Oh Baby

Eve is in love with baby dolls, in truth they don't have to be baby dolls, anything she can hold up to her and pat on the back works for her. I think it is the cutest thing ever. If we are in a store and see a little tiny real baby she will hold up her hands like she is pretending she is really holding the baby and pat it on the back.

So this weekend we were browsing through Toys R Us and I see a little Cabbage Patch newborn. I asked Ian if we could PLEASE get it for her (she already has a little tiny maybe 3 inch tall baby; this one is a bit bigger). When he asked me what it was for I went for the first occasion coming up, her birthday!! If that hadn't worked there is always Christmas!! So we have her little baby wrapped up under the tree. I can't wait to see her with it. She was patting the box and making the oh sound to calm the baby already!! Sometimes she is just too cute.

Busy Week

This week was finals week for Ian. That meant that we stayed extra busy around here. We are so relieved that he is done and gets to have an entire month off from school. Eve will love having Daddy around to play with because playing with me every day has to get old.

Eve loves grabbing onto our clothes. She likes me to put on Ian's hat and she could be entertained for quite a while with me putting it on and she taking it off. The other day Ian left his shirt on the couch and she brought it to me, so I put it on her. It was so funny because it made her look SO tiny!! Then she got into the outdoor clothes and grabbed my hat so I put it on too. Nothing is more fun than things that aren't supposed to be toys.

Eve also loves Christmas lights. She got a her hands on these while Grandpa Al was testing them to put up in the stairway. It is so funny to see her with the Christmas stuff. She loves putting her snakes in the cage that the Christmas tree is in (a baby gate is around the Christmas tree). Yesterday she didn't limit it to just her snakes, all the toys that she could find went to the Christmas tree.

The Worm

Eve is really picking up some dance moves from Ian. She dropped down on the floor today and did this all on her own. It was adorable!

My Weekend Project

Eve's toys have been driving me nuts! They seem to multiply daily and once I think that I have toy storage figured out once again I have to get a new container for the toys. This weekend I decided that I was going to make cute containers for her toys because I was sick of clear containers that I just wanted hidden away. So Ian helped me with these vegetable bins and I think that they are pretty cute. The project took longer than I thought because it had to be paused every time Eve woke up, but I think that it turned out pretty well. The bins don't look too babyish either so they can stick around for a while.

A side note about Eve is that you notice something yellow on her neck in one of the pictures. She is in love with this bag of snakes. She wanders around with snakes all of the time. I think my mom would just scream to see it because even though they are rubber snakes they still would freak her out. Eve loves them and thinks that we would all enjoy having snakes underneath the Christmas tree; she puts them there and we pull them back out.

Yummy Leftovers!!

I just had to post this picture because I love it so much! Eve loved the leftover pumpkin pie as you can tell in this picture.

Hanging with her pals

This evening Eve was winding down from a busy day by hanging with her good pals Frosty and Santa. She has been playing with Frosty for weeks. He lights up and sings Frosty the Snowman while dancing. She loves dancing around with Frosty. She is a little less accepting of Santa. As long as he is lighting up and singing she doesn't want anything to do with him. I think it's pretty hilarious.

Eve did have a busy day to wind down from. Today we made the big trip into Anchorage. She loved it!! Ian had to turn in an assignment and we thought we would make a family day out of it. We went to Burlington and bought a baby gate, got my Christmas present from Ian picked out, went to Michaels, went to lunch, and finally got to wander around Costco. It was lots of fun!! Eve loves all the people so she didn't want to head home. I am glad that she had a good time; I did too.

What happened to my alarm clock?

Usually Eve serves as an alarm clock, waking me up sometime between 6 and 7. This morning I thought I was crazy because I felt so awake. I finally decided to get out of bed (thinking it was 4 in the morning or something) and it was almost eight!! It was so funny. I decided to wake her up because otherwise... who knows. It was so funny she rolled over and smiled at me and was so happy. It was so cute!!! I am sure this is just a one time thing. Tomorrow I will be waking up to a babbling baby, maybe even earlier to make up for her sleeping in today.