ANIMALS!

Charlie had a week full of animals. He came face to face for the first time with a cat and LOVED it! I hadn't heard him shriek like that ever. He gave the poor thing no peace, following it around and shouting at it. He seems to call all small animals with 4 legs his word for dog: "guh." He and his friend Aidan visited with some fishes at the nation's most bizarre aquarium: the national aquarium. Located in the basement of the Herbert Hoover commerce office building, the national aquarium was built in 1932 and feels like it. I don't think we'll be patronizing those fish tanks again. But Aidan was nice enough to share his goldfish snacks with Charlie. And Sunday we went to the zoo. He especially loved the baby gorilla and anything in the small mammal exhibit - especially the tamarins. The pandas didn't impress him at all.

We had brunch with the moms and dads of Ian, Isaac and Aidan this weekend. Unfortunately Carlos wasn't able to join due to his trip to Vegas (poor him). In a rare instance of playing together Charlie is pushing Aidan....and then also crying together....!

It's been fun observing his language skills explode in the last month. He tries to imitate words - usually the last word in the sentence and mainly one syllable words. If I say 'do you want to get up?' he'll say 'up.' If I say 'let's go to the park,' he'll say 'bark' - which I think is his version of park. He is working on a couple of 2 syllable words including his only spanish word - agua - which sounds more like 'awa.' He calls his bottle "bobble" and of course "dada." The latter he is obsessed with recently. There are some unidentified words as well. I think "back" means 'bath' - but I'm not totally sure...