Once her Daddy got there and was bouncing her on this she really had fun!

Clementine and Kyren brought Charleigh some balloons for her birthday. Clementine kept wanting to bring them to Charleigh while she was playing in the tunnels.

Let her fly.......

It made us all laugh to see little bitty Tiny going down the slide. I never got a picture of Charleigh because she would bail off down it before I was ready!

She would pretend like she was riding a horse. Of course.

Charleigh trying to mother Clementine again.

GOING BONKERS

Little fish

The night before Charleigh's 3rd Birthday we stayed in a hotel with a pool in Columbia. Kyren, Clementine, Charity Rick and Ya-ya came over to play. Charleigh is just about swimming. She goes under the water and moves her arms and legs, she just can't help but panic sometimes and try to touch the bottom with her feet which makes her sink like a rock!

The obsession Continues....

Ben was leaving for work and Charleigh was sad (as usual) and I enthusiastically told her that we were going to have so much fun while he was gone, she instantly said "are you going to swing me?" Half excited that I might actually do it and half doubting that I would do it. I give it a pretty good try, trust me, but Daddy does it much, much better.
She is way too cute, and brings us so much happiness.

Enjoying the snow before it melts

Fun in the snow....

She wanted me to take her picture, she said "take it now Mom."

Chapstick break!

She made a snow angel without me even showing her how. I guess she remembered from last year.

Snowed in....

We got like 6 inches of snow this week and Charleigh is loving it! Even though she couldn't get her car to go she still wanted to climb in.

Charleigh's house!

Charleigh loves her new house, she wants us to play in it ALL OF THE TIME! She gets all of her toys in there with her and plays pretend.

100% COWGIRL!!!

Charleigh rides her bouncy horse ALL OF THE TIME! She changes the name of her horse from Scooter Bug, to Dandy, to Grandpa's training horse. It depends on what horse she is riding what kind of conversation she has with the horse. If it is Dandy or Scooter she is generally nice, she races and sings and yells "yee-haw, ride'em cowgirl" and "walk" and when she is on Grandpa's training horse she is very bossy and almost mean. She will yell" Wissen to me!' and "whoa" and she likes to be in control. I have to remind her to be nice to her plastic horse.

Here she is having a full on conversation and is speaking directly into the horse's ear.

Can you guess which horse she is riding here? .....Yep. That Damn training horse of Grandpas. She got bucked off 3 days ago and ripped her shirt and pants and flipped the horse over on top of her, it was a very large rip in a brand new shirt, the size of a grapefruit. She never does anything half way. She let out a few whimpers no real crys and then she asked her famous question of "WHAT HAPPENED" which she pronunces Hoppened.

Testing out the new camera, Ben zoomed in on her sweet lil' face and her blue eyes sparkle.

Charleigh and her Daddy dancing in her room!