brownies anyone?

isaiah found the sugar bin....guess it's time to move that cupboards contents!!

sugared up!

he's constantly trying to help in the kitchen!

charlie surely has his daddy's sweet tooth!!..here we're making brownies for p-paw's birthday! happy birthday p-paw!!! we then video chatted to sing happy birthday to him :)

we've got a germy abode once again. charlie sounds like a seal when he coughs or sneezes at night. (no it isn't whooping cough). lots of sneezes & snot (an impressive amount of grossness) this morning. so i asked if he wanted some hot apple cider. he says "no thanks. hey! i'll see if some hot chocolate will make my sneeze go away!"
isaiah slept in today ! yay! he sometimes doesn't go back to sleep after a feeding about 530. but about half the time now, he's not getting up until about 730! loving that! he loves & adores his older brother. charlie makes him laugh & play :) will update later today~off to barefoot this morning for a quickie :) love you

i know it's hard to see, but one of my fave pics of grandma matchey-she's smack dab in the middle of it! i'll find some other ones within a few days of some more fun times on laddieland!!...

grandma matchey...thinking of you & all the wonderful memories :)

alrighty angels....please send good thoughts & helping hands to grandma matchey. also gg & ppaw...and to grandma barge & eric. (they're in minnesota currently driving through winters gift of blustery & freezing weather! hoping to see great grandma & grandpa pete & betty who also need prayers!)

in nine days, this cutie is going to be a one year old!!!

some other cute things worth mentioning about charlie bear. he'll say "hey everybody!" (let's do this or that or come here!) & he'll wave his hand at you..he'll also run up to isaiah's room when isaiah wakes up & says "hi there!" "how was your nap?" super cute. he'll say " i'm not quite ready yet" when it is time to go to bed or bathe or something he's not quite ready! the book he's writing in was a gift from nancy & scott! he loves it & i love that he loves it. there are tons of tracing cars & letters & mazes & numbers...it is just fabulous! it is a dry erase book...so he can do it over & over!!! thanks guys!

thought i'd better log a few things that crack me up about charile right now..
he'll look around the floor or room & if something is out of order or messy "look at this floor/room! it looks ridiculous!!" ("reedickuwus". i've also caught him saying (thank you daddy!) "dammit isaiah!"....once i heard this a few times, we had a wee chat..i haven't heard it since ;) and after we had a touch of the flu last month. his tummy "doesn't have time" to get to places...this one is still a bit wobbly to me...i think he picked it up when we talked about throwing up & kept a bucket by the bed in case we didn't have time to get to the loo. but he'll say things like, "i was going to go upstairs but my tummy didn't have time" or i "was going to pick up my toys but my "tummy didn't have time?!" ????
he also calls us "bri" & "jenn"....usually when he's calling one of us from a different story/floor. for example, if he's downstairs & i'm upstairs, & the timer on the oven goes off..."jenn! jenn! it is done jenn!"....
also, he loves his "school" he forever looks forward to seeing what his "job" is. they have chores every day that are charted on a chart.