Charlie still loves trucks, but airplanes are a close second these days - especially after we saw President Obama's helicopter fly directly overhead and land at the White House. We went to see the national Christmas tree which is in front of the White House and were super disappointed to find it barricaded off and secret service standing gaurd. But then three huge identical helicopters flew overhead and Charlie went ballistic. "Airpa" (his version of airplane) "Airpa, Airpa" he screamed and his whole body shook with excitement. I thought Obama's would have been the middle one, but it was the last one. Soon afterwards the tree lit up and we were able to watch the trains going around the tree. He loved the trains.




Another favorite these days is saying "eew" to everything he finds gross - which includes every crumb, every spot on the floor, every misplaced thread...He says eew a lot - so much so that I didn't think much of it when he said "eew" when we were out walking this weekend. But he kept saying it and finally raised his arm up and screamed "EEEWWW" so I stopped and took a closer look. A bird had pooped on his sleeve! Lucky that he was grossed out and not tempted to touch it.

And finally his other favorite is finding Goldbug in the 'Cars and Trucks and Things that Go' book. On every page a 1 cm yellow bug is hidden somewhere and Charlie loves to find him. Here is a video of him finding Goldbug with Carlos.

Carlos is building some shelves on the 3rd floor and in classic Carlos style the entire room is turned upside-down and full of sawdust. And it's only shelves!! The really annoying part is that it is my office! So I'm sitting in a bed of sawdust. What a joke. Here is a shot of my office space these days...

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