March came in like a lion that is for sure. The week after my birthday (29 again!) we found out that Charlie had whooping cough. We were so confused because he has been immunized for that, apparently we are in a high peak of whooping cough and the little ones are especially susceptible because adults can carry it without knowing because it is the same symptoms as a cold. Charlie also had to go on a nebulizer which started out rough but after a few days (and a lot of fruit snacks later) he was a pro.
It's pretty impossible to get a "good" picture of Charlie anymore especially when you want one. This is the best picture I could get of Charlie on St Patrick's Day. In the dog bed, with his nook, and a metal spatula. Who needs kid toys?!
Charlie started a new thing where he doesn't really like to eat unless he has a fork on his plate. For awhile we let him have one of our forks but when we realized how dangerous that was to him, us, and the dogs with flying metal forks in the kitchen, we bought some baby forks. Sometimes he holds the fork in one hand and eats with the other hand. Sometimes he actually can stab the food and get it in. Very impressive.
Ravioli is easy..
Here is Hurricane Charlie. He likes to take ALL of his books off the shelf. He thinks he's pretty hot stuff in the hat.
We had our first trip to the Como Zoo. It is such a great place because it's free, you can get through it pretty quickly, it's free, the animals are all pretty easy to see, and the best part...it's free. :)
Brian was a little nervous about going back. Apparently they went to the Como Zoo a lot when he was little and a giraffe "allegedly" took a nip from Brian. Brian's like a fine aged wine because I swear that giraffe got a look in her eye when she spotted my handsome hubby.
A big buffalo in the background.
We always laugh because our little friend Eloise has this look that basically is "I will cut you if you keep looking at me." It's hilarious because she is the sweetest little girly girl and then will give you this look. Charlie has also been perfecting that look as you can see below.
Ahh..there's my boy!
We also had a visit with the Schneider cousins. I didn't do a very good job of taking snapshots..I guess that's what happens when you have 7 cousins running around!!
Here is a cute one of Micah and Charlie reading some books.
Garrett was such a great buddy to Charlie. He just never tired of playing with him. Here Charlie is "allowing" Garrett to read him a book while he plays with plastic cups.
Random picture but this was taken the last week of March..look how much snow we still had!! Today, less than a month later it is all gone (thank goodness!) No we don't have 3 dogs...we were dogsitting our friend Hunter.
Good multitasking!
Charlie's 2 favorites toys right now. The popper and his lion. Brian tries to watch TV and Charlie will move the popper back and forth and then turn the music on his lion by hitting his nose. It gets pretty loud!
Good multitasking!
Charlie really loves the vacuum. Lately when we try to vacuum we have to give him the shortened swiffer and he follows along with the swiffer while we vacuum. Maybe he got his Daddy's cleaning gene...that would be awesome!
So as you can see...we've had a busy month!! We also had our first trip to the Children's Museum, a visit with Grandpa Frank, our first 4 swim classes, and lots of playing outside in the few days of nice weather!! We have a busy weekend coming up with our first trip to Edinborough Park with Heather and Drew and Easter at Granny Frannie's on Sunday!
Also, even though we weren't there Happy 40th Anniversary to my parents!! What an amazing accomplishment. We love you!
Happy Easter to you all!
Thanks for posting the pic of Charlie and the nebulizer... Micah had to use one this this week and I was able to show him the pic of Charlie and said, "Charlie can do it with out crying..." Nothing like a little peer pressure! Molly
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