Charlotte has been learning some new presidential quotes, and she’s teaching her sister. To be fair, I’m not sure William Howard Taft ever said, “I’m stuck in the bathtub, help!” But I didn’t have any actual Taft quotes at the ready. (He did get stuck in the White House bathtub, though.)
As you’ll see, she’s all over the political spectrum. Last week, she was a big Nixon fan. I guess the State of the Union really swayed her.
And somehow Charlie ended up on the AOL homepage last week, too:
Santa was very good to the English girls this year.
Bailey included.
The cookies must have left an impression.
Katie was so excited for Christmas, she woke up at 2am and 5am in loud anticipation. Here’s hoping all that holiday cheer will return her to her usual sound-sleeping self tonight.
Charlie wishes you a Merry Christmas (and a Happy New Year). I love how she faked her way through that middle sentence. That’s exactly how I would sing it.
November 25, 2010 @ 12:43 am
· Filed under Charlotte Lynn
Have you heard of “Elf on the Shelf”? It’s a really cute but admittedly creepy kid’s story where Santa sends an Elf on a reconnaissance mission to make sure you’re being good. It comes with an Elf — which Charlotte named “Timmy” — that we hide each night. Sometimes he brings presents. Here’s some footage of Charlotte stumbling upon Timmy, then reporting back to Mom.
Here’s how Charlotte reacted this morning when Mickey Mouse called her. It sort of backfired — she couldn’t understand why Mickey (and Minnie) couldn’t stop by to say hello, too.
I spent the first half of the year working on a trivia game called Split Decision. It’s now available in most Borders stores, in Books-A-Million, in various independent bookstores across the country, and of course in the mental_floss store.
The other day Charlotte and I went to see if we could find the game in our Borders. She couldn’t contain her excitement:
OK, I promised her as soon as we found it, we could end the silly scavenger hunt and head over to the children’s department. But I promise the game is fun. AOL News just ran a story on it.
If you’re familiar with the Madagascar films, you’ll recognize Charlotte is Marty (the Chris Rock character) and Katie is Alex (Ben Stiller). If not, they still make a mean zebra/lion combo. Here’s the zebra singing the lion a lullaby before being attacked by a dog (Bailey, as herself):
