it comes to putting on his shoes! It first happened when we went to Charlie's 1 month appointment. We were in the Dr. office and I looked down and noticed that Andy had on his house slippers. I thought "well, maybe that is the style now?". Not the case, Andy just didn't get a sec to change his shoes while we prepared to leave for the Dr. office. Here we are in week 9 thinking that we have it together and that we have the hang of parenting. Well, Andy and I were at a BBQ on Saturday and Andy managed to have on 2 different pair of sandals...HA!!! Too funny!

Charlie is now 2 months old at 22 inches and 12 pounds 3 oz. The Doctor said that we might just have a colicky baby on our hands. I suppose it is payback from my hours of screaming crying at my mommy and daddy. However, his fussiness is subsiding a little and his smiles are priceless! He is even sleeping pretty regularly for about 5-6 hours at night. All in all....life is good for little baby Charlie ..aka big baby Charlie:)

Charlie met his nanny last week. Her name is Mirian and we are so excited to have found such a sweet nanny. Marian will be taking care of both Charlie and Amelie and will switch back and forth between the 2 houses. The pics below were taking during week 8.

Charlie and I meet Marian

Andy and Martin (Amelie's dad) cheers to diapers.com! Dinner conversion sure does change when you have kids.

Amelie and Charlie both needed some extra attention during dinner.

Charlie and I went to the local library again this week. One thing you have to love about San Francisco is all the different folks! There are moms, dad, grandpas and nannys and kiddos of all different walks of life. I think the man in the middle might be the ghost of Jerry Garcia :)

Charlie slept through the whole session (see him in the bottom left of the pic!
Here is Charlie (again sleeping) with his friends Amelie (and mom Ilexa who we are sharing the nanny with) and Maddison (withher mom who is a friend of Ilexa's). Afterwards both Maddison and Charlie got their 1st libary cards!

Our friend Jerome graduated from the Police Academy this week and his wife Jenny had a surprise graduation party for him on Saturday. It was a beautiful day and we had a lots of fun. Andy even got to play a game of football with the guys.

Big smile! Oh...he is just 2 cute!

Well, we are currently in Avila Beach again accompanying Andy on a business trip. More on that next week!

Week 8 - First Smiles

Charlie started really hamming it up this week. Everyday after his morning feeding he just smiles and smiles. So cute! He is also getting the hang of sleeping and getting in a good 6 hours each night - yay! He is still pretty fussy during the evening, but we are getting better and better at soothing him...the latest trick was standing with him in the bathroom with the shower running.

We met some new friends this week. I was looking for a family in the neighborhood to share a nanny with and met Ilexa and Martin and their daughter Amelie. Amelie is just a couple of weeks older than Charlie and they live only about 3 blocks away. Charlie and I went to the library with Amelie and Ilexa for sing/song hour for kids. It was adorable! I'll get some pictures next week to post.

Smiling really big!

Just a little half smile :)

I took Charlie down to San Carlos this week to meet daddy for lunch with his co-workers and to visit Tesla (my work). It was kinda crazy to go back after being away from 8 weeks. Charlie was excited to meet all his new friends. Here he is with Don, Nick, Colette and Lisa.

On Sunday night during Charlie's fussy period I decided to try putting him in this warm snuggly outfit and put him in the stroller for a ride...it worked! He loves the little bear outfit that his Aunt Meagan got him and he looks so dang cute in it.

I decided to try out the bear outfit while he was sleeping to see if it might make him nap a little longer during the day...he was asleep for 4 hours!

Charlie normally SCREAMS while he is getting his diaper changed, but this week he started to kinda enjoy laying on the changing table...sweet little baby Charlie.

Week 7 - Superman!

OK. I promise that I am telling the truth .... drum roll please................ LBC ROLLED OVER! I put him down to play on his tummy and the next thing I know he rolled over to his back. Maybe it was a fluke, but he did it!!! We have the strongest baby alive. Of course I've tried to catch it on tape, but he hasn't done it since.

Week 7 was a tough one. I think I was just worn out from the weekend, and so we just took it easy. Everyone says that Charlie's getty chubby and I like to call him "chub wub". He is starting to smile a little more, but also does a lot more crying which is only soothed by his bouncy chair. Seriously this baby LOVES his bouncy chair. I need to put some WD40 on it because it is even starting to squeak we have bounced it so much!

He also likes to play on his lion playground so I took a couple of videos...enjoy!

Charlie's first "stooping" session in front of our house. Here he is with his Mom, and neighbors Missy, Michael, and Kevin.

Getting some sun in his sweet Calirornia tank top. He's been hitting the gym, just look at those biceps and forearms.

Week 6 lake tahoe

On our way back from tahoe...will update on Monday!





Sorry about the delay :) Charlie had us busy last week. As you can see from the pic below...we were both a bit tuckered out! Don't worry, we aren't sleeping in bed with him. Andy just caught me resting my eyes for like 2 seconds after a feeding :)








Andy's friend from college Tim Coxin got married in Tahoe last weekend so the Lyon family had a little mini vacation. Charlie loves being in the car as long as we are moving and screams when we are stopped and unlucky for us we hit traffic on the way there..yikes! After we got through the traffic, things were smooth sailing. We stayed in the Village at Squaw Valley and it was a beautiful weekend.





Andy and Charlie on our balcony...ahhhhh fresh air.








We arrived on Friday night and had planned for Andy to bike ride at North Star on Saturday morning and attend the wedding on Saturday evening and return on Sunday morning. However, once we got to the hotel and got our cute welcome package from the bride and groom we realized that the wedding was on Sunday! Lets just say our minds have been occupied with baby for the past month and we didn't pay attention to the details. No biggie though...Andy got to bike ride a little later and I took advantage of the nice bath tub in our condo! Saturday evening Tim's parents had a party at the bar that was literally down stairs from our condo. Sqaw is a very family oriented place so perfect for us, we put Charlie in the stroller and had a great time! He even sported his UT shirt (yes, I even put it on him since Tim and Andy both went to UT, I thought it was appropriate) and was the most popular person at the party.



The wedding was beautiful and Charlie and I got to see bits and pieces of the ceremony, but we mostly strolled around outside. It was pretty sunny outside so we did what any good parents would have...doesn't he look cool!





Rachel is Jewish so the wedding had all the Jewish traditions...very cool. Here are Tim and Rachel on the dance floor!


Charlie loved dancin with mama...it put him right to sleep.


The Lyon Family :)