Charlotte and the cat

The cat apparently has been going through some womanly changes and it has made her super chill with the baby. Which is great for us--not so great for the cat. As you can see in this video, Lottie thinks she has found a new pillow.

Harry Potter!

In case you were wondering, yes, that is Hagrid.

And yes, I am married, with a child, and still dressed up to go to the midnight premiere of Harry Potter. Meridith, Trish and I all decided to go and we had so much fun! I love love loved the newest movie and pretty much cried through the whole thing.

Amanda and I had to celebrate the event while we were together in Vegas and this is the closest we got. I wish so much we could have gone together to the last one!

Is oatmeal a finger food?

Anyone that knows Amanda (my sis) knows her penchant for eating most food with her fingers. I think that Charlotte may have inherited this trait. We have had the hardest time lately getting little Lottie to eat anything other than yogurt or cheerios. The other day I was trying to feed her some oatmeal for dinner and she managed to get ahold of the bowl and was just grabbing handfuls and shoving it in her mouth and on her face. But hey, at least she is eating something, right?

She went straight in the bath! She clapped a lot of the way up the stairs and sprayed oatmeal with every clap.
Also, she had oatmeal sneezes for about the next hour. It was an interesting evening trying to keep her clean!

Teeth, Walking, and all sorts of big girl achievements

I think I will still always call our little Lottie a baby, although I fear she is encroaching upon toddler territory. In the last 2 weeks, our sweet baby has gotten four teeth, has taken her first few steps, and has gotten quite a bit of hair. She is like a whole new person!

For further proof, here is a video of some of her activities:

We are having so much fun every day with her and amazed at the little person she is becoming.

The one thing I would like her to learn--to say mama. She just says dada all day long :)

The Wedding San Francisco

Earlier in June, the whole Andrew family made the trek to San Francisco for a beautiful wedding. Peter's sister, Meridith, married an awesome guy (Kevin) from there and it was a perfect day. It was so much fun to have so much family there and to have an excuse to party it up. We are also lucky enough that they came to Michigan for an internship and we get to hang out with them all the time!

Here is Meridith and two of the little flower girls . .

The bride's side of the family:
I LOVE this face. Okay, both of these faces.
Overlooking the city from the Oakland temple.
That night there was a fun dinner at an amazing golf course and the photographer took these beautiful shots of Lottie.

So pretty much we owe her big time.

We spent a few more days enjoying the city and here we are at the bay. We went to Alcatraz (which I kept calling Azkaban, whoops!), road the trolley, ate some delicious mexican food, and Charlotte even had fun by somehow ending up in the hotel bed with us every night.

Crawling!

It's official! Lottie is a crawling fiend. She is moving pretty quickly these days and loves to get into everything. She is also pulling herself up on everything (including in her crib, the little rascal) and we have had a fair amount of head bonks this week. She will just stand there in her crib during nap time and hold onto the bars. Such a funny!

For your viewing pleasure:

And the only place she seems to not like to crawl--the grass!

Piston's game and moaning and grumbling.

First, to address the moaning and grumbling . . .

As much as I try to be accepting of the cold in Michigan, dear Peter hears lots of whining.

Peter and I have recently restarted the Book of Mormon in our family study. We were reading in 1 Nephi Ch. 5 one night before bed and I noticed he started changing the words .

Vs. 2--For she had supposed that it would never be warm again, and she had also complained against her husband, telling him that he was a visionary man; saying; Behold thou hast led us forth from Texas, and the warmth is no more, and we perish in the snow.

This continued for the rest of the chapter and I think we woke up Charlotte from laughing so hard.

The other day the Mia Maids in my ward got to go to the Pistons game with an awesome member of the bishopric who has suite seats. They are sweet too. Due to one of their leaders having a baby and the other moving, Peter and I got to be chaperones! It was the best.

Probably one of my favorite pics of my two favorite people.

The other Sunday when I was getting Charlotte dressed for church, I walked back into our room and Peter asks me, "Is this too much gray?" I told him he looked like a seal. Here is said outfit: