Recent anecdotes

Charlie
On our way to speech therapy: I want to go to Olivia's house and play with her toys. Mom: Olivia doesn't live there, that is her office. Char: no, mom, it's her house where all her boy friends and girl friends are. And I'm her favorite boy friend.

Prayer at dinner: Heavenly Father, thank you for Jesus. Thank for Jesus make our house that is so perfeck and Baby Sister lives there and he makes all our toys and all the terrible bugs.

You are making me so angry I will wipe away my smile face.

Looking up at me shyly: " Mom, I have to tell you something. I'm a superhero."
"Wow, what are your superpowers?"
"I'm so brave and strong and smart."

These boys are getting funnier and more fun every day. Here's some recent anecdotes:

CHARLIE, age 5.25

Charlie has shown a lot of interest in "Baby Sister" who will make her arrival in a few weeks. Having lots of aunts who have recently had babies has only piqued his interest more. He likes to blow raspberries on my tummy to tickle her and talks to her through my belly button. 

Pulling up to our house:
Mom, "Who lives at this cute house?"
Charlie, "We do!"
A few seconds later.
Charlie, "Know why our house is so cute? Because Baby Sister lives there."

Aunt Kate came by to drop something off and had brand new baby Scarlett with her in the car. As Kate and John were chatting in the driveway, Charlie made his way into the car to check out Jude and Scarlett. Then he came racing back to them and shouted excitedly, "I saw a tiny baby! Wearing tiny pants!!"

He's got his "s" sounds down so solidly now! His lisp is completely gone. He still has other speech therapy goals but it's nice to see him progress so quickly and have such success in that goal.

He always asks us to come "peek" at something instead of look at it.

GEORGE, age 2.75

He's is very particular about reading books. He wants us to sit in particular spots and read the books in particular ways and if you don't do it right, you have to start over.

He always starts counting at 2. "2-3-4-5..."

He loves to list off the members of our family for any particular activity he's doing, which means he wants us all to participate, too. "Mama treat, Daddy treat, Char-ee treat, George treat!"

His best friends are Charlie, Daddy, and his Grandpas and Grandmas aka "Papa" and "MahMaw" (both sets of grandparents are favorites). He also loves Abby our babysitter. 

I love how he says "yucky". It comes out yuh-ty. Cookie is "tookie". Okay is "otay". 

His favorite thing to say is "follow me!"

He's recently picked up the word "poopie" from Charlie and says it to be naughty and silly all the time. 

He's also picked up Charlie's catch phrase, "I need to tell you something." 

He finally gets that there's a person named "Baby Sister" that we've been talking about for months and that she's in mom's belly. I don't know how much more he gets than that, but at least he's gotten to this point. :)