3 Months

The time sure has been flying around here, Charlotte is now 3 months old (technically almost 4) and she is growing so much! Here are her 2 month stats:
Length- 24.75 inches-99%
Weight- 12 lbs 2 oz-80%
Head- 15.5-68%
So she has a small head compared to her sisters and I think she will be my tall one.

She can now roll over both ways, she is super ticklish and loves to talk to you and smile. She has the best grin, it lights up her whole face, she is gorgeous and we all love her at the Barnes house!

Sophia Lynn

Sophia,
you turned 4 years old on November 20th and I cannot believe how time flys! You are such a beautiful, smart and funny little girl. You always tell me "I am in charge mom" and when I say "no I am in charge" you say "but I am in charge of Leila and Charlotte". You are a wonderful big sister and you set a wonderful example for your little sisters, we love you Sophia Lynn!

For your party you wanted to have a flower cake so that is what I made you, I used cupcakes for the petals and I think it turned out very cute.

Leilas Birthday Party

Blogging has taken the back burner and now (when Sophia's birthday is 8 days away) I am blogging about Leila's 2nd birthday party. She had a butterfly birthday party and she wore a gorgeous pink princess dress that I got for $3 at Target on clearance oh yes!

 Leila and Auntie Saydee

 Blowing out the candles with daddy

 The food, I made homemade pizza including the dough

 Butterfly cupcakes

 Butterfly cake



Charlotte Adele Barnes 9/28/2011

On the morning of September 28, 2011 Milton and I left the house at 6:45 AM and headed to the hospital my belly looked like this...

we got to the hospital and as usual waited...and waited and waited some more, then around 9 I got an IV. Around 10 in the morning they gave me antibiotics in my IV (I was strep positive),  and started the pitocin. Right after this my doctor came in and checked me, I was 4.5 centimeters dialated and she broke my water, I was so excited to finally after 39 weeks be moving along! I got the telemotry unit (spelling ?) so I could waddle walk around the hospital, I walked around for about an hour and then decided to go back to my room. I had enough pain at 12 and I decided it was time for an epidural, so they called the anethesiologist and by the time she got there I was in a lot of pain. If the nurse had checked me at this point I would not have even gotten one because I was most likely fully dialated. But anyways, at 12:45 the epidural had kicked in but I was having this strange really sharp pain in my lower back with each contraction, it was unbearable and so the doctor checked me to see if her head was coming down and possibly pressing on a nerve. The doctor checked me and I was fully dialated and ready to push, "what?!!" I could not believe that it had gone so fast, I was not expecting that at all, and no one was there yet (my sisters had not arrived), I was a little bit panicked but excited too. I started pushing at 1:21 PM and she was born at 1:26, so it was super quick.

When I fist saw her, she looked so small, we were all guessing that she was around 6 pounds, she actually weighed 7 lbs 9 oz, she is our biggest baby so far, hopefully the next one is not much bigger then her. More pictures will follow, but here are a few from the hospital.

Our baby girl is 3 weeks old now and we love her so much, she is an awesome baby who doesn't even cry except when something is wrong. Our lives have been hectic in the past 3 weeks to say the least, but we are so happy to finally meet her. Sophia and Leila, are so excited that she is here, they constantly ask me to hold her and whenever she crys they want to sing to her and they get so upset when they cannot soothe her. It took us 2 days to finalize her name, but we love it. Charlotte means a 'small strong woman' and Adele means 'noble', so we love the name and it fits her perfectly!

Leila Reagan

Leila Reagan,
I am a few days late with this birthday message but hopefully it will be forgiven. Leila you are now 2 years old I can hardly believe that you have been in our family that long, the time has flown by! Leila we all love you so much and you are so funny, you most definitely can hold your own against your sister you are very loud and stubborn. You are talking so much, your favorite things to say are "mine" and "no". You love flip flops and not the ones with straps that are your size, no you like to wear the ones that are Sophia's (2 sizes too big), you rarely chose ones that are the same color and they almost never are for the right feet. You are such a sweet spirit and you still love to cuddle which we all love about you, you are a wonderful sister to Sophia and Charlotte and we are so blessed to have you in our family.

Notice the flip-flops?

Enjoying her birthday sundae!

Long Overdue Pictures

I had a friend take pictures of Sophia's 3rd birthday party and the girls at Easter and I just today got the pictures off his camera, so they are old and long overdue but please enjoy these beautiful ladies

Graduation!!

Milton is a college graduate!! I am so proud of him he has worked so hard, had to take time off and it has been a long road but finally we made it! He graduated on Saturday August 13th, 2011.
Now the summer graduations are supposed to be smaller, around 400 graduates, his was over 800! It took forever and the seating was non-existent, the girls would not hold still but when they called his name it all seemed worth it!

Of course Sophia had to do something funny, there was a vent by the building and she was doing a Marilyn Monroe with her dress