Charlie's "tricks!"

The last two weeks, Charlie has exploded with new and exciting things! He hardly talked at all, just gave his infamous grunt. All of a sudden, we see things ticking in his head. It is so fun to watch him grow and develop.

I ran into a piece of paper with Maleah's words at 16 months the other day. It was so fun to read through and brought back many memories. If you have no interest in how awesome my kids are (totally kidding!!), feel free to sign off. But I want to remember these sweet, sweet times and look back at how they grow and mature. This age is *so* fun!


Charlie's words: all done, thank you, bath, Mama, Dada, Papa, Nana, hi, no no no, more, potty, "ma" for kiss, amen, bye-bye (accompanied with the cutest wave).

::When Dallas comes in after work, he goes straight to the clothes chute to take off his dirty clothes. Charlie starts saying, "bath! bath! bath!"::

::He will show you where his belly, eyes, mouth, and hair is::

::A cow says "Booooo" and a lion says "Rrrraarrrr"::

::When we take his diaper off he runs to the toilet. He says "potty (not clearly by any means)!" and grunts while lifting up the toilet lid. He sits on the toilet for about 2 seconds, grunts again, then down he goes and runs to a diaper::

::He sleeps like crazy! I woke him up the other morning at 11:15 so he didn't miss the entire day of fun! He goes to sleep between 6-7:30 at night, and typically sleeps until 9ish. I have to wake him if ever we have to be somewhere in the morning. On our mornings at home he snoozes well into late morning::

::When I tell him it's time for bye-bye, he runs to the closet, grabs his shoes and coat, and sits on the step swinging his feet, waiting for me to put his shoes on. He then gets up and drags our coats to every single one of us::

::He is tougher than nails. He can fall off something or run into furniture, bounce right off of it, and keep going. However, he is super sensitive! When he gets in trouble he melts. Heck, if we even look at him wrong he crumbles into tears and wants to hug and kiss us::

::He loves to give kisses. Especially if he sees Dallas give me a kiss; you better believe he is right next in line. He actually gets very jealous of Dallas and I hugging or being affectionate. He tries to push us apart or hold my hand instead::

::He reminds us every night at the dinner table to pray. Before we start eating he's grunting away with his hands out (for holding hands) to pray. If we start eating he grunts even louder! One of us says, "pray?" and he gets a monster smile. He sits so quietly, holding hands with me and Layla, and when the word "Amen" is spoken, he cheers and gets right to the grub::

::My favorite thing about him: He is our happiest kid! He absolutely does get crabby, clingy, needy. But majority of the time he is all smiles. The boy has brought so much joy to our family::