Getting out and about with Charlie

Well we've made it two weeks at home and all in all I gotta say its not as tiring or hectic as I thought it would be.  He's a great sleeper and thankfully he's not too fussy either.  He has his moments of course but for the most part he's a happy little Laur.

As most people would guess, I have already gotten a little stir crazy so we've been getting out when we can.  So far we've made several trips to the grocery store, target and babies-r-us, to the mall once, pumpkin picking, brunch, and a few other ventures.  We quickly learned, after one not so great trip to Costco, that its all about timing.  As long as we feed him pretty close to before we leave he sleeps like a champ for the whole trip unless we pass the 3 or 4 hour mark.  One of my favorite baby items is his Bundle Me. I'm sure anyone that has used this would agree that its easy to get jealous of, I mean who doesn't want to be zipped up in that thing.

Perhaps the funniest story I have is when my mom (Granny as she's hoping Charlie will refer to her as) was visiting last week.  I had planned out a day full of excursions including the Mall to by the new iPhone 4S (which is on back order of course), the grocery store, the frame shop, staples....anyway you get the idea.  Our first stop was the mall where we were going to be using our stroller for the first time besides walking around the neighborhood.  This also meant it was the first time I'd had to collapse the stroller.  Well  after finally figuring out how to collapse it we were off.  Upon arrival I attempted to expand the stroller out and after 20 minutes or so (in the parking lot) of unsuccessfully trying every red lever I could find, mom recommended I bow my head and go to Babies R Us to see if they could show me.  Well I couldn't have looked more like a first time mom carrying that stroller (still collapsed and all) into Babies R Us and then having a 14 year old behind the counter point out the incredibly obvious latch on the side. 

I'm sure there will be many more stories like this to come but for now here's a few pictures from our adventures out...

The costco trip, he was a little unsure about it at first :) 

 Loves the bundle me!

Added Charlie's first toy to the carrier, he doesn't seem to interested in yet but John loves to play with it!

His first pumpkin may be a bit bigger than him,  looking forward to many years to come of picking our pumpkins at Hubers Farm.