God made everything beautiful

that must have been the topic in Eva's 3 year old sunday school class this morning. So, she just told Todd that she wants to go outside and look at all of the beautiful things that God made. Then she blurts out, "it's going to be so beautiful! I think he made my high heels."

That's my girl!

playing with a camera that I shouldn't have touched...

because now I want one.

My cup o' tea

Ok, for some reason this seemed like a good idea. This is DEFINITELY what I should be doing at 6:00 PM when I haven't made dinner, the house is a mess, I need to go to the grocery store and I have a 5:30 AM flight in the morning. I've always been good at prioritizing :)

Baptism

funny ad

I opened up a mailer from The Express and found this:


There is a third style of denim, called 'Mia', but I just found this to be oddly coincidental!

My poor baby

Eva isn't feeling well today. Last night around 10:30, she woke up screaming with a fever. She was sweating so badly that she thought something was in her bed with her. I'm guessing it was the sweat rolling down her back. I took her out of bed and got her undressed. I told her to stand up so I could get her pj pants down. She started to tip over backwards - I think she was a little dizzy and/or disoriented. I asked her if she was ok, to which she replied, "no, I'm having some issues!" That sounds so funny to hear out of a 2 year olds mouth :)

my morning...

I'm so tired after an 8+ hour wedding. The house is a disaster. I know I'm not going to get any sleep before my 5:30 shoot today, but Eva has a way of still making me smile even though I'm a tad cranky :) A few minutes ago, she was running through the house yelling:

"help, help, my toukas is hanging out"

How can I not smile at that?

baby in a bucket

6 months old

Stelly

isn't she a doll?!

Zoro

I couldn't resist. She was having fun all dressed up playing with her animals...

April Fool's Day

Chocolate pie with Strawberry icing for dinner?! Eva was so excited and couldn't stop thanking me...Mickey - definitely looked confused until Todd blurted out, oh April Fool's, haha. Next year, I'll have to tell him not to let the cat out of the bag! This pie was really more of a meatloaf pie with beet infused mashed potatoes for icing - yum!




And for dessert...Hamburgers! I made sesame cookies that looked like buns, used a york peppermint pattie for the 'meat' and put green shredded coconut for lettuce. I didn't have enough time (or energy) to make icing in yellow and red for ketchup and mustard plus I was a little worried that it would be too sweet with them. They didn't fool anyone anyway, they were cute, but Eva can smell chocolate a mile away!

My smiley girl

Baaah!

Well, there it is...the 'Goat' ad from one of my previous blog posts. It will be featured in the following Magazines:

Cooking Light - April issue

Southern Living - April issue

MNI Luxury - May issue

Travel & Leisure - April issue

Food & Wine Savor the South - May issue

Gotcha!

After making me chase her forever, I finally got her to look at me!

She's here...then she's gone

Anyone who knows Eva knows that these photos were taken in a matter of seconds. She is one of the fastest monkeys I have ever seen!

Not big on the binkie...

but big on shoving all the fingers into the mouth!

3 months old!

She's cooing, blowing bubbles, razzing, laughing, almost rolling over (probably would if she got more floor time, but that isn't necessarily the safest place to be with Eva around!) and her latest trick - sticking her tongue out!

Evaisms

Well, it's finally time to get some Eva-isms in print so I don't forget them. Feel free to contribute if you can remember one that I am forgetting!

Before Eva could say Mickey's name, she used to call him "Ma"

You can do it Mickey, you're a big girl!

Halloween 2007
Eva: Mickey, do you want to be a vampire, Mickey?
Mickey: No
Eva: It's ok Mickey, don't be scared

peemy pump pump pump
meemy mump mump mump
teamy tump tump tump
translation? No idea :)

Mongatoo - a tiny, unfriendly monster

Please, if you can think of more, either add them to the comments section OR email them to me and I'll add them!

Dr. Eva

I had a doctor's appointment this morning and decided to take the girls with me. I need to get orthotics and had to get assessed. As I was waiting in the exam room, Eva told me to get up on the exam chair. She then wheeled the doctor's stool over to the chair and hopped up on top of it. She looked at me and said, 'I'm doctor Eva, let me see your feet.' She looked at them for a few seconds, the tops, the sides, the bottoms, then said, 'you're fine.' I asked her if she was sure about that because my feet have been hurting. She bent down and gave one of my feet a kiss and said, 'ok, they are better now, you are fine!' Silly girl...