10 months old!

I may have had to hold back some tears today. It was hard waking up and thinking how do I have a 10 month old! Although we got up and got dressed. And had our monthly photo shoot. Which isn't always the easies thing to do. Sometimes I get pretty frustrated with her trying to ruin the number. 

But we always happen to get an adorable picture. That's all that matters. Thank goodness for Burst mode! 

We are in charge. We love to play with our toys and can spend hours with them. 

I don't really know if she has a favorite toy or not. I can't really tell. 

She sometimes seems a little bored with them and throws them all around the room. 

We like to sit and open our legs out really wide and roll through our middle splits. 

Which after we roll through we are good to roll over every which way and try and scoot. 

No we don't scoot forward but we are good at pushing ourselves back. 

Which that gets really irritating because we go farther away from the toys instead of closer. Then we try and roll towards them and we don't always know which way to roll. We get our arms stuck sometimes and can't remember how to roll. 

Nap time is still a great time. Where mom still takes pictures. 

I love those cute pants and her adorable #cutie onesie.

Clothes: 9 months in everything. Which oddly enough we don't have a lot in this size. So that means more fun shopping for momma. The Chevron pants above are actually 12 months. The Circo brand definitely runs small. 

Diaper Size: Size 3. Hard to believe there was a day we were in newborns.

Food: We love baby food and eat it 2-3 times a day. We love our bottles still. Puffs and Frozen Yogurt bites are really yummy too. Although sometimes my mom only gives them to me when I am being noisy so in hopes I will be quiet. 

Words: We jabber. Kelly was watching her one night and when I got home he said. Man she talks. And I kind of wanted to look at him and say "Where have you been?" She definitely try to mimic sometimes. I think I have heard bye, hi, otay, yeah, dada and of course MAMA!

Actions: Wave, Clapping, Flapping like a bird (favorite), Squinting our face to smile, Tongue out, blowing bubbles, farting noises, smacking lips.

Songs: We love itsy bitsy spider, patty cake and Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam, wheels on the bus and anything that mom plays in the car! Music is our happiness. Its on at home, in the car and sometimes during nap time. I love the Primary Song Lullabye album. 

Books: We love books. But of course you can't go wrong with "Your babies first word will be DADA" by Jimmy Fallon. We also love "Oh the places you'll go" by Dr. Seuss

Sleeping & Naps: Sleeping through the night! Naps can last from about an hour to sometimes over 2 hours. We aren't afraid of sleeping. Sometimes we just have to be coaxed with a bottle. 

Kissing: We finally kiss. She will lean towards you and kiss you. She doesn't close her mouth so its a little wet tongue kiss. But I love it. Every morning she will give me about 5 kisses. The rest of the day I have to work for them. 

Waving: We do still wave but not as much. We are trying to learn hello! 

Head butting: This girl is the queen of head butting. I can't tell you how many times she has knocked me pretty hard with her noggin. It definitely is a solid Malone noggin because she rarely cries. Even though I want to cry. She loves to push her head up against yours and try to get you out of her face.

Screaming: We would pass the AP exam on screaming. We know how to pitch a good fit.

Teeth: Still no teeth. Which makes wanting to eat everything mom and dad have hard. She will eat some bread and other small meltable things. I have been hesitating a lot of food because she just doesn't have the teeth yet. 

Laughing: We know how to giggle thats for sure. 

Fake Sneezing: The last few days we will fake sneeze. I don't know how she does it but she definitely isn't really sneezing. 

Binky or Thumb: Thumb. We have been a thumb sucker for a good solid 3-4 months. We love our thumb. We get confused when mom puts us in a long sleeve onesie. We think its always bed time. 

 Shiny things: We absolutely love shiny things. Grandma Malone always wears a necklace so I can pull and chew on it. Anyone who holds me that has jewelry on better watch out. I also love staring at moms wedding ring.
Movement: Like I said earlier we aren't really crawling. But we do roll and scoot backwards. We don't really have any need to do much. We like to sometimes stand on our feet at the dance studio and act like we are a big kid.
Nicknames: Char Bar, Turkey Tot, Char and sometimes an occasional stinker.

 All in all this girl keeps me on my toes and very busy. But I love her. Its funny how becoming a mom really does feel an empty part in your heart that you didn't know you had. Oh Charli if I could stop time I would. But I like seeing what you will do next.

Love you Turkey.

This picture was taken at Baby Norah's Baby Blessing at the beginning of August. 

Crazy the change from 9 months to 10 months. Ahhh. 

A much needed update..

Man, I have been absolutely horrible at keeping this updated lately.

I have all the drafts sitting there and just haven't posted them.

Doctor news:

Well the thyroid ultrasound and blood work came back and the nodule is about 4.7 cm it didn't have any blood flow to it so its not cancerous. I will just have to go back and get a lovely ultrasound done every year.
That ultrasound was so boring. Laying on a hospital bed and someone rubbing ultrasound gel all over. It hit me why I thought it was boring because a year before an ultrasound was the best day ever because I got to see our baby girl. So seeing the inside of your neck wasn't really all that interesting.

