Bath Time

Now that Charles' umbilical cord fell of he gets to enjoy the occasional bath with Adahleigh. She love sharing this time with him. We have to keep a close eye on her because she likes to fill his bathtub with water and sometime gets him. He's a pretty good sport with all the attention that she gives him (constantly giving him kisses and rubbing his head, with the occasional attempted eye gouge).


Charles really loves his bath time and would probably be content just to sit in a warm bath of water all day and relax.

Charles' Sunday outfit

Ashley loves these little sweater outfits and is trying to make a collection of every size of them for Charles. I'm pretty sure she has one in every size available up to 2 yrs old. Ashley's mom actually found this one for her since she was unable to find one anywhere. He looked adorable.

Its Snowing Again

This weekend we got a bunch of new snow just the right consistency to make snowmen and snowballs, so before it got all dried out from the Pocatello winds we took Adahleigh out in to play and make a snowman. We don't have a lot of pictures of the outside fun, because Charles needed Ashley's attention inside, so just Adahleigh and I played and got pictures of the final product. This is the first time Adahleigh has really been out in the snow were she played in it. She learned how to make snow angels, have a snowball fight and make a snowman (she also acquired a taste for snow, but she doesn't eat off her boots like Kenya). She was really funny with the snowball fight, I would hit her with one and then she'd grab a handful, which would stick to her mitten, then shake her hand until it fell off her mitten and I would act like she hit me and fall down (she was actually able to get a pretty good through off a couple of time and really hit me). She had a blast.


Just so no one gets excited she did have a coat and mittens on, but got tired before the Snowman was put together and went back inside. She then came out for a minute just to put the finishing touches on the snowman without her coat.

Weekend at Grandpa and Grandma Wilde's

Here's another picture of our very alert little boy. Since he isn't as active as Adahleigh he doesn't get quit as much press, but we're trying to make sure we do get current pics of him up regularly.

Adahleigh really enjoyed visiting Grandpa and Grandma this weekend. We were able to go down Thursday evening since Adam doesn't have classes on Friday, unless it's a test day. She enjoyed playing Guitar Hero with her Aunts.

The highlight of her weekend was going out on the tractor with grandpa to feed the cattle he's taking care of right now. She was able to go out a couple of times. The last time Adam and I went with so she was able to ride on the trailer to watch the cattle. Her favorite part was kicking off the extra hay, but we weren't able to get any pics or video of her doing this because I was driving the tractor and Adam was keeping a hold on Adahleigh so she didn't jump off.




Adahleigh is extremely bright when it come to figuring things out. She got a hold of Taylor's Hannah Montana stage and was able to figure out how to get her out to sing and then put her away.

Adahleigh's New Trick

Adahleigh has now decided not to use her hands when she eats, instead she prefers to throw what she eating on the floor or table and then she proceed to eat it like a dog would. We don't know where she learned it, but its funny to watch her do it as long as she doesn't leave anything behind.

More Picture of Charles

Erin wanted us to post more pictures of Charles and I'm sure everyone else wants to see some more of him too.
He is really alert when he's awake which isn't that often, but he was especially alert after his bath.



Mom and baby enjoying each other while napping.

They both caught us taking pictures of them.

New Arrival

We have had a very busy week lately. New Years Day we had the pleasure of being blessed with a visit from Oliver. Adahleigh really enjoyed having one more person around that would play with her and tease her, she did wish that he would've been a little more awake while he was here. Oliver ended up staying until Sunday evening (it will amaze those that know him that he actually left at a decent hour instead of the usual late night drives where he usually has to stop and sleep on the side of the road to make a full trip anywhere). He just missed the arrival of Charles LaVard (for those outside of the calling circle) on Jan. 5th at 5:45 a.m.. He came in at 7lbs. 7oz. and 20.5 in. long. He has long fingers and toes just like his big sister, but got lucky and didn't get her giant feet; instead he ended up with large ears that luckily don't stick out. Labor didn't go too bad for Ashley. She was abruptly awoken at 12:30 a.m. by contractions that were 2 min apart and lasted about 30sec., once again she wasn't too keen on going to the hospital because of the fear of being sent home. We ended up taking Adahleigh to our friend's (Jacob and Anne) house. She enjoyed waking up there and being able to play with her friend Jacoby until grandma wilde picked her up and brought her to meet baby brother!

Mom and Charles getting a good look at each other

Adahleigh found the switches for the hospital bed and then took full control of it from there.

Charles has decided that he already likes to sleep with dad at night.

Adahleigh already is loving being a big sister and interacting with Charles.

Charles ready and excited to go home finally.