Category: Charlotte

I think I’ve mentioned more than once before that Charlotte is a very feminine little girl. She loves accessories & all things girly. Lately she even uses the words, “Um, I’d prefer…”

She often drapes all sorts of jewelry on her pink & purple unicorn Pillow Pet, whose name is Santa Rosa (just like everything else that she names). But when her unicorn has jewelry on, she is suddenly “Queeeeen Abella.”

When I let Charlotte have a couple of super cheap necklaces I got at Forever 21, she wanted to wear them just like this:

And she said her name was:

“Princess Queen Abella Charlotte Santa Rosa.”

Now THERE’S a royal name if I ever heard one!! We had to do a quick photo shoot of Her Highness.

I didn’t like the indoor light very much, so we went out to the front porch. It was a little too bright out there, but the light was better!

Sweet little girl.

Charlotte said an amusing prayer yesterday:

“…We’re thankful for this wonderful (=won-duh-full) day

We’re thankful that we don’t have to eat snakes for dinner like the people in China,

We’re thankful that we have good food,

We’re thankful that we’re lucky (<suggested to her mid-prayer by Chase),

Please help Chase to share some of his new gum with me.”

Charlotte gets to hang out with me all day & follow me around. She’s a great helper & enjoys doing chores, if we do them together. One day when we were cleaning the bathroom, she exclaimed,

“I want to scrub the bathtub until it sparkles!!”

…Alrighty then, be my guest!

She likes to do “homework” (to be like Chase), so I have her do something each day. Her favorite activity right now is doing Dot-to-Dot pages.

She also loves Disney music & movies, followed closely by Barbie movies.

The queen sitting upon her throne.

Playing with one of her two female friends.

She is obsessed with juice. Otherwise, she likes vanilla soymilk. I want to remember her “drinking face”—very engrossed in drinking, & flashing those big baby blues.

(I feel very overwhelmed by the volume of photos & events I haven’t blogged about! I will just start somewhere & do what I can!)

Charlotte loves ballet. She has wanted to be a “balle-wina” since she was 2. I told her that she could start classes when she turned 3. She looked forward to that day with much anticipation, & wanted to start right away! I enrolled her in an inexpensive community class (ballet & tap for age 3) for 8 weeks, and she loved it. She was always thrilled to go to her ballet class, she followed directions well, and I realized that she has a great sense of rhythm & grace. I see more ballet in her future!

Occasionally, the girls would get distracted & just play. On the last day, the floors had just been refinished, and I think the girls were all a little spacey as a result of the nasty fumes!

My parents gave Charlotte this adorable mini vanity & stool for her 3rd birthday.

Perfect for a little girl who is obsessed with stereotypical girly things! No, not with baby dolls, but with jewelry, makeup, & everything princess-y. And since Uncle Cotton gave Charlotte a big bag of real makeup for Christmas (thanks, I guess) & princess hair things for her birthday, she had the vanity drawer well-stocked in no time.

Charlotte has had a couple of friends over to get all dolled up with her. She had been very tidy with the makeup before she had this friend over… But after her friend smeared red lip gloss all over the place, I made them call it quits!!

It’s a shame that I didn’t take pictures of her & her other friend Ava, after they had done what they called “scary makeup” on each other! Which meant huge, multi-colored circles of cream eye shadow on their cheeks, and dark streaks across their eyelids.

Ah, to be young again!!