Family Visits

Some of the highlights from last week include: a visit from tia Veronika, chasing a lobster truck and being on duty at Charlie's playschool. It seemed like an active week, but I guess it's all relative when getting out the door is a big accomplishment. The good news for us is that Charlie seems to be getting back to his sweet self (with sporadic temper tantrums) and his sleep schedule. The bad news is that we are at the end of our family visits. Carlos' sister was here last weekend and Charlie adored her...and of course it was a huge help to us. He seems to have a hard time saying 'veronika' so it is more like 'mronika.' It was depressing to see her go and know that our planned family visits were over.

Charlie and I chased a food truck 4 blocks last week, stopped to ask the policeman where it was headed, flagged the truck down and then waited in line until Charlie fell asleep in my arms. That scenario has been replaying in Charlie's head for days now. He still talks about chasing the lobster truck and standing in line - understandably it gets a little fuzzy for him after that. Another thing that seems to catch his imagination are cute girls. He is captivated by two girls his age - neither of whom he has really talked to/played with and definitely to whom he wasn't particularly nice. Seeing pictures of them on the computer is only slightly out ranked by his demands to see pictures of trains.

We went to Roosevelt Island to take a family friendly 'hike' in hopes of exposing Charlie to more nature. He loved it -- the only problem was that the part that he loved was around the Roosevelt statue which was mainly concrete and empty fountains. He did pick up a few rocks and we saw a turtle in the Potomac so I guess that's a little bit of nature! We had a yummy meal afterwards

And finally I'm not even sure how to describe my experience being on duty at Charlie's playschool. It was chaos and 4 kids screamed the entire time. That's a lot of tears. Charlie even complained and I was on duty! I can only imagine how he is when I'm not there. Don't let these sweet, sitting children in the picturesfool you!