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It's a good time to be Charlotte these days, let me tell you.
She was the recipient of three overloaded Easter baskets this past weekend, one from each grandmother and one that Bridget made up. My mother is a legendary filler of Christmas stockings and Easter baskets, and so not only did Charlotte score her body weight in chocolate, she also picked up a wide selection of dollar-store junk. Above and beyond the baskets, though, it seems like everywhere she went this weekend someone was handing her a goodie bag full of candy.
In the picture at the top of the post, Charlotte is posing with the "wabbit twacks" that lead to her hidden Easter basket. Here's a better view of the wabbit twacks:
Apparently, one of Charlotte's classmates told her that the Easter Bunny leaves footprints in your house, so she was expecting this to happen at our house. Bridget complied by spreading a trail of flour in the foyer and making the tracks with her thumb and fingers. Somehow the cats managed to not track the flour everywhere, and Charlotte was convinced, so it was all good.
For the last several weeks the three of us have been monitoring the progress of several of Charlotte's baby teeth as they have been getting looser and looser. One of her upper front teeth went from loose to outright wobbly yesterday, and came out during breakfast this morning. Unlike the first two teeth, which got swallowed, Charlotte felt this one come out and was able to hang on to it.
The Tooth Fairy will have to pay a visit this evening, it would seem. I think I still have a Sacajawea dollar coin from the handful I got when I bought a Charlie Card for the T. I have read that some kids get as much as five dollars per tooth, but that's out of control if you ask me. I think we used to get a quarter when I was little. There are two or three other teeth we expect to drop in short order, so I suppose I should go buy another Charlie Card.
As if doubloons and mountains of candy aren't enough (and, believe me, they are more than enough), on Friday Bridget and Charlotte are going to New York City for a 4-day weekend adventure with Charlotte's buddy Camille and her mom. The four of them are staying in a nice hotel in mid-town Manhattan and seeing the sights (Camille and her mother have never been to New York). On Sunday, the girls are being treated to an all-day Experience at the American Girl Place on Fifth Avenue -- breakfast with an "American Girl", their own Bitty Baby dolls and a gift certificate for each to outfit the dolls, then attending a live American Girl stage show.
Spoiled rotten? Whatever do you mean?
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