My dad's favorite food in the whole entire world is donuts! Specifically, Jelly filled donuts from Krispy Kreme. Me, Dad and Carter went to Krispy Kreme today for a little treat! We were so excited because they had Valentine's Day donuts. I had a chocolate and pink icing covered heart and Carter had a red, pink and white sprinkled heart! Check it out:
Skylar and Carter both love playing but in very different ways. Carter is definitely a "toy" person. He loved Hot Wheels as a baby, then Thomas the Train as a toddler, and now Star Wars and Legos as a kid. Skylar on the other hand is more into crafts, science, music, reading, and make believe. Skylar bought this weekend a very interesting "toy" -- an artificial Owl Pellet!
She bought it at one of her new favorite stores, Hobby Lobby, in the "learning games" section. It is a reproduction of a regurgitated barn own pallet complete with a mole skeleton inside! You pick apart the clump of lint and clean feathers to find a resin coated skeleton of a small animal (a mole in this place). Weird fun for sure but also very educational!
Carter, on the other hand, spent the weekend playing with his Lego Star Wars figures and sets. He's more interested in the characters than the boxed Star Wars Lego sets. Instead he uses regular Lego to build his own space ships, forts, and speeder bikes!
Carter saw a new Lego set in the store last week. It is the Landspeeder bike from Episode 3. Again, its not because its a landspeeder that he's excited -- its because the Lego set comes with six (6!) minifigs -- Luke, Obi-wan, C3P0, R2-D2, and two bad guys. We decided to create a rewards chart to help him earn enough money to get it! Good luck Carter -- it should hopefully taken only a month.
Today we celebrated Carter's 4th birthday. We had a big family party with lots of people there. Carter got a lot of great gifts, especially Star Wars stuff.
Mimi got him some oranges or clementines. What? He is getting to be quite a big boy.
Check out all the candy me and Carter got last night from trick-or-treating! It was awesome! Tons and tons of candy -- who wants some?
Tonight we visited the Netherworld Haunted House. No, no, we didn't go in the haunted house. It's too scary for kids. No, we visited the parking lot instead. It was great! Carter was a little scared but not me! Me and my cousin Grace and my friend Alivia had a great time.
We went back again to Little Five Points, Atlanta today to see the 2009 installment of the Halloween Parade! It was a lot of fun. We met up with our friend Temper (he's a thug this year) and had a day of it. Before the parade we made trick-or-treat bags at a crafts area and got a snack at Sevananda. This is now our annual tradition and we look forward to next year's parade!
Skylar and Carter are really glad that they live close to their Grandfather and Nana. They get to see them usually on a weekly basis. They also live close to their Mimi and see her a few times a month. It is really nice to be home again, back in America, and get to live close to the grandparents.
Here are some photos from recent time together:
You remember when we showed you about how Carter loves to "read". Now here's some photos about his progress. He is really good at holding the book and turning the pages.
We had visitors in Germany -- Mimi and Morgan. Skylar was at Kindergarten, but Papi, Mommy and Carter went to the airport to pick up the guests.
Carte had a great time running around the place.
In the morning, Carter likes to grab all the empty bottle from the night before and walk around the house with them.
The only one that's got anything left is the water bottle, but he still grabs them all (2 or 3) and walks around with them all.
