Thursday, October 13, 2011


Here are some belated pictures of Charlotte's 2nd Birthday...Hope you enjoy!
Charlotte's 2nd Birthday


First Motorcycle Ride

So fun!








And here are some pictures of Charlotte's Day today - at the park and riding the carousel at the mall....












And here are a few of her first haircut (about a month ago).  They are a little up -close since she made me hold her hand the whole time!













Thursday, September 8, 2011

Spanish Immersion Preschool

My friend and former college roommate Mary Miller (nee Knauer) is starting a Spanish language immersion preschool in Springfield, Missouri. I'm sure this will be fabulous, so I wanted to place a link here to help out with her web search optimization. I wish we lived nearby and could participate. Here is the link!

http://www.littlespanishplayschool.com/

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Italy and Easter Training

Drew and I went to Italy last week and left poor pitiful Miss Charlotte behind.  She cried the entire week we were gone because she missed us so desperately....

Uh....not so much.  She had such a fabulous time with her grandmothers and Jackie that she hardly noticed we were gone.  I think they went to Gymboree about eight times and to the zoo and to the Children's Museum and to the neighborhood park.  I think Charlotte was starting to think she could do without us entirely.  Since her grandmothers have left, she's been running around asking for Nanna and Mamaw constantly.  She's been a bit clingy too, though, so I guess she did miss her momma at least a little.

I forgot to ask Drew's mom to send us some pictures from when Drew and I were out of town, so all our eager readers will have to wait a bit for those.

I've added a few below from Charlotte's Easter Egg Hunting Training Session.  My mom wasn't going to get to see her on Easter, so she brought Easter early.  She cooked us a fabulous lunch of ham, sweet potato casserole, squash casserole, rolls, and corn.  Yum.  And after we ate and Charlotte napped, we "hid" some eggs for Charlotte to find.  She had a blast with them.  And she's been wanting to hunt eggs ever since.  She is totally going to kick those other kids butts at Easter Egg hunting. 

There's also a picture of Charlotte visiting with the Easter Bunny in our neighborhood clubhouse.  She was not a fan.  Neither were any of the other kids!  Ha!





And here are a few pictures from Italy....





The top one is the Colliseum in Rome, obviously.  The middle is Drew throwing a coin into the Trevi Fountain, and the last one is me in Verona on Juliet's balcony.

Charlotte misses all her friends and family.  Hope to see you soon.  Till then, enjoy the pictures!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Gross

Gross: 

Your kid eats dog food.

Grosser:

Your kid vomits up the dog food.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Zoo Day!

Well, Charlotte's regular sitter had to cancel today due to a death in the family, so Charlotte and I had a ZOO DAY!  Gorgeous weather.  Couldn't have been better.  She had a great time with her friends - LOVED the giraffes - couldn't stop laughing at them.  Here are a couple of pictures of her on the playground and on the train.  She said "choo-choo" a couple of times.



She's saying lots of words lately:  baby, bird, duck, lizard, choochoo, dog, kitty, up, more, mama, dadda, cup, block, bear, ball, fish, coat, uh-oh, paci, Lucy, bubble, car, moo (for cow), woof woof (for dog), lion, lemon, nana (for banana) and nana (for her grandmom!), and Tucker (for her friend tucker).  Oh, and we saw a blond haired woman at the zoo today and Charlotte ran toward her saying "Nana!  Nana!  Nana!"   I don't know who was more confused - the woman or Charlotte. 

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Crack Baby and Pig Tails

It would seem that this baby o'mine has an extremely addictive personality.  I think it has been fairly obvious from the pictures you've seen on this blog that she is addicted to her pacifiers.  Man o man we have to put her to bed with like eight of them.  It's insane.

But the pacifier addiction has turned out to be nothing...NOTHING....in comparison to her newest addition.....wait for it.....


BABY EINSTEIN -- specifically Baby Noah.  She can't get enough...has to have it.  She literally begs for it.  And since she doesn't know the words for movie or for Baby Noah, she just brings us the remote controls (any she can find) and screams and cries "Mo Mo Mo" (as you'll remember from my most recent blog post, that would translate as "more more more").  We try to limit her TV time...I mean we really have never exposed her to TV aimed at her viewing pleasure until recently.  And we only did this to try to make our car rides with her more endurable.  Well, we created a monster.  Here are a few pics of Charlotte fully engrossed in her show.





And on a different note- Charlotte wore pigtails for the first time today. 


My goodness, she is cute.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Charlotte Updates!

Charlotte is just so cute these days.  If only she would just sleep a little later in the morning.

She's learning new words every day...so far she can say: Mama, Dada, Lucy, Uh-Oh, Mo (meaning "more"), nana (meaning banana), up, and uh-uh (meaning "no").

In the morning she will whine and whine until one of us comes to get her.  At these times she does not cry for me or Drew...but Lucy.  A little insulting.  If only Lucy loved Charlotte as much as Charlotte loves Lucy we would have an extremely blissful household.  As it is, Lucy only appreciates Charlotte for her snackcup and the occasional dribbles of milk that fall out of her sippy cup spout or out of her drooly mouth.  Charlotte would follow Lucy anywhere, but Lucy mainly spends her time running away from Charlotte.

Charlotte is also getting better at pointing out her body parts.  She can do head, ear, nose (at which point she sticks her finger pretty far up her nose), toes, and belly button.

She would spend all day every day in some combination of being in her wagon or in the bathtub.  Girl loses her mind when it is time to get out of the bathtub.  I'd let her stay in there all day (with me sitting beside her of course), but unfortunately my daughter is a water pooper.  That's right folks.  She loves to poop in the tub.  I'm going to have to start bathing her in a swim diaper or something.

Well, here's a few pictures of Charlotte for your enjoyment.  Until next time.....

This Santa fellow is the bee's knees!

Don't even think of getting me out of this tub...and yes, I'll poop if I want to!

About to head to the Christmas Eve Service - no nursery = baby running around everywhere!!

How big is Charlotte??!!!

Getting sleepy!! Christmas Eve!

Going up to bed on Christmas Eve at her Aunt Teri's house

Eating mac and cheese all by herself with a fork out of a bowl

Running around at her MaMaw and PaPa's house where the future pool will be

Give me some of those strawberries!