Keep Your Fingers Crossed

It was a big day. Both Charlotte and I were dressed in something other than PJ's, and we actually ventured out of the house. Hooray!! After a ROUGH day yesterday, I think we have turned the corner on this bug. Everyone is happy about that. Unfortunately our trip to Nashville had to be completely scrapped since apparently lots of people are spending Spring Break there and I could not get a new hotel reservation. Since Nashville was out, we decided we'd go anywhere (how desperate for a trip are we???) within 5 hours of St Louis where we could use our thousands of hotel points for a suite. So where are we going? (drum roll please) Indianapolis! We're hoping for a Tues-Sun trip, but we'll see how Charlotte is doing tomorrow afternoon. Then Indiana, here we come!

Spring Has Sprung!

We didn't make it to the class field trip to the zoo this morning, and we didn't leave this afternoon on our road trip to Nashville (I won't go into detail...but Charlotte regressed in her sickness!), but we did have something to celebrate. Spring! For some reason I can no longer recall, we started a few weeks ago counting down the days until Spring. We would also search for "signs of Spring" as we drove around town. Nicholas has been really into it.

This afternoon, I stayed inside with Charlotte, but Tom and Nicholas took a little "Signs of Spring" walk (thanks to Tom for doing documentation duty!):

Kind of dark, but this is the huge flowering tree outside Charlotte's room

Nicholas joked that this was a "sign of Spring"

So we may be stuck in St Louis, but at least we can enjoy the changing of the seasons!

Ribbit, Ribbit

How could I have forgotten that we own a frog costume?? Charlotte and I were looking at some old pictures tonight, and there were some from Nicholas' second Halloween. He was in this costume. I managed to find it in the basement, and our little frog-lover was in froggy heaven. Whatever makes a sick child happy, I say!

Every time I start thinking that they don't look that much alike...we come across an old photo! This is Nicholas at 14 months (Charlotte is 17 months). If it weren't for the fact that I can tell this was taken in the corporate apartment we lived in when we first arrived in St Louis, I think I'd have a hard time telling these two apart!

Sickness and Snuggles

The only time Charlotte is cuddly is when she is SUPER tired...or sick. Today we spent 3 hours just snuggling and napping on the couch together while Nicholas was at school. It is the little bit of sunshine in an otherwise yucky illness. She was feeling a lot better this evening after getting so much rest today. We'll hope for a great Thursday, especially since we're supposed to leave for Nashville on Friday!

Happy St Patrick's Day! Bring on the Pedialyte!

I took this picture moments before the onset of yet another stomach bug at our house. Charlotte was the bug's victim. We'll hope for a short-lived (and contained!) attack.

Clubs of Her Own

Having Nicholas as a brother means spending a lot of time outside while he hits golf balls. Charlotte wants so much to do what he does, which has meant using one of the clubs from his bag (and dragging it across the driveway) or one of his original plastic clubs, which are being held together by lots of duct tape. We decided that she could use her very own set. So we took her Christmas ToysRUs gift card (thanks Grandpa Doug!) and bought this little number. She loves loading the ball onto the tee and ever so gently knocking it off. Nicholas is of course jealous that her clubs are pink and has decided that he needs to learn to play with the "baby clubs". They're a hit with everyone!

Assigned Seats

We hosted a brunch for some friends on Sunday, and I was (shocking, I know) running a bit behind, and needed to finish some things up and keep Nicholas entertained before everyone arrived. I decided he could set the table to help out. Nicholas is very big on deciding where people will sit (as many of you know), so as he was figuring the seating out, I asked if he wanted to make place cards. I never imagined he'd say yes, being that any art project-type suggestion I make is almost always shot down. To my surprise, he was really excited to do them. Despite the fact that I had no actual time for it, we sat down and made place cards. It was so cute to see him concentrate and write everyone's name. Our guests got a kick out of it too!

Craig, Amy, Eric, Evy, Mama, Dad, Abbey and Barr

It took a little deciphering, but everyone ended up in their preapproved seat!