Charlotte - Weeks 44 & 45

Charlie is really starting to amaze me with how smart she's getting. She is understanding so much now and you can really tell she's just taking everything in. She has a doggy book that she loves and we keep it in a basket with her other books, so the other morning I said to her, "Go get your doggy book" and she crawled over to the basket, found the book and brought it back to me! Such a smarty pants! She LOVES dogs and goes crazy, waving her hands and squealing whenever she sees one. She gives her stuffed doggy hugs and kisses and lays her head on him all the time. It's very sweet.


As sweet as Charlie is, she's equally strong-willed and determined. Once she gets her mind on something, there's no stopping her! She will scream and thrash her body until she gets when she wants. She already wants to push the buttons on the elevator like Ruby does. Oh boy, I see a lot of fights in our future! I know I'm biased but I think she's pretty smart for a 1o month old!

Just today, she started walking behind her push toy or whatever will move (chair, hamper). She can stand alone for longer periods of time now and is perfecting the clap while standing alone. She can climb the stairs pretty fast now - we better get moving with putting a gate up!

Watching Ruby and Charlie together is a lot of fun. Now that Charlie's bigger, I can let Ruby take on more of a "hands on" roll. Ruby loves to stand Charlie up, or sit her down or do anything remotely motherly. She's a pro at making Charlie laugh and even better at making her cry. Charlie adores Ruby and it's so awesome to see how her eyes light up when Ruby comes in the room. Just about every day, Ruby says, "I'm so glad we have a baby sister." I picked up Ruby from school today and overheard her bragging to her little friend about how big Charlie is now and what she can do. So cute!

Ruby is a blast. It's almost as if the horns have slowly faded away and our fun-loving, quirky, lovable little girl is back. Boy, 3 was hard, hopefully 4 will be a little easier! She's loving the knock-knock jokes and of course, the poop jokes are still a big hit. She really seems to enjoy being a really good, helpful girl/big sister. Life is good.

Chris, Charlie and Rubes. CUTE!

Giggles galore.

Yes, she was pretending her foot was her baby. She's pretty hilarious.

Getting her hair washed before her hair cut.

Pretty girl!

I think this one might need help in the hair department soon.

Typical.

Bathing beauty.

Eating Daddy's pear.

BFFs.

Deep in breakfast conversation.

Charlie is trying SO HARD to get to Ruby's precious lego giraffes. Notice Ruby guarding them. She's also screaming, "NO CHARLIE!"

She got one.

And here we go again...

No wonder she's so hyper.

Firefighter cuties.

"The Girl Who Had Fire For Hair."

Looking so grown up!

It is impossible to get a diaper on this one now!!

Yes, I'm talking about you!