Playing

A long post of just the day to day.  Playing at home, outside, with friends, and around town.

Jack reading a book at the library.  As you can see he has my wiggle genes.

Groundhog hunting on Groundhog day.  Also he is dressed as a frog...

Pup pup!

Jenna and I threw a baby shower for my good friend Stacey.

Tunnel fun.

Fishing for bugs.

Cleaning the windows.  Jack and Char's favorite chore.

He loves to jump.

I bought a bunch of fruit for a party.  The kids found it and thought they were the greatest toys ever. 

Jack and his BFF Liam.  These two are two peas in a pod.

Being creative inside during the winter.

The National Zoo in DC.

Family Hike!

Charlottes one year shoot

As it usually goes, my photo sessions of my kids are always last minute.  The weather looked descent and Logan was out of class so we grabbed the kids and headed out to look for a field.  I should be more prepared and it would probably go better but we got a few good pictures.  I did feel bad that it was colder than I had anticipated though.

Charlotte is such a sweet girl.  She loves to sit on my lap.  Anytime I am on the floor she immediately runs to my lap and often with a book in her hand.  She loves reading books, especially ones that are touchy feely.  She also has some tiny books she carries around all day. She likes to be snuggled and held which is definitely new for me.  She loves to play peek-a-boo.  She likes to color and hold pens.  She loves bath time and comes a running when she hears the water.  She thinks Jack is hilarious.  They like to wrestle which basically means Jack drags her around and rolls her on the floor.  She is a good sleeper and thankfully is still loving her naps.  She loves her stuffed puppy "Pup Pup" and that just so happens to be her first and pretty much only word right now.  She will wave bye bye, blow kisses, and loves giving kisses.  She loves going outside and cries whenever anyone opens or shuts the door and she isn't outside.  She is always trying to escape. She insists on walking on the roughest terrain possible and sometimes we call her Pygmy because she is always climbing up on little precipices.  She is very calm, sweet and kind, and yet crazy and energetic at the same time. At her one year check up she was almost 20 lbs and 30 inches.  She is 50% weight, 90% height, 90% for head size as well.  We love and adore her so much.

Playing peek-a-boo

I think we upset her.

Charlotte's Birthday Party

 We had a nice little dinner for Charlotte's birthday.  We decided to keep things low key and just party with the family.  We had cake and then let her open presents which we then all played with until bedtime.  Toys can be hit and miss but I think I got these right; her own little set of board books and a Melissa and Doug fill and spill picnic basket. She was also loved from afar and many gifts were mailed to us from Grandmas and Great Grandmas.  She loved it all.  

This is an amazing picture of some serious cheeks.

Buddies

Presents!

She loves books.

Communicable Diseases

I figured I should document a bit about our travels to Utah.  If it isn't a horrendous 35 hour drive then its a 15 hour day of airports and flights.  We had two long days of flying to and from Utah for the Christmas break.  Overall our kids do a good job but we still couldn't get away without having some sickness, runny noses, throw up, poop, and crying along the way.  And we wonder why people get sick when they travel.

This is new.  Not only do you not have to touch a button to flush but toilets now automatically put a seat cover on for you.  I have seen it all.

Riding the escalator 1 million times to pass the time.

Watching the airplanes.

Jack carefully studying the emergency pamphlet on the plane.  Better safe than sorry.

I think between the 25 hours we traveled he slept about 1 of those hours.

Charlotte receiving and giving diseases on the gross airport playground.

More gross airport playground.

So tired.

Jack in his distraction station.

29

Logan turned 29 in January.  I feel bad that his birthday usually comes right after the holiday crash and we are all burned out but we still had a delicious dinner and his favorite dessert, Graham Bam.  I am not typically one to gush publicly about my husband although he deserves it.  But due to my journaling purposes, I am going to so look away if you must.  

Logan is an amazing father and husband.  He always puts us first and I am so thankful for that.  He is cleaner than I am so I rarely have to pick up after him.  Although he would claim otherwise, he can function rather well on little sleep.  He is often the one who gets up with the kids and lets me snooze for a few minutes longer.  He is so good to play with Jack and Char and he makes time for it everyday.  He very patient.. I need to learn this. He is such a handy man and can literally fix anything.  He is also technology savvy and has had to save my computer countless times when I download viruses on it.  He is so unbelievably smart and has been blessed with the gift of learning.  He teases and usually gives me a sarcastic answer before he ever gives me a serious one.  Even for a man of almost 30, he is super fit and athletic.  He still plays on lots of intramural football and basketball teams and exercises and runs.  He knows the scriptures inside and out.  I wish I could borrow that talent.  He makes me laugh all the time.  He loves food and will eat anything I make (good or bad... he ate a steamed cucumber once because I thought I had cooked zucchini).  And of course, he is oh so handsome :)

Cake Smash

Char is one!  Char is one! We did a cake smash for her.  When we did this with Jack we were so busy doing pictures that  we didn't realize he had eaten half the cake.  He had diarrhea for days.  So we made Char's short and sweet.  She mostly had a few good handfuls of frosting.