Gone Baby Gone

Charlotte is on the move. Go, Go, Go!!!! She is crawling all over the place. It has made life interesting. She wants to open everything and nothing below two feet is safe. She is pulling herself up too. She has a leapfrog learning table and she pulls herself up to standing while holding onto that. We walk over to Dave and Monya's at night and sit on the porch and talk, they have a cute little dog (Gracie) and Charlotte loves crawling after her. It is so funny. Gracie will play along with her game. They go back and forth across the porch. And Gracie runs up to her licks her face and turns around and waits for her at the other end.(Yeah I know dogs mouths are full of germs Blah Blah Blah). It is really cute. Then they share a Popsicle, not literally, but Monya feeds it to Charlotte and she drops most of it on the porch and Gracie cleans it up. Everything and anything she can get her hands on goes straight to her mouth. Speaking of mouth, she can now say Dada and Mama. Jim hasn't heard her say it yet because he is hauling sweet corn this week. He is going to be so happy to hear her say it. I think he was really hoping she would say Dada first, but I had an unfair advantage because I have been drilling Mama into her head since the day she was born. Today when I put her down for a nap, I went to check on her and she was sitting up in her crib and she was on the verve of standing. I am defiantly going to have to lower her crib again, I lower it once but I don't think it is low enough now. She is just growing so fast. I really can't believe that in roughly four months she will be a year old. Where has the time gone. I don't even remember what it was like to not have her. Things here have been so crazy lately. It seems there are not enough hours in a day. I have been going all week. Monday I was sick and Tuesday Jim came finally came. Wednesday we had Laurie and Herbie here for Dinner. That was nice. When Charlotte was first born we would have dinner with them every Wednesday, lately life has gotten in the way. Charlotte is scared of Herbie. I think it is his beard. It is funny and sad at the same time. He want so badly to hold and play with her but she doesn't want any part of even looking at him. She only seems to be afraid of two people. Herbie and Jim's mom. She will grow out of it soon. We don't see them as much as we use to so I think that may have a something to do with it. They are so good to Charlotte and to Jim and I. It was nice to have them over. Laurie bought Charlotte this really cute camouflage jumper. Jim thought it was great. I have a camo onsie that has ruffles on the butt. We are going to have her pictures take in it with Jim's camo bucket hat an one of his duck calls. He wants a picture like that for his wallet. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I was at the store, and today I had to clean my dad's house, drop a highchair off in Poynette, Go Portage to get some pictures from my brother Pete. I have started doing a family tree scrapbook for Charlotte. All of the family has come together to share pictures, memories, and information. It is so great to look at pictures of my mom when she was little and of my grandma when she was younger. I am going to Poynette on Wednesday to start copying a family history book. I am really starting to get into finding out all I can about my family. I will post some pictures of the book and my mom tomorrow after I get them scanned onto my computer