Checking the Mail

We love to go check the mail everyday. Sometimes it's the only time that we can get outside between naps. Peter is getting better at playing on the playground and loves to keep up with Charlotte whenever he can. She usually humors him:) 

Easter!

 We had a great Easter this year. We spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa Gerhardt's house and had an Easter egg hunt.

 Brad made this woodland fairy treehouse for Charlotte. She had little fairy dolls in her Easter basket. She's looking glamorous in her curlers:)

 Happy Peter with his little bunny toes! Peter got two teeth over the last week and is work on at least one more.

Those arms never stop moving!

Charlotte and Peter had special Easter pajamas the night before. They had those cute little chick an bunny Easter baskets for collecting candy and eggs. 

Ballet

Charlotte has been taking ballet lessons for the past six weeks and today was her "recital"; we're thinking of submitting this video to Pacific Northwest Ballet as an audition. She's pretty amazing. She dances to the beat of her own drum.....

Sundays and Baking

Happy Sunday from this dapper guy! He's getting so big and loves to lurch and scoot around. He always finds his way to his sister's smallest toys and papers he isn't supposed to eat...

 Charlotte has been very into baking and cooking recently (How could she not be with the parents she has...). She is a great little helper in the kitchen. She made a mini loaf of banana bread with me and helped make that banana pudding below.

Around here lately...

Blogging has been kind of on the back burner lately, but I'm trying to be better. What better time to start again than in the new year, right?! We have been busy with school, the holidays, moving into a new apartment, and applying for my dietetic internship. Things have been busy, but good. 

 Peter just won't stop growing. He LOVES his sister and fell asleep in her bed a few weeks ago. Anything she is doing, he wants to do.

 Charlotte has a new picture face that she uses whenever there is a camera in sight. This picture is from the kids Christmas party before the break.

 Again with that picture face...Charlotte and her friend Dallin, who moved away before Christmas.
 Charlotte turned 3! We drove down to Utah for Brad's sister, Katie's wedding and got there right in time for Charlotte's birthday, so she celebrated with her cousins and family. It was pretty cute. We feel like we have to go all out for that girl's birthday party and make sure it doesn't get overlooked by Christmas:) She had a blast!

 We had a little fairy treasure map that ended at the enchanted fairy forest cake. Those are supposed to be acorns on the right, thanks pinterest:)

 There's the birthday fairy! I can't believe she's 3...

 Peter LOVES the water just as much as he loves his sister and can't stop splashing when he gets anywhere near it. He had a great time in this tiny pool next to the big pool at Brad's grandparents' condo.

 We braved the cold to see the beautiful lights at temple square in downtown Salt Lake. It was beautiful. Charlotte loved it. I think Peter did too...

 Smiley girl!

Christmas and Christmas Eve were kind of a disaster this year because Brad and his sister came down with the flu and it was passed around the family all week. It was pretty horrible. Luckily, Charlotte, Peter and I were spared and could open presents and look in our stockings on Christmas morning. Poor Brad! At least we have a picture to document it!
It was great to see family and Katie's wedding was beautiful and totally worth the trip and the flu epidemic:)

Happy Halloween!

Charlotte had to have two costumes this year (and, consequently, all of us); first she wanted to be Word Girl, but then realized that she would have to wear something other than a dress. So we decided to adapt it into a Little Red Riding Hood costume, with Peter as the Wolf. We ended up making a short film out of it which you can enjoy here (it's in German, but the story's pretty familiar...).

Twinners

We were watching a few family videos that we have on Sunday and we came across this one on top of Charlotte when she was Peter's age. Peter happened to be asleep in his diaper, so I took another video of him at the same age, looking very much like his sister. (I'm not sure why the quality of Peter's video is so bad.)