Chuck D & Mr. T

Today we went to visit Charlie’s new preschool, NCRC. It was so cute! He is in the Bunny class–they even have a basket of stuffed bunnies in the room. The teachers seems so so sweet. Charlie saw a cubby with his name on it, books, and toys. It was hard to pry C (and more T) away from the room.

Charlie stuck his head in the toilet tonight.

For Teddy’s birthday we gave him a stuffed dog and a William Wegman print of a dog on a chair. Today I hung it in his room above his changing table. When I brought him into his room tonight to get ready for bed, he saw it and went crazy, point at it, flapping his arms, kicking his legs and yelling “Uck! Uck!” which is his word for Huck or dog. Such an appreciator of art. And dogs.

Today Charlie went to the pool with Aunt Patty to learn to swim. Despite having a meltdown because his hands were wet, he had a blast. He took particular interest in two bikini wearing tweens. While I was holding him in the water he said, “Go say hi a them? Need to go say hi!”

We just got back from the beach. Charlie and Teddy had so much fun staying with Bridget. Charlie loved playing with Uncle Michael and Deirdre and thought Alfie was super cool; Teddy bonded with Bayly. I swam as much as I could. The waves did not stop.

Today T, C, and I went to visit out good friend Judy. We loved seeing her and despite the boys knocking over a bird bath, climbing a ladder, terrifying the cats, and dropping muffins crumbs everywhere, they were still somehow very charming.

In the baby pool C said “Big pool big man. Little pool little boy. And big lady mommy.” Please stop with the mommy is huge theme.

Charlie says “Fireman help ladies. Fireman little boys them eat food and get strong. I grow up drive truck help friends. Daddy drive car and watch. So nice.”

Since T’s birthday a week ago he will not let me put him down. At. All. It’s sort of hard o put away groceries or get dressed with him in my arms, but really it’s ok because there is nothing as great as holding this cute baby in my arms and as I type this he has his little cheek against mine. Heaven (Not as heavenly today was cleaning up after Huck who threw up huge pieces of bark all over our bed and Charlie who took off his very dirty diaper in his crib during what was supposed to b naptime and tried to decorate with it. So gross.)

Charlie has been wearing big boy underwear for a week now. All it is taking is giving him an M&M each time he uses the potty. He is very driven by treats.