Trucks and Tractors

We managed to break the camera again. Between baby Charlie and me that camera really doesn't stand a chance. Carlos got it fixed again and so here are some recent shots. Unfortunately it needs to go back for more repairs already...

His new favorite things are TRUCKS and TRACTORS. He added 'truck' to his limited repertoire of words which includes car, ball, bye, boo, boom, hi, dog and book. Of course those words sound more like: 'kuck', 'cah', 'bal', 'ba', 'bu', 'bam', 'guh' and 'buk.'

He also likes to fit things together - lids and caps mesmerize him. In this picture he took our starbucks coffee holder and put it on his sippy cup! Another thing he has started to do is be very persistent about where he wants to go. At the park the other day he kept pointing off into the distance and saying "uh-uh-uh." I thought he just wanted me to walk him around, but he had a specific destination in mind - the smelly, dirty, dark skateboard park under the freeway! It wasn't even in sight, but he kept pointing until we got there. Today at the museum he did something similar until we ended up in front of some silly ticker tape thing. Out of the entire Natural History museum, that's what he wanted to see! Here he is at the museum with his friend Salem - who at age 2 speaks some awesome spanish and english.

Fortunately he had great care while I was in Atlanta last week. Carlos' mom came to town and took good care of him. And awhile back we enjoyed Labor Day in Cleveland with the Labor Day Olympics. I'm really hoping that next year he and cousin Wallis will be able to win all the relay events. This year he mainly enjoyed running around the tennis court while his father tried to play and playing with the filter next to the baby pool. Here he is with his future winning team-mates.