Charlotte loves music. She does a little bouncy dance and waves her arms in the air like she just don't care. Here she is showing off with her pitch pipe and her new drum.
September 19, 2011
September 15, 2011
There She Goes
Here she is scooting across the living room. Turn up the volume so you can hear her grunting with each effort.
September 13, 2011
This is a Special News Bulletin!
Acutally, two special news bulletins!
First, we have reports from Suze that Charlotte scootched all the way to the kitchen today. It is not exactly crawling. She basically uses her arms and drags her body behind her. It's pretty awesome. We should attach Swiffers to her clothes so she can pick up all the pet hair while she scootches. Of course, when I got home she refused to do it. Oh, the life of a working mom! Wah.
Second, Charlotte said her first word about 2 weeks ago. I've been holding out on sharing this piece of news because I wanted to have a video to go with the announcement. Alas! For weeks, Charlotte had been saying something that sounded like, "cat" but it was not very specific. Sometimes there wasn't a cat nearby or it just sounded like she was scat singing or something. Then one morning, Mike went in her room when she woke up. They were hanging out and in walks Nacho Grande and Charlotte said, "Cat!" Then she did it again. And when she came downstairs and the cats were sitting in the window, she said cat at again. Very exciting! And ironic. You see, I do not like the the cats. Earlier this summer I was looking for a new home for them (sidebar: my mom died and her cat, who is old, needs a new home. My cats are young and more likely to be adopted, or so I thought. This was right after the tornado in North Minneapolis and there was an overabundance of pets without homes. So, we kept out cats and my sister kept my mom's cat. The end.). Charlotte has been increasingly paying attention to the cats. She would reach out to pet or grab a handful of them, and she would clap at them. It actually made me hate the cats less. Then a few days later, we were listening to a CD with children's songs and there was a song with meowing and Charlotte meowed in response to the song. Looks like we've got a cat person on our hands!
First, we have reports from Suze that Charlotte scootched all the way to the kitchen today. It is not exactly crawling. She basically uses her arms and drags her body behind her. It's pretty awesome. We should attach Swiffers to her clothes so she can pick up all the pet hair while she scootches. Of course, when I got home she refused to do it. Oh, the life of a working mom! Wah.
Second, Charlotte said her first word about 2 weeks ago. I've been holding out on sharing this piece of news because I wanted to have a video to go with the announcement. Alas! For weeks, Charlotte had been saying something that sounded like, "cat" but it was not very specific. Sometimes there wasn't a cat nearby or it just sounded like she was scat singing or something. Then one morning, Mike went in her room when she woke up. They were hanging out and in walks Nacho Grande and Charlotte said, "Cat!" Then she did it again. And when she came downstairs and the cats were sitting in the window, she said cat at again. Very exciting! And ironic. You see, I do not like the the cats. Earlier this summer I was looking for a new home for them (sidebar: my mom died and her cat, who is old, needs a new home. My cats are young and more likely to be adopted, or so I thought. This was right after the tornado in North Minneapolis and there was an overabundance of pets without homes. So, we kept out cats and my sister kept my mom's cat. The end.). Charlotte has been increasingly paying attention to the cats. She would reach out to pet or grab a handful of them, and she would clap at them. It actually made me hate the cats less. Then a few days later, we were listening to a CD with children's songs and there was a song with meowing and Charlotte meowed in response to the song. Looks like we've got a cat person on our hands!
September 06, 2011
Suze's Scrapbook
One of Charlotte's new skills is pointing. Here she is showing Suze some of her favorite pages in the scrapbook.
Charlotte's First Trip to the Fair & Corn on the Cob
Over the weekend we took Charlotte to The Fair. We had our turkey sandwiches (and I did not share with Charlotte), saw lots of animals, Mike and Suze bought some honey and we checked out the crafts. Charlotte was a trooper. I think she enjoyed the animals and that we carried her around a lot.
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| Charlotte checking out a goose or a goose checking out Charlotte |
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| Rooster |
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| Charlotte figuring it out |
She didn't get much off the cob since she barely has any teeth. But seeing her little teeth marks on the cob was the cutest thing.
September 01, 2011
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