Category: Charlotte

Charlotte’s favorite pastime lately is to have tea parties. She asks me to have tea parties with her about 5 times a day (she actually asks, “Do you want to have a tea set?”). Sometimes I’m able to oblige, but sometimes I can’t! So I finally showed her how to have a tea party with her dolls (so that I could be off the hook, at least this time).

She raises her eyebrows & asks in a high-pitched, feminine voice, “Would you like some teeeeea?” We’ve tried to get her to say “hot chocolate” rather than “tea,” but apparently it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, because it hasn’t stuck yet!

Side Note: My mom bought Charlotte this tea set a couple months ago when Caroline was born. Charlotte later told me that she wished that the cups, etc. had faces on them, like the ones in her current favorite book, Penny Loves Pink. So I quickly drew some silly little faces on them with a Sharpie. Charlotte was delighted! She calls the teapot “Mrs. Potts,” of course.

She’s a happy, endearing girl. She often surprises me with the observations she makes about things & the new vocabulary she uses (like “complicated”, “testimony”, & “fantastic”). And she makes us laugh! I remembered to jot down a few things that Charlotte recently said…

– She was bawling about something as she walked into the kitchen. As I hugged her, she glanced at the pantry & bawled, “I think I just need some fruit snacks or somethiiiiiing!”

– Last night I was calling to Pace from outside, but he couldn’t hear me. So Charlotte screamed out in a loud, wild voice, “PAAACE!!!” and then turned to me and asked sweetly, “Don’t I have a beautiful voice?”

– Gretchen (Pace’s mom) was trying to get her to go to the bathroom. GG challenged Charlotte, “Come on, I’m going to beat you to the bathroom!” and Charlotte responded nonchalantly, “No, I don’t want to beat you.”

– She was climbing on the space heater in Caroline’s room. When I told her not to because it could tip over, she told me, “But I’m here. To protect it.”

– Pace was telling me some things about his day, when Charlotte came up, threw her hands up in the air, & asked him incredulously, “Are you kidding me?!?” And he just kept telling his story until she’d interrupt again with, “Are you really kidding me?!” This happened a few more times & just cracked me up.

Charlotte has been a pretty good sport lately, even as I’ve been spending a lot of time nursing & diapering Caroline. But we multitask… We have a lot of tea parties, we read books, we chat, & we play games. I’m glad she’s content to just hang out with me at home a lot! She carries around her purses filled with jewelry, buttons, play money, & lots of random little objects.

And Charlotte still really loves books! She can usually be found with a book or 5 in hand. Takes after her Grandma T.

She loves her GG!

I just realized that she’s wearing that same dress in every single picture of this post. Yes, my kids are quite opinionated about their clothing. Chase & Charlotte each have their favorite outfit (which is NOT my favorite outfit) & that is what they want to wear, every day! Oh well, life’s short, so I’m TRYING not to sweat the small stuff!

Charlotte went to a Princess Tea Party today for her friend Mollie’s birthday. She got all dressed up for the occasion!

My kids get sooooo excited for birthday parties! I love it because I remember how exciting parties were for me as a kid, too. I took a couple of quick photos while dropping her off, & then left her to enjoy her pink punch & all the other goodies at the tea party!

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)