Just to document some funny things Charlotte says:
"I have a kestion" (question)
"Mmmm, I'll think about it."
"Know dat?" (that)
This morning from her crib she called out "Daddy? Daddy? I can't read." When I went in there, she repeated "I can't read." Turns out the books were out of her reach and she wanted to bring a few into her crib with her. :)
She surprises us every day with the new things she says, and her ability to carry on a conversation is growing by leaps and bounds. She is now telling stories, pretending, and using her imagination all the time. She really likes to pretend she is at the ocean and splashing in the water (can you blame her?). "Baby Dear" (her favorite doll) often has to get washed in the ocean multiple times a day.
I'll post some pictures later this weekend.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Growing up so fast
We are still camera-less right now, so new pictures are still a few days or a week away. Here are some older ones from early summer in order to tide you over a little bit.
The little gardener helping Grandpa and Grandma harvest cauliflower as big as her head.
She ate big bites of the broccoli right out of the garden.
Despite the lack of new pictures, we do have a special treat for you today; a guest post from Charlotte's Grandpa Mark (Kristi's dad). Grandpa Mark is Charlotte's main daycare provider, so he spends more time with her than just about anyone. He hears all of the funny things she says, sees her accomplish new tasks, helps her learn new skills. Below are a few stories he shared with me about the last few days with Charlotte.
Story #1: I hear the typical sound of a "major" problem coming from the bedroom where Charlotte is playing. When I get there I see a smiling face looking back up at me. I figure a false alarm or I mistook a call for me to come play or see something with a call of despair. "Hans suck in air" the smiling face says to me. "What?" I say. She repeats but points to the little school bus and opens the door of the bus: "Hans suck in air" and then I get it. "Hand was stuck in there."
Story #2: I was streaming music while cooking, cleaning kitchen etc. Charlotte is playing in the living room and I didn't think she was really listening to the music. But then all of a sudden she repeats some words from the current song. This happened with "They said Hallelujah!" and "Hear dat? Talking!" (when at the end of a song there was some whispering).
Story #3: Grandma, Grandpa, and Charlotte were walking down the road waiting for mama to come home from work. A white car was approaching in the distance. As it got closer Char said 'truck' so we knew it wasn't mama. When it drove past Charlotte said "man." Grandpa was impressed that she catches all this and he said to Charlotte: "You don't miss a thing, do you?" Charlotte responds in a sad little voice: "I miss Daddy."
Things Charlotte says at 2 years, 2 months old
1. Wanna sit in your "yap" (lap)
2. Gama YoYis (Lois)
3. Char: "Zit hard?" (when observing the someone trying to complete a task)
Grandpa: "oh it's not too hard"
Char: "Just a yittle-bitta hard?" (just a little bit hard?)
4. Fwing (swing)
5. Fruff (scruff, the elderly poodle)
6. Baby feeping (sleeping)
7. Ice freem (ice cream)
8. If someone sneezes she asks "ajees?" (allergies) She sneezed the other day while Grandpa was feeding her breakfast. She says; "Sha-Shoe ajees."
9. Sop it (stop it)
A few additions from Mama:
-She is working on the concept of waiting. When asking for chocolate milk, we told her she had to finish her white milk first. She waited a second or two, then asked "How 'bout now?"
-The other day Charlotte had a time out for being naughty, and when it was over she asked me "Happy now?" (she hates it when people are mad at her). When I said "No" she asked me "Mad, Mama?" I said "No." Then she asked "Kind of mad?"
-Grandma Cindy sings lots of songs to Charlotte, and yesterday my little listener impressed me with singing several lines of a song with all of the words when she woke up from her nap. "When the sun hits the sky you will wake feeling spry. Start the day with a smile, life is really worthwhile." Such a sunny little thing to sing right after a nap.
-Yesterday we went to an apple orchard to get a pumpkin. Charlotte LOVED running through the rows of pumpkins (wish I had some pictures!) and sitting on all of them. She insisted that we sing Happy Birthday to the pumpkins.
