Conversations with Charlie

Charlie went with Daddy to Grandma Cindy and Grandpa Dan's yesterday while Mommy was scrapbooking. Daddy was helping Grandpa Dan make sausage. Charlie ended up staying over night at their house. In the afternoon Charlie took a nap with Grandma Cindy. After their nap, Grandpa Dan asked if Grandma Cindy snored. Here is their conversation:

Charlie: "You nore!"
Grandma Cindy: "I'm sorry."
Charlie: "It happens"

Shoveling

Charlie went outside with Daddy tonight to help clear off the driveway. He loved shoveling a path, picking up the snow and throwing it, and eating snow.

Unfortunately, his shoveling wasn't enough and Daddy still had to use the snowblower.

Charlie's Obsession

We have an obsession. Charlie was never attached to any blankets, stuffed animals, toys, etc. He finally has an attachment, his Adrian Peterson jersey. We wear it everyday. I have at least got him to go to daycare in different clothes, but as soon as we get home we need to change. This morning as soon as we got up, we had to put it on over our pajamas. He wanted to wear it to church, but we promised he could wear it when he got home. If he has had a rough day or is not feeling well, he also likes to wear or carry it to bed with him. 

 Here he is eating his breakfast with the jersey over his pajamas.

Putting together a puzzle with our jersey on.

He also usually has to have the pants on also. Here he is after church with the jersey and pants on.

Fairy Tale Town

 Mommy and Charlie at the entrance to FairyTale Town

 Uncle Travis and Charlie looking at the sheep

 Uncle Travis, Daddy, and Charlie going into the castle

 Daddy, Charlie, and Mommy sitting in the throne

 Mommy, Charlie, and Daddy sitting on the giant's foot

 Charlie going down the slide

 Charlie and Uncle Travis driving the tractor

 Charlie said this was his favorite part of the day

 Walking on the crooked mile. We walked this 6 times.

 Riding the horses

 Uncle Travis as the cowardly lion and Charlie as the Tin Man

 Charlie watering Mr. McGregor's garden

Standing next to the C in the alphabet garden

Wacky Tacky

We found a play area to take Charlie to. He had the best time shooting the nerf balls out of the cannons. He was not a fan of the big slides. He went down them once and flipped over half way down. He would not try it again. Mommy did get him to try out the tunnels again and he enjoyed that, but we wanted to go back and play in the ball area over and over.

 Charlie shooting nerf balls. 

 You would put the balls in this machine and it would shoot them up the top and they would come flying out.

 This machine would shoot them up a tube that would drop them out across the room.

 Collecting balls to bring to the shooter

Climbing through the tunnels

After Wacky Tacky, we went shopping for awhile. Travis and Juls wanted to take us to one of their favorite restaurants for supper. We went to the Elephant Bar. Charlie was so excited to eat an elephant with Uncle Travis. He was going to eat the body. Uncle Travis got the trunk. 

We got there and ordered our food. While we were waiting, Charlie threw-up all over the table. We had to get our food to go. It was still delicious even at Travis and Juls' apartment. 

Jelly Bean Factory

We drove 1 hour and stood in line 2 hours just to get a free bag of Jelly Belly jellybeans. Charlie was surprisingly good standing in line. It was a really neat tour of the factory. My favorite part was when we walked into the one station and the were making my favorite jellybean, Juicy Pear. It smelled so good! Charlie's favorite part was eating the whole bag of jellybeans on the way home. He also liked the hat. He made sure everyone had their hat on the whole time.

Charlie in his hat

John's Incredible Pizza

So imagine Chucky Cheese on steroids. That would be John's Incredible Pizza. It has the same arcade style games, but it also had an indoor roller coaster, bumper cars, bowling alley, etc.

 Eating our pizza and dessert

 Playing the Spongebob jumping game

 Charlie and Uncle Travis are feeding peanuts to the zoo animals

 Playing skeeball

 Knocking ducks over

 Auntie Juls playing the jump-rope game

 Uncle Travis trying to win Charlie a dinosaur

 Daddy trying to knock out the bad guys

 This was Charlie's favorite game. You had to roll a token into a dump truck.

The first time he played he hit the bonus button and won 100 tickets.

Charlie ended up with 1150 tickets and came home with a monster truck, squishy face character, blow-up bat, and chinese finger trap.