Eve has a loose tooth! Her very first one. She’s pretty excited about and and keeps telling me about how it feels. Often starting with, “I don’t know if this is usual or not, but…” then onto her story. She is an awesome child. She also has four molars coming in all at once. There’s a lot going on in that mouth of hers.
I wonder if that explains the fevers, headaches, and earaches from a few weekends ago…
This wiley one is kicking our butts in Monopoly this morning!
She’s finally tall enough..
… and boy is she happy!!
Brush our teeth, brush our teeth…
Someone had a little too much birthday cake! (She’s calling it her underwear cap and cracking me up every time!)
Another from Eve. While laying in bed tonight, Eve asked me when I was in college. I forget exactly what we were talking about that led to that question. I told her I graduated in 1999. She said, “Wow! That was centuries ago!” I corrected her that it was just one century ago, but somehow that didn’t make me feel much better. :/ Nothing like kids to make you feel old!
Eve had a dozen things she wanted from me this afternoon, all at the same time! While I was working on the fancy manicures she wanted, she started asking me to read to her. I told her several times that we can read after I finish with the nails, but that wasn’t good enough. Suddenly she said, “Oh! I want to read a fairy book and I can!” She ran, got herself a book (a chapter book!), came back and started reading. She’s been reading it ever since. I LOVE that!
It’s getting chilly around here in the evenings!
It’s 5:30am. The kids’ bedroom door is cracked open. I peek in and see Eve, laying on her side, doggie tucked next to her head, reading light on, and a book propped open. She’s reading silently to herself and doggie. My heart melts and I once again wish for a photographic memory.
On a side note, I wonder how long she’s been awake?
Yesterday Eve was browsing through her fairy cookbook and decided to make some cookies. Her first choice, pink pinwheel cookies, didn’t work out because we didn’t have the right ingredients (much to my surprise we were out of powdered sugar!). After much deliberation she finally settled on pink sparkly heart cookies.
Eve did all of the work on these cookies. Measuring, mixing, etc.
When the cookie dough was chilling in the fridge she went down to the basement and never came back, so she finished them this morning.
She rolled out the dough and kept say “Oh, this is such hard work!”
She cut out big hearts and little hearts, then got bored of the rolling/cutting process and started just making shapes with her hands.
The directions said to brush with egg whites then sprinkle with sugar. She thought that process took too long so she asked why you can’t just go from egg white to sugar to cookie. I said “go for it!” She tried one (top left corner) and said, “Oh, they kinda get all messy when you do that.” Then she went back to the original way.
The first step of the recipe said to mix red food coloring with granulated sugar to make it pink. She decided she wanted purple, so she added red and blue food coloring. It ended up being a red/blue/purple combo.
Into the oven they go. Like I said, she did everything!
I was right near by for the “into the oven” process, but a little more involved with the “out of the oven” process so no pics of that. She helped though. She wore oven mitts and held one side of the tray. :)
Not quite what the picture showed, but all Eve.
Her favorite part! :)