Dinner time!

Every night we would venture out for dinner.  After we got back, Paul and I said we never want to see the inside of a restaurant again!  It was fun though.  The restaurants there are on the nicer side so we would get dressed every night and pray the kids (i.e. Kate - Charlie is an angel) would be good.  Wine helped us keep calm during Kate's moments during dinner.  :-)

On the whole though both kids did really well.  We found bribing with chocolate at the end of the meal really helped Kate behave throughout dinner.  As well as tons of crayons and tons of attention from the both of us.

 Paul and his mini-me all ready for dinner

Kate coloring at the restaurant

Charlie would draw the most elaborate pictures of space ships and rocket ships.   When we asked him to draw a picture of his family he quietly went to work.  When he showed us his finished product, he explained that Mommy and Daddy were on the roof, Kate in her crib, and Charlie was sitting at the kitchen table having a snack.  When we asked why we were on the roof, Charlie explained that we were fixing the chimney.  

A very excited Charlie about to dig into his specially made dessert.