Story time!

Charlotte just told me what I believe is her very first make-believe story.

"Went to the ... diamond store!"

"You went to the diamond store?!"

"Uhhuhyes. [All one word.] Went to the the diamond store."

"What did you do at the diamond store?"

"Umm...had coffee. Went to the diamond store had coffee."

"You had coffee at the diamond store?"

"Uhhuhyes. Aaaand a carseat. Sit in a carseat had coffee."


This is the abridged version, partly because there was a lot of repeating in this story and partly because I forgot how exactly it went after those first couple exchanges. But you get the gist.

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Super early but...

I had a coupon about to expire so I ordered up some birthday invitations! Hooray. :)

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We just had our first cooking lesson on Charlotte's current favorite food: scrambled eggs. She was cool through the egg cracking and pouring inthe "cowmilk" but got pretty confused once we stirred them up and poured them in the pan. "Scrambled eggs hiding?" Then, when they had cooked enough to be recognizable "There they are! You found 'em!" ♥

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some recent gems

Apparently I tell Charlotte quite often that she looks grown up. It seems I do it most when brushing or otherwise referring to her hair. The other night I had showered and was laying in bed with damp hair, which Charlotte finds fascinating. as she was stroking my hair, she looked at me very earnestly and said "Mama. So grown up."

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We do a lot of counting things in English and Spanish, and more recently, letter-sounding and naming. We see a word like "Kite" and I will say "kuh-ih-tuh-eh" the "k-i-t-e, kite." Almost any time she sees a word she'll shout "letters!" (This makes car rides interesting.) And sometimes if she's interested in hearing what the letters say or are, she'll tell me "Count 'em. 'Panish."

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Today at work, she climbed on to the big couch, wrapped herself in a throw blanket, and said, "Doing some snuggle-upping!"

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Also at work today, she brought me a small toy truck (about softball-sized) that looks like a small version of our friends' non-working Power Wheels car that she loves to "drive." She told me "In it. Ma' help you." I looked and nothing was in it, so I asked her to tell me again, to make sure I heard right. She repeated "In it. Ma' help you." I asked her what she wanted me to help her put in it. Her almost immediate response was "Tushie."

When I told her it was too small and she was too big to sit in the truck, she took it from my hands, set it on the floor, and attempted to fit her foot inside. :)