After one too many nights spent wandering the house looking for doggie, I made a new rule that Eve’s doggie stays in her bed.  She’s been having a really hard time with this.  She tends to tuck it places, like in the toy kitchen microwave, under pillows, in the bathroom, etc. and it takes me forever to find the toy each night.  Now doggie stays in bed and Eve stands down stairs (often!) crying that she loves her doggie and needs her doggie. Sweet, but sad.  She even goes upstairs sometimes just to hug the dog :)  On daycare days she gets super excited when I let her have doggie in the car (doggie goes to daycare for naptime), but then cries again when I put it  in the bag when we get there.  She’s so sweet.

She’s really an emotional mess lately.  Not sure why.  She cries a lot, for no good reason, and often comes over and asks for hugs.  I think she needs more attention and one-on-one time.  Tomorrow, while Lex is in school, we will be having some serious mommy and Eve time.  The daycare teacher even commented on how much she cries lately.  She used to love daycare and now I leave her in tears, often twice a day if I can’t sneak in and out while dropping Lex off after school.  Poor girl.  She is cutting all four of her 2yr molars, so maybe that’s the problem.  Or maybe just because she’s two?  Or do the female hormones kick in this young?  Whatever it is, she’s so sweet but the crying is draining!  For all of us!  Hope that passes soon!

Little Miss Eve in Hello Kitty PJs

This is what Eve wore to drop Lex off at preschool this morning.  Heads were turning!  (in a good way, of course!)  All of the grownups were gushing over how adorable she is and even some kids came over to chat with her.  At one point she put the phone to her ear and called Mema.  “Hi Mema.  We’re at Lex’s school.  He’s in preschool.  We are dropping him off.  Goodbye Mema.”  Later in the car she called Popcube.  “Hi Popcube.  We dropped Lex off at preschool.  Yes.  Goodbye Popcube.” :)

The whole ensamble and behavior made me think of college.  Wearing PJs and flip flops, coordinating cell phone.  Yeah, it’s going to come way to fast!!!

Eve, after she got dressed... in Lex's clothes (current and hand-me-down). The shoes are hers anyway.

What do you do with monsters?  Eve has taken an interest in monsters and talks about them a lot.  She’s not really scared, but will often ask if there are monsters in her room.  I say no, of course.  It’s a funny thing and not something we’ve had to deal with so far.  It started shortly after they watched Monsters, Inc.  When she started talking about monsters in her closet (or in the office, or any other dark area) decided to not let the fear get to far.  I found a book at the library about a monster boy having a birthday party.  It was about sharing, really, and the monsters acted just like people, not scary monsters.  Now she wavers between asking me about monsters in dark room and pretending to be a monster herself.  I’m trying hard to keep it silly and not scary because I really don’t want a kid who is afraid of monsters or the dark.  She has such an awesome imagination.

On another subject, I love how Eve draws.  She holds the crayons/markers/pens the right way and makes somewhat recognizable pictures and puts eyes on people and other fun things.  I bought the kids bathtub crayons recently and they have been loving them.  In the tub tonight Eve drew me (a big circle) and her (a little circle) inside my belly.  She gave us both eyes and I got a mouth and a “pagina” :)  She is facinated with babies in bellies lately and talks a lot about when she was a tiny baby in my belly.  It’s so cool to see her developing the ability to put those thoughts into pictures.

Eve built a coffee pot out of blocks because "baby needs some coffee."

Eve built a coffee pot this morning out of blocks.  Why?  Because “baby needs coffee.”  Baby being her doll, not her.  She built it several times because it fell over or she knocked it over.  At one point I heard her saying, “Look at me when I’m building you, coffee pot.”  :)

Later in the day she served Lex coffee in her little white fancy purse :)  She asked if he wanted some, he said “oh, no thank you,” but she pulled out the purse, filled it up (held it under the blue block sticking out and said she was pouring coffee into the cup), and handed it to Lex.  He’s a good sport and played along, pretend drinking from the purse.  I love the imagination on this girl!!

Look at the lower lip on that girl!

I’m just testing some features.  Trying to get pictures to insert as a small size and make them clickable to the full-size.  Patience please as I figure out this new software :)  It will come in bits and pieces.  Hopefully a few blogs posts along the way.  Now I have to go bake cookies for our “Welcome Back” picnic at Lex’s school tonight.  Nothing like waiting until the last minute!