-Charlotte and I walked Daddy to work this morning. On our way home we walked through a patch of sunshine and she exclaimed "I yike sunshine!" Then as we sat on the front steps drinking hot chocolate and talking about fall I asked her what other things she likes. Included on the list were chocolate milk and oatmeal. Simple pleasures.
The little gardener helping Grandpa and Grandma harvest cauliflower as big as her head.
She ate big bites of the broccoli right out of the garden.
Story #1: I hear the typical sound of a "major" problem coming from the bedroom where Charlotte is playing. When I get there I see a smiling face looking back up at me. I figure a false alarm or I mistook a call for me to come play or see something with a call of despair. "Hans suck in air" the smiling face says to me. "What?" I say. She repeats but points to the little school bus and opens the door of the bus: "Hans suck in air" and then I get it. "Hand was stuck in there."
Story #2: I was streaming music while cooking, cleaning kitchen etc. Charlotte is playing in the living room and I didn't think she was really listening to the music. But then all of a sudden she repeats some words from the current song. This happened with "They said Hallelujah!" and "Hear dat? Talking!" (when at the end of a song there was some whispering).
Story #3: Grandma, Grandpa, and Charlotte were walking down the road waiting for mama to come home from work. A white car was approaching in the distance. As it got closer Char said 'truck' so we knew it wasn't mama. When it drove past Charlotte said "man." Grandpa was impressed that she catches all this and he said to Charlotte: "You don't miss a thing, do you?" Charlotte responds in a sad little voice: "I miss Daddy."
Things Charlotte says at 2 years, 2 months old
1. Wanna sit in your "yap" (lap)
2. Gama YoYis (Lois)
3. Char: "Zit hard?" (when observing the someone trying to complete a task)
Grandpa: "oh it's not too hard"
Char: "Just a yittle-bitta hard?" (just a little bit hard?)
4. Fwing (swing)
5. Fruff (scruff, the elderly poodle)
6. Baby feeping (sleeping)
7. Ice freem (ice cream)
8. If someone sneezes she asks "ajees?" (allergies) She sneezed the other day while Grandpa was feeding her breakfast. She says; "Sha-Shoe ajees."
9. Sop it (stop it)
A few additions from Mama:
-She is working on the concept of waiting. When asking for chocolate milk, we told her she had to finish her white milk first. She waited a second or two, then asked "How 'bout now?"
-The other day Charlotte had a time out for being naughty, and when it was over she asked me "Happy now?" (she hates it when people are mad at her). When I said "No" she asked me "Mad, Mama?" I said "No." Then she asked "Kind of mad?"
-Grandma Cindy sings lots of songs to Charlotte, and yesterday my little listener impressed me with singing several lines of a song with all of the words when she woke up from her nap. "When the sun hits the sky you will wake feeling spry. Start the day with a smile, life is really worthwhile." Such a sunny little thing to sing right after a nap.
-Yesterday we went to an apple orchard to get a pumpkin. Charlotte LOVED running through the rows of pumpkins (wish I had some pictures!) and sitting on all of them. She insisted that we sing Happy Birthday to the pumpkins.
-Charlotte and I walked Daddy to work this morning. On our way home we walked through a patch of sunshine and she exclaimed "I yike sunshine!" Then as we sat on the front steps drinking hot chocolate and talking about fall I asked her what other things she likes. Included on the list were chocolate milk and oatmeal. Simple pleasures.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
I get the hint
Here are a couple of pictures just to tide "anonymous" over (Laura....). They are a little older from earlier this summer, but they haven't been on the blog before. We sent our camera up north with Kristi's sister Kate this weekend, and so can't put any new pictures up until we have our camera back. These will have to do until then.
