Music Man

Charlie loves music, but especially guitars. He can turn a fork, a mop, a box -- you name it -- into a guitar and start jamming. His teachers have actually mentioned it to me on several occasions because they find it so funny. Due to his love of guitars, we decided that a good gift for a big boy who willingly gave up his boofs (pacifiers) would be a real guitar. After we gave Charlie's boofs to the babies at his school we went over to Old Town School of Music and Charlie picked out his first guitar. Needless to say the boof thing didn't stick, but hopefully the music thing will last a little longer.

Sweaty Mess

I have had to reschedule several hair cut appointments for Charlie because he had a long string of illnesses in June. Once he was finally feeling better I tried to make an appointment with the girl who does the best job with his hair, but she was not available for another week. I took one look at my kid and the mop of hair that was stuck to his head and knew I could not wait. After Charlie's haircut I felt cooler looking at him and I know he did too. We celebrated with a dip in his new pool.

 (Sucker for being good. They should really give out apples in those places instead. Do you know how hard it is to convince a 2 year old that suckers are bad?)

(Nice and refreshing!)

Sunday Funday

After heading back from Culver early, we needed to find some way to fill our day on Sunday. We headed downtown to see Buckingham fountain and Millennium Park fountain. Charlie was mesmerized by Buckingham fountain and actually tried to get through the fence so he could “jump in it”. Aside from possibly being arrested there is no shade at that fountain so we met up with the Martin’s and headed to Millennium Park. Charlie did not want to go into the Millennium fountain alone and was a little timid. Unfortunately by the time he warmed up to it a huge storm blew in and we had to find shelter.  

Weekend Getaway

We went up to Culver Indiana to stay at our friend’s summer house. It was supposed to be a weekend of swimming and relaxing, but was unfortunately cut short because of some crazy storms that knocked out power (and water) to the entire area. We ended up only staying for a day, but Emma, Brendan, and Charlie still managed to have fun.

Future Mortgage Broker

I had some of our mortgage documents out for Matt to take to work and while I was getting ready Charlie found them. I heard him talking to himself and when I went to check on him I found him with all of the documents spread out neatly around him. I asked him what he was doing and he said, "don't worry mommy. I am just reading them". Why didn't I assume that he was reading them and not destroying them?