Evie Girl

{BeAuTy DoLL, am I right or am I RIGHT? Someone once stopped dead in their tracks when we were on Vacation. He looked at Braden and I and said, "Wow, your daughter is so beautiful. The kind of beautiful that takes your breath away." What a beautiful compliment! What a sweet person to stop and tell us that!}

With all the postin' about what Ella is up to, I decided I better take a moment and talk about Evie! Aka, CrAzY WoOomAn {she refers to herself as that, and it's not woman it's woooman}.
Here are a few things about my darling, one of a kind 3 year old:

1. At one point or another someone has called her shy because whenever she doesn't want to do something she says, "It's because I'm shy mom!". 
2. Evie has multiple personalities. I believe anyone with a 3 year old can relate. One minute she'll be doing something so funny (and I will laugh) and then she will stop everything and say, "MOM that is NOT funny! Why you laughing at me!?!?!?!?!" 
3. She is obsessed with making Ella laugh. She likes to come running at Ella, full speed ahead, and then yell BOOO at her! Ella thinks it's HILARIOUS! 
4. Evie is nearing the end of her pre-dance class. She really has learned A LOT from this class. There have been a few weeks where she has me come sit inside the dance room so she can monitor my every move and make sure I don't miss anything. A few weeks where she comes and sits on the outside with me and watches the rest of her class dance. A few weeks where she is a full blown prima ballerina and just does her own thing.
5. Preschool! Similar story to dance. Some days she goes to preschool LiKeAbOsS. Other days . . . not so much. More like I'm dragging her to this awful place where they make kids play, color, ride bikes, paint, etc . . . I know, sounds dreadful for a 3 year old . . . BUT every day when I pick her up she has a smile on her face and ALWAYS had a good day. We asked her what she does at preschool. She replied that she tells her teachers that she has to go pee pee . . . Lovely.
6. Some of her favorite things include: Ice cream, jumping on the tramp, blowing bubbles, The Hulk (she LOOOOVES the tv episodes), playing with friends, her hearing aids - I will jump to #7 for this . . .
7. Heaven forbid you take Evie's hearing aids out to check them, clean them, change the battery, anything! She LoVeS them more than she loves me (jk, kinda). This makes me so happy too! She is hearing wonderfully. She speaks beautifully. If I try to take them out while she is sleeping she will wake right up and SCOLD me!

She's PeRfEcT to me. The end.

Ella Zoe is 8 months!

I don't even know how this is possible, but it's true. Little Ella is 8 months old! Oh my! She is just about the sweetest, chunkiest, lovable, and adorable baby EVER! What is the 'just about' stuff? I mean: SHE. IS. 

A few things about Ella at 8 months:

1. Ella has 3 teeth. Two bottom. One top.
2. She's crawling! She's getting faster every day, but at first she crawled like she weighted 100 lbs. Just slow and steady. {If you've seen the size of her booty and thighs you might understand why she was crawling so slow HAHA}
3. She is my big EATER! Got food? She'll be your BFF! She's already had her heart broke once . . . it was by a string cheese ;) She'd bitten off a huge piece and I took it out of her mouth and she had the biggest alligator tears! {As if she'd never see the site of food again}
4. Some of the outfits she wears are 18-24months . . . WHAT!?
5. {I know someone will hate me for this} Ella sleeps through the night and has since day #2! I can probably count on one had how many times I've had to get up with her in the night.
6. Ella says dada, baba, bye, ball . . . maybe even a few more things, all I know is that she does NOT say mama yet {come on Ell, what have I done to deserve this silent treatment!?}
7. If you are holding her and start kissing on her chubby little cheeks, arms, legs, etc. you will hardly be able to control yourself. She has the most kissable little body you've ever seen!
8. She is the most well tempered happy little thing! Makes being a mother of two a breeze and so much fun! I'm fairly certain that Evie is going to be the "drama queen" sister, and Ella will be our comic relief.
9. Just within the past few weeks her hair is starting to grow pretty fast! YAY! Dare I say it . . . in the sun there are hints of R.E.D.
10. Last but not least, did I mention she likes to eat? She does ;)

 One last 'fun fact' about Ella. In case you didn't know, her middle name is NOT Zoey. It's ZOE. Rhymes with bow. Zoe. Bow. Just had to throw this out there :)

Name that Barbie!