On another note...I have been busy cooking up a storm in the kitchen today. My parents took Charlotte up north with them for the weekend, so it is quiet here. And, I can actually move around in the kitchen without stepping on a little someone and I can finish a task without any tantrums. I am trying to stock up some things in the freezer for the nights when nobody has time to cook dinner. I felt a little like a busy squirrel storing up food for the winter.... I made roasted tomato sauce (with tomatoes from our garden!!! stay tuned for an amazing picture of our largest tomato) and potato corn chowder. Yum yum! Next cooking spree will involve egg rolls as I have a humongous cabbage in the fridge that is begging to be used before it melts into a puddle. I would also be open to suggestions if anyone has any good recipes that involve fresh tomatoes, cilantro, and/or plain yogurt, all of which we have in abundance at this time.
Time to go clean up the kitchen before work. Have a nice weekend!
Rochesterfest parade. See Charlotte's head right next to the PA speaker? We're good parents.
Here we are dancing to a live band in downtown Rochester one evening before our lives were consumed by work.
On another note...I have been busy cooking up a storm in the kitchen today. My parents took Charlotte up north with them for the weekend, so it is quiet here. And, I can actually move around in the kitchen without stepping on a little someone and I can finish a task without any tantrums. I am trying to stock up some things in the freezer for the nights when nobody has time to cook dinner. I felt a little like a busy squirrel storing up food for the winter.... I made roasted tomato sauce (with tomatoes from our garden!!! stay tuned for an amazing picture of our largest tomato) and potato corn chowder. Yum yum! Next cooking spree will involve egg rolls as I have a humongous cabbage in the fridge that is begging to be used before it melts into a puddle. I would also be open to suggestions if anyone has any good recipes that involve fresh tomatoes, cilantro, and/or plain yogurt, all of which we have in abundance at this time.
Time to go clean up the kitchen before work. Have a nice weekend!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Bacon
Yesterday we went to an apple orchard with Charlotte. We unfortunately forgot to bring our camera, so we have no adorable pictures to share with you. However, I do have to share with you one of the funniest things we've heard her say in a long time. We ate a picnic lunch under an apple tree, including some strips of bacon. Charlotte, with her mouth full of bacon, said "I yike bacon, a YOT." (Translation, "I like bacon, a LOT.")
Friday, September 11, 2009
Happy Birthday Olivia!
Today is a special day! It is Aunt Olivia's birthday!!! Charlotte wanted to send some birthday wishes to her favorite East Coast Auntie. Happy Birthday Olivia! We hope your day is great and that you enjoy doing something special with Charlie.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
All dressed up and nowhere to go
This morning Charlotte put on a hoodie sweatshirt, her sunglasses (upside down, I might add), threw two purses over her shoulder and gathered up an armful of books. Then she told me "Go bye-bye now. See you later, crocodile." We've been working on "See ya later alligator. After a while crocodile." I guess she hasn't quite gotten the hang of it yet.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Just some funny things Charlotte says and does
A few random things from the past few weeks:
She was putting on a zippered sweatshirt the other day and said to me, "Papa (grandpa) made this." I think she said that because we always talk about the blankets and sweaters that Grandma Carol Ann made for her. I replied, "No, grandpa did not make that sweatshirt. Mama got it for you at a garage sale." She looks up at me with her big blue eyes and says, "Oh, thank you Mama!"
She also really likes to share right now (we'll see how long that lasts). She and I have had a lot of breakfasts and lunches together recently, and inevitably she asks me if I want to share something, which actually means she wants my food, not that she wants to offer me some. But once I share with her, she is more than happy to extend her slobbery little portions with the sweetest "Want to share, Mama?" After that, the entire conversation revolves around saying "Oh, thank you!" for each bite or sip exchanged. Except she can't really say thank you. It is pronounced "Deet doo." It is so sweet, it is one of my favorite things she says.
A couple of days ago she took an apple slice from her plate at lunch and started driving it around the table like a car. She made little car noises and then made siren noises and said "Help 'body" She means "help somebody," which is what we talk about when we hear ambulances/fire trucks near our house. She is beginning to play pretend and develop a little imagination. It is neat to see that develop in her, as we sort of take that for granted as adults. But kids are concrete thinkers for the first couple of years of life, and then around 2 years of age begin to have more abstract thought. She is beginning to use objects for abstract uses (apple slice=car). She also will now pretend things are there that aren't really, such as feeding her doll imaginary food. She also pretends she is a puppy every now and then.
