After Christmas

Charlotte really loved her Christmas gifts from Uncle Paul this year.

One weekend in January, we finally went to check out Gizmo's with some friends. The kids weren't tall enough for everything, but they enjoyed the playground and Wyatt and Noah enjoyed the bumper cars and go karts.

We finally had our first illness of the winter season, but it didn't keep him down for long. By mid-morning he was up and doing science experiments.

We did a color mixture experiment, the volcano experiment, and made unicorn slime.

Charlotte's reaction to the volcano experiment was priceless.

We used a new Jello-brand slime mixture, which was easy to make and also edible. It wasn't that great, but it was fun to take a taste.

By evening he was passed out again.

At some point, Charlotte moved a whole colony of stuffed animals into the laundry room without my knowledge. When I went to open the door, boy did I get a big surprise.

The boys did a bubblegum class at the culinary academy with some friends one night, so we went out to eat with Charlotte and another couple. Third child gets to play with knives I guess.

Our attempt at a cute picture of Charlotte and her buddy Mason was a fail.

But the boys had a great time at class.

Cave, Culinary, and Cuteness

We continued with the boys' soccer games in October. Charlotte and I started to go a little delirious sitting at the soccer field so much.

 

After being unusually healthy in September (which is a bad asthma month), the weather finally caught up to Wyatt and he ended up at the ER with respiratory distress. He was back on the mend in no time.

Charlotte was still in Disney princess mode

Nick and Noah went on a daring camp out to spend the night in a cave. It was damp, musty, and dark and they had to purchase a new wardrobe from Goodwill before going. I guess they had fun.

While those two were off being adventurous, I took the other two to a Halloween fest at Village Hall.

And out for dinner

If you recall, Noah's front tooth was knocked out by a ball on November 1st of last year. By October, you could finally start to see the tooth bulging under his gum line. Would he make it an entire year before it popped through? Stay tuned to find out.

On Columbus Day, we all went out for McDonald's and then Noah had an apple-centric cooking class at the local culinary school. They made apple crisp, dipped taffy apples, and made apple cider donuts.

While Noah was at class, we hung out at the nearby plant nursery again, having some fall fun and purchasing our family pumpkins. Since we still had time to spare, we also stopped for an ice cream treat at the nearby Creamery.