Splash Park Fun

This is probably the most pictures I have posted in one post, but I couldn't help it!  Charlie LOVES the splash park - although it always takes him a little bit to get comfortable.  This was one of his first days out - thankfully Daddy came along and could encourage him, while I took pictures.  Now Charlie always wants his mom around, but he will go off and play and run through the rainbow without me being right there!

Enjoy!!!!

So funny!

First time through just one ring!

Love this face!!!

What are you looking at mom?

So cold!

Exploring the rest of the splash park with Dad

Getting some encouragement to run through the entire rainbow

I did it!!!!!

Time to dry off!

And have a snack while holding Mom's gum.

First Popsicle

Grandma M bought us some popsicle holders, so Mommy finally bought some orange juice and froze it for Charlie to try.  Mixed reactions......  The concentration needed to be a little bit higher - not that Charlie knew anything different!

Snack time with Daddy

Charlie and Daddy don't have too many moments like this, but we were able to capture a few moments of popcorn fun.  Charlie loves popcorn!!!!  Too bad I haven't eaten popcorn since I got pregnant......

Outside Fun

We have been enjoying the warm weather that finally decided to arrive in July.  These few pictures were taken a bit before that - sorry.  Charlie loves being outside.  Too bad it wasn't warm all year round.

Thanks Mom and Dad for my own lawn mower

Hey everyone, this is my firetruck - one of many....but the only one I am supposed to ride

Love the reflection from the 'water toy'

Ammendment!

Last night at dinner, Charlie and I (Mom) were eating dinner, and all of a sudden Charlie started counting.  1,2,3,4.....5,6,7,8,9,10.  Hahaha - he has been counting for a bit now, but never 1-10 without stopping and he usually skips over 4. 

Charlie also loves Barney.  He discovered him probably a month ago and is always asking to 'watch Barney.'  He usually watches it while I'm getting ready in the morning - which just makes things easier, and sometimes in the late afternoon while I'm cooking or not doing too much! 

All this to say, that he started saying a portion of a song from Barney today.  'Hurry, hurry, get the water, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.'  He watches an episode about fire trucks every morning on the ipad and obviously this song has stuck!

Be careful what you say....

Charlie is talking up a storm and now starting to talk in sentences.  Its adorable.  Over the past few weeks, he has been saying things like:
Mommy, get it out
Mommy, put it down.
Mommy (or) Daddy, wake up!
Daddy sit here

The best ones are from songs we sing while reading books.  Last week as I was driving home from my parents house, Charlie said "hush a bye, don't you cry.  Go to sleep little baby" - OUT OF THE BLUE.  I didn't say anything because I was in shock, and then he said it again.  And now over the past week he's been saying it more.

He can also share lines in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - I'll say one line and he'll say the other.  And can mumble the abc song with us too.  Yesterday we were grocery shopping and he started saying "rattle boom bang.  Gonna make my noise all day."  At first I couldn't understand what he was saying, cause it is kinda hard to say, but then I realized he was talking out the lines in one of Robert Munsch's book.

Charlie has also been having fun at the hotel lately.  He LOVES the laundry room and is proud to say that he helps all the time.  He'll also tell me if a machine is 'broke.'  Lately, he's been going up to some rooms with our head housekeeper and 'help' her strip the rooms.  She'll knock on the door and he'll say "HOUSEKEEPING'.  I haven't seen it, but I"m guessing its adorable.  Once inside the room, he'll go to the mini-fridge, open it and say that he is cooking noodles.  Once they have enough laundry to send downstairs, they open the shoot (hole that all the laundry falls down), Charlie yells for Grandpa, and then sends it down.

So needless to say, at 21 months, I have a good communicator on my hands - which I am very thankful for considering baby #2 will be making his/her appearance in a few months!

Oh and one other thing - he loves the Dr. Seuss book - Cat in the Hat.  Have you read it?  61 pages long and he will sit and listen to the WHOLE thing and has been doing so for probably a month now.  And what tops the cake - he says "AGAIN" when it is over.  I have always said "no."

Thanks for reading today - total brag session, but mostly for my own memories.  These are the kinds of things I don't want to forget.