{LOOK AT THE LEGS ON THAT BABE! work it guuurl!}

{mom barbie, see below for her unique name}

Evie is really into playing barbies lately! I love to eves drop and see what's happening in "Evie's World". I have to be so sneaky with pictures or it shuts down the whole operation! MOM, NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ME!
Evie is VERY specific about what toys Ella can play with. She wants Ella to play with her, just not really play with her. As you can see it's CONFUSING! Ella crawled into the bottom of the barbie house the other day . . . stressed Evie right out! MOM, ELLA GETTIN' THE BARBIE HOUSE!
 I love the scene of the 3rd picture: Naked barbie sitting in the kitchen, one boot, one shoe. She also moved the toilet up to the kitchen area just in case (how thoughtful). And the last photo of the kitties, how sweet. Little touches of LOVE all throughout the barbie house today!
P.S. Today the mom barbie's name is
Yellow-Mara-Lita (this name was pretty far out compared to her usual names ex: Fairya, Angles)
Favorite part of my day. Finding out what the moms name will be. Weather it be the mom barbie or Evie's the mom or her friend is the mom. BEST NAME CREATOR AWARD: Evie Robinson (hands down)
Love my girls!

Easter

 Easter

This is the first year we decorated Easter eggs with Evie! I have a little thing called anxiety (only with really random things that would make you laugh) and it was the first time I dared get out the Easter dye and my child in the same space LOL! Except the ironic thing about that is that I was the one who spilled a cup of yellow dye all over the table :/ (I'm sort of known for that in my family . . . I spill my drink at least 3 times a week . . . WHY!?)

Evie is such a creative girl! She is going to be a talented artist like her Great Grandma Marianne! Her new favorite thing is to draw faces. She was having a hard time with the paint on the eggs but I think it looks awesome! She draws all these faces and then imitates them for me. Crazy face, happy face, silly face, mad face, scared face! You name it!

Braden also discovered he had a hidden talent for coloring Easter eggs. HEWASLOVINGIT ;)

 

Evie + Kai

 

 

EASTER BUNNY CAME! Evie was so excited for the EB to come this year! Holidays become so magical again when you have little ones!

 

QUESTION: How do you celebrate Easter? Next year I want ours to be a little more Christ centered! It's so easy to forget the meaning behind these holidays!

Ella Girl

 

Would you just take a look that that cutie!? Ella is 'that baby' who is always happy, and if she's not you know she needs more FOOD ;) This little bundle of joy makes me smile and laugh SO many times a day it's crazy!

It really is an unexplainable feeling to describe the love a mother has for her children! Especially when you have two girls as cute as mine :)

hAiRcUt!

Before:

(I know, the whole tacky taking a picture of a picture thing. This picture was too cute not to share! Evie had her first school pictures! What a STUNNA! This picture was taken just a few days before we decided to cut her hair!)

 

During:

(3 year olds and technology . . . amazing. She makes my computer and phone do things I never knew they were capable of doing.)

 

After:

 (She hated it. NO, JUST KIDDING ;) She was tired LOL! And I don't know if anyone else knows this, but 3 year olds are pretty complicated. I think she may have been upset with her BFF Chloe! GIRLS! Anyways, I LOVE Evie's new haricut! It's so fun and will be just the right length for summer . . . . YAY SUMMER!)

  

 

The reason we decided to cut Evie's hair in the first place is because I caught Evie with Braden's nose hair trimmers (you know, those tiny scissors!?) and she was trying to cut her hair. Luckily, I caught her just in the 'nick' of time! I explained we should NEVER cut our own hair and asked her if she would like to get a haircut. Hence, the hair cut (courtesy of Evie's "other mother" Shelli, whom Evie actually calls mom). THANKS SHELL!