Charlotte breaks in her swing

Charlotte got to try out her swing this week!

I think she really likes it. It looked like she cold even see the little mobile animals..

It's starting to have it's desired effect. Her eyes are getting very heavy.....................

And success.............

Charlotte's first bath

Charlotte had her first bath a couple days ago. We were prepared for lots of complaining, but surprisingly she didn't even let out a whimper. Let's hope this is indicative of future bathing!

Daddy did an excellent job of washing her hair. Mommy helped with the water temperature and worried a lot.
Look at the size of Dad's thumb compared to her little hand!!

There.......fresh as a dasiy!!

Charlotte's first week home!

Charlotte's had a very exciting first week home;

Here is her first car ride. Coming home from the hospital..... You can see how nervous she was.

Here are a couple shots from her first Christmas. We went to Grandma Sue's in Redwood City. Here we met lots of new friends and had many visitors......

This is Charli with daddy and Matt (his friend from high school) with 4 month old daughter Tori!

Here is Charli with Mary Jo, Sue's business partner and dear friend

Uncle Hap and Auntie Paula came to visit!!

Uncle Hap, Auntie Paula, and cousins Ben and Amelia drove all the way down to Salinas from Crockett to visit Charlotte in the hospital. They brought 2 little pink crates full of gifts. Some of them were even hand-made for Charli by Amelia and Ben. What good cousins they already are!
We were touched that they made the long drive for us.

She's finally here!

I was admitted to the hospital Thursday, December 21st at 8:00 to be induced. As you can see from the photo below, I was pretty excited to get things going. .......



What a silly girl. If only there was a photo of me 22 hours later. ....:) At 6:00 on Friday morning they decided to do a c-section. So Our Charlotte Rebecca Keely was born at 7:02 AM, December 21st.

She was a healthy 8 lbs, 5 ozs, and 20 inches in length. Daddy got to meet her before I did (as is usually the case with c-sections) and you can see he is already smitten!

Just a few more photos of Charlotte in the hospital. The nurses gave all the babies these cute santa caps.

I tried to get a few with her eyes open. This is about as good as it gets. She slept alot these days!

Today is the big day!

So I am finally being induced today at 10:45. They will not be using the more aggressive tools though, so it may still be a day or so before we get to meet little sweet pea. I'm just so relieved SOMETHING is happening!

You may be wondering how big I've gotten as I am over a week late........

Just kidding! But this is sure how I feel these days.

Wish us luck, my next post should have a picture of our new baby!!!