Some Easter Pics

Life has been a bit crazy lately.  We've been spending all of our time getting house ready to sell.  We think we're finally ready, and we're set to put it on the market this week.  Please let all your friends who need a house in D.C. know that we have a great one they can buy!!  So...with a lack of any recent, fun pictures to share, I thought I'd post a few from Easter at Bubbaweeze's that I never got around to posting.

Oh, the joys of being a spoiled only grandchild...

Aren't the suburbs green??

This one isn't from Easter, but the following weekend when I got home from running errands during naptime and found the house suspiciously quiet.

Chirper

Chirper is Charles' class mascot, a stuffed blue bird (Charles is in the "Bird" class at school).   Chirper goes home with a different classmate every few days to have fun and exciting adventures.  When it's your turn to have Chirper in your home for the night, you have to take pictures of the fun things you did with him and then write a journal entry in Chirper's journal about his adventures.  When Chirper and his journal go back to school the next day, the class reads Chirper's journal entry and talks about all of Chirper's adventures.

Maybe if I were a stay-at-home mom I would enjoy this more.  But quite frankly, after Charles goes to bed and I finish up any work left over from my day that didn't get done due to leaving the office at 5pm, like I do most nights, the last thing I want to do is write Chirper's journal entry.  And, as you can imagine, Charles is not much help.  But, as long as I have to do this to be a good school parent, I thought I'd re-create the journal entry for you, pictures and all...

April 12-13, 2010

Chirper Visits the Clevelands

We were so excited to have Chirper come to our house for two nights this week! Chirper came home with Charles on Monday, but Chirper ended up spending the day at Charles’s dad’s office, since Charles spent the afternoon at his friend Andrew’s house. Andrew has a nice, big dog named Callie, but sometimes Callie likes to chew on things, so we decided that Chirper would be safer staying with Charles’s dad for the day. Once we all returned home for the evening, Charles was so tired that he wasn’t interested in showing Chirper a good time at our house, so Chirper went to sleep in his bag for the night.


Tuesday was a much better day for Chirper. Charles went to his friend Andrew’s house after school again, but Chirper spent the day at our house supervising the work of Lionel, Mr. Pablo’s friend who is painting our house to get it ready to sell. Chirper says that Lionel did a great job today and we agree that the living room ceiling looks like new! By the time Charles and his mom came home on Tuesday evening, Chirper and Charles were very hungry. Charles decided that Chirper would like to have chicken, couscous, and yogurt for dinner. Charles’s mom let Charles and Chirper eat dinner on the couch.

After dinner, Charles decided that he and Chirper should bake chocolate chip cookies for dessert. Charles helped pour the ingredients into the bowl, and he was an expert taste-tester for the dough. Chirper watched from a distance because he didn’t want to get flour on his wings.

 

Once the cookies were done, Charles and Chirper enjoyed one together. It was yummy!

After dessert, it was time to get ready for bed. Once in bed, Charles got out his new pirate duckies to show them to Chirper. They were an Easter gift from his friends Sophie, Annabeth, and Samantha Holsinger, who know how much Charles loves pirates. Charles tried to teach Chirper to say, “Avast ye scurvy dogs,” in a pirate voice, but all Chirper would say is “chirp chirp.”

After showing off his pirate duckies, Charles read a book to Chirper. Chirper was so sleepy after Charles finished reading the book that he flew downstairs and fell asleep in his bag. Thanks for coming to visit, Chirper! We had a great time with you!

Carson's Birthday Present

I asked my friend Alisha what her son Carson might prefer for a 4th birthday present - the book Listen to the Wind or a new game for his Leapster. Alisha said that she would prefer the book but that Carson would probably prefer the game, so maybe I should ask Charles what he wanted to give Carson. This approach hadn't even occurred to me, since we don't usually let democracy reign in the house with our three year old. So, last night, as Charles and I were reading books in his bed, I brought up the subject of a birthday present for Carson. Here's how it went...

Allison: Carson's birthday party is coming up in a couple of weeks, and we need to get him a present. Do you think that Carson would like the book Listen to the Wind, the one you have about building schools for the children of Korphe, or do you think he might like a new Leapster game like Pet Pals? I don't think he has that one.

Charles: I think maybe we should get him the Cars movie.

Allison: Carson already has the Cars movie, and he also has the Cars game for his Leapster, so what do you think about the book or a new game?

Charles: Does Carson have a fuzzy blanket? ("Fuzzy Blanket" is Charles' most beloved possession - it's an old queen sized blanket that pills off little fuzzies, which you can find all over our house. Charles loves the feeling of Fuzzy Blanket on his skin.)

Allison: Hmmm. I'm not sure if Carson already has a fuzzy blanket, but if he does, do you think he might like a book or a game?

Charles: (pauses for a moment) Why don't we just get him both?

Allison: Well, I guess we can decide later.