"It was funny"

I buy shampoo and conditioner in the really big bottles and then put it in smaller bottles for the shower. This morning I was refilling the little bottles and my big bottles were almost empty so I had them sitting upside down. I had left the lids off of the little bottles thinking they would be fine for a little bit. well I forgot about them and went into the bathroom a few hours later and looked into the tub where i saw a ton of my pricey shampoo in the tub spilled from the little bottle. As I was trying to salvage what I could, Evelyn walked in and asked what I was doing. After i explained what i was doing I asked her if the dog knocked the bottle over and she confessed that she had done it. I asked her if it was an accident and she looked at me like I was completely crazy and said "no, it was funny" I was so mad about my shampoo but I couldn't help but smile. What can ya do?

"i got pregnant"!

Evelyn is full of it today! after my shower i opened the door and called out to Evelyn to see if she was ok. she came into the bathroom and saw my bare stomach and said, there's a baby in there. I told her there was no baby in my tummy, to which she responded there's a baby in my tummy. I asked, really? and she responded, "yeah, I got pregnant." LOL

careful mom!

I love being a mom. Evelyn makes even boring things fun. This morning I was cleaning her room and she wanted to help me remake her bed after i changed her sheets. The next thing i know she has built a fort on her bed where she hung out while I vacuumed (she is a little scared of the vacuum)  She stayed in her fort while I was washing the little hand prints and other typical toddler marks off the wall. While i was cleaning the wall around where she taped up some pictures of her friends Bethany, Jessica and Rachel, she says to me very clearly and oh so seriously, "be careful of my pictures mom." the look on her face was priceless. She looked so concerned and her eyebrows were raised about to the middle of her forehead. She is so sweet and fun to be around. I love moments like that.

Blue Milk?

My daughter Evelyn is a very picky eater and it shows. At 2 and a half years she weighs in at 22 pounds with a wet diaper. She rarely will eat meat, wont drink milk or even water. I have had to trick her into eating everything except for the 3 or 4 things that she likes. In the morning i make her smoothies and sneak in soy protein powder and ground flax. Andy was clever enough to tell her that water was "cloud juice" and now she loves it. I have been trying to get her to drink more milk to help her gain weight but she just refuses to touch it. Tonight Andy suggested we put food color in milk to see if she will drink it. I put a drop of blue dye in a cup of milk and told her it was blue juice. She downed it and asked for more blue milk. I laughed that even though she could tell that it was milk she wanted more just because it was blue. What a stinker!

Primary program

Yesterday our ward had their primary program. All of Evelyn's friends are older than her so she kept waving at them on than stand and saying quite loud "there's Rachel" About half way through the program Evelyn decided that she wanted to be with her friends so she started walking up there. I told Andy to stop her but he must have known that it would be funny to let her go, so he did.  I was pretty embarrassed at first, but then all I could see was the top of her head bobbing up and down as she walks across the stage trying to find Rachel. It was funny to watch the heads of the bishopric and stake president turn, one after another, in surprise to see her up there.     I was trying not to laugh too loud, and she came back a short while later. A little while after Evelyn came back to sit with us, a boy stood up to say his part and got the hiccups. Only a few were actually loud but he was kind of embarrassed and alot of people were quietly laughing. It was pretty funny to see his head jerk back a little with every hiccup, but he did surprisingly well at keeping himself composed.

Winter picture time

Well it was time again today to go and take some family pictures. We went up Millcreek canyon to the same spot that Andy and I had our engagements taken.

This is Evelyn in her new winter coat which she just loves! she always wants to take it with her even when she doesn't need it.

Evelyn was so cooperative today, I was able to get some really great shots of her.

I set the tri-pod up for this picture, and like I said Evelyn was cooperating really well so it only took 5 tries to get a good one.

Who's lost kid is that?

Tonight Andy and Evelyn and I went out to get some shopping done. Andy and Evelyn love to play no matter where we are. Tonight at target they played tag and then hide and seek. Here's how hide and seek turned out; Evelyn runs down the aisle and hides at the end, Andy pretends he can't see her but quickly finds her. Next, Andy runs down the aisle and hides at the end. Evelyn really can't see him. She stands in the middle of the aisle, alone(I am in the next aisle not paying attention because I think Andy is with her) saying Daddy? Daddy? Daddy where are you. After a minute my brain tunes into Evelyn's voice and I realize that my baby appears lost. I notice that a woman is standing around trying to find this poor little girls dad.  The worst part of it is that Andy was quietly watching Evelyn the whole time from his hiding place four feet away. When I told the lady that we were Evelyn's parents she looked skeptical until Evelyn smiled and said "Daddy"