THIS has not been a banner year of blogging for me. You’d think I had twins or something. Or a deployed hubby. Or a hubby at school instead of with me. Or a cross country move. Or, well, WHATEVER.
Since I have failed miserably at chronicling this last year of excitement AND Charley is fixing to be 3 on May 4, I’m gonna regale you with my favorite Charley moments of her most recent year. Brace yourself, cuz’ I’m not censoring. 🙂
1. FART, pronounced with long r, like a true bostonian. Kind of like… FAAAAAAHT. I plead guilty to encouraging the use of the word and attempting to video record it just for my own amusement. This pronunciation also reminds me of my pal Jodi…I’m not telling why.
2. “You do it Mom, I’m busy.” Enough said.
3. “…last day.“ This is Charley speak for yesterday. IT is so stinking cute.
4. “Mommy, I have some Mo-chin?” Charley speak for Motrin. The punk figured out that I was totally concerned about the back of her head from when just about cracked her skull open on my Mom’s bathroom floor, so she milked it for about a week until I caught on. Nothing quite like being outsmarted by a VERY cute 2 year old. Punk.
5. Putting her to bed and discovering that she knows all the lyrics to my favorite hymn and can sing them with me… ON KEY.
6. “Mommy, I have free minutes?” Bargaining from a 2 year old? This frightens me. By the time she is Eva’s age, she’ll be milking me out of Charles’ paycheck. Crap.
7. “Mommy, you go on pirate ship with me? Me: What kind of pirate ship? “Pirates of the fru bean, Mommy. Your clothes get wet?” This followed a trip to Disneyland with Charles and Bec (I was too HUGE to navigate the home of the Mouse, so I got the rundown after they got home. Pirate of the Carribean was a fave.)
8. My girls singing to the moon and dancing in the soft light…
9. Charley sleeping in a Eva’s bed for a nap for the first time. She looked so grown up…I cried.
10. Charley sleeping in her big girl bed at Nana’s house, squeezed into a tiny segment of mattress since she had about 90 stuffed buddies in the bed with her.
11. “You dump it out Mommy.” This follows her command for water just before bedtime. Yet, another tactic in the postponement of bedtime. Other tactics include:
“you sing one more song?”
“Don’t shut the door yet!”
“You rock me, Mommy?”
“One two, buckle shoe, pick up sticks!” (demand for favorite song. must be sung just before i exit the room, leaving the door cracked.)
12. “Look, Mommy, I make a TV for you.” This is after she drew a box around the edge of a mini magna doodle. This level of pretend from my 2 year old frightens the crap out of me. She is SO going to pull one over on us ALL THE TIME. Well, I guess if I don’t know what she is up to, I can tool around life in a fog of stupidity. Oh, I do that anyway. Well, Ok.