Charlotte examined this cheese grater for awhile when we took it out. Then she demanded to use it “all by self.” She wants to do everything all by self lately, and likes to announce that she is doing it all by self. The other day, someone from Comcast came to fix our TV cables out in back of the house. Charlotte later told Brian, “Guy came and fixed TV, all by self. With glue and tape.”
Charlotte loves her new umbrella. She pretends it’s raining and says “Uh oh! Mama’s getting wet!” Then she opens the umbrella to keep us dry. It finally did rain last week, and she was so thrilled to be standing outside in the rain with her umbrella over her head.
Yesterday Charlotte and I made M&M cookies. I wanted her to do the part of pressing M&Ms into the dough before we put them in the oven, but she insisted on putting the dough on the pan. (She didn’t have a nap yesterday so she was especially persistent and also sort of punchy.) The whole thing was very messy, but the cookies were yummy.
We’ve been doing lots of indoor activities the past few months…luckily we had a few nice days this week so a lot of the snow melted and we could get outside a bit. Charlotte was really sick with the flu most of last week, too, but she is definitely on the mend. We are all looking forward to winter ending!
Charlotte really likes to do dishes. It usually ends with her getting her entire outfit and/or the floor soaking wet. During this session she also dunked her head under the faucet.
Charlotte got this hard hat at a birthday party, and insisted on wearing it to play with playdough…or rather while Mama played with playdough and Charlotte requested the shapes she wanted cut out.
Charlotte has learned lots of useful things at her little school: how to put her jacket on by herself, how to sing the ABCs and how to do a somersault (we think…otherwise we have no idea where she figured that out). We think she learned from the other kids to take a bite of food and then open her mouth wide, too.
