Two Years, Already?

Today is Evelyn's Birthday. I don't think she understands when we all tell her Happy Birthday. She responds with "Happy Birthday to You", or "Go see mouse?". We did that last one to ourselves. There were 4 Chuckie Cheese Birthday parties in a row and she knew we went to the party for a birthday. For 4th of July we explained that it was the day for her party and again she thought we'd go see the mouse. Another day baby, another day. Today our plans got changed because of the crazy long arguments we were having with one of her older brothers, but that didn't mean we didn't have any less fun.

Today was a fantastic day to be outside. Warm but not too hot and there was a wonderful breeze blowing all day. Glorious.

This morning we got Evelyn dressed in her pretty green birthday dress, but I also brought out the tie dye shirts we did Sunday night and she really wanted to wear her 'pretty shirt!'. It worked out since it was much easier for her to climb in the skorts than it would of been in her dress.

We got to pet the horses (and Evelyn even fed them cookies by herself!), climbed like a "climbing birdie" (I don't get it, she just kept saying it), swung like a spider monkey (to which she replied "I'm a spider monkey!"-awesome!), and ran around with Alex for hours. She had so much fun 'turning the wheel', sliding, and checking out the animals she didn't nap but her mood never turned sour.

Alex finished his bow that he's been working on the last few trips and now he's moved on to practicing with it and making better arrows.



As for this morning, unrelated to the baby, but crucial to the family, I have a favorite moment of the week.

We signed the papers for the house and should hopefully get the keys by Friday.

Also, a few days ago Cliff took my car to work (to get the AC fixed) and didn't put my keys back on the ring right. Then, when I was rushing out of the house to get Noah they fell off and I spent 30 minutes trying to find them. During that time I removed my spare key hoping it might by some fluke drive my car. No luck, but it mattered because this morning because I forgot to take my keys out of the ignition before walking inside to sign papers.

With the baby seat locked in my car and Cliff needing go back to work, he had to run back to the house and look for the spare key in the mess of boxes and moving clutter at home. He didn't think it was very funny, but I did.

Also, I love our Realtor. Not only is she the best Realtor anyone could hope for, but since she didn't have any appointments that morning she let Evelyn and I sit in her car, out of the wind, while Cliff searched for my key. She even offered to drive me home so I could look too, but I reminded her Evelyn didn't have a seat and that was why we didn't do that first. I was very grateful to be out of the wind and so was Evelyn in her pretty, but chilly, birthday dress.