More Video

Here is some video of Carlysle and I playing around the house. So the reason she is wearing a winter hat in the middle of April during this video is because she found it in her room. And she apparently associates it with outside. She brought it to me and kept saying "outside". I just set it aside and she had a fit. She kept trying to put it on and couldn't do it by herself so finally I put it on for her. She walked around the house like that for a good hour. She was convinced by wearing that hat, it meant we would be going "outside".

We have pigtails.....

Joey and I went to pick Carlysle up at my Mom's house on Sunday. We were sitting around watching her play and discussing the fact that she most definitely inherited her hairline from me. Poor thing. My Mom apparently found some pictures of me at her age and I also had no hair around the side of my head. The good news is......it eventually grew in.

Suddenly, my Mom said I think she has enough hair in the back for pigtails and she ran off to get ponytail holders. It was so adorable that I have been doing her hair that way ever since. It actually makes her look like a little girl, so maybe people will stop calling her a boy. I realize we have a ways to go but we're getting there.

Glassys...

These are some pictures of Carlysle showing off her "Crocs" and "Glassys". She loves wearing her little sunglasses and anytime she sees her glasses or mine she goes crazy saying "glassys".

Oreo face....

And this is what happens when you let a toddler eat Oreo cookies. I happened to be eating a cookie one afternoon when Carlysle wonder in the office and had a fit for me to share. So I gave her half of a half. She acts just like her brother, our Golden Retriever, and quickly exits the room before you changed your mind. I assumed this would be okay because it was such a small piece that she certainly just put the whole thing in her mouth and there would be no mess. Wrong! She walked into the office a few minutes later looking like this.....

I mean what happened here? Did she take the piece of cookie, smash it into her face and smear it around? How does this happen?

Silly Carlysle

These are just a couple of recent videos I've taken of Carlysle. I didn't want to do a whole post for each one so I'm just posting all three.

This is a video of Carlysle "reading" to us while she sits in her wagon at Mimi's house.


The next two videos are just me and Carlysle playing during the day when we get bored and want something to do.

Easter Sunday

So these are attempts at Easter pictures. We went to our church in Columbia so we didn't have any family to take our picture. So Joey did the "set the timer, run over, jump in picture" thing. Sad but we tried. And I have been trying to upload this video for almost two weeks. We set up our own Easter Egg Hunt in the backyard for Carlysle since she didn't get to actually hunt for eggs at the Orangeburg Hunt (we had a meltdown right before it started). This video is long and I actually cut it but she was too cute to watch so we recorded a lot.

This is Carlysle carrying the multiple ducks that were in her Easter Basket. I don't know what we were thinking but we forgot to take any pictures or video of her actually getting her Easter Basket.



This is Carlysle after church running around in her ruffly bloomers and tights.

Orangeburg Easter Egg Hunt

On Saturday, we traveled to Orangeburg to spend time with Joey's family and attend the Annual Easter Egg Hunt. I will try my best to explain the scale of this event. The pictures will show some of what I'm talking about but you cannot get the full effect unless you've been. I've heard about this for many years but have never been until this year. A little background first. This family in Orangeburg started this Easter Egg Hunt 14 years ago with the birth of their first grandchild. It's free and open to the public. They live out in the country on the most gorgeous land complete with a pond and immaculate landscaping.

As we cross through the gates of the large brick wall that surronds the property, my mouth just dropped. It was absolutely beautiful with Easter decorations everywhere and a bridge you cross to get over to the fun stuff. I don't even know where to begin to describe the neat things they had. I'll just run through them. They had ducks for the children to hold, baby chicks, bunnies, a merry-go-round, pony rides, a bouncy house and face painting. They also had cake and ice cream, skittles, mini candy bars, and punch. Then they of course there was an Easter egg hunt set up but not just one. They had it organized by age group and each one was on a different part of the property.

Carlysle had a blast! And so did Mommy. I had the best time watching her holding the little chicks and bunnies. Well, I say "holding" them. She actually kept squeezing them because she has several stuffed toys that when you squeeze their tummy, they make a noise. And one of them is a duck. So we couldn't let her "hold" them for very long because that would have been a very tramatic Easter for some children if they had watched Carlysle squeeze one of the cute chicks to death. Also, there is a toy duck at Target that she loves, it's one of those "Fur Real" toys. This one's little mouth is open and you squeeze the bottom part of it's beak and tongue together, it quacks. She just giggles and giggles (so of course Mommy and Daddy bought it for her easter basket). So the first thing she did when saw the ducks was try and squeeze it's beak to make it quack. It was hilarious. We had so much fun. Can't wait to go back next year.

On our way to the Easter Egg Hunt

Ok, let's play a game....."Which person in the picture doesn't belong on the tiny Merry-Go-Round?

Here is some video of Carlysle with the Bunnies:

And here is some video of Carlysle with the baby chicks, watch the part when she stands up and is holding a baby chick by it's neck. We'll have to teach some better lessons about being gentle
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