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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Charlotte Claire

Perpetual motion....jumping, running.....she will be the camper trasher this year. (We have trouble with screens, the kids push on them, and they come out....) But she isn't always moving. Here she tries on a chain of dancing girls I cut for her, she thought it was a crown....
She is a story moocher...if you are sitting down, she brings you a book....Abigail is game for a story....



Even Sam doesn't mind reading to her...

Today Charlotte went in the pool with me and some of the other little kids. She wears a swim vest floatie, a full suit thing....so I hold on to her in the pool....today, she kept getting free and swimming around on her own....and getting mouthfuls. She is just so darned independent....she loves the hot tub, too....no one can sneak in without her going out, and putting on her floatie....and she changes her clothes all the time....she has on one of baby Camille's dresses, looks like a shirt, in the story-reading pictures....her favorite outfit is just a diaper, or sometimes not even that....I have to chase her down, and diaper her. She has no patience for sitting in the highchair....so she is sort of graduating to a booster seat at the table....sometimes she eats really well, but sometimes it's just a waste of food.....I don't like to give the kids food unless they are at the table, so I have to lure her sometimes with a popsicle, then give her something nutritious when she's done...
But she is just so adorable. She does not like having her picture taken. She says, "NO, no..."when she sees the camera....so I don't get many good ones of her....she likes to snuggle, and she copies me sometimes, I'll have my hands on my hips, and look at her and she is standing there with her hands on her hips...she doesn't miss a trick, she can hear a bag open or a wrapper from half the house away....she always seems to find the markers, loves to color on herself...She loves to jump on the couch, run, run, jump.(which is not allowed)....she is as stubborn as can be.


2 comments:

Cassandra said...

Della, your Cutie Charlotte sounds like my Andy, doesnt like his picture taken, Loves a story, (a moocher... lol) sometimes eats plenty and sometimes doesnt eat a thing, loves to colour 'things' lol...Loves running and jumping, especially on the couch...
But he doesnt like to be naked, Brady takes the cake there, middle of winter and he is happy to be naked LOL...

Anonymous said...

She sounds JUST like connor. Boy could those two tear down a house. Only he doesn't like stories and won't sit down for a single one. But he has realized coloring instead of scribbling and sat for an hour yesterday coloring very patiently his coloring book from publix. Also prefers to be naked.

Oh as for swimming, walmart has these new life jackets, they have to arm things (look like floaties) then a bigger part that goes around their chest. It is awesome. Connor will NOT let you hold him down, and with this is keeps him above water, not that he cares about going under and he never swallows the water. But its so awesome, and coast guard approved so you could use it at the beach also. :)