After spending most of the week in Atlanta we had a fun weekend all together. For the second week in a row we went to listen to jazz at a church by the waterfront. Charlie walks around like he owns the place. He mainly liked roaming around outside, but came in for the good soul food they serve and proceeded to eat most of my dinner. Here he is with Mauricio practicing the drums on stage and wearing Aunt Mary's glasses. Nice look.
He also had 2 recent encounters with sandboxes. We made it to the house of some one who had a sandbox only after led astray by a man with brain damage who claimed to have superhuman strength. Bad call to follow him! Charlie had a fun time once we made it there though he refused to actually get inside the sandbox. He subsequently pushed the little boy to get him away from a toy which was horrorific to me. He often pulls at a toy if he doesn't want to share, but he has never pushed a kid (at least that I know of) so I was mortified. The whole way home he kept saying "Nice to the baby" so I'm hoping that he felt some remorse. On Saturday we found another sandbox set up on the mall and he found dinosaur bones! What a discovery!
We've been trying to get him used to the idea of a baby brother by giving him a baby doll that my mom brought. He is nice to the baby doll though he carries it around by the neck which probably isn't a great habit. He feeds, dresses and lays down with the baby, but clearly that doesn't seem to translate to being nice to other real babies yet.
Recently I have been feeling like my threshold for fulfillment in life has been recalibarated to wanting a healthy and happy family. I was thinking that was me lowering expectations but Carlos informed me that it was just that I was finally gaining perspective on life. And now after gaining perspective, I can also say that my life is complete! Charlie and I saw Sting perform at the Earth Day rally on the Mall!! I've always wanted to see Sting in concert; in fact when I was 9 I thought I was going to marry him. I wasn't the only happy one - Charlie had a blast. He loved the music (especially Robert Randolph's version of Purple Haze) and the crazy costumes. James Cameron was there along with some Blue People. They were kindof scary looking, but I couldn't resist taking a picture. Charlie especially liked a bunny running around with a sign saying "this bunny opposes Cap and Trade." Random. He especially liked the $4 hot dog I bought him. $4.15!!! I hope that is the most I ever pay for a hot dog.
Last weekend we also had fun as Rachel Ralles came to visit. We went on the White House Garden tour (with 10 million other people). Charlie was most impressed by the playground that the Obama girls had installed. I told him if he became the first hispanic president he could play on the playground anytime! That was of much greater interest than being 30 ft from the Oval office (all of which is much smaller than I imagined!). Here is the oval office and Charlie and Carlos in front of the main residence.
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