Ruby Rubes and Charlotte Too!: Charlotte

Charlie has been growing and changing and learning in leaps and bounds these past few weeks. She is so confident with pulling herself up and sitting herself back down and standing and is also starting to cruise around furniture. She's fast! She's still doing the army crawl but a lot of the time I look over and she's in the "plank pose" so she really, really wants to be walking instead. Her bottom two teeth are all the way in and RAZOR sharp! The poor thing has had back to back double ear infections since we got back from our Canada visit but is in good spirits.

Charlie is a pretty funny baby. Her personality is really coming out and she loves to laugh as well as get a laugh. She'll play peek-a-boo with pretty much anything and especially loves it when Ruby says peek-a-BOO in her face. Aaah, the giggles! She loves looking at her doggy book. She looks at each page and each doggy intently and then violently turns the page to study the next picture. Every once in a while she'll lean in and give one of the doggies a kiss.

Charlie has an amazing appetite! Pretty much every day, Doug and I look at each other and say "should we just keep feeding her?" It's amazing to me sometimes the amount of food she'll eat in one meal. She eats more than Ruby! Luckily, she's not a picky eater so it's easy to feed her healthy, nutritious meals. This past week was the first time in a long time that I made one meal for everyone! Yay me!!

Ruby has seemed to really turn a corner and is being a great big sister. They actually play together now for short periods of time and Ruby is really great at getting Charlie to laugh or cheering her up if she's fussy in her car seat. When Ruby's in the mood, she's a great help to me too. Her favorite thing right now is playing Go Fish. We have really fun time playing it and she's good at it! Her equally favorite thing to do is play hide-and-seek, she's really good at that too and is now picking good hiding places and staying quiet until I find her. Turns out though, she really gets terrified when I jump out at her when I'm hiding behind the shower curtain. :) What? If I have to play hide-and-seek 5 ka-zillion times a day, I gotta have some fun with it, right? My favorite Ruby quote of the week is, "Mom, when can I grow up and be a mom and know everything?" Gotta love that kid!

Love these blue eyes!