Eve found a cape in the closet
that Julie made for Lex last year. He hasn’t done much with it,
but she loves it!! She puts it on and runs around saying, “I’m
a wind flyer!” A reference to a book we borrowed from the
library last month called Wind
Flyers, a story told by a boy about his
great-great-uncle, who was a Tuskegee airman. I’m impressed
with the reference because it’s been awhile since we had the
book and at the time I didn’t feel like either of them really
understood it. I guess something clicked with her. She also
likes to fly on my feet and wave the cape around. She has no
concept of the super hero /villain them, but Julie, I think the
cape is a success!! Thanks! :)

We went blueberry picking today. It was
fun. The kids were super excited about it yesterday but then
Lex threw me for a loop this morning when he insisted that he
would not leave the house. Bugger! Once I reminded him of our
blueberry-muffin-making afternoon plans, he was raring to go
again! Yay! We met Michelle and co there and a friend of hers
who has a 4yr old boy and a baby girl. The kids all had a great
time running around, filling up Michelle’s basket (she
announced plans to make blueberry ice cream and that seemed to
motivate the kids the most) and feeding blueberries to the baby
in the stroller. A good time was had by all.

After working hard in the field we headed to Panera Bread
for a lunch of blueberry bagels and milk. The kids were equally
excited for both. Here are a few cute pictures of Lex and
Caitlin. It was the only time my camera came out during the
adventure.

Lex
told me that Caitlin is his friend. I think that brings him up
to two friends – Eve and Caitlin :) This afternoon we made
blueberry muffins. They came out ok… not fabulous, but ok. I
haven’t found a blueberry muffin recipe that I really like. At
least the kids are always happy with them :)

a strawberry, a mole, a spider, a fish,
and the letter E…. these are the things Eve “ate” while we
were reading a Wild Animal Baby magazine last night. When she
was sitting on the potty before bed she grabbed another book
and I was expecting her to “eat” her way through that too.
Instead she point to a statue and said, “It’s a statue! We
don’t eat statues. I want to hold his hand,” and she proceeded
to “hold hands” with the picture in the book. She is soooo
super silly! Today we made a “family sandwich” (Alan and I hug
with the kids squished in the middle, it makes everyone laugh).
Lex started squirming away and Eve took a big pretend
(thankfully!) bite of the sandwich! Never a dull moment with
her around.