Fun

Every day Charlotte is getting older and smarter. Saturday morning she tore through the house, spewing toys in her wake. By late more there were puzzle pieces, dolls, books, and all kinds of stuff all over the living room floor. In the middle was an assortment of letters that usually stick to the refrigerator. Instead they lay in the middle of the floor, barely touched.

Dad asked Charlotte "Can you go get me the letter W?". Intently she walks over to the letters, searches for a moment, picks up the letter W and hands it to dad. He was half expecting her to just hand him any letter in hopes that this game will help start her picking up all the letters from the floor. Thinking it was just a fluke...this time he asked, "Charlotte can you find me the letter O"? She walks over, looks at each piece, finds the letter O then hands it to dad. WOW.

Before you get too excited that we have a prodigy on our hands, she did get the next two wrong. Seems the letter L looks like the letter Q. And the R? She just didn't even bother looking for it. We will keep practicing. This teaching stuff is fun.

Saturday evening the Reeves invited us over to have munchies and participate in the annual Christmas tree burning experience. Charlotte of course was so excited to see Mason, Brodie, and Colin. Unfortunately it rained very hard Friday night, thus making the burning of the tree a little slower and more controlled than usual. We had fun and Charlotte was pooped by 8pm.

Mason, Kelly, Dave, and Brodie

Lisa , Ryan, and Colin

The tree burning in the fire

My first marshmellow

My 2nd marshmellow

Once Charlotte woke up Sunday morning we came downstairs and opened the package she got from Grammy. She loved playing with the vacuum sealed bag before dad finally cut it open to reveal a hand knit dolly. The doll has two sides, one side is sleeping, the other is awake connected at the feet with a dress that you pull up or down revealing the other side. I know its hard to describe. Thats the best I can do. It also came with a purse/cradle for the dolly. Charlotte of course thought it was a hat and did a great job wearing it on her head.



Today Mom packed the van up with Charlotte and the dogs and headed to Vermont to visit with Tiffany, Liam, and Chase. Dad is leaving tomorrow on a work trip to Seattle for the week. Its only been one hour and thirty two minutes since they left and dad already misses them.