Charles has started saying “hi!” and “bye!” again. It was particularly cute when he put that together with “Daddy” to say “Hi, Daddy” to me the other evening. He hadn’t ever done that before and it was quite nice after a hard day at the office.
This morning I worked with Charles a bit on counting. He was reading a book about an Easter Egg hunt with flaps “hiding” the eggs. I asked him how many eggs in one picture and he got it wrong, so I counted with him. He was amused. He caught up with me a few minutes later, still clutching the book, and told me he wanted to do some more counting. He was able to count to three successfully most of the time.
Charles is also starting to refer to himself as “Tcha”, which I think is his rendering of “Charles”. He used to consider himself the “baby” or just “brother”. But over the last few weeks since he started referring to Alice as baby he’s had to change. This morning he said “milk!” and I replied “I should get milk for Daddy?”. Charles fired back with “nooo.…fah Tcha”.