My squishy baby

I posted these pictures on Bergen's private blog that I write up for her and Charley, but wanted them on our family blog as well. This is her at 7 months and I just love all her squishiness! I swear with the second child times goes by so much faster! I can't believe how big she has gotten already! She is starting to sit up on her own and has the best army crawl. She is a determined little girl and scoots around pretty fast. Bergen is such a sweet and calm girl. She loves her big sister more than anything! Whenever Charley walks into her view, Bergen gets the biggest smile, starts flapping her arms and just stares at her. I have to have Charley go in her bedroom while I feed Bergen because she is too much of a distraction for Bergen while she nurses. Bergen is doing really well with solid food too! She LOVES to eat. She loves sweet potatoes, cheese, carrots, any fruit, crackers and bread. She is a very transient baby as well and is always on the go with us. She sleeps super good in her stroller which is so nice! She didn't do that when she was a baby. Bergen is super easy going and is always up for the next adventure whether it's to the playground (which is daily), the grocery store, riding in the car or going on runs in the stroller. We love our Bergen so much!!

Our Christmas in Maine!

   We loved traveling up to Maine in October so much that we decided to go up there again for Christmas. We had talked with two of Spencer's brothers and their families about doing an East Coast Christmas and mentioned that we loved Maine. We decided to find an Airbnb outside of Portland, that way we were close to lots of the cute, small towns and could go up to Portland if we wanted. This trip was so much fun! We met up with Clint and Katie and their family and Alan and Rosa and their little girl. It was a perfect vacation of getting out and doing things, but also relaxing at the house playing games, sledding and for me, making a quilt. I loved going to all the little towns around the area and exploring more of Maine. We went to the beach in Ogunquit one day, down to Portsmouth for some yummy burgers and ice cream up to Portland for the best breakfast ever! and Freeport for New Years Eve celebrations and outlet shopping. We also made it down to Boston one day to go to LegoLand and do a little shopping (and maybe Mike's pastry for the best canolis ever). Christmas was a lot of fun this year for Charley too since she understood more of what was going on. She LOVEd opening presents! She wanted to open every single present just to open it and then would go to the next wrapped box. She didn't really look to see what was inside, she just wanted to unwrap.
    We also did lots of fun activities like make ginger-bread houses, Charley and the boys made a sign so Santa knew where to put their presents, we made cookies, Kate made some amazing rolls and cinnamon rolls too! It was so much fun to spend time with family and just hang out together. The house we rented was amazing too! It had a huge pond and backyard to roam around and play in. The house was super nice and very well taken care of and had 5 rooms so we weren't crowded at all! This is going to be a picture overload, but I just took way too many pictures over the break!:)

Charley took these next 3 pictures of Spencer and Katie by herself! She is getting pretty good at taking pictures and loves it when I let her take a few.