Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!
Time flies doesn't even begin to describe how fast this first month has gone! What a crazy, busy and fun month it was been too! Chloe is an adorable little baby and such a good girl! We went to her 1 month checkup and she is now 9 pounds and 15 ounces and has grown an inch and a half since she was born! She's in the 75 percentile for her age and overall is a healthy happy baby girl! She's a great little sleeper and such a laid back baby. While she doesn't sleep through the night yet she seems to really know when it's night time because she wakes up, eats, and then goes right back to sleep again. She loves to be held and cuddled and has been known to take people hostage once they get a hold of her. She's also quite a delicate little peach because she hates to be cold and loves to get all wrapped up and cuddly. And she's such a strong girl too! She holds up her head and pushes up looks around all the time!
Charlie has been such a great big brother too! Every time he sees Chloe he smiles all big and does these adorable little giggles it's so sweet!! Charlie is also doing great! He's talking a bit more now, sometimes words (his newest words have been, bye-bye, go, that, num-nums and a couple of times we've sworn Charlie has said "I got it"), and sometimes he has full conversations in some sort of Charlie language which cracks me up! Charlie's also been doing SO good in pre-school! He's making friends (he loves to give hugs to all of his buddies!) and learning new things, and following directions so well! He even participated in his school's holiday sing-a-long, and though he was nervous at first he stayed up there the whole time like such a good boy!
He's mastering how to use a big boy cup rather than a sippy cup (although we still use the sippy cup when we're in the car or he's running around, he hasn't mastered how not to spill yet hahaha), and just a couple days ago he showed us how he knows how to use the trash can to throw trash away! He still also loves to turn light switches on and off and his day can't begin without brushing his teeth. Charlie also knows his shapes, colors, and we were surprised to see that he even knows a couple of letters! Such a great little guy!
We had a great Christmas too! Charlie and Chloe must have been very good because Santa was good to them! Charlie got a bunch of Hot Wheel cars, and even a track to launch his cars (he was having so much fun with it he was screaming with laughter!) and a big truck to hold all his new cars, and some new clothes, and art supplies, and a Zhu zhu pet with a car, and an RC car, and candy, and I'm sure there's more that I'm not thinking of! Charlie was having so much fun because there were toys all over the place! Chloe got some adorable outfits, and shoes, and some fun hanging toys that jingle and vibrate (her favorite!). Even the Boy Bunny got some carrots from Santa!
The best present though was a gift we got from Charlie! An adorable hand print that Charlie made for us at pre-school :) We LOVE it!
Then later on we had Christmas dinner with Grandma Carol-Anne and Stephen who came up for a visit. And we were very proud to put on our very first Christmas dinner that we made ourselves!! And it all turned out great!! We tried a ham with gravy and apples recipe that we found online and it turned out SO good!!! How did I survive without ham gravy all my life?!? Then we had cranberry bars and apple pie that Carol-Anne made with that new sugar substitute stuff I think it's called Stevia, and it was really good! I am very sensitive to all those sugar substitutes but this one I couldn't tell the difference! Who would of thought? We even got to try out our new Kinnect that we got from Grandpa John and we had a great time jumping around the living room HAHAHA That thing really gets you moving! Charlie even got into the fun by coaching us and being our cheerleader :) It was raining most for Christmas but the next day it was beautiful and sunny so we headed to the park to try out Charlie's new tricycle that he got from Grandpa John and Charlie had a blast!
It was a very merry Christmas at the Drastals and now we're all tuckered out! We hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a happy New Year!!
Lots of love,
Karen, Bill, Charlie and Chloe
