Anniversary Post

It has come to my attention that this blog is now officially one year old! (Okay, officially one year and one day old, because of course I dropped the ball and couldn't remember *on* the actual anniversary date.)

So all I have to say is GO ME!! for keeping this blog up for so long.

The Rainforest Cafe

We took Charlie to The Rainforest Cafe for lunch today, thinking that naturally he would love all of the mechanical animals and the rainforest theme. To our surprise, it was a love-hate relationship; while Charlie liked the animals at first glance, he was terrified when they would start moving. "I have to go potty!" he would cry whenever one of them would get going. He spent the first half of his meal quietly shifting his eyes around to the corners of the restaurant, watching, but did eventually warm up and start beating his chest back at the gorillas and yelling in usual Charlie fashion once I had assured him for about the 50th time that they weren't real.

Race Cars

For a little something different we went here for dinner this evening; they have a restaurant that overlooks the race track so you can watch people race as you eat. Charlie was thoroughly mesmerized by the "race cars" and didn't want to leave. (Then why won't you give Cars the time of day, kid?)

A Cup of Cheerios & A Can Of Lysol Wipes...

... have now taken up residence on the back of the toilet. This is because while Charlie has graduated to standing up to pee in the potty, he has far to go before he masters the art. Any distraction results in pee flying everywhere. After the 4th or so incident of him showering the walls, we are now trying the "aim for the Cheerio" method, and well, the Lysol wipes are there for backup.

What's In A Name

ME: (watching Charlie Brown with Charlie)"Is your name Charlie Brown?"
CHARLIE: "No, my name is Charlie Robinson."
ME: "What's my name?"
CHARLIE: "Your name is Jasmine."

Locks

On Tuesday I finally got around to calling a locksmith to fix numerous door problems -- the back door has had a key broken off in it for about 6 months rendering it unuseable, and the front door has needed to be Charlie-proofed for quite some time. So the locksmith came out yesterday and installed new locks along with a dead bolt on the back door and swing latch on the front door. Charlie was not appreciative at all of these changes. He walked up to the front door this morning, flipped the bottom lock as usual, and attempted to open the door. I could hear him yell from upstairs where I was grabbing a sweatshirt: "MOMMY THE DOOR IS BROKEN!!!! I CAN'T OPEN THE DOOR!!!"

Yup, that was the whole idea, buddy!

It's Official!

Our new little monkey is due 1/18/10! There is supposedly a baby in this ultrasound picture somewhere...