I realize our posts have  been few and far between in recent months.  I also realize I haven't really captured all the wonderful things Charlotte is up to recently.  So below is a list of some things about Charlotte. 

• She asks to "watch a wooodie" several times a day (despite the answer often being no), which sometimes means she wants to watch a movie or a show on PBS, but usually means she wants to watch clips from YouTube.  Especially if she wants to watch it "upstairs". Her favorites are this one, this one, this one, and this one. I don't really understand the last one.  We stumbled across it one day and she absolutely loves it.
• She also likes to "color upstairs" which means she gets to sit and my desk and use the many varieties of pens and highlighters I have sitting in a vase.
• Perhaps her best sentence (which gets said to random people all the time, often seemingly out of context) is: "My shoes getting so dirty".  Honestly, I do not reprimand her for dirty shoes!  This is another of many things I do not entirely understand about my daughter.
• When she says "another" it comes out "othen" as in "I want to read othen book"
• She knows her colors, but in times when she doesn't want to pay attention she just says "blue"
• She can put on her coat by herself, but sometimes ends up with the hood around her bottom - then she gets frustrated that she has to do it again
• She finds her pink chair is best for either 1) flinging herself upon it after running across the room or 2) jumping off of it - I allow jumping onto the floor from the chair, but balancing on one arm of the chair and jumping onto the seat is taking it too far
• She hasn't sat in a high chair/booster seat since last Saturday morning.  Instead she sits in the chair next to me and likes to step over to my chair to visit.  Last night she ate most of my dinner while I was putting some things away...
• She can count to 10 in Spanish and she's gone as high as 16 in English.  However, that doesn't mean she can tell me how many of something there are.  The answer to that is always "two".  My feeling is that's pretty typical for her age, but we're looking forward to some variation in her guesses/responses at some point.
• The other day our neighbor was playing in his Power Wheels car in the park.  Another couple of kids joined in and were taking turns driving/riding in it.  Charlotte was the passenger while an older girl drove her around.  Then we let Charlotte sit in the driver's seat with Evan (18 months) taking his turn riding along.  We figured they'd just sit for awhile.  In fact I said "Oh, there's no way she'll be able to drive it. She's a good 4-5 inches from reaching the pedal."  Not 10 seconds later she'd scooted forward and proceeded to drive Evan around the field in circles for a good 5 minutes.  I should not underestimate my daughter!!