Evie is 2 years, 6 months and 4 weeks old; Eric is 4 years old!

Photos taken this week: 78


Eric at school playing with the train table.


Playing dinosaurs at school with Jacob (across the table) and Mahaan (to the right,) I don't know who is under the table, lol.


More legos that really function!


This one looks like a hot rod!


I made them little library cards, and they played library for a long while, it was super cute and fun!


Eric said he wanted to play detective, so we gathered up a bunch of detective gear and found a case to solve! If you click the image you can go to a larger size. The photos of him turned out really cute, so I made a scrapbook kit to go with them called "Crime Scene" which also has a coordinating alphabet and bones.


Time for some gymnastics!




Walking back to the car after the parade in the dress and hair band I made for her. She picked up 1000 rocks along the way, this girl LOVES rocks!


Playing 'tops' with Grampa Bill.


Playing puzzles with Gramma Linda.


Puzzles are fun for everyone!


Eric randomly asks to eat some yogurt, we are all shocked! Thankfully we had yogurt in the house and I gave him some and he tasted several tiny drops! Click the photo to watch a video of Eric eating yogurt.


Mr. 'Sleeps with Trains' lol!

Evie is 2 years, 6 months and 3 weeks old; Eric is 4 years old!

Photos taken this week: 59

Evie’s speech is coming along so well, she is using full sentences and I can understand almost everything she says. She is still going to the bathroom every 15 minutes. Potty training two kids at once is kicking my butt!

Evie woke up on the wrong side of the bed today and has not been a happy camper. Example: She and Eric were looking at a book and she decided it was too far away from her, or Eric was hogging it, or something and she tackled him and started screaming and yelling at him. Once he was properly subdued, she got up, took her book to a safe distance, then returned to Eric to yell at him some more, screeching, “please stop!!!” and putting her hand out to stop him, then pointing towards the door and calling is name and pointing, basically telling him to get out. Eric was just sitting there sort of baffled at the on-goings and kept bringing his hand up to his forehead as if to say, “What on earth???”


The lego craze has taken hold!


Eric and Daddy work together to make all kinds of amazing vehicles


Check out the front view of this one...


and this is the back view, it even has a cargo hold!


they also make aircraft!


new and old, lol!


and spacecraft too!


and check this out!!!


and don't forget skateboarding guy!


Jacob and Eric at the park. Jacob goes to preschool with Eric. On Monday afternoons we meet Jacob and his mom at the park so the kids can all play together.


bike riding with Daddy and Bailey and Evie (see below)


She is getting better at trying to peddle by herself.


waving to her shadow, lol, how cute is that?!?


I really like ice cream and so I think Eric is trying really hard to like it too. He asked for a waffle cone but didn't want any ice cream in it. So I got him a sample spoon with some chocolate ice cream on it. He didn't end up eating either.

Evie is 2 years, 6 months and 2 weeks old; Eric is 4 years old!

Photos taken this week: 63

Aug 25: The earth’s summer fever finally broke and we had a ‘cool’ night, it got down to 73. It’s been so hard to sleep with the heat of the summer and we have all been having bad dreams.


It's the baby doll's turn to be toilet trained. Turns out, she rather non-compliant as well, lol!


This cracked me up! It's the lego bin, but there are no legos in it. But when the lid is open it sort of looks like a chair seat and back. Well, Evie decided it was a car seat and sat down, then took the green string and used it as a seatbelt, and finally put her hands up to an imaginary wheel and started to drive!!!


This is exhaustion!


She has so many facial expressions, even in her sleep, lol!


Sugar for Mook!


Momma and Evie take Eric to school and that means treats for us, woo hoo! My girl is a purest, she chooses chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, no sprinkles!


This was so cute, Eric was strumming the guitar and Evie was dancing!


Happy 5th birthday Bailey! Bailey is eating a treat Eric just gave him! Bailey got balloons and streamers and a fun family walk, plus lots of birthday treats!


Grandpa Jim came over to introduce us to his new friend Pam. She is very nice and we all joke (even Jim) that we have no idea why she is with him, lol!


Scott made us all a huge and amazingly delicious lunch. Evie served cake for dessert, lol!

Evie is 2 years, 6 months and 1 week old; Eric is 4 years old!

Photos taken this week: 62

Evie just told me she had to pee, her diaper is dry, she peed on the toilet!!! She's potty training herself! Its every mother's dream come true, except that she is insistent on going every 15 minutes, lol!

Evie and I are going over colors, I asked her a bunch of them and when we got to pink she said, "I LOVE pink" LOL!


Eric had homework this week at school! The homework was a project to be completed on posterboard! I was so excited we went straight from school to the store to buy supplies! The project was supposed to tell all about Eric. We came home and took photos.


Eric helped pick out other photos and what we didn't have photos of we took immediately. I had recently found a dinosaur scrapbooking kit I wanted to buy, but wasn't sure what to use it for yet. This was my big chance! I purchased it along with some coordinating elements and Eric and I had a blast putting everything together!


Here is the final project, he was really happy with the outcome and that everything incorporated dinosaurs. I was happy because we had so much fun working on it together! ♥


She knows I don't like this, that's why she making the frowny face, lol. Its like a balance beam now, she has turned the bins end to end and lines them up next to the wall, then she walks across them without falling off. I think it might almost be time to sign her up for gymnastics!


And who can resist those darling pseudo-pigtails?!


Scott and I bought some legos for Eric, he ADORES them!


He immediately builds pteranodons.


Later he says he loves his Lightening McQueen but is sad he doesn't have Mater, so Daddy builds Mater out of the legos! Complete with hinged tow-hitch that moves and works! AMAZING!!!


Eric is very pleased to have Mater to play with along side his Lightening McQueen!


Little Miss wants to get in on the action too!


Daddy is really good at building with legos, here are some of his other creations.

Evie is 2 years, 5 months and 4 weeks old; Eric is 4 years old!

Photos taken this week: 41

Aug 14: Eric had a bad dream. apparently there was a big scary monster. He asked me to lay in bed with him, so I laid in bed with him for a while, we put on a fun dino movie and after a little while he told me to go sleep in my own bed, lol.

Aug 15: Scott says to Evie, “put your feet on the floor” using a very stern tone. Eric says, “Daddy! Be nice to your sister!!!” Scott says, “I don’t have a sister.” Eric says, “um, Daddy, remember? Evie?” LOL!

Aug 20: Fav quote of the day from Eric (this one was quite alarming and caused me to rush into Evie’s room as well), “Daddy, come quick, I’m making soup in Evie’s room!”


How cute is this?!? LOL!


They are both saying "Ahrrrr!" and Eric is holding a treasure map I made.


I just thought this was so cute. She is in her room laying on a big blanket watching her TV.


Eric and Daddy make robots!


Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the members of our band, Eric on percussion, and Evelyn on the bass!


This is so clever and fun until you realize all those bins were full of toys 2 minutes ago, and each bin was organized by the toys inside, and each bin was then placed in a storage unit in Evie's room. And that when they walk on the bins (which are just plastic), they are crushing the bottom of the bins and cracking them. sigh.