have a merry little christmas

With no Spring in
sight yet and winter temperatures at all
time lows again in DC... ...we can safely post some more holiday pictures!

 As you can see, Noah had to continue the family tradition of our 

special Christmas photo shoot. 

This time, Penny chewed her props afterwards... to make sure, once and for all, that we will never ever degrade her to a reindeer again ;-) 

As usual, she did LOVE HER BABY though!

cool

It's been snowing, again! We've had a very cold and snowy winter in DC. After 5-6 solid snow falls plus many times of arctic temperatures... we are definitely ready for Spring, but we've also had a lot of fun and it does look pretty.















Here are some pictures from the biggest snow fall of this season two weeks back: 12 inches (!) right in time for Valentine's.

Noah was amazed by all the white snow. Penny loved hopping through it like a bunny. And Charlotte couldn't believe it went almost up to her hips! A "snowball fight" with Daddy was fun... but he didn't think all the shoveling was!

happy hour

Leaving the office is not so much followed by cocktails anymore... but lots of hugs and kisses!

with love

Last year around Valentine's Day, Charlotte started speaking more and more in longer sentences - declaring for the first time that she loved Mama, Daddy and Penny. 

This year, Charlotte "wrote" her first love letters in kindergarten for all her classmates. We thought it was an interesting collection of endearing and funny sentiments she expressed about her friends. 

Of course, Daddy made sure Charlotte wrote a card to herself as well! ;-)

sweeeeet!

Charlotte had a sweet Valentine's too - making and drinking hot chocolate on a snow day is the best! (And blowing into the cocoa powder is especially fun ;-)

sweet valentine's

Noah turned 6 months on Valentine's Day! 

Charlotte would have surely loved to bake him a cake already... but at least he could celebrate with a first taste of real food. According to family and baby tradition, we served orange veggies. Charlotte Karotte ate carrot back in the day. 

Our sweet Noey got sweet potato ;-)

He had already longingly watched us and big sister eat for a while now, and loved test sitting in his new chair. 

 

So when we finally served up his first culinary delights, he eagerly ate up more than a first taste... grabbing and shoving the spoon into his mouth himself each time, as if Mama couldn't bring on the good stuff faster!

Our little brother has a BIG appetite. Enjoy, Noah!

simply penny

party animals

Charlotte (and Noah) loved the holiday season - from fun costumes to sparkly lights, from getting gifts to baking cookies.

But the most fun was staying up late!

We went to a friend's wedding before Christmas and first thought about getting a babysitter for the hotel so that Mama & Daddy could enjoy a few hours at the dinner and reception. But then we thought better: Convincing Charlotte to fall and stay asleep in an unknown hotel room while we were away was probably a non-starter, and Noah still ate too often. So we took them along after the church ceremony... expecting a short and stressful appearance... but we ALL had a blast!

Noah enjoyed all the cuddles during cocktail hour and deeply slept through all the hustle and bustle of dinner & dance.

And Charlotte? Well Charlotte had the best time staying up way past her bedtime for the very first time: First, she helped decorate. Then she got drunk on refreshing Pittsburgh water and ate her weight at the bread buffet. And finally, she cut up a rug on the dance floor. In the end, we all fell happily asleep in our room.

Now Charlotte wants more of Mama & Daddy's friends to get married ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

simply charlotte

We're still here!

We just had "a little" strep throat, bronchitis and ear infection (alright, and blogging fatigue too) in the last weeks... but fun too.

So for now just a quick hello again... especially since a picture often speaks more than a 1000 words:

because this is SO Charlotte ;-)