A day at the park!

Charlie spent the other day at the park with her little girl friends. She is such a big girl now, she knows how to swing. No more baby swing for her.

Colts Win!!

Lee and Yancey had everyone over for the game last night. I am usually not a Colts fan, but I was pulling for them once Carolina (and Brett) were out of the running. Anyway it was a good time (for most of us, I think there were a few Bears fans that might say otherwise!!!)

PS Thanks again Chris...I owe you all dinner one night or something;)

They are watching the half time show with Prince...I like his music, but I think they all like HIM way more than I do!

Saturday night

Jenni and Kevin had us all over Sat night to cook out and so we could finally meet their very adorable little boy. Charlie was in heaven, they had all her favorite things...a baby, a fire, a set of stairs, two cats and two dogs. She was very entertained. Drake slept the whole time we were there, but it was fun holding him and watching him sleep. Thanks again for having us all over, we enjoyed it and we can't wait to spend a lot more time with you all (Drake is beautiful)!!!!!

Trip to Columbia...

Charlie and I went to Columbia for a few days and she had so much fun playing with her cousin. They got to play all day Wednesday, Thursday and part of Friday!! They are so funny together and they are nonstop. We wish they lived in Charleston!!!!! (It is hard enough to get pictures of one active kid, it is virtually impossible to get a picture of two of them.)

Charlie and Susana

On our last day in Columbia mom and I took Charlie to EdVenture and met Jennifer, Hunter and Lucy Gray there. Lucy Gray has gotten so big since the last time I saw her. Charlie had a good time running around with Hunter and looking at the baby. It was good to see all of them. Here are some of the pictures (Of course they are in no order!)

EdVenture!

Running in circles is always entertaining!


Charlie making Lucy Gray smile! (She wants a baby so bad)


Grandma and Charlie playing in the sand.


Lucy Gray...what a cutie!


Hunter and Charlie reporting the news. That is a magnifine glass stuck to Charlie's face.


Charlie catching "snowflakes" in her mouth at snowville.


More snowville


Charlie driving the firetruck.

Charlie's dance teacher invited parents to come watch their class this past Wednesday. Charlie had a large showing including Mom and Dad, Grandmama, Susana and Uncle Michael. Unfortunately Charlie had the smallest performance. She preferred to sit in my lap and watch the class like everyone else. In her defense she is the youngest member of the group and the only one who does not attend day care (that and maybe the fact her cousin was here)!! It was still good to see what they do in class, and her teacher assured me that Charlie fully participates every week. They were all so cute, I wish the classroom had a two way mirror so I could see little Charlie sashaying across the room. Anyway Mrs. Jessica convinced Charlie to dance for a second with the wand, and that was about it. After class we went home and the two ate lunch and played for a little while before they headed home. It was a fun day, Charlie just wishes Susana lived in Charleston.

Best Buddies!!

Charlie at the aquarium

Charlie asked me if we could go to the fish museum the other day. I did not realize she didn't know what it was called, but I thought how resourceful to call it the fish museum. After teaching her that it is usually referred to as the aquarium (pronounced aqa~warium...Close enough) we took a trip downtown. She had a good time, she pretty much had run of the place so she watched the giant turtle a lot and tried to make out with the alligator (she always tries to kiss it, I don't know why. As you can see in the bottom picture I have taught her to blow the alligator a kiss.) Anyway, we stopped in the gift shop for the first time ever and of course I bought her something, a little rubber frog that lights up. Outside of the museum there are big frog statutes scattered around. One sits on a bench and you can sit next to it. When we were leaving Charlie asked where the froggy's daddy was and I told her I did not know. She pointed to the big frog and said "right there mommy" (in Charlie's world anything that is big is a daddy and anything that is little is a baby. Mommys got the shaft!) She wanted to walk over to the frog so I did and when we got there she looked at the frog and said "Here is your baby frog!" She wanted to leave the frog there but, I asked the daddy if Charlie took really good care of the baby if he could come home with us. Fortunately I speak frog and he said yes, otherwise my big purchase of a rubber frog would have been left on the bench with the big daddy frog. After all that was cleared we turned to go home and Charlie said "don't be sad daddy frog, I will take good care of the baby frog!!"

Wow, yesterday was baby day!!

Congratulations to...
Jenni and Kevin, they welcomed
Crawford "Drake" Roberson to the world!!
AND
Meghan and Brien, they welcomed
Caitlin Elizabeth DuBois to the world!!!
Both babies were born yesterday, and mom and babies are doing great (dad's too!)
I hope to get some pictures soon to share with everyone.

The power of imagination!

Most children see milk & Orange Juice...However, my child insists that it is milk and beer!!! That should go over well when she starts pre-
school.

Charlie in bubbles!!

Chalrie got her first set of Little People from Aunt Phoebe for Christmas, and so far she has loved it!! I love watching her play with it so much that I went out and bought her more (And playing together is pretty fun too!!!). Here are some pictures of her playing with it. So far all her Christmas presents have been a hit...Santa and family did OK!!!!

Happy New Year!

We hope everyone had a great time ringing in the new year. We were child free and decided to hang out at Lindsay and Brad's house since we all went out the night before (and some of us were felling a little worse than others!!) Anyway, it was good to see Yaya and Patrick~thanks for the good laugh Patrick...stick to hunting, not cleaning:) ~ and watching Brad sing Karaoke!!!! 2007 started with a lot of laughing for me...that is a good sign!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!