Camera

I let Charlotte take pictures today with my broken camera (the lens won't close). She loved it. After dropping it on the ground a couple of times the lens closed and the camera now works again. She's a miracle worker. Unfortunately, she lost her new toy in the process. Sorry, Charlotte! I'm taking it back. Luckily, we have plenty of old broken cameras to go around here, at least until she fixes them... 

Charlotte can finally reach the pedals on her bike now and has been requesting lots of bike rides. Unfortunately, she hasn't figured out the steering quite yet, but I just can't believe how big she's getting. We can't wait for warm weather and more bike rides!

to the beach!

Charlotte's latest thing is asking to go to the beach. Usually she just pretends that we have a beach inside, but we did finally take her to a real beach. It was a pretty cold evening and we were pretty surprised by the people swimming in the Puget Sound in January and doing Tai Chi on the beach, but it was pretty entertaining. All Charlotte's wildest dreams came true. 

Happy Birthday Charlotte!

 Charlotte turned 2 today! She really likes Jake and the Neverland Pirates, so we had a pirate theme birthday party. I made a birthday cake in the shape of a treasure chest with gold coin cookies. Just add some snacks of cheese, fruit and juice boxes and it was toddler heaven. (The picture above is another example of Charlotte's new picture face.)

Trixie was very into the present opening. Charlotte's friends were too though. Toddlers love opening presents. Of course, everyone wanted to play with the newest toy at the same time, so we had to do a lot of distracting.

 

These last two pictures are Charlotte opening her last present. Notice how excited she is in the first one and the look of terror in the second one when she saw the toy buffalo. She threw it across the couch as soon as she saw it. Apparently buffaloes are scary. :)

 

Jolly Trolley

We went to Callaway Gardens the other day for a ride on the Jolly Trolley. It was a light display with music and lights. It was pretty impressive. We're getting some ideas on how to decorate our yard, when we get one.  Here's a video of the snowflake forest.

 

Alex's Graduation

We went up to Athens for Alex's graduation. We spent the night in a hotel so that we could be at the commencement and convocation. This picture is pretty classic Alex/Charlotte interaction, especially since she just woke up. She's getting more used to all her uncles the longer she's here. When we went to pick Andrew up from the airport she was surrounded by Andrew and Ian and kept shouting "No uncle uncle!"

 Charlotte slept through the whole commencement celebration, which we really appreciated.

Backyard Soccer

Charlotte loves spending  time outside here in Georgia. She played soccer outside in the backyard for a while. She really wanted to jump in the pool, but it's been a little too cold.