Spring in the Midwest

It's hard to get used to this weather! Yesterday it was 67, and this morning it was snowing hard on the way to school. It was too warm to stick, but it was a kick driving through snow in April!

Go Daddy, Go!

Kitty Cat Breakfast

At the Fall Fling fundraiser for Nicholas' preschool, we bought a breakfast with Nicholas' teachers for him and 4 of his friends. We hosted it this morning in his Cat classroom before school. Nicholas chose the menu: strawberry yogurt, bananas, blueberry muffins and OJ.

Isabella even brought flowers!

Logan, Jack Gunther, Ms. Sally, Nicholas, Isabella, Henry and Ms. Jamey

We've been so pleased with his school and his wonderful teachers. It was great to have some extra time with them and his friends. We can only hope to have as fabulous a group next year!

New Clippies

A girl can never have too many hair accessories...

Peep, Peep!

The theme this semester in Nicholas' Kindermusik class is "The City", which allows them to do just about everything. They've been talking a lot about statues and sculptures, and his homework this week was to create one. I had a grand idea that we'd use pizza dough and create a flat sculpture, bake it, then stand it up on skewers or something. Nicholas gave the big thumbs down to that idea, and instead chose to make a sculpture out of Peeps.

While a good idea in theory, it did sort of look like they were impaled on toothpicks and skewers!

Sugar? Charlotte's in.

The final masterpiece

Magic Member Morning

Members of the Magic House (the Children's Museum) were invited for a special morning today. We dropped Nicholas off at school and headed for some girl time....and breakfast! St Louis Bread Company (known in rest of the country as Panera) had catered. Charlotte couldn't have been more thrilled with her pumpkin "muffie" (a.k.a. muffin top). I was pretty happy with my coffee!

As we were Nicholas-less (that's a tongue twister!), we spent all our time in the under 2 area. Charlotte worked in the kitchen...

played in the ball pit...

drove a boat...

and a bus.

But her favorite, just like Nicholas at this age, was the ball-track-thing. Drop it at the top? It rolls down, down, down to the bottom. Drop it in the middle? It rolls down, down, down to the bottom. Endless fun. I loved having some quality time with my girl.

Way to Go, Big Girl!

Tom called me into our bathroom as he was doing Charlotte's bath, and lo and behold, she had gone in her little potty! We pulled the potty out of the garage attic a few weeks ago just to have it in sight. Charlotte has sat on it (both clothed and unclothed), but there hasn't been any action...and honestly I didn't expect there to be. I just wanted her to be comfortable with it. But she had other plans! If she just manages to go before bath instead of going in the tub (which Nicholas did for months and months before going at any other time), that will be great. Hard to believe we're on that path already. My, my how the time flies!