Blueberries & Hot Sauce

Happy Birthday to Grampy Jarvis today!! (And also Happy late Birthday to cousin Tyler last week!)

Charlotte is a sauce girl. Whenever we eat something that has sauce, she dips everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) from her meal into the sauce. She's come up with some awesome flavor combinations--kiwi and ranch dressing, strawberries and ketchup, pears and taco sauce. One recent discovery was hot sauce. With the cooler weather, we've been eating more eggs at breakfast; which of course have to be accompanied by hot sauce. Here's Charlotte meticulously dipping every morsel of her meal (including blueberries) into some hot sauce.

From another breakfast (pancakes and hot sauce).

Does this mean she has a really sophisticated palate? Or no tastebuds at all?

 



And lastly, a shout-out to our Georgia Bulldogs, who clinched the SEC East title with their awesome win over Auburn on Saturday!

Photo shoot

I couldn't resist sharing some of the pictures from a recent photo shoot, even though it will be kind of a spoiler for our Christmas card :)

In late September, we took advantage of a coupon for a photographer to come to our house, and our disc finally arrived yesterday!

 

When Jack was younger, we had some professional photos taken of him, and I wanted to do the same for Charlotte. So most of the pictures taken were of her, but we also got some good ones of them together. Fortunately the weather had worked out perfectly that day for the shoot to be done in the backyard. I absolutely love this photo of Jack. He looks so grown up!

Sweet baby girl.

Charlotte's hair was particularly wing-tastic that day.

And I even kept some of the photos where they let their true personalities show.

If anyone wants some of the pictures, just let me know and I can email you the file(s).

Superheroes and Monkeys

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Jack and Charlotte had a great Halloween--despite being chilly and tired, they both were all smiles after coming home with buckets full of candy. Jack was Spiderman, and Charlotte borrowed Jack's monkey costume from a previous Halloween. It was glammed up a bit with a tutu and cute bows that Aunt Lisa made for her.

 

Here they are heading out on their trick-or-treating journey with Dad, Sarah, and Aunt Lisa.

So many houses had stairs! A challenge for our litte short-legged one in a bulky costume. But with candy as a goal, she didn't let any obstacle get in her way. If one of us wasn't close by to hold her hand, she'd just climb up the stairs on all fours.

Big smiles from Spiderman! Guess superheroes love candy too.

I don't know how well it shows up in these next couple pictures, but look for Charlotte's tongue. Apparently the thought of candy was so exciting that every time she got some more treats, she'd be licking her lips as she headed away from the house.

Some of the houses were pretty decked out.

Charlotte checking out her stash when we got home.

These last pictures were actually taken from Saturday, when we went to the Halloween bash at Andy's gym and met up with the Johnstons. Will the hockey player actually wore his skates the whole time we were there, which was pretty impressive. The 3 kids somewhat cooperated for a picture together.

Harassing the swimmers.

Happy Halloween!!