Charlotte with her new robot blanket

Thanks Jen & Steve!

Superchunk

I present, Superchunk, our new affectionate nickname for Charlotte.  She outgrew all her preemie size clothes a long time ago, and her newborn sizes a couple weeks ago.  Now she is starting to outgrow her 0-3 months size clothes in width.  Some of her snap-up sleepers are bursting at the seems.  She also has what my cousin Jamie refers to as "arm sleeves" when a baby's arm fat is such that there is a roll at the wrist so it looks as though the baby is wearing a shirt of baby fat.  It looks good on her.

My Crazy Singing Drives Her Happy

Emily got some footage of Charlotte smiling earlier today during my first performance of "She Drives Me Crazy."  Hopefully the pictures will be post-worthy.

In the meantime, tonight, after getting Charlotte fed and happy, Emily started getting ready to go out with friends. Charlotte and I then settled in together for a father-daughter night.  I broke into my awesome "She Drives Me Crazy" falsetto, and look at the results!

I Drive Em Crazy*

*Conversation with Emily #812

I got ten, maybe 11, smiles out of Charlotte in a five minute span today.  It was pretty awesome.  Well awesome for me.  After telling Emily what was going on, she said, "Is that really the only way you can get her to smile?  I think she's getting sick of it."

What Emily really meant to say is that she herself was getting sick of my smile elicitation method, not Chatlotte.  My secret?  To sing the chorus to this song in falsetto, over and over.

It's Always Smiles Time in Here!

Well, not always.  Charlotte has been smiling randomly and I swear that today she intentionally smiled at me TWICE.  Charlotte was looking me in the eyes and I smiled at her and she smiled so I did it again and she did too.  Ask my mom, she was here and witnessed it.  Pretty freaking awesome.  We'll get pictures as soon as possible.

My Obligatory Storm of the Century Post

Over the weekend we experienced the Storm of the Century! Seventeen inches was the official total in Minneapolis, which is a lot.  It looks like even more after it's been shoveled and plowed into huge piles.  Of course, I love it.  When I was a kid, waking up to a whole lotta snow was such a thrill because there was always the possibility of a snow day.  Even though I don't get snow days anymore, I still feel like a kid when it snows a lot.  Mike, on the other hand, gets snow days now that he works in a school.  I think that now that he can experience the anticipation of snow days he will appreciate snow and cold more, but that is another story.

Our street after it has been plowed.  Love all the clean snow.

Our garage has a cool snow drift on top of it.

Mike shovels our snow, which took a long, long time this weekend.  He would like a snowblower to clear the snow from now on.  I don't think we need a snowblower, but I love the way snowblowers leave these clean slices in the snow.  

Nice square corners.

Fresh, untrodden snow is always pretty.  It's fun to go out after a big snowfall and check things out.  Today was the first day I actually got out to see the snow.  Mike was saying how different it is now that we have Charlotte.  Before Charlotte, we might have had a little adventure in the snow and walked to the wine bar, or down to the river with Poncho.  This year we might not have any fun in the snow together, but in a couple years we get to play in the snow with Charlotte.

Rabbit tracks at the park.

Cool snow drifting around a tree.

Funny Girl

Charlotte took a nap right after a bath today and woke up with this puffy bedhead.

Then later today, she unintentionally sucked her thumb. We thought it was funny.