Chuck D & Mr. T

Jeannie had a baby, Louise! She is adorable and I hope she will marry Teddy.

Teddy loves shaking his head no. Even when he means yes.

Charlie has embraced break dancing. He watched Rock Steady crew videos on You Tube and now cannot stop. He calls it “Doing my tricks.” When the mood strikes, he runs and gets his baseball hat, turns it sideways, and gets down on the ground. Yesterday he actually flipped his feet over his head. I am incredibly impressed with these skilz.

I love to hear Charlie say “What choo doin’? What choo doin’ cooking that? What choo doin’ wearing jamas? What choo doin in that bathing suit?”

Charlie is being potty trained right now. Today we went to the store to buy big boy underpants (he requested football and soccer underwear so we had togo to 3 different stores). He has been able to and interested in using the potty for about 6 months, but now he doesn’t seem to want to so I have begun encouraging him more by giving him one M&M each time he uses it. As we were driving home this afternoon, he would yell out at each person we passed, “That guy use potty, I give him one M&M! Mommy, look, that lady poop in potty I give her M&M.” So generous. If only those people knew what they could get.

Tonight Charlie told me what every mother wants to hear: “I love you , Mommy.” He also said “You a big giant lady.”

We took Charlie to see a show at Glen Echo the other day and he had excepted puppets but it was with actors. Afterwards he said “I need those puppet shows. Now.”

Teddy is in love with these puppets and a tube of sunscreen. He will not let them out of his hands and refuses to have any sunscreen put on his face unless he is holding the other tube. He is also really into climbing into the newspaper basket.

I tried on a white full-skirted dress in a little store and Charlie got excited yelling “Mommy in a tutu!! Dance!!” Needless to say I didn’t get it.

Yesterday at the pool Charlie told me “You are the best mommy!” Then last night as I was putting him to bed, he said “I like you.”