My Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. It was a fabulous birthday. Dave gave me 1 GB of memory for my ibook. Yay for a better working computer. I can totally tell a difference and it makes me really happy. Dave also gave me a day of time. We just spent the afternoon at home together playing some of our favorite computer games. It was just really nice and relaxing. Then at about 5pm we dropped the Charlie off at Grammie's house and headed up to Disneyland. For once we took the camera and actually used it. So for the first time in a while, pictures of Dave and I are making it onto the blog.

On the boardwalk at California Adventures

On Toy Story Mania

The following three video clips are from the new show at Small World. The three together catch pretty much all of the show (I had to start and stop to keep the files small enough to upload onto here, plus we were moving through the line)

Birthday Dinner at Grandma Arva's

On Sunday night we went over to my Grandmother’s house for a birthday dinner and birthday cake. We had a really nice time with them. Charlie loved their house with all of the room and all of the cool toys that we don’t have at our house. The first toy he bee lined to was the cozy coupe. He spent a large amount of his time pushing himself around in it.


His second favorite toy was this roller toy that had chimes in it. They don't make it anymore otherwise he would have one at home. He just did not want to leave it behind while he went and played with the cozy coupe. Those cozy coupes really need more cargo room.






Charlie also loves playing the piano. He was introduced to its wonderfulness at church, had more exposure when we went to visit Nana and just could not get enough of it at Grandma's.







Here is Charlie trying to play with both the piano and the rolling chime toy.



Another rolling musical instrument. Charlie enjoyed this one as well. I wish they still made these toys like this one. They are just so cool when you drag them and they make noise.


And a picture of me with my birthday cake since that is why we went in the first place.

Charlie, meet Birdie

Silly Picture

Just had to share this cute picture of Charlie.

Rockin' Out

We were given this awesome tricycle. It doubles as a rocker. Charlie loves rockin' out on his new rocker.




The sound is a little loud in the video. I was listening to Christmas music at the time.

Eating

Charlie wants to grow up so quickly. Here he is learning to use the fork. He is getting much better and is starting to get more in his mouth than down his shirt. Go Charlie!!

Christmas Wish

Charlie wants something for Christmas. He picked it out at Toys R' Us on Saturday. Show us what you want Charlie...

Here is what he is pointing at. He wants a cozy coupe. 16 months and already car crazy.

New Abilities

Charlie has a new ability. He is able to turn his light and fan on and off. The crib is nicely positioned right next to the light switch.




Time to rearrange his room.

Bath Time Jingles

We have the coolest Christmas elves. They have been sharing some of the most fantastic things. Saturday night we celebrated the sixth day of Christmas. On our doorstep was a bath time xylophone for Charlie. He LOVES it. Here is a cute video of him playing with it.

Hand them over mom...

Charlie frequently sees me switching from sunglasses to regular glasses and putting the extra pair in my case. My sunglasses spent yesterday on the kitchen counter so the case was empty all day long. Yesterday Charlie was rummaging through the diaper bag and found the case for my glasses. He opened it up, found that it was empty, looked up at me and pointed to my face. He wanted to put my glasses in the case since he knew that was where they belonged. I wish I had a little video of him demanding me to hand over the glasses. It was quite cute.

Ornament Thief

I feel like all I have been telling Charlie is "don't touch". He can't touch the bird or the shutters. Now we have added the Christmas tree full of fun, colorful ornaments. Usually I let him watch and then tell him not to touch once his little hand extends towards one of his favorites. Well, I got distracted. Which is pretty easy when you are cleaning. I looked up and saw the back of Charlie retreating into his room with a black pompom bear ornament in one hand. When I get to him he looks up to me and holds the bear up for me to take. He then takes me back to the tree and picks up the plastic hook so that I can put it back on the tree. Such a good boy.

(don't tell Dave that I was slacking at my sentry station overlooking the tree) :)

Finally...

We can now officially go public with our happy news. After multiple tries and finally just having to get them to notice Dave's parents now know about our coming addition. Yep. We are awaiting our second little wee one. We won't find out until after Christmas what we are having. It is super exciting for us. Charlie doesn't have a clue yet. He'll catch on once June comes around.