Charlie turns 4!

Charlie turned FOUR on a Monday.  I'm in a mix of disbelief that this little girl is four already.  That she uses better sentence structure than most adults I know.  She's obsessed with Barbie and horses.  Loves pink, purple and anything that is frilly or girly.  She is most definitely not a morning person and would prefer to stay up late with her mama.  Although once she does go to bed, she still is an excellent sleeper.   Though this age has brought some of her first nightmares, causing some middle of the night wake ups for us.  They seem to be few and far between about fairly simple things such as bears under her bed.  Charlie can count to ten when she wants to, knows her colors and is getting pretty good at her ABCs.  At the age of four we are finally over the major potty training hurdle! Hooray! 

We aren't a family that gathers during the week so we decided to keep it simple with just the three of us going to the local "zoo."  We're also not the family that seeks out the perfect photo opportunity.  Mama is, but child and husband doesn't concern themselves with such matters.  So I present to you my basic iPhone photos.

On Friday, we had family over for some pizza, cake and presents.  It was low key and the perfect end to the week. I imagine as my little gets older we'll need to go a bit bigger on the birthday parties but for now this works.  Especially since we're camping out in the rental house chuck full of all our stuff AND the rental unit items.