Charlotte is just about the most wonderful little child a parent could ask for. She is very easy to entertain, get along with, joke around with, snuggle, take places, etc. I can see how, if people have a kid like this as their first, they feel that they could have like 12 kids no problem. I mean, she is a toddler & has her moments, but overall, she’s an absolute delight.
She pronounces the letter “r” like “–uh”. So “show-uh” for “shower.” I joke that she has a British accent.
This week she’s been into naming the people she knows & correctly calling each one a girl (“gull”) or boy (“buoy”).
Charlotte likes to line things up a lot, especially books & Band-Aids. She would love it if she could put on a new girly Band-Aid every single day, for no reason at all.
This girl really likes books, and I’m glad that I have time to read to her when she asks a few times a day. (I think this will be extra helpful in less than 5 weeks when I’m going to be sitting & nursing a newborn). Charlotte also likes to read to herself & to me, which I love (especially when she quotes exact lines from the books with her cute voice).
Charlotte is into makeup (I just let her have makeup brushes), purses, & jewelry. I know this is not uncommon for a girl, but I still find it entertaining. She’ll fill up her purses with rings, tiny toys, & her pretend cell phone, & carry them around all day. She’ll even take the toy cell phone out of her purse & “text” someone.
She also loves the colors pink & purple. One day, she dumped out all my hair elastics, sorted the pink & purple ones from the rest, & put them all up one arm as her bracelets for the day.
Charlotte’s favorite/ most quoted quotes these days:
— “So, how’s YOUR day?”
— “Trick or treat, smell my feet” (when I go to get her out of her car seat, she points her toes at me & says this)
— “This is a nice day for a picnic.”
— “Wanna see my cool trick?!?”
— “That was so much fun!!!” or “That was a fun day.”
— “I can’t go get it. My nails are paint.” or “I can’t! I have winguh-nails!” (=fingernails)
— “We don’t say, ‘Oh my gosh.’ We say, ‘Oh my my.’ ”
— “We need to buy that.”
— “It’s the same!!!” (when she recognizes something that’s familiar or the same as what we have)
