The Great Hair Debate!

Mothers of daughters, is there a hair debate in your home? Does Daddy want to dictate the length and style of daughter's hair? This is true in our home. Which would be reasonable except CB HATES to have her hair washed, dried, brushed, curled, styled...heck, she doesn't even want you to look at it!

Nevertheless, I have bit my tongue and let Daddy-Dearest have his way. (The things we do for love!) Partly because I'm responsible for her hair - it's straight - super straight - and that's just like me. But the bigger reason is I asked for it. While I was pregnant, I prayed every day - atleast 3 times - that my baby would be born with hair. No offense if your babies were bald, but it was super important to me. Call me shallow, I can take it.

In honor of my answered prayer, I give you a photographical essay of Carly Beth's Hair Journey...

    Born with a bit of a faux hawk...definitely my girl :)

    She was three weeks old here. She has her Daddy's hairline.

  Sporting a Mohawk, courtesy of Uncle Samuel.

         Right out of the bath...

    Same here...she's got a little bit of a mullet!

     Convinced Daddy to let me get rid of the mullet...

   The picture from her 1st Birthday Invitations...

       We do this "bangs pulled back" look a lot...

                                                                       Ponytail!!

  2nd Birthday...

"Go Kyle Busch!"

  At Geppeto's Pizza

And this is her today. She insisted on looking like Pebbles Flintstone, in public.

Hope you enjoyed...this photo journey made me a little sad. Where did my baby go?!?

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Our Trip to Charleston...

These pictures are from our trip to Charleston...

Carly can be quite dramatic, and she loved the animals at the aquarium.

She totally enjoyed Ben & Jerry's

 Carly thoroughly enjoyed her Cookie Monster Cupcake...

We took a carriage ride too. This is Bill.

Our Trip to the Fair...

     Last week, Todd's Mom wanted to take us to the fair. So we went on a Thursday Night and we really enjoyed ourselves!! We saw all kinds of animals, got some fresh local honey, and ate fried Oreos!!

      Todd insisted that Carly needed an animal to remember the fair by, and wouldn't you know, they had an Elmo bigger than her! So, Todd played a basketball game and won her the Elmo.  He's apart of the family.

     I think he's a little creepy, but she loves him!

Krispy Kreme!!!

 Not sure if you're aware of this, but Hot, Glazed, Krispy Kreme doughnuts are my favorite treat, hands down!! When I go and stay at my parents for a night, I make an excuse to go on a Krispy Kreme run after dinner. My little brother, Samuel thinks it's hilarious! He says he's getting me a life time supply of Krispy Kremes for Christmas. 

  This past Saturday, it was my mom's suggestion, and we went before dinner!! We had an appetizer, and took home some chocolate iced doughnuts for dessert. I love Krispy Kreme...I wish we had one in Concord!! 

 

Carly is a fan too!!

Carly's 2nd Birthday

 

        Carly made her first Build-a-Bear this year.  I was really excited for this...but she was over it after the stuffing was done. Oh well, I really enjoyed it! 

 We, by we I mean I, picked a purple bear that sparkles, it's the iCarly edition.  I couldn't NOT pick the bear with her name on it...It's pretty cute. Carly named her "Abby. I'm still pretty excited over this bear....

    

    For Carly's Party, we had a kiddie pool, a splash mat, and a Bounce House!! This year, we opted to do one big party at our house, instead of 4 different parties with all 4 sides of our family...blended families are a blessing.  This is Carly and Evelyn. They had fun together, but Evelyn - being the neat girl that she is, did not like the grass in the kiddie pool!

 Carly has really enjoyed this present from her Mamaw Betty and Papaw Jeff, it's a small bounce house. She plays and plays and plays!!  

   This Babydoll Bed is really special.  It was mine!  My mom sewed the bedding for it, especially for Carly Beth.  She loves this little bed, she's even tried to get in it!  I love that she is enjoying something that used to be mine.

 And this...is Carly's baby.  It goes everywhere with her! We got her a diaper bag with bottles, so she can feed her baby too.  She is definitely designed to be a mother...amazing how God creates us with our purpose from the beginning...

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY CARLY BETH!!!!

One Week Old...

One Year Old...

Two Years Old...

Carly's Week

Busy week we have had!!! Here are some pictures!!!

Carly has started playing a little dress up....she's pretty funny too.

At the Penguin having some fried pickles...we love pickles, and the Penguin

This is Carly's favorite seat!! She watches Sesame Street from her shopping cart quite often!!

Picnic at the Park

We spent lunchtime with Steph and Evelyn at the park...Carly is such a ham for the camera!



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Playing with Friends

Evelyn and Jonas came to play for the afternoon...they had so much fun playing outside in the yard....even Jack was exhausted at the end of the day.



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Zootastic Park

We visited Zootastic Park in Troutman today for Carly's cousin Kendall's Birthday Party. It was really neat! Carly had fun visiting with the animals and feeding them. They had a goat that was only a day old!



- http://www.zootasticpark.com


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Words, Words, Words

Carly has some words perfectly:

Mommy
Daddy
Mamaw
Papaw
Cookie
Jack
Bath
Bye-bye
Hi
Cupcake
No
Yes
Yep
Baby
Elmo
Apple
Eye
Nose
Mouth
Hooray



She also has her own responses to things...
If you say "I love you," she says "too".

She loves to sing - she likes:
"The Wheels on the Bus"
"if you're happy and you know it"
"The Itsy Bitsy Spider"
"Elmo's Song"

She loves to dance and sing...she's so cute!




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Unhappy Girl

Carly loves the bath, but she HATES to have her hair washed...


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Kinetic's 5th Birthday Party!

Carly enjoying a cupcake... Yummy!






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18 month check up

So far we have learned that Carly is 24.08 lbs and 34 inches tall!


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Silly Carly

Carly can be quite funny when encouraged.... She was playing with Daddy's safety glasses.




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