Cookies Anyone?

The setup - We have a legacy laundry chute. It has no opening on the 2nd floor...and doesn't open into the basement anymore. Yet we still have a cute little square door on our main floor. For as long as I can remember, Nicholas would open the door, yell "Anybody want cookies?" first towards the basement, then towards the upstairs. I have no idea why, and we've never gotten any kind of an explanation from him. As of today, the torch has been passed, and Charlotte now is asking the unknown dwellers of the laundry chute about cookies.

1 1/2 Already?!?

Can it be that Charlotte is now 18 months old? Yes it can.

As she is too young to describe in detail what kind of 1/2 cake she'd like, we took the easy (and oh-so-delicious) route of picking up cupcakes from Jilly's Cupcake Bar. We each got to have half of a cupcake.

She may seem a bit disinterested...but trust me, she got into it.

See. There's a happy, cupcake-filled girl!

Yum!

It's hard to remember back before Charlotte was part of our family. In her own special way, she really does make us complete!

Swim, Nico, Swim!

There I sat, chatting with the other moms as the kids were in the pool for swimming lessons. I look up, and I see Nicholas, swimming without his floatie belt all the way across the pool! I was freaked out, then impressed! For a boy who has had really limited time in the pool, and only 10 lessons, he's coming on strong! As we drove home, he said "I'm REALLY proud of myself!". So are we, buddy!

A New Passion

In a desperate attempt to get dinner going the other day, I put Charlotte in her high chair, and grabbed a sheet of address labels that I'd gotten in the mail and stuck in the kids' sticker box. Charlotte went to town and used the entire sheet, putting them one by one on a piece of paper...and I did get dinner done! Since then, she asks to do it multiple times per day. I hate to admit that I used to throw those away (how many address labels does one household need??), but I'll be saving them from now on. Thanks to Grandma King for stepping up with some to tide us over until we get more in the mail. We accept any and all label donations!

Which one to choose? Which one to choose?

Perfect placement is key...

So proud!

Not to be outdone, Nicholas made his own sticker paper. He, however, is not satisfied with using just excess address labels!

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!