Yep, the parent of the year award goes to........ Just kidding! Poor little Charlie Shay. She is a climber, so when she fell off the end of a church pew we thought she might have been a little banged up, but we were shocked to find out she broke her little arm.

She has been such a trooper! We have had the cast on for two weeks now, and the doc said she has two more to go! At least at the check up, we did decide to go with a water proof cast, so that bath time and swimming time are now a little easier!

She never complains about the cast, or tries to pick at it. She just goes about playing and running around just like she always has. Such a good little girl!

Summer Time

Just Chillin!
Dreaming of the summer sun!

Stuff Charlie has been up to!

Charlie working with Boo in the Garden! She loves going outside to pick the "Pretty Flowers". She leans down and tries to smell them, but she blows out instead of sucking in. It is sooo cute!

We went to the Arboretum and let her loose in the open field. She ran so hard! I could see how much fun she was having running around without having to hold on to Mommy's hand. Unfortunatly, at the mall, if she didn't hold on to Mommy's hand, she would take off and never look back! She has a very adventurous spirit, and she is very independant!

We have been very busy learning! Charlie can spell her name, if you ask her to. She can count to 13, but then says fourteen about 5 times until I finally have to say 20! Yay! She knows her colors, and the letters of the alphabet. We have a little puzzle of the USA and she can show you where, Texas, Utah, California, and Montana are. I know, random, but you have to start somewhere!! ;)

Pictures

These two pictures were taken exactly 1 year apart! She has changed so much, it's incredible!

Last weekend, our neighborhood put on an easter egg hunt. The flyer said the 0-3's would start at 9:30, so to be sure we weren't late Jeff, Charlie and I got there around 9:15 and decided we would walk around the park and look at the ducks while we waiting for the hunt to start. Well, as soon as we set foot out of the car, the glistening eggs immediately caught Charlie's eye and off she went running to gather them all up. Of course, the hunt didn't end up starting until 10:00. So for 45 minutes we had to wrangle an 18 month old to keep her from running out and getting any eggs.

As people started arriving and kids started getting restless, the organizer told everyone we had to stay on this winding sidewalk before she said go. 10 minutes later, after kids are screaming and running out into the field and parents getting restless and impatient, they decided we had been through enough torture."Get ready!" We told Charlie to get her basket. "Get set!" We lined her up on the sidewalk and told her to get ready to run and get her eggs (i could feel the excitement building). "Go!" As all the hundreds of kids ran passed us, and Jeff and I were running out to the eggs in the field, I look back and Charlie Shay is just standing there........ staring like she just saw a ghost. Won't move. We keep telling her "Come on, get your eggs!!!"" Won't move!

After about 5 minutes I looked up, and each and every egg was gone! Charlie is still standing there wondering what the heck all these crazy people were doing! Jeff and I both just looked at each other and laughed. After all the waiting and build up, our little pumpkin just had fun watching everyone else take off and grab their eggs! Between the two of us, Jeff and I had grabbed two eggs each. So, at least we made off with four eggs. Charlie has so much fun with those 4 eggs. We hide them around our house and she loves looking for them!

I think Easter day we will have our own little easter egg hunt and she can grab as many eggs as she wants!! ;)

Today is a day to celebrate! I FINALLY got a bow in my child's hair!! She finally has some hair! Yay!!! She looked just precious, for the 5 minutes it lasted. She just couldn't help herself to reach up there and yank it out - but o'well. We tried, and believe me, I will keep trying!!!

I had to intice her by showing her Minnie Mouse's bow and how pretty it looked, and so she decided she wanted to look like Minnie too! I said to her "Do you want Mommy to put a pretty bow in your hair, like Minnie Mouse? to which she replied, "oh tay!" with a giggle and a laugh!

Snow Day!!

Oh what fun! Overnight it snowed about 4 inches
of snow in our part of town, and it snowed the entire day today, which is really unheard of in Dallas. I think the totals were about 7- 10 inches of snow!

Charlie kept looking out the window, saying "snow" all day, so Daddy got off work early and when he got home we bundled Miss Charlie up tight and we all went outside for some fun.

You can barely see her shoes! They are buried!

She LOVED it! She ran around in it. Daddy showed her how to make snowballs, and how to throw them at Mommy! Our wonderful next door neighbors had made a huge snowman with their kids that day, so we took Charlie over to show her what a real snowman looked like.

She decided she wanted to hug the snowman! What a sweet girl!

When we decided it was getting too cold and wet, and that we wanted to come back inside, of course, she was not very happy about that at all.

Hopefully the snow won't melt right away and we can go back out and enjoy again tomorrow!

She won't forget this for a while!!