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Charlie has been teaching me lots of important, new things lately.

"Mom, snakes don't have knees."

"Birds don't have toes."

"Cats come in all kinds of colors, mom."

"Mom, some spiders are nice and some spiders are mean."

"Mom, both frogs AND monkeys can jump."

"Alligators don't have belly buttons." (Charlie calls his little, um, "boy part" his "belly button" - so I'm pretty sure that's what he's talking about - and, if you really think about it, it would be tricky for an alligator to have one of those...)

This is serious stuff, man. I need to take note.

Loving our kid!

A "croc-dile" made by Charlie - one of his favorite things to do lately is to make little animals (usually "croc-diles") out of legos and then feed them, put them to bed, make them mommies & daddies, etc.
Love that precious smile - and the pb&j on his cheeks makes me smile, too!

This is one of my favorite things - Charlie and Shawn just sitting around making up silly songs. Charlie comes up with the lyrics, and then Shawn makes them into music. Charlie and Shawn just free-styling it. I could watch this for hours - it just cracks me up and melts my heart at the same time. :)

Meeting baby Paisley and 3-dollar "drit"

Melissa (my sis!) had her 5th child one week ago today - Paisley Skye. Yesterday, Charlie and I went out to Rainier with my mom and dad to go and see her - Charlie's 9th cousin!

She is a DOLL!Charlie LOVED her to pieces, it was so cute.

Charlie's NINTH cousin!He kept kissing her and "nuzzling" her head with his. He even asked to hold her again after he had given her back to me. So sweet. :)Opa and Paisley
Charlie and Lucie doing a puzzle.
Poor Jackson was sick - and rested on the couch the whole time we were there.But he got lots of loves from Oma.Well, that's not entirely true - by the time we were getting ready to leave, Jack decided to climb up the wall.

Lucie, with a little "help" from Charlie.

On our way out to the car, we found this:

Those kids crack me up - little entrepreneurs.Charlie's a little obsessed with these hidden picture/sticker books from Highlights.He had to bring some for the car ride out to Rainier.And got a little help from Oma. Charlie doesn't really appreciate my camera-wielding ways anymore. :)

(Hey, is anyone else having issues with Picasa? I can't use it to blog anymore - it keeps saying I'm not connected to the internet when I try to load pics to the blog!)

Poor baby

Oh, this poor little boy! This is really funny & cute, but also really sad - I just want to give this sweet little kid a hug.

Talking to naked people

I'm feeling better. Finally. Good enough to go to the gym, even.

Can I just ask: What is it with people in the gym locker room? Maybe I'm too modest, but I USE the dressing room they have. I avoid, at all cost, "disrobing" out in the open. It makes me uncomfortable, really uncomfortable. And I guess I don't care if other women are more comfortable with their bodies and feel okay being ... um ... exposed ... to everyone else in the locker room. That's fine for them. And if you're someone who does that, that's cool. I have no problem with that if you are comfortable enough to do it...

But yesterday, my first day back to the gym in almost 3 weeks of being sick, I walk into the locker room after working out - all sweaty and ready for a shower and here's this naked lady standing in front of my locker, kind of blocking it. I couldn't really avoid her - I needed into my locker. So I go up, say, "excuse me", and start to open my locker. And she turns toward me and just starts talking. Fully naked. Not in the process of dressing, nor did she have a towel draped around her, nor was she even trying to kind of cover anything - she was just standing there. Naked. Talking. Sheesh. I didn't even know her. Am I crazy? Maybe it was just my weak stomach from 2 weeks of the flu, but is that not uncomfortable for people?