Did You Know Ducky Can Swim…

Unfortunately, Charlotte picked up a viral infection this week and Monday night she went to bed with a 102 fever. Over the last four days her fever has jumped back in forth between 100 and 104.6 – scary times for newbie parents! Last night her fever peaked and ALMOST could not be kept down even with medicine. Wayne and I spent the night up with Charlotte trying to keep her cool, happy and hydrated – against her wishes. We were very close to taking her to the hospital but luckily she never quite reached the threshold and our Doctor recommended we wait it out…all night long!

Anyway, during these last few days Wayne and I have noticed an increase in Ducky’s role in our everyday lives. Starting Monday night at Monkey Joe's – Ducky HAD to go on every ride [usually we can get away with leaving him in the car] then he needed his own booster seat at dinner [and Charlotte argued he needed his own cup and plate…]. Charlotte has also started blaming Ducky when she does something she is not supposed to do or saying Ducky is scared when she hears a fire truck siren, and even telling us he has boo-boos and doesn’t feel well. Since Charlotte has spent most of her days lounging around, it will be no surprise to you that Duck also needed his own blanket, pillow, socks and MEDICINE? When we insisted she eat SOMETHING, Ducky took the lead there too. Apparently today during her visit to the doctor Ducky was being consoled with stickers and Charlotte telling him “No owies Ducky, no owies”.

With all that it should not have been a surprise to me that she wanted Ducky to take a bath with her tonight. Usually we can distract her from this idea or appease her by leaving Ducky on the counter in the bathroom. NOT TONIGHT – Ducky HAD to go swimming with Charlotte. I could feel an argument brewing and felt a little sorry for her (she is STILL feverish) so I told her Ducky had to wear a bathing suit {aka Ziploc bag}. She LOVED that idea and off we went…I took a few pictures of their bath. Charlotte really liked washing, rinsing and dunking him in the water but insisted the only toys she/he wanted to play with were the rubber duckies – so cute!

After the bath was over I asked Charlotte, as we do every night, if she wanted to be a butterfly or a frog {hooded towels}. “Charlotte butterfly, Ducky frog!”

Happy Birthday Daddy

This morning, while Wayne slept in, Charlotte made him a special Happy Birthday card!

I Wanna Play Like Aunt Katie…

This afternoon Charlotte was running around the house playing with a toy guitar she got from Aunt Sancha & Uncle Erik. {Thanks guys!} The guitar has buttons and depending on which buttons you press, music will play. After a little while I noticed that Charlotte was holding the guitar up to her neck while she played it – WHAT?

When I asked her what she was doing she said “Playing Katie”! Which means she was pretending to play the violin like her Aunt Katie – adorable!

WPP Preschool Easter Egg Hunt

Today Charlotte and I headed over to her preschool to do an Easter egg hunt with her class. Myself and another class parent were able to hide all the eggs in the toddler playground and then we let the kids loose.


Most of the class really got into the hunt but not our Charlotte. She placed Ducky in her basket and wanted to play on the equipment - even tried to go down the slide with her basket.


With some encouragement from Charlotte’s teacher and myself she did pick up a few eggs. When I opened one up to show her what was IN the eggs - suddenly she was REALLY motivated.


Charlotte liked the bug toys (especially the butterfly) and candy eggs. It was also so nice to meet many more of the parents of her classmates and to watch all the kids running around with such excitement – the more time Charlotte spends with her class the more we love this school!


Ps – The Mom of one of Charlotte’s classmates made THE most adorable iced egg cookies for each child in the class. The cookies even had each child’s name printed on them – just precious – and what a nice thing to do! Everyone knows that kind of personal touch is right up my alley – told you I love this school!

Look What Charlotte Made...

I just love Charlotte’s preschool more and more! I sure wish they had room for Charlotte to go more days a week – she would LOVE that! Every day they have new topics they explore and it seems to loop into themes for each month. This month they learned about ocean creatures.

Just thought I’d share a photo, courtesy of her teacher Mrs. Kris, of Charlotte making an oatmeal starfish and then the finished project. She also did a funny “pin the tentacles on the octopus” project. The kids were learning about the number eight and how many legs the octopus has but Charlotte’s interpretation is so darn cute!

I HEART having her creations to display on our fridge – Charlotte likes it too. She points them out and tell us “Charlotte did it”! ;)