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Red Cross Red

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I donated blood yesterday. Did I mention this? I had a few extra minutes after picking Eve up from school and I saw they were doing a blood drive right then and there, so on impulse I decided to donate blood. It ended up being a much bigger process than I was anticipating and my “few minutes” turned into almost an hour and a half! Despite the long duration, it was a pretty pleasant experience. Eve was with me, mask on her head, and everyone was super friendly with her. The high school students loved her, some guy brought her a box of crayons and paper, the doc helping me was super nice to her, and Eve was a star! She was sweet and behaved and friendly and just plain adorable. At one point the doctor said she was a perfect child and asked if she was always so perfect. I said, “Yes, except when she isn’t.” :) But she was. Like the picture she drew? Please ignore my poor spelling of prehistoric names.

t-rex

Eve's "Tyrannosaurus Rex under a rainbow"

After I was done with the blood draw we sat down for the required 15 minutes of sitting down and ate a snack. Eve had cookies, I had fruit. Ok, I shared her cookies! :) While we were hanging out they offered Eve a weird blood drop toy, which she declined, and they offered me Red Cross Red nail polish. Heck yeah. You like? Please ignore my poor pedi skills. It was a 2 minute job while dinner was cooking.

red toes

Red Cross Red

Smart girl

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Eve is getting rave reviews from her preschool teacher. She came home the first day calling her teacher Jeff, which surprised me, so the next morning I asked him if that’s what he told the kids to call him. I think she heard me saying it to Alan one day because I couldn’t remember his last name. Anyway, he said he introduced himself as Mr. and that’s what the rest of the kids call him, but Eve calling him by his first name seems to amuse him. He told me a story (and apparently found it so amusing he told his wife about it as well :) ) that when he was helping one of the teaching students cut up strawberries for snack Eve came over and said “Oh Jeff, I don’t like strawberries.” The student looked at him with big eyes and said “She just called you Jeff!” :) That cracked him up. When he told me the story I laughed because she loves strawberries! She’s so funny. In that conversation he kept telling me what a smart girl she is, and so verbal, and funny, and just a pleasure to have in class. Nothing new there, right? :) But I do like hearing it from others!

She loves school and was sad on Friday that she didn’t get to go again. We call it “three year old preschool” (to differentiate from the PreK Lex went to last year), so I told her three year old preschool is just three days a week. Every day she asks if it’s Tuesday yet :)

Lex brought home homework on Friday (HA!) that was a game to help the kids learn shapes (HA!) and we all had fun playing (HA!). Seriously though, Lex and Eve had fun even though they both are very good with shapes already. I could probably leave her in kindergarten and she’d be fine :)

Eve’s first day of school

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Eve started preschool today. I had serious empty nest syndrome. Is that possible when your kids are three and five? Anyway, she seems to be very happy. Alan and I brought her in together this morning. She greeted the teachers (a real teacher and four high school seniors), hung up her backpack and hat, and said hello to two kids we already know. When the time came for us to leave she gave us hugs and took off to play. Easy peasy. When I picked her up she said she had fun, but didn’t really convey much of her day (and by day I mean hour and 45 minutes!) She said she likes the teacher and she had graham crackers and juice for snack. That was it. But she was happy and says she wants to go back tomorrow, so I guess that’s a good thing. Lex wanted to be late for school this morning so he could go check out her classroom. Not sure if it was curiosity or protectiveness or what. He insisted I take pictures (um, sure, no problem!) and bring the camera to the bus stop so I could show him the pictures as soon as he got off the bus. I did just that and he was happy. Eve is always happy when the bus comes and drops off Lex. Tomorrow we do it all again, this time adding in an hour (at lunch/nap time) at the gym for me. Hope that goes well!

ready for school

Eve on her first day of preschool

classroom

Her classroom

hanging up her hat

Eve knew exactly what to do when she saw a cubby with her name on it. Hat and backpack on the hook, kitty on the shelf.

playing at the sand table

Eve was excited to see the sand table full of beans! The girl next to her is a sibling of one of Lex's prek classmates, and Eve considers her a friend.

so sweet

I don't know why, but this struck me as so sweet.

Eve

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I took pictures off the camera today and found they were all of Eve! Guess that’s what happens when Lex spends all day in school.

all dolled up

Eve, all dolled up :)

tiny toes

She was sitting on her feet, playing with the trains, and I couldn't resist her adorable toes. The picture barely captures the total sweetness of her little pile of toes.

love for grandpa tom

Love for Grandpa Tom

more love

even more love

Eve likes to make movies with the camera. Every time I turn it on she asks if we can make a movie, however she seems to forget what that actually means, so movies of her lately start with her smiling and me reminding her that she has to do something if we make a movie :) Here she is, doing something.

Outdoor fun

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Here are a few pictures from today. It was a quiet day spent mostly playing outside.

new shoes

Check out Eve's new shoes. We went shoe shopping at a "buy one get one" sale on kids shoes. They both got new sneakers and they both chose sneakers with laces. Guess we have some tying lessons in our future!

sunflower garden

Check out our sunflower garden. The sunflower plants are HUGE, but no sunflowers yet. I'm confused. We have a handful of morning glories growing, but all about knee height, none have made it to the top.

climbing eve

Eve is getting adventurous with her climbing lately. She makes up here, up to the top of the other play set, and even tried climbing out across the swings like Lex does. She's growing up so fast!

Happy Birthday Kitty

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Eve and I celebrated Kitty’s first birthday this morning. Twenty minutes later we celebrated Kitty’s second birthday. Eve set up the party, turned out the lights, carried the play cake in and we sang to kitty. Then she served the cake and we all pretend ate it. Yummy wooden cake with a sweet girl and a stuffed cat. Good times were had by all. :)

Happy birthday kitty

Look at that look she is giving Kitty. She's so sweet.

Candles

Kitty needed a little help blowing out the candles :)

Oh girls!

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“When I get older I’m going to do gross things and you should say ‘oh girls!'” says Eve. She cracks me up. She said this because last week we were visiting a friend and when her son started eating play-doh she told Eve, “Sometimes boys do gross things and all we can do is say ‘oh boys!'”

I just added this to the Quotes page and noticed that my last four quotes are from Eve. Guess I need to start paying closer attention to Lex!