more charlotte

Where do I begin? My life has changed so much since I last posted on here. We bought a house in Kingsburg in August 2009. I just recently turned 30, but Andrew beat me by three months in October. But the biggest change in our lives happened at 10:33pm on November 9, 2009, when Charlotte Yvonne Bunnell was born and joined our little family.

Having Charlotte has been the most amazing thing in my life. My life has been completely uprooted and will forever be different, but I wouldn't have it any other way. She's only been around for two and a half months, but it feels like she's been here much longer and my life before her seems a distant memory.

Don't get me wrong - being a mother has been very very challenging. I constantly feel like I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm scared and worried all the time. I cried most of the first week we brought her home, mostly because I wasn't sleeping and because I felt so overwhelmed. And I'm still not sleeping much, but I feel like I'm getting used to it.

But watching her change and grow everyday is amazing. Her first smile was the best thing I have ever seen and now she smiles and laughs and coos and I do everything I can to get her to do it.

Ok, ok, maybe I'm getting a little too sentimental here, so I'll stop. All I will say is that Charlotte is beautiful, perfect, and mine - which blows my mind. Also, the picture I'm posting of me and Charlotte is an earlier one. She was only a couple of weeks old. The other one is more recent and even though she looks silly, I love it because she is so happy!

And the facts... When she was born, she was 8lbs 6ozs and 21 inches. At her two month dr appt, she weighed 12lbs 15ozs and was 23 inches!