A Purposeful Peek

Oh sweet Charlotte, How can I even begin to sum up the last three months of your life? Your personality and imagination continue to blossom, and you are beginning to taste the freedom of independence as you enter the "do it myself" stage. It is such a joy to see you embrace who you are becoming...a little strong-willed, joyful, humorous blend of both your parents ; ) Personality in full bloom  You LOVE learning. You continue to choose books over toys any day, and you ask to read the same book "again" until you literally have it memorized.  Now, we can ask you to "read" to us, and you pretty accurately tell us the story by narrating the pictures and imitating the version we always tell (in your own simple words). You love singing the alphabet and have a recent obsession with identifying letters on street signs, labels, and any other item with a word on it. You love the letter "double" (W) the most and excitedly point it out wherever ...

After a week of typical Oklahoma spring weather (read: consecutive evenings spent feeding your toddler dinner in a closet to the tune of tornado sirens blaring in the background), let's just say that our garden was loving the saturated soil from the torrential rainstorms that had recently blown through.   Our squash and okra plants had at least doubled in size, and our strawberries were growing wild.  The field in which I decided to park my new SUV at Saturday's local arts festival, however, was not so cooperative... Have you ever made a decision and immediately wished you could take it back? For example, when you look around to see other vehicles parked in a seemingly well-drained field, and then suddenly feel your own tires slowing into a sludge of muck? Yup. Well, that was me. I was stuck. Really stuck. But, there was nothing I could do, and my tiny blonde passenger wasn't much for helping dig me out of the mud... so, we went on to the festival and enjoyed the sunny ...