Vacation: South Carolina!

We went to South Carolina this year for our annual family vacation. We stayed on beautiful Folly Beach. Here are the photos: South Carolina Photos

Sneak peak:








Ben likes to eat sand and Charlotte is no longer afraid of the waves.

In other news, during our trip Ben's mouth decided to give him 3 more teeth. He also still hates the car, mostly. ;)

milestones (again)

Ben started pulling up regularly, today. :)

Milestones

Ben is 9 months old today! I guess he felt that today was a good day to start crawling, too. I find it mildly amusing as Charlotte also didn't crawl until she was about 9 months old. So, new tooth and new found freedom all in less than a week! No wonder he's been such a crank monster lately. ;) He's also started pulling himself up on things. It's all happening so fast, ahh!

Tooth

Ben's first tooth broke through last week! Still no luck on crawling, but we're getting there. He definitely has no problem getting to where he wants to be. ;) I can't believe he'll be 9 months old soon.

Easter

Easter was pretty uneventful here in the Addison household. Ben had just recovered from a case of croup and Char on the tail end of something with a wet cough/drippy nose. It did not prevent us from dying eggs, watching an Easter movie, or eating candy, though ;) The kids even got to dress up which pleased Char. So, here are some photos!


Benny and Peter Rabbit


Char enjoying one of her new Easter books


Some sisterly love ;)


Gimme those chips!


The eggs we decorated that eventually became egg salad


Char showing off some of her work

The rest of the Easter photos can be found here: Easter 2013

Updates & More Photos (of course)

Ben is now moving fowards AND backwards in his walker. He's also rolling around everywhere including off the bed (he was fine, don't worry!). He's also in the process of sprouting 2 bottom teeth. It's been.. fun. Yea, we'll just go with that. He's sitting unassisted and pushing himself backwards while on the floor when he's not rolling around like a madman.

Here he is enjoying an empty pack of wipes:



Kids:



Charlotte enjoyed her very first bowling experience (duck pin bowling) at a friend's birthday party. Funny enough, she's a very gentle bowler and we had to tell her to throw/roll the ball harder than she was. Anyone who knows Char probably realizes how silly that is considering ;)



The norovirus has managed to hit us yet again and it always seems to hit us in February. Every year (minus last year). It was here and left pretty quickly, however. I had a minor case and Matt never really caught anything. We purchased a new car about a month ago which Matt is enjoying immensely. Especially since he's getting, on average, 40mpg.

Looking forward to seeing all of our cousins on Easter Sunday. I imagine there will be another update shortly after Easter with photos. :)

Siblings

It's so fun to watch the kids interact with one another. Charlotte is easy going and care-free while Ben is very serious. I think the above photo reflects their personalities pretty well. Below is just a short video I took of Ben in the walker.. going backwards ;)