She is into expressing feelings right now. She got shots at her two year check up today, and when we were driving home this evening she told me she was "so sad, Mama." I asked her why, and she told me she was sick from the shots today. I told her she could have some Tylenol when we got home if she needed it (she LOVES Tylenol, but rarely gets it). A few minutes later she piped up from the back seat "Happy now, Mama!"
She has a new outfit I can barely get off of her because she is so in love with it. This week I pulled out a new long sleeve shirt and pants set from a garage sale that I had put in the closet earlier this summer to save for fall. Around here it has been unseasonably chilly (a perfect temperature, if you ask me, but I love fall), and we had to break out some warmer clothes. This particular outfit has little birds on it, and she will not take it off. She calls it her "buhd" shirt (she can't pronouce the "r" in bird). So I think out of the past week, she has probably worn it for at least part of the last 6 days.
She recently learned how to hum the song "Lullaby and Goodnight" or whatever its real name is. She hums it so tenderly to all her babies and her stuffed kitty when she tucks them in to go to sleep. Then she looks up at whoever is nearby and says, "Grandma sings that."
That's about all for now. Maybe some pictures tomorrow.
She was putting on a zippered sweatshirt the other day and said to me, "Papa (grandpa) made this." I think she said that because we always talk about the blankets and sweaters that Grandma Carol Ann made for her. I replied, "No, grandpa did not make that sweatshirt. Mama got it for you at a garage sale." She looks up at me with her big blue eyes and says, "Oh, thank you Mama!"
She also really likes to share right now (we'll see how long that lasts). She and I have had a lot of breakfasts and lunches together recently, and inevitably she asks me if I want to share something, which actually means she wants my food, not that she wants to offer me some. But once I share with her, she is more than happy to extend her slobbery little portions with the sweetest "Want to share, Mama?" After that, the entire conversation revolves around saying "Oh, thank you!" for each bite or sip exchanged. Except she can't really say thank you. It is pronounced "Deet doo." It is so sweet, it is one of my favorite things she says.
A couple of days ago she took an apple slice from her plate at lunch and started driving it around the table like a car. She made little car noises and then made siren noises and said "Help 'body" She means "help somebody," which is what we talk about when we hear ambulances/fire trucks near our house. She is beginning to play pretend and develop a little imagination. It is neat to see that develop in her, as we sort of take that for granted as adults. But kids are concrete thinkers for the first couple of years of life, and then around 2 years of age begin to have more abstract thought. She is beginning to use objects for abstract uses (apple slice=car). She also will now pretend things are there that aren't really, such as feeding her doll imaginary food. She also pretends she is a puppy every now and then.
She is into expressing feelings right now. She got shots at her two year check up today, and when we were driving home this evening she told me she was "so sad, Mama." I asked her why, and she told me she was sick from the shots today. I told her she could have some Tylenol when we got home if she needed it (she LOVES Tylenol, but rarely gets it). A few minutes later she piped up from the back seat "Happy now, Mama!"
She has a new outfit I can barely get off of her because she is so in love with it. This week I pulled out a new long sleeve shirt and pants set from a garage sale that I had put in the closet earlier this summer to save for fall. Around here it has been unseasonably chilly (a perfect temperature, if you ask me, but I love fall), and we had to break out some warmer clothes. This particular outfit has little birds on it, and she will not take it off. She calls it her "buhd" shirt (she can't pronouce the "r" in bird). So I think out of the past week, she has probably worn it for at least part of the last 6 days.
She recently learned how to hum the song "Lullaby and Goodnight" or whatever its real name is. She hums it so tenderly to all her babies and her stuffed kitty when she tucks them in to go to sleep. Then she looks up at whoever is nearby and says, "Grandma sings that."
That's about all for now. Maybe some pictures tomorrow.
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