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Yesterday Charles & were reading books...for close to an hour. It was a wonderful peaceful time. During one of them, the following conversation occurred (moments I wish we had 24 hr surveillance cameras.

Mom: count the trees on this page Charles.
C: one, two, three, four
M: can you count them in Spanish?
C: uno, dos, tres, quatro
M: do you want to count them in French?
C: ya
M: un, deux, trois, quatre
C: Cat? that's not a cat, I'll do it...un, deux, trois, dog

Seriously!!

Charles's birthday sticker card

Ok this one is a little long but some of you haven't spent this much time w/Charles in a while. I hope this uploads OK b/c it was too long to email...

The LeFevre blood contains a particularly LOUD gene so I tend to ignore much of the noise around me for as long as I can. On this particular car ride even Clay thought Charles was making a lot of noise so we tuned in to see what all the ruckus was about. Someone has discovered something dogs have known for a long long time...the free wheelin' feeling of riding with one's head out the window!!

Does this mac make my butt look big?

Steve had a productive week gleaning a couple of weeks ago. A friend of his was bulldozing his home to rebuild on the same site and told Steve to "get whatever you want" before it was demolished. Steve took kitchen cabinets and remodeled our garage with them. We go new blinds in the kitchen and bathroom, a roto tiller for him (I don't get why that went w/the home except that they'll have a lot less yard and a lot more house in a few months and thus wont need it!) this new eMac which I will spend the rest of the year converting over to, oh! and a new grill. Score honey!!



Here's how our desk will look for a while as I figure out how to convert my mind and hardware over.

Bi-lingual Counting

Say it ain't so!!

Way too soon the fly the coop. and way too soon to consider the possibility and break my heart like that...geeze...who's been talkin' to this kid?

We need to be more disciplined and take the time to potty train. So...here goes! This was taken after Charles pooped in the tub while taking a bath bringing a quick end to bathtime!!

Charles knows the rhyme "no more monkeys jumping on the bed" and didn't approve of me ad libbing to "monkeys jumping on the potty." Take a look.

Almost Daily Devotional

I found a cute box w/little bible stories, posters and stickers. We read a short story and Charles decorates the poster by coloring and putting stickers on it. I'll get a better picture of it later but the first book is...you got it...the Christmas story. We've been on the 1st booklet since Christmas (hence the "almost" daily ha ha) Charles is just now getting used to the idea that Jesus could have ever been a baby. ha ha

Of course we go to the zoo a lot so it was good place to start for that reason also. Perhaps Noah's ark will be next.

Dante ate a spider

Last week the daycare teacher came us and said at playtime Charles came up to her and said "I ate a spider." They were going to call me but since he wasn't throwing up or aquiring special spidey powers, they decided to let it go. I looked at him right in front of the teacher and said "You ate a spider?!" he immediately said, "NO, Dante ate the spider." It has been fodder for LOTS of conversation this week.

For those of you who don't know, my ex-marine, construction, grew up in the "wilderness" in Idaho husband is TERRIFIED of spiders. ha ha, so the story is actually extra funny b/c it just HAD to be a spider. It couldn't have been any other bug! LOL