My Chick-a-dee

Charlotte was a Chicken for her second Halloween. She didn't go Trick or Treating but she did go to the Fall Festival at Ocean Lakes High School where all of my students oohed and aahed about her. Everyone else did too. I mean, come on, that chick is ADORABLE!! She got to play games and see lots of other teacher's kids roaming around. She really enjoyed playing with the older kids and ran after many of them. Right across the football field. 

Can't catch me Mama and Daddy!

Melmo and MOUSE!!

I always wondered how one year olds chose their "favorite" toys. Now I know. Charlotte has many, many books, but there are only two that she wants to read. One is called "It's Not Easy Being Big" about Big Bird and Small Elmo. The other is a book about Elmo getting caught on a kite and flying back to Sesame Street. She LOVES Elmo and she refers to him as "Melmo" whenever she sees any image of him.

Charlotte's favorite book!!

Charlotte has also discovered The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. She now screams MOUSE at the top of her lungs anytime she sees Mickey Mouse. Grandma said she did that the other day in Barnes and Noble when she saw the Mickey Mouse book so that was what she got!! She will also dance to the "Hot Dog Hot Dog Hot Diggity Dog" song whenever it comes on.

Hot DAWG!

She loves dancing!!!

Birthday Girl!

Charlotte celebrated her birthday twice this year. Once on September 11, 2011 with lots of family and friends and once on her real birthday on September 15, 2011 with Mommy, Daddy, Grandma Judy, and Grandma and Grandpa Styron. She enjoyed herself both days! She got lots of great presents and had a little bit of cake. She wasn't really sure what to think about it at first. Then she started poking at the icing. Yummy! It ended up looking like hot pink lipstick though!

Hey you! I am one!

She loved her new baby dolls, toys and her new clothes. Her grandma gave her the carriage her mother used, and she used, and I used and now she will use to push around our old baby doll "Judy."

Baby!!

On her real birthday she had a photo session, of course, and grandma got some gorgeous shots!

Yes, I am a fairy princess!

Walk this Way

She stands and delivers...and now she walks!! Charlotte began standing pretty proficiently a few weeks ago and now she is walking! She took a few steps here and there and then I dropped her off at the babysitter on Thursday. When I picked her up she told me that she had been walking all over! How rude of Charlotte to do that without me there! But she soon walked for me and Daddy and Grandma and now she toddles all over and then lands on her behind and gets up and does it again.

Step One

Step Two

And we're off...

My Baby Can Read

Charlotte spent no less than 30 minutes today engrossed in a book. Happy Birthday Little Witch was a personal favorite of mine when I was young and Charlotte took it off the shelf the other day and slid it into the living room. Her daddy read it to her last week and we giggled over the fact that the Little Witch was upset about her Aunt Grouchy "making it rain" during her party. At any rate, today she took it out of her toybox and stared at it for a long time. She turned the pages, turned it over, talked to it, and I think she even smelled it a little bit (like I do). She got very upset when I tried to read it to her so I just left her alone to read it to herself. I was so enjoying watching her read that I didn't get a picture until she moved on to her ABC book.

Little Witch is in the Background

She is reading it to me

Now on to Looney Tunes...

New Tooth!

While we were examining the four teeth up top that have been bothering Charlotte for months (but have not bothered to pop through yet), another bottom tooth poked through!! So the count is at three. Three bottom teefies. She refuses to let us take a picture of her teeth. She just sticks her hand in her mouth when we try and look so we get to take a peek when she is grinning and laughing (and we have no camera). So I have no pictures of Charlotte's new tooth. I will add one when we can sneak a peek!!

I'm tryin' to walk HERE!!

Charlotte sat up at 6 months, crawled shortly thereafter, and has been "speed crawling" for about two months now. We thought she might be walking by the time we were at the beach, but she chose that week to get rid of baby food and move on up to adult food as opposed to concentrating on walking!  She may be walking by her birthday...we shall see. So far, she will cruise on the couches and she loves walking with her walky-thing (I am unsure what the real name of this pink contraption is). She is getting there!