Evie and Ella

Ella loves her little sister. I can always count on her to check on her for me, or keep her entertained for a few minutes while I finish something up. She will often lay down next to her and play with her and talk with her. Evie absolutely loves the attention. I have even found Ella reading books to Evie and it melts my heart. I'm so grateful that Ella has been such a great helper, I don't know what I'd do without her. I just love my girls.

Magical Powers

Ella was sitting by me trying to take my anklet off of my foot. She didn't say a word, she just quietly studied it and messed around with the lock. I kept talking with Matt, knowing she wouldn't be able to unlock it. Then she triumphantly held it up for us to see, she had taken it off. I could see she was very proud of herself so I said, "Wow Ella how in the world did you do that? I didn't think you would be able to get that off, its pretty tricky." She said, "I know, me either...... maybe I have magical powers like a PROPHET!"

Playing Catch Up

I've been absent from the blogging world for quite some time now. We have been really busy but also blogging hasn't seemed as fun to me lately. I've been in a blogging rut. But because this year I am going to print out my blog in place of my scrapbook, I HAVE to keep it up. So I've done 12 posts in the last 2 days! I am up to date and feel so relieved. I am going to try to be more consistent so I don't get overwhelmed.

Nana and Papa's

While we were staying with Whitney we went to my parents house to visit. They live only 20 minutes away from each other. I can't imagine how nice that would be. 5 hours is a long trip with 3 little kids. Whitney doesn't know how good she has it! It was nice for Evie to have one on one time with them without Ella and Kash trying to get all of the attention.

I've learned to keep a bib on this girl at all times because she spits up so much.

We wanted to play games so my mom got her exersaucer out so Evie could sit up and play near us. She really liked it, I guess its time to get mine out too.

Favorite Things

Evie does these two things all the time. 1) rolls from her back to her stomach. I think as soon as I put her on the floor she immediately rolls over. It doesn't take her long to get sick of being stuck on her tummy. There has been one time where she was on her stomach, and I left the room for a minute and came back and she was on her back. So she has done it at least once! I think we will all be a lot happier when she figures this trick out.

2) she loves loves to play with her feet. She is obsessed. If she isn't grabbing or eating her feet, its her hands. But her feet sure our fascinating.

Sweet Liddy

Evie and I went to California to visit Whitney and her new baby, Liddy Kate. She is the sweetest thing, and even though she is a good sized baby (she was born 8 lbs 4 0z) she just seemed so tiny next to my Evie! After only a few months I had forgotten how little newborns really are. Whit and I are so excited to have our girls so close in age, we just know they are going to be the best of friends.

Little Liddy

Here they are together.

Ryan and Liddy, Papa and Evie

Whitney is so on top of things and was already wanting to do her own photo shoot for Liddy. Everything was so cute and she got some really good ones. I tried to stay out of the way while they took her pictures so this is the only one I got.

While Liddy was taking a break we decided to try a few with Evie. She would NOT smile. Really, she did not smile once. I was so mad but I still took a ton of pictures.

Chubbiest cheeks.

Had to get a full body shot, check out those rolls.

I don't know why she had her mouth open the whole time! She would not keep that tongue in her mouth.

Evie with Aunties

My kids don't get to see their Aunts nearly enough! These pictures are of Nikki holding her and playing with her and trying to get a picture with her smiling. She would not crack a single smile! But we all got a good laugh when Evie spit up ALL OVER poor Nikki! It was pretty funny.

That is a LOT of spit up. Nikki was pretty grossed out but as you can see she was still able to keep texting.

And Mandy "posing" for the camera.

Nana wanted to hold her once she was all cleaned up and naked!

Evie has spit up a lot since day 1. It's so frustrating. I do think she has gotten a little better in the last few weeks so I hope she gets over this soon!

Little Hands

I thought this was cute of Evie holding a toy for the first time. She was just hugging it and eating it and talking in her crib. I am so sick of her growing up! It is going by way too fast. She grabs at everything, I think her favorite is my hair unfortunately. When she is in the bath she can grab the faucet and pulls it towards her so the water will run right in her face. It drives my crazy. It is fun to watch her eye something and then put so much effort into touching it, grabbing a hold of it, and putting it straight in her mouth.
I was telling Matt that I don't remember not wanting Ella and Kash to grow up; I needed them to grow up. For my sanity. But with Evie it breaks my heart that she is getting so big, so it must be because perhaps she is my last??? This really ticks Matt off when I say this! He has already been talking about baby #4 for months!

Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day the kids got these presents and a special breakfast. They thought it was pretty fun! I love that they think I'm cool, I wonder how long that will last?

I love these morning faces.

This is as creative as I get: heart toast, pinkish eggs, strawberries, and pink milk.

Ella all ready for school in her Valentine outfit. She loved her heart shirt and necklaces.

We made a "heart" poke cake. They loved the strawberries and the pink inside.

Kash loving licking the beater.
I love this boys' eyes.

Being silly.

And these are of Evie, just because she is cute.

Creepy one-eyed Mandy...

Mandy really makes it difficult to take a picture of my child!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Kash's accessories

I was getting ready in the morning and I was having the kids help me pick out a necklace to wear. Kash asked which necklace he was going to wear. I told him boys don't wear necklaces, just girls. He left the room but the next time I saw him he was wearing this long gold heart necklace! I suddenly pictured him with gold chains, baggy pants....it was scary. But he is cute.

Hello Ladies

I told Ella to put a jacket on if she wanted to go jump on the tramp but she couldn't find hers. She yelled from the other room, "I can only find Kash's!" So of course I yelled back, "that's fine! I don't care!" So she came around the corner in Kash's jacket that is WAY too big for her, had this smug little look on her face, and her arms folded across her chest. Then in a deep, drawn out voice (almost sexy?!), she said, "Hellloooo Laadies."
Seriously where does she get this stuff from? She cracks me up.