Playing in the Snow

I did get my wish for it to warm up and snow for Thanksgiving!! So on Wednesday we took Eve out in the snow. She is so funny outside. She doesn't know quite where to go so she just stands in one place smiling. Ian likes to get her to eat snow. She loves it. He built her into a little mound of snow and she was content to just sit in it and eat snow. I can't believe how much she likes being out there. I wish it was always warm enough to go play out in the snow because it makes her so happy; and it is rare that she stands in one place and isn't running around at super speed.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Eve really enjoyed her first Thanksgiving. The thing I think she enjoyed the most was the endless snacking leading up to dinner. She didn't actually eat the turkey... it wasn't done when she had reached her waiting limit. She got the best parts for kids though. I think she ate almost an entire can of olives (some of them off of her fingers). She also enjoyed pumpkin pie and the cool whip on top of it. We also gave her some sparkling cider which she loved. It was lots of fun.

Ian baked us a raspberry meringue pie which was delicious. When we got to impatient waiting for dinner we had dessert before dinner. It was great!!

Since it is Thanksgiving I think that I should post a few things that I am thankful for.
I am thankful for:
- my family.
-Ian woke up with Eve this morning so actually feel rested.
-Ian is almost done with school.
-we can live with Kim and Al while Ian finishes school.
-I have a nice warm bed to crawl into as soon as I get off the computer and head on to bed.

Hope everyone enjoyed their feasts today!!

Holiday Fun

Last year I didn't plan things very well so I missed out on getting much done for Christmas. I just kept on planning for Eve coming and forgot that Christmas comes in December too. This year I am determined not to let Christmas sneak up on me again.

So I have been getting ready for Christmas for months. Eve's big present has been down in the basement for over a month already. I know that is kinda crazy but last year I didn't even have a Christmas present of any kind for her. By the time we got home from the hospital on the 23rd of December I wasn't up to shopping for anything other than the necessary items (diapers and more diapers).

This year I have Ian's birthday and Christmas present purchased already, just waiting for them to arrive in the mail. I was so together this year that I also ordered Christmas photo cards; I am just waiting for them to arrive so I can ship them out. As I already mentioned I have Eve's Christmas present waiting downstairs and I have her birthday present in the mail. I ordered my mom's gift ,and knowing if I shipped it to me and then her she would be likely to get it around her birthday (February), I shipped it straight to her.

I am sure there are things that I am forgetting. I know what I am going to get my brother, just have to get that done. Overall I feel like I am much more prepared than last year. Hopefully I don't forget anything too important.

Copy Cat

I think it is so hilarious when Eve copies the things we do. Right now she is wandering around the living room with a wipe cleaning various things: her play phone, daddy's face, the cupboard, the stroller. She is getting to the point where it seems like all she does is copy what we do. Yesterday I was eating soup and blowing on it to cool it off, this prompted her to blow on her food to cool it off too. So silly! It makes me so much more aware of what I do knowing that she is copying me.

Bundled Up!

Eve has decided to be a copy cat. Yesterday I got out my winter scarves because it is too cold to go without them. Eve decided that if I was wearing a scarf she should be wearing a scarf. All day long she was trailing the scarf along. It was so cute!!

Baby it's cold outside!!

It is oh so cold outside all of a sudden. Last week pretty much every day Eve would get all bundled up and we would go play outside. I think that no matter how much clothing she is wearing going out to play in the snow isn't a option when it is below zero. So now she is sad. She points outside wanting me to take her to play in the snow... but it is just too cold. It hurts to breathe outside now. Maybe it will warm up again soon. I think it is best to go outside when there is fresh snow.

So here's hoping that we get a big heat wave here and it warms up enough to snow. Wouldn't it be great to have a nice snowy Thanksgiving?

A good week

So right now Al and Kim are on vacation so we have the house to ourselves (mostly). It is kind of fun just having our little family in the house; though don't get me wrong it would be awesome to have someone around so that they can "watch" Eve after bedtime so we can get out of the house by ourselves. Or really watch Eve at any time so that we could get alone time. This weekend me and Eve had the house all to ourselves on Saturday because Ian went out snowboarding. It was like one of those little kid Saturdays; I didn't worry about getting anything done except for playing with Eve. It was so relaxing!!!

