Leftovers

Here's a bunch of randomness from October. I just want to be all caught up when the baby is born so I can blog right away!

This is Ivan on his real first day of school. The age requirements for preschool ask that kids be 3 years old by the first day of class. Ivan made the cutoff, just barely! He turned 3 the day before class started. 

Charlotte wanted to say cheese too. She wouldn't stop until I took her picture. She missed Ivan very much while he was at school. Ivan came home and said, "Charlotte, did you miss me? I missed you lots and lots. Did you have fun today? I had fun at gool (school) but I missed you."

Charlotte's latest fashion sense. Gold sandals, link toys as bracelets, and as many necklaces as she can find. She found that hat and kept pulling it down over her eyes and pretended like she was hiding. 

This is Ivan's third day at school and I think Charlotte is finally getting used to playing without him for a bit. It's nice to have some time with just her since it's never really happened before. She's such a fun little person and I can tell she appreciates extra time with mom focused on just her. 

She was so proud that she got all these on by herself. 

We spent some time as a family feeding the ducks. And the kids found a giant puddle in the parking lot. 

They even convinced Dad to join in and splash with them. He is the only one with waterproof shoes. 

Just eating an apple at the park. This is the first time she's accepted eating an apple that wasn't sliced. That's a big step for her! Maybe we're getting her out of this diva stage?

This is how we general conference. We went to the sand dunes since the kids have never been. We got to listen to conference in the car, then got out and played. Ivan said climbing the sand mountain was so fun. We took some sleds and went down some of the steeper slopes. Climbing up and down the sand was a bit of hard work and Charlotte was impressed, but Ivan did an awesome bear crawl to the top. When we were leaving, Charlotte finally took some interest in the sand and played with it in her hands.

We had popcorn for snack in the car when we were done.