Can You Tell They're Brothers?

Charlie's Official 6 Month Stats

I took this guy to the doctor today to get his official stats (super fun for mom!), and 5 vaccines (so super sads for everyone within earshot). Here are his official numbers.

Weight: 21 lbs 8oz---I totally would have guessed more than that. He seems SO much heavier when I have to carry him all around all the time.

Length: 29 inches

Head: 17.8 inches

How this all compares to Harvey---- He's one pound heavier, the exact same length, and his head is just a teeny bit smaller. Overall, another baby giant for the Clore family. We love our baby giants.


And, I love this photo. He just looks so victorious.

Yeah yous guys!! I'm growin' real big and stuff!

The Halfway Point

Big 'ole baby Chugs is six months old. I know! So hard to believe. There's been A LOT of life lived in our little family since then. Yet, it doesn't feel like it has been that long at all.

We did our traditional photo shoot to celebrate. He's been pretty grumpy lately, so I was glad he *mostly* cooperated for these. Gotta get in and get out quick at this age!



The gym is that way, ladies.




Girl look at that body....... I-I-I workout!








Our sweet friend Brooke sent us a cute little mustache hat in a care package for big Harv. But low and behold, it fits our other large headed buddy as well. :)







How can you NOT smile when wearing a mustache hat?!





Good job Aunt Bookie!!!





She taked my hat off!!






But, you can't keep a good man down. Love this little boy. His official stats are coming later this week. I know, you're all on the edge of your seats now.

"Willing" Participant

Currently in our home, I only have one child who is "willing" to let me take photographs of them. Ok, so it's *technically* the one who can't move to get away, and the one who can't say "NO Piture!" in the sassiest voice possible, but he loves it. Really.

And until he can move out of that chair or tell me otherwise, I'm sticking to that story and I'm going to keep on taking a bazillion photos a week if I want.

Here are some from this week.





Starting off totally normal, totally cute.




Then things start to get a bit.....crazy........



Habin' my picture takened is so much fun, you guys!!!




Just a wittle rest, and den.......




Some of dis!





And a wittle of dis!!




Ooooooh! Bet you didn't even see dat comins!!




Dis da best game I ever pwayed. I WUV hasin' my picture takened!




Annnd... time to rest, and chew my hands. My favowite part of da days.




Geeze lady, won't you give it a rest alweady??

Batmans!

Harvey loves to request specific items, and then put an "s" on the end. For example, 'I want my Batmans pajamas". But in these pictures, it actually makes some sense. The Batmans (mens........boys.......mans.....). No matter what you call them, they're pretty darn cute (in my MOST humble opinion, of course).







You seein dis guy?? He's pretty cwazy, really.


Mom's so lame...........



It's all fun and games until...


Little brother starts touching your cars.....



And your pants.



Poor sweet, innocent little Charlie. He didn't mean to scare big brother off so he could have the chair and the photographer all to himself........

Or did he?



He just desperately needed you to see his two brand new teeth!!




I call dis one, "Bwue Steel".




Always so serious when the camera comes out. But so very smiley otherwise. So strange.


One more smile for the road!

Trains

Our boy loves trains. Seriously. loves. them. In the car, just running errands, he asks to drive over more train tracks (who doesn't love a nice big bump when driving?!). And he is genuinely super excited to just go over the tracks. It's the simple things, really.

Santa brought him a train table for Christmas. It has been the most exciting gift he's ever received. Thomas the Train and all of his friends, regular strength trains, cars, dinosaurs, airplanes---pretty much everything has had a turn on that table. He's spent hours creating and re-creating different scenarios. And everyone that walks in the door is asked (read:harassed) to "Come play train table??!!". Such a sweet obsession.


This past weekend, John thought it would be a fun family outing to go find some train tracks and let Harvey get out and explore. If nothing else, it would be good for us to all get out together and go for a ride (we hadn't all been out together since the beginning of December). We were able to do better than just an empty old boring track----we found a train pulling in for a stop!


Don't worry, we had the camera. :) I'm trying to make up for lost time here.













This was pretty much the highlight of his whole life to date. Now the plain old empty tracks aren't nearly as exciting. Still exciting, but he's pretty determined to find another "big train". We've set the bar pretty high I'm afraid.

Charlie Five Months

I somehow found the time and energy (and cooperation from Charlie) to get his 5 month photos taken on time! This was literally a 10 minute shoot, and it wore me out. I really need to get it together soon. Baby steps though. First a 10 minute photo shoot, then maybe a 10 minute walk. Maybe.


Here is what you all are really here for. Not my *super* inspiring talks about fitness, but photos of our sweet boys.






Note: His hands are ALWAYS in his mouth. His two bottom teeth are about to make an appearance. Hurry up already!



My favorite from the day. Love, love it.






See? Wasn't even kidding about those hands.



I wanted a really good photo of his chunky legs. I'm afraid this photo doesn't do them justice. There is a third roll on there, but in an effort to keep this rated PG, you can't see it. But trust me, it's there. Those legs are probably where he stores most of his 20+ pounds.



In several photos he was looking up or over to the side. This is what he was staring at:




And honestly I would keep an eye on him too if I was laying on the floor and that wild thing was literally running circles around me.


Charlie at five months:

We just recently really started in with food. He currently has 2 tbs of cereal with a 4 oz fruit at lunch, and then a 4oz veggie for dinner. And, obviously, bottles in between. Homeboy does not let you forget to feed him.

I can't decide which he's going to do first:, sit up or roll over. He wants to be in an upright position at all times, but can't get the hang of doing it himself. I'm convinced its his cheeks pulling him down. He attempts to roll over all the time, but that one arm is always on the way. Always a tricky thing.

He finalyl started sleeping through the night. Thank goodness!!


He is still having a hard time staying asleep with his arms unswaddled, so we continue to try to find new ways to force him to sleep. Trying to get a giant 20+ pounder swaddled is quite an ordeal. We just need to get him a big twin sheet and call it a day. :)

A Snow(ish) Day

Here are a few photos of Harvey in our first "snow" of the winter. Even he realized it was way too cold for the amount of snow of our little walk. He was begging/running to get home. Since when does he beg to go home??

He was pretty darn cute out there, I'll have to admit. Enjoy!

Charlie 4 Months

I'm baaaaaaaaaack kids!

But only for Charlie's four month stats. And only because he's going to be five months old one week from today. I know, what the heck is this kid doing, growing up so fast?!

I'm still having pretty killer headaches everyday, but I realized I could (and should) edit photos a little at a time and then blog. Because our adoring public is waiting! :) And because I have all of these sweet four month photos of Charlie taken by our friend Leigh while I was in the hospital. I remember on the 17th I was super sad because I knew it was Charlie's 4 month birthday and I wasn't going to be there to take my usual monthly photos of him. Once I was a little more together, John told me Leigh took his photos, on his calendar, on his actual birthday. How thoughtful is that?! So, so sweet. Thank you so much for these photos Leigh. We'll always look back on these and remember how awesome you were for not only taking the time out to take them, but for remembering our sweet little guy on his four month birthday. Thank you for doing exactly what this mama wanted to be doing with him on that day.

And here's a super good photo of our big boy, also taken by Leigh. You might just have a future as a photographer one day. :)



Charlie's official 4 month stats:

Height: 26.75 inches

Weight (drumroll please......): 20lbs

Head--17cm (at least I hope its cm!!)

Compared to Harvey: everything is pretty much the same, but he weighs 2 pounds more. In babyland, that's a ton! This kid has some crazy chunky thighs that I'm going to have to document soon. Ok, I need to rest my giant aching head. Until next month......:)