When Ian was getting ready to go snowboarding he got out his backpack that has a camelbak. Eve loves drinking water out of it. Right now is it still on the couch with water in it so that she can drink it. Ian jokes that if we were smart we would hang one down from the ceiling in her bedroom so she could have water handy all night long. It would be like the water dispenser for a gerbil... It just cracks me up!!

Yesterday was probably the worst day we have had in a while. You forget how much you hate those nights when the baby wakes up in the middle of the night a million times until you get one of those again. (Stupid teeth). Eve just wouldn't have it. By five she wasn't going back to sleep no matter what. She just wanted to cry and cry and cry for two hours straight and then go back to sleep. I forget how thankful I am that she rarely cries anymore. Luckily I got a morning nap and though our schedule was off she was a generally happy girl the rest of the day. Happy enough to make herself a clown face at lunchtime!!!

Then last night Ian was awesome, he took Eve the one time she woke up and I got to sleep through the night. I forgot what it felt like. It was so nice not to have to get up once after getting into bed. It was better than I ever dreamed it would be.

Sharing

I know when I was little I wasn't that fond of sharing; if I had something I wanted it to be mine. I remember some of us siblings going to great measures so things stayed in his or her possesion. (Angela licking her plate, fork, anything at her place on the table). Food was especially important; everyone had to back off food. I remember the sharing song "if I had a piece of cake and you didn't have one I would tear it into half and give a piece to you" In truth this would only happen in real life if mom was standing right there making us prove what good sharers we were.

Well Eve seems to have no problem sharing her food. It started out sharing her food with Mom, or Dad, or maybe even Grandma Kim. Well now she has decided that the dog needs to be shared with; and not just by dropping food on the floor for her to eat. She thinks she needs to take a more active role in the sharing. She will take her food right over to the dog and hold it there while Hailey eats it. It is so sweet!! Luckily Hailey is a gentle dog and so patient. I only wish she wouldn't want to give ALL of her snack to the dog. I feel like such a witch sometimes... yelling at the dog to stay out of the room while Eve eats; or telling Eve that she can't share her food with the dog. Those poor little friends.

Daddy is an Inchworm!

Ian really had Eve laughing tonight. He was laying next to her while I was trying to change her diaper and he was inching around the floor and she thought it was hilarious. So I let her be a bare bottomed girl so I could get a video of her laughing at Ian.

I swore there was some ketchup in here...

It has been a while since Eve discovered cupboards and drawers but after locking up a few of them she ignores most of them. Well she decided that it was time to break into this cabinet and see how big of a mess she could make. In this picture it doesn't look too bad... but there was an oil spill and a barbecue sauce spill. She thought it was a blast though. So of course now we will have to lock up the cabinet unless we want to clean up the messes every day, several times a day.

Someone's in the Kitchen with Grandma

This past weekend Eve helped out in the kitchen. I don't know why I hadn't thought about involving her in the cooking before... but she loved it. First she helped Grandma make Chex Mix and then she helped make 7 batches of cookies. She couldn't be happier standing on the chair with her measuring cups and some snacks!

Destruct-o-bot Strikes Again

Today while we were eating lunch Eve brought me a Made in China sticker. Immediately I was suspicious; since when would she bring me the sticker instead of eating it? So then I spy with my little eye an empty pot; we had just planted a seed in it to grow a little tree and daddy had left it in baby reach. She had so kindly taken up the job of emptying the pot so that she could have a nice pot to play with. She did attempt to eat some dirt from the pot... if I would have paid more attention when she first handed me the sticker I would have seen the tell tale dirt mustache. Once picked up with the pot she dropped the pot and it shattered. So she did a good job of utterly destroying something today... but at least she didn't eat that Made in China sticker. Have to count my blessings huh?

Busy Girl

About a month ago Eve was wandering around the living room and just popped this ball into her mouth... it was hilarious. Of course we couldn't get the camera out and get a picture of it. Even now I missed catching it at the time when it is in her mouth all the way but it is still cute to think of.

Bubbles!!

Ian is the best dad ever!! He gave Eve the super bubble bath today. What fun!!