Pop Ice Fight

Charlotte is in a fight with Pop Ice and Pop Ice is winning. We've got Pop Ice everywhere. You know summer is coming when Wal-Mart pulls out the bags of 500 Pop Ice for $2.50.

We are outside and Charlotte is toddling around with her frozen colored sugar water. She shared with Eloise.

We played at the park earlier. Charlotte said hello to just about everyone and got to meet a beagle. She was a great big girl, and held out her hand. The man that belonged to the beagle was quite impressed with her 'dogginess' (she held out her hand to meet the dog).

It was a good day. The telephone line is finally fixed. Charlotte ate well today, she napped well and played hard. We made brownies yesterday and she thinks they're delicious.

We've been practicing body parts. Charlotte knows: eyes, ears, cheeks, mouth, teeth, nose, knees, belly button, toes, hienie and glasses (mommy's glasses, might as well be a body part for me). She knows alot of words too but none that she's saying really...she says mama, about the only thing consistently...

Last week Popi invited Charlotte to 'Take Your Daughters to Work Day' and since we were headed that way, we stopped by Noni's office as well. Charty was a stinker. She didn't want to go in her stroller and was overwhelmed by everything at first - all the cars and people and buildings of downtown Atlanta but she started warming up pretty fast. She hadn't seen her umbrella stroller in weeks and weeks and as soon as I pulled her out of it, she wanted nothing more than to blindly push in all over Noni's office. We ate lunch in a library-quiet federal building. I pretty much let Charty do whatever she wanted because I was so afraid of a hissy fit in that cafeteria with judges and lawyers and cops.

She did much better by the time we made it to Popi's office. She was friendly and cute and had a ball showing off her new squeaky shoes her Noni bought her. She loved them so much in fact that when she opened the gift she immediately tried to put them on and then fell asleep with the shoes still on her feet. The next morning, first thing, she looked around till she found them, pointed them out to me and said, mama?

Not to be braggy but she's also saying ball and elmo with regular certainty. I know her friend Allison had a vocabulary of, what, 75 words at this point, but you know what? That's OKAY! Actually, remembering all Allison was saying at this point helps me realize how many words Charlotte understands.

We had dinner with Charlotte's Gigi - barbecue. Charty wasn't a huge fun of the sauce but she had a ball taking our napkins to the garbage for us. New favorite game - throwing things away.

Daddy went fishing with PJ and made it back that Saturday so we got to visit with him for a bit - not long enough though! And we can't wait to make it up to Rome to visit PJ and Kiki soon!