I now am the lovely owner of glasses and contacts. Yay! The first couple days of wearing contacts SUCKED! These aren't your regular contacts they are hybrid contacts that are part hard and soft lenses. So I have to use a little eye plunger to get them in also I fill them with a saline solution before putting them in. They are difficult little buggers but after a couple weeks now. I have them down the best part is I can see!!

Kelly has been working crazy lately with overtime from Questar, On Call shifts and the skid steer.
Luckily its raining this week so some of his jobs are too muddy.

Charli is just growing and growing.. it makes me so sad to look back and see all that has happened. But boy is she so stinking cute and fun! I am so LUCKY to be able to be with her 24/7!

We are doing some more projects in the house and discussing what we want to do with our kitchen this winter as well. I am looking forward to more revamping in this house. You know you get it perfect and then you move.. go figure!

1989 World Tour - Taylor Swift

This was the day I have been waiting for like five months for.

Kelly took the day off and we spent the morning at the eye doctors to get his eyes checked & my contacts looked at. 

We then took Charli to Grandma Malone's and left to Salt Lake!

When we got there we walked to Temple Square and looked at the visitors center. They had these really cool movies about missionaries sharing their stories of why they went and what they learned from certain families. The church always does such an outstanding job with filming, editing and the room that this was in. It was so neat. They had three tv's that played each movie, an iPad that controlled which one you wanted to watch. Then the wall behind the TV's had all these missionary name tags in different languages. It also had two smaller screens that said how many missionaries there have been since the church was organized and the other one listed all the places missionaries serve in the world. 

So cool. I suggest you go down and check that place on in the visitors center! 

This is looking from the gateway. We counted about 30 trucks and 10 tour buses. It was crazy. I can't imagine having something that big going around the USA. So cool! It gave me chills before we even saw the concert. 

Then we walked to City Creek and walked around all my favorite stores. H&M, Forever 21, Apple, Anthropology, Foot Locker.. Pretty much every store. 

We grabbed some lunch at Johnny Rockets. Yummy hamburgers and a Reeses' Shake. 

"You know its a special day when your husband is the one who orders dessert!"

Then it was getting close to the concert time and we walked over to the ESA. Well all of the radio booths were there. My favorite 97.1 had a booth. They had a wheel out and you could win something. We watched someone else do it and they won a free Taylor Swift tour shirt. Well.. so Kelly spun. He lost. I spun and .... dun dun dun.. I won!!!! I got a 1989 tour t-shirt. It was a little big for me but still people were paying $35 dollars for it! 

We then went over to the gateway to get a drink and look around before the doors opened. I put on my t-shirt and was so happy!!! 

We then took some good old selfies with the selfie stick!

The doors opened to the concert and it was a mad house. So many people. Kelly was complaining about how he's the only guy there.. Then I reminded him. Hey you wanted to see her and just like all these other men that are here they like her too buddy!

We went over to the different booths that were there. Diet Coke & Keds were my favorite. 

We got our picture taken with Diet Coke and they emailed it to us. Pretty Cool. 

Then we went over to Ked's. We waited in line and had another picture taken. This one printed out and you got a free glow stick or some other little trinkets. They had a whole wall of shoes that Taylor Swift has designed for Ked's. It was awesome. I was showing them to Kelly and one of the workers walked up and said. Did you take a picture yet? I told her we had done one and she said well if you do one over here with any of these and use the #kedsontour you could be entered to win a free pair of keds. She gladly took a picture of me and Kelly. I posted it on Instagram. I thought that would be cool to win but you know I already won once today.

The winning picture!

We went to our seats and looked around. We noticed that all the chairs had wrist bands on them.

Well the concert started and Vance Joy opened. It was awesome! He is a great performer. 

We saw Taylor and her mom before anyone else from where we were sitting. It was awesome. Right as it started our wristbands were synced with all the lights on stage. It was so cool. 

She sang 18 songs. It was pure AWESOME! I was screaming her songs just like everyone else. Then I looked over and so was Kelly.. That's my husband!

After we piled into the crazy crowd and I got a blanket and a keychain. Kelly gave me crap for doing it but. I just love my girl Tay. Sorry!

After we left the concert I looked at my phone and noticed that I had WON! Yes, I won a free pair of Ked's. We parked the car and ran back into the ESA. Well they had already cleaned up the Ked's booth. The security thought we were crazy and tried to stop us. Once we told them what was going on, one of them took us over to where the booth was. I was bummed. I was hoping that I would be able to still contact someone. Well I wrote back to Ked's on Instagram and they got back to me a few days later and gave me my promo code for the shoes. The only bummer is you can't get a Taylor Swift pair or a Kate Spade. I really love those ones more but of course.. there is always a catch. Oh well a free pair of shoes still.

We got back to my parents home and picked up Charli. She was such a great little girl from what my parents said. She was already fast asleep. It was really a FABULOUS day! It was totally worth the 5+ months I waited for! I will definitely being seeing Tay Tay at every concert in the future!

A big thank you to my hunky husband who got me lower bowl tickets and gave me a great night!
 I love you! Best 23rd birthday present and anniversary gift!