Nanna and Grandad Visit Charlotte

We were especially lucky this weekend to have a second set of visitors!  Alex's parents came up from Atlanta to visit as well.  The kids thoroughly enjoyed spending time with their grandparents.  Alex and I were able to go out on a date night too!

    

Brunch at my current favorite restaurant, La Belle Helene.

     

     

Playing in The Green!

      

   

    

    

    

Alex and I had a fun date night on Saturday.  These deviled eggs with peaches were amazing!

    

Grandad and Little Man

Lisa and Andrew Visit Charlotte

Lisa and Andrew came to visit last Friday.  Our kids were over the moon to spend time with them.  We walked to Camp North End for dinner Friday.  We had a great time catching up with Aunt Lisa and Uncle Buck!

    

    

    

    

    

    

Ballerina baby

    

Needless to say, the kids were very tired after the visit.

Moving on Up

Our thirteen month old has decided he is too big for his highchair.  He now has a seat at the table on a booster.  He is loving it!  I was happy to put another bulky baby item away!

   

    

Airport Overlook

I have always wanted to take the kids for a picnic at Charlotte's Airport Overlook and we finally did this weekend.  It was fun to watch the planes taking off and landing at such a close distance.

    

    

We had a nice view of uptown!

      

     

      

Fun with Dry Ice

We had a bunch of dry ice left over from our volcano cake so we did some experimenting on Sunday. The kids had a blast!

   

We put dry ice into warm soapy water to make special bubbles that turned to gas when you touched them.

    

    

    

Teaching four and one year olds about sublimation is fun!

    

    

We put small dry ice pieces into balloons and tied them.  The gas produced from sublimation inflated the balloons!

    

Normal ice melting to a liquid and dry ice sublimating into gas!

    

    

Our favorite experiment was creating big dry ice bubbles!  We played with these for over an hour!

Volcano Cake

It was a rainy Saturday and we were stuck indoors so we decided to make a volcano cake!  Harper is a volcano-lover so it was fun to make an edible experiment!

   

My kitchen helper!

    

    

    

A lot of our cake batter ended up in Harper's tummy instead of the cake pans.

      

   

Little man was dying for a taste! 

    

    

He decided to do his own baking.

     

     

   

Luckily, our Harris Teeter had dry ice for the cake! 

    

    

    

Cherry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Harper, Ethan and I made cherry chocolate chip ice cream this Sunday with our left over cherries.  It was delicious!

   

    

    

My taste tester!

    

Violin Camp

Harper went to violin camp for a week this summer.  After dragging her to violin practice all year, it was refreshing to take her to lessons she actually enjoyed.  We were pleasantly surprised with a concert in the park after her last day of camp.  Harper did a great job!