Happy Birthday Charlie May!!

Today my little girl turned 2!! Time really does fly. I still remember the day we took her home like it was yesterday. We were so scared we would not know how to take care of a baby. We learn as we go and so far I think we're all doing alright. :)

Here's a list of some things Charlotte's doing at 2:
*Speaks very well and is starting to make sentences.
Here's an example: "Lainey outside snow wet."
Translation: Lainey's outside in the snow getting wet.
*Recognizes the colors red, blue, green, yellow, white and black. I can ask her to go get her pink shoes and she actually comes back with the pink shoes.
*Counts to 13. She loves to count things.
*Recognizes a lot of letters & numbers in books and around town on signs. A couple weeks ago we happened to be sitting at a traffic light in front of a Super 8 Hotel. Out of no where, she keeps saying 8, 8, big 8. I look over and sure enough, there was a big 8 staring back at me.
*LOVES to go to Barnes & Noble to play with the train table and look at the books then head to Petco to see all the animals.
*Gets very excited to go anywhere in the car... sometimes I wonder if we're too used to having a dog. LOL
*Sings quite a bit now and still loves music.
*Has to hug, kiss then hug again EVERYONE who leaves the house or if we're leaving their house. She's very Hollywood!
*Cries if she's in earshot of me closing the refrigerator door. She LOVES to close all doors. She'll say "Charlotte close door."
*Seems to enjoy cleaning up just as much as making the mess and we love to encourage that. She throws all her own diapers in the trash.
*She's peed on the potty twice now but hasn't been interested for a couple weeks. She gets on it every morning before her bath.
*Speaking of baths... She really likes watching the tornado as the water is going down the drain.
*She still eats really well, pretty much anything we put in front of her and she still loves fruits and vegetables. If you ask what she wants for dinner, she'll say chicken & peas... Either that's her favorite or she eats that combo a lot. LOL
*Her favorite things to watch are Sesame St (Elmo), a dog competition that Stephe taped, Jeopardy and she still likes The Simpsons (AKA Bart).
*Is getting very independent... She wants to do everything "self".

OK, enough of my proud Mom babbling. There are just some things that I'd like to look back and remember some day. :)

Here are some pictures from Charlotte's birthday party. I know you can't tell since she will not smile for my camera, but she had an awesome time. She was so excited when she walked into the gym and saw all this cool stuff set up for her. Her friends that were at the party were Daniel, Owen, Hunter, Ryan & Megan Jacques, Emma Landry, Ryan Gallant, Gavin & Alley McLaughlin & Meghan McAvene. Adults that attended were Mommy, Daddy, Auntie Krista, Auntie Mich, Uncle Scott, Uncle Jim, Auntie Janice & Uncle Jacques, Laura, Renee, Sammy, Lynn, Jenn & Ted. It seemed like everyone had a lot of fun.

Happy Birthday "Charlette" cake

Two of Charlotte's special buddies weren't able to make it to her party. Here's their story: Charlotte was born within 2 days of 2 of my friends' babies. We were in the hospital together. I know, what a weird coincidence... What's weirder is Patty and I are both due within a week of each other with baby #2!! Anyway, Aime had Jacob on Monday, I had Charlotte Wednesday and Patty had Hannah Friday. Hannah & Jake both had their birthday parties on the same day so they weren't able to come to Charlotte's party. We did manage to make it to the tail end of Jake's party though so I was able to get a couple pictures of the 2 kids together.

Charlotte and her birthday buddy Jake