Forget the "Joneses"...try keeping up with Charles

Charles & I walked to the park & he was taggling along behind me. I stopped to look at a leaf ...because I was looking for leaves in the shape of perfect hearts...While I was deciding if the leaf was perfectly shaped enough, Charles suddenly got awfully quiet. I turned around while saying "why are you so quiet?..." and this is what I found...this one took him oh...maybe 5-10 seconds. Rememer, he's TWO!!

Where's Waldo?

You've seen the books right?
Well, Charles was sitting at the helm commanding his minions so I took a couple of steps away to focus and take his picture. A couple of steps. What was that, 2-3 seconds? When I pointed to shoot, this is what I saw.

"First" Hair cut

Actually, Steve chopped some curly locks himself once before...yesterday it was "boys time out" and Daddy took Charles to a professional. He was VERY good as he sat on Daddy's lap quietly the whole time.

BEFORE: (I don't know what the face is for...I said "Let's see your face!" and this is what I got...ha ha




AFTER

Per your request....

You can all thank my big sister for lighting a fire under me....
again...grab a cup of java!!! We've got a lot of catching up to do!!!!

Charles LOOOOVEs to help me around the house! Here he is "helping" me change the sheets on my bed. And you wonder why it takes mommies so long to get things done!

It's HARD work some days. Here's the scoop. Charles has been calling Clay AND Caleb "K" for the longest time. I don't hear ANY distinction...Steve says he does but...nahhh. Anyway, for a couple of months now we have been trying to get at LEAST a second syllable out of Charles when he's saying "Caleb" but he was having nothing of it. He does have a few 2 syllable words but, nothin' doin' in this case. Perhaps because he loves his brother's equally...??? Anyway, in Sept. we went to visit a friend of ours in Reno and his girlfriend had a pet bunny. It's name was Constantine. Yep, no problem for little Charles to say "night night Constantine" everynight for
3 days. Soon upon our return, I was playing w/little figurines from a few months ago...the King Tut exhibit. I said " 'This is Queen Nefertiti' can you say that?" Charles blurted that out too. No one thought much of it until Caleb got wind of it. One day as he was going out the door to shoot hoops in the park and Charles was begging to tag along with him, Caleb blurted out "Dude, you can say 'Constantine and Queen Nefertiti but you can't say Caleb??!' " Not even that phased Charles much as he retorted "walk! ball!"
Alas, Steve worked Charles hard this week and now!!! we have it!!! Caleb is officially "Cu-be!" It comes with the head nod EVERY time.


For our special Saturdays...we went to Tahoe (again!) and Charles went on his first bike ride.


Last weekend we went to some batting cages. We thought we could fool Caleb & Clay into believing the ENTIRE world does not revolve solely around Charles.



And JUST yesterday...we kicked off the holiday season with opening day at the nearest pumpkin patch...


There was this slide structure...Steve went down once since I am usually the photographer...but...well...to his credit, he spent most of this week crawling around under houses...he took over the camera after one run..





And, ALL the boys...