Eve found this old lion costume in the dress up box and wore it for awhile yesterday and then all morning today. She is so cute in it!
Lion Eve with kitty
ROAR!
A lion on a horsey?
He's getting away, but little lion is holding on tight!
The little lion took him down! :)
Remember when we got the costume last year?
“What should I have for lunch today,” I wondered aloud this afternoon. Eve replied with, “You can have whatever you choose. Your choices are soup… or lettuce…. That’s it, those are your choices.” I had a good hearty laugh for lunch! Apparently she’s on to my weight watching ways. :)
Where did my baby go? Who is this girl in this big bed? She sleeps with a doggie, much like the baby did, but suddenly she’s huge! She wears 4T clothes and ponytails, can reach from one end of the bathtub to the other, and insists on privacy in the bathroom (for her, none for me!). Happily she still naps, when I let her, but what happened to my baby? Where did she go?
Sleeping Eve.
I love Eve’s self portraits. She draws herself a lot lately. And writes her name everywhere. She doesn’t have arms in most of her pictures, but she always tells me about her smile and why it looks like it does. Sometimes it’s big, or small, or not a smile. I love it.
Eve - a self portrait
This is just a fun picture from this morning. Lex was giving Eve (in her booster seat) a hug goodbye before we left for school. I tried to take a picture and they both turned around. :)
Happy Birthday To You Mom
Eve Love
She made the card all by herself. She wanted to buy me one at the grocery store the other day and got mad at me because I wouldn’t let her :) So she decided to make me one instead. She knew exactly what she wanted it to say and I only had to help her a little bit with the spelling. Then she added a cake (with candles all around it) and ice cream on the front, and a picture of herself on the back. “This is when I was a baby,” she said, “so I only had one hair.” :) Happy (early) Birthday to me!
Eve came down from nap today and told me that she was singing God songs to puppy. After nap she often likes to hang out in her room for a bit, on the days I don’t have to wake her up to rush out the door! She sat on the floor and asked if I wanted her to sing to me. Heck yeah! So she sang, “The Lord can hear the cries of the poor.” That’s the only line she knows so she sang it a few times before announcing, “That’s from Mema’s church!!” :) I love her singing voice. Maybe I need to get her to church more often.
Eve’s class did a Halloween parade at school today. The class is held at a high school so they went trick-or-treating around the school. I thought it was cute idea and figured she would come home with a few pieces of candy, but she got a ton! I was shocked! She got more candy on this parade then she got trick-or-treating last year… and both kids shared that! It occurred to me that her pumpkin is already half full (like the “pumpkins” we made for trick-or-treating?) and she will still be getting candy at Alan’s office party tomorrow, on the haunted train ride on Saturday, and THEN trick-or-treating on Sunday! Oof!
Running through the leaves:
Raking the leaves:
This is a song that Eve learned in school. It’s so funny. Especially purple. I can post a transcript if necessary:
Playing firefighter. The blanket is her seatbelt and the flower is the steering wheel. I feel safer with Firefighter Eve protecting me!
While making idle conversation with the kids in the tub tonight I said, “Eve, I think tomorrow you and I will be cleaning bathrooms!” She looked shocked and said, “AGAIN?!?!” Hahaha… this is funny because (a) it has been awhile (a long while!) since we last cleaned bathrooms and (b) that’s just how I feel! Again!?!? Didn’t we just do that last month?! I often have similar feelings around meals (didn’t I just feed you last night?!) and dishes.
Possibly the sweetest thing I’ve heard in a long time is Eve calling me a hero. Why, I don’t know, she just does. It started a few days ago. At lunch one day she said she wanted to make me a nameplate with a string to go around my neck and it says Hero on it. We were just sitting there eating lunch. Now she says it several times a day. Always kind of randomly. “Mommy, you’re a hero.” She also tells me I’m her best friend and reminds me that “friends are treasures you hold on to forever,” a quote from a book she has. So sweet! Tonight we had dinner at Panera Bread after a great time at the playground and a practice 5K for me. While eating dinner she told me she loves my cooking, and that I have a good green thumb, and that I’m a hero. Very random, but I’ll take it!