Fall leaves

Last year Charli had only been home a little over a month when I stopped on a road near my folks house to snap some pictures with the beautiful fall leaves. Well, I stopped on that same road today. I can't get over how much she's changed in a year.

Here's Fall 2008.....

Now look at her. (Fall 2009) She's grown so much and has really changed from a baby to a toddler.

I can't wait to see what next year brings. Good thing there's a place we can go every year for some quick fall color shots to see the constant and the changes.

Two year olds....

I had to snap this picture last week while she slept at the office. You see she was a real spitfire that morning and I thought this picture sure contradicts her earlier outburst. They are so darn sweet when they sleep.

Her new favorite thing to do is to help Papa fee the birds at his house. She thinks it's really cool. She carries out the bucket of bird seed from the garage. (I don't know what she'll do when it's full)

Not all of the seeds make it into the bird house but she likes to try.

All done, now time to close it up and take it to the garage.

Yesterday the Bayport Fire Department came to her daycare. Each kid was sent home with a packet full of neat stuff and they each got their own fire hat. Charli loved hers. She wore it off and on all night. As you can see it went back on after we put our jammies on. I thought this was just too cute to not snap a picture of. (note she's saying "cheese")

Today Charli wore her new "skinny" jeans to the office with a hand knit sweater from one of my mom's friends. I wanted to get a picture. I swear she's posing... (and yes they're skinny jeans because finding plain/basic jeans for a 2 year old who can still wear 18 month clothes but needs the 24's for length is NOT easy to find. These are not only skinny but have the much loved adjustable waist)

Now I feel as though I've finally caught you up on her recent endeavors. I hope to take her out in the leaves sometime if the rains ever stop. We'll just have to see what happens.

Such a girl

Charli is such a girlie girl. It cracks me up and yet it is also rather frustrating when you're in a hurry. Earlier this week I was trying to get her out of her "mammies" (that'd be jammies to you and me) and get her dressed to head to the office. I had a cute little dress and tights picked out as the weather is definitely fall-esque. I got the tights on her and she immediately began to tug them off. "No wanna" was what I got. I tried leggings and again NO. We ended up with anklets. Stubborn little thing. She also likes to pick out her own shoes. Fortunately, I've been able to narrow it down to 2 or 3 pairs for her to pick from.

As for what else is new, she LOVES to sing. She can sing her ABC's fairly well. She also loves "Hoppeye Birfday", "mouse" (farmer in the dell), "nana" (Banana rhyming song) and EIEIO. Her vocabulary is growing every day.

And soon we will start the potty training process. She is getting very interested in it. I bought the potty chair last week. She of course had to sit on it right away. And within the firs few hours of it being home she did piddle and do a small poop. Of course I was thrilled and am now hopeful that when we start this process in earnest it goes smoothly. But only time will tell.

I will do my best to get some new/updated pictures up. She's growing up so darn fast.