Conversations with Charlie

I was brushing her hair this morning and I was in a really big hurry (as I am most mornings.) Her hair was really tangled and I yanked on it pretty hard.

Charlie: "OUCH!! Mommy, you have to be careful with me!"


Most of the time Charlie is a pretty quiet passenger while I am driving. However lately she has decided to be a back seat driver.

Charlie: "Mommy...watch out for that Tree! Mommy...Watch out for that car....don't crash it!" Mommy watch out for that house!"

Nick thinks this is hilarious. I am really not that bad of a driver.

This was a close one!

On Sunday morning, I went to feed the fish and to my horror NOTHING was on in the fish tank. I Panicked! Nick had to be at a class that morning, so he couldn't come home after his shift at the fire station and I didn't know if I was going to be able to get a hold of him.

The entire tank was dark and everything had turned brown, and there were no fish. I thought for sure we had just lost hundreds of dollars of fish and coral.

Luckily I did get a hold of Nick and together we figured out how to get everything back on over the phone. Once the lights, filters and power heads came back on everything came back out and eventually perked back up. Whew!

Do you know what happened? This happened....

A Fire inside the power strip!

Thank you God, that it was just a dark fish tank I woke up to instead of the entire house on fire!

You Are My Sunshine

I sing songs to Charlie every night at bedtime. She always asks me to "sing me my songs?" He three favorites are "You are my sunshine" "Jesus Loves Me" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." I always ask her to sing with me, but she acts all shy and hides her face.

This past weekend, instead of asking me to sing her songs, she said "I sing you my sunshine!" She sang the whole song, rarley missing words! Then she went on to sing Jesus Loves Me!

I caught a little of "You are my Sunshine" on video. You will have to turn your sound way up in order to hear her.

Valentine's Day

Charlie made Daddy cookies for Valentine's Day. I picked up a package of Pillsbury sugar cookies so she could do it all by herself. She put the cookies on the tray, spread out the frosting and put sprinkles on. It was hard for me to not "touch up" the cookies, but I left them alone. Daddy loved his cookies from his favorite valentine! (Charlie loved the frosting!)

Bob

Charlie loves her Bobby. He is her best friend. I think that is mostly because she can do pretty much anything she wants to Bobby and he can't get away from her. Bob is mostly blind and can't go very fast or he will run into walls. So he is always very careful. This has suited him really well for the past 4 years.....No it is a major disadvantage in trying to have some peace from Charlie. But Charlie is usually pretty gentle with him so we don't save him from her very often. This morning, she decided Bob needed to snuggle with her.

Mexico Picture Overload

We are back! We had a fantastic time in Mexico. We stayed at the Catalonia Royal Tulum Resort in Xpu-Ha, which is way south on the Riviera Maya. The hotel over booked and tried to send Dan and Jamie to another resort for a couple of days, but Jamie worked her magic and got us upgraded to suites and the spa with free massages, ect. Thanks Jamie!!! :)


Most of our trip was spent relaxing on the beach, but the first day we were there we went on an excursion that exceeded all of our expectations. We had a private tour for just the 4 of us with the owner of the company. If you are EVER in Mexico, you need to book a tour with Edventure Tours. It was unbelievable.


Here are a few (I mean a lot) of my favorite pictures. There are so many more that I might post again, but here is a start.



Nick and I snorkeling in a Cenote (underground river in caves, amazing!)

Ladder in the Cenote


More Cenote



Nick, Me, Jamie & Dan in the Cenote


Sea Turtle - This was in the ocean, no net. Just a sea turtle in it's element. Awesome!



Nick with the Sea Turtle



Eagle Ray - We saw one eating too. I will post a video of that later.


It was so fun to see the fish in the reef now that we know what we are looking at because of our saltwater tank.


Must get Beer at the mini super!

Me jumping off a cliff into a lagoon. (Yes, I did lose my mind!)

Nick jumping off the cliff. (he finally listened to my year's of advice...just kidding honey!)

Me hanging upside down on a zip line over a lagoon. (Once again, lost my mind. But it was awesome!)

Nick upside down on the zip line. See the stick in his hand...that's the brake!

Nick and I in a canoe on the Lagoon. (that sounds a little like Dr. Suess to me! "Three Dogs in a Boat at night") HA!

Mayan Ruins in Tulum.

Beach at Tulum. Gorgeous!

Mexican Fire Station

Beach at our resort

More Beach

More beach. :)

My view while reading my 2nd book of the trip.

Nick and I watching the Super Bowl outside.

Main path through our resort.

Beach Vendor making a bracelet for Charlie

Reef in front of our resort