Eve's Birthday!!!

Eve! Wake Up! Wake Up!

Come on, Eve! Don't you remember what today is?

That's right - It's your birthday!


Party Time!
Look at this huge pile of presents!

We always read the card, right Eve?

A makeover Rapunzel?! "Just what I wanted!"

Three girls inspected this gift at length.

Bracelets to decorate! Eve loves crafts and she gave one bracelet each to J&N. "Phoebe's feelings won't get hurt 'cause she's too little anyway."

A new Cinderella mug! Her current one is cracked from clinking cocoa with Naomi too hard.

Angelina! Eve's favorite.

Appropriately, a scotty dress from Grandma Janet who loves scotty dogs.


Following the gifts we had a birthday breakfast of strawberry pancakes with bacon and a birthday lunch of macaronada. Both were requested by Eve. We had dinner with friends who also graciously had birthday cake and ice cream for Eve. Definitely a special treat.

Here is a photo of Eve's self-decorated birthday cake. We made it the day before her birthday and took it to our Bible Study small group for dessert.


Eve is six years old! Time is flyin'!

Katie

ProjectTwentySix

Katie's ProjectTwentySix is officially up and running. Check it out at http://www.projecttwentysix.com/.


Project Twenty Six - 26 things a day for one year

http://www.projecttwentysix.com/

Join me as I remove 26 items from my home every day for one year. Visit daily for a new photo of my 26 departing objects! Don't think I have 9,516 things? Time will tell.

Day 1 was "Many Magazines":



Read about it here:
http://www.projecttwentysix.com/2011/10/day-1-many-magazines.html

Check it out!

Thanks!

Ed

Happy Birthday Eve

It was Eve's birthday on Saturday. We tried a new thing where she had to write all her thank-you cards before she could play with her gifts. One of her favorite gifts was a Rapunzel head (with hair to comb and style). It also applied to watching any movies she got.

Let's just say I've never seen her so motivated to write cards like that. That's definitely going to be a family tradition. =^)

Pictures coming. Thanks!

Ed

Amazing Week for Rite-Aid

My new neighbor, Ashlee, just alerted me to the stellar sale week Rite Aid is having. I don't play the drug store game anymore because I just don't have time to squeeze it in, but I'm really tempted after looking at the list!

Here's a link to For the Mommas which has a complete list.

This week you can get FREE after UPR & SCRs: Comtrex, Chloriseptic Spray or Lozenges, Carefree Product, Cepacol (love this!), Blistex, Burt's Bees Throat Drops, Rite Aid hand sanitizer, Zarbee's Cough Syrup, and Emergen-C to name a few.

Look at the list here at For The Mommas to see even more.

Thanks Ashlee!

Katie

Writing this with Eve (claw, giggles, Cinderella, and more giggles)

I asked Eve what she wants to write about.

Eve said, "I don't know... What are you doing?"

"I'm writing down everything you say," I said.

Eve made a silly face. Then giggled profusely. (And then I asked her if she knew how to spell "profusely.")

Then Eve coughed and crinkled her nose. Then she made a claw with her hand and said, "Claw daddy!" I think she was trying to claw me and not calling me a claw. More giggles.

"Claw daddy back!" she proclaimed. Followed by "Claw Daddy head." I think she is clawing me and not calling my back and head claws. And I never clawed her first, so I doubt she's clawing me back in that sense. Because that would be strange.

"Claw daddy hand," she said as she placed her claw on my hand.

Then I decided to tickle her. She screamed in delight. More giggles.

"You're a silly writer," she spoketh. And then I tickled her toes. More screams of delight. Then she started barking like a dog. One with its voice box removed (too much smoking?).

Then she sighed. More barking. And giggles. And barking. Yes, Eve, life is rough.

More claws, tickles, giggles.

Eve's favorite princess is Cinderella. "I think it's because you like to clean floors," I thought out loud. ("No.") Because Cinderella likes to wash dishes. ("No, it's because she's nice.") Maybe because she does all the laundry. ("What??? I like to do laundry. Because it's fun and the clothes are wet.") More giggles and barking. And silly laughter (like a sheep). Oh, it's actually Bert's laugh (from Sesame Street): Aehaehaehaehaeh. It's like a machine gun laugh.

Okay, Eve's sharpening pencils now. Time to go. More giggles.

Yours truly,

Ed