Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Man of Steel


Karl and I saw Man of Steel tonight for a date tonight. It was a really good movie, good music, lots of action... and just an all around good date :) That is all. 

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Father's Day

Sooo... It's been a while since I've posted anything. I feel bad, there has been a lot to write about, but I get overwhelmed, don't know where to start, and so I don't end up writing anything! But here I am, trying to break this vicious, vicious cycle, haha!

Today is Father's Day, and I feel compelled to write down a few things about the amazing man who is the father of my child.


One night I was cleaning up our disaster area of a living room (aftermath of hurricane Evie) after I had finally gotten the girly to sleep. I was not in the best moods ever, I will admit, as I plowed through piles of children's books, gathered blocks, picked up baby dolls and little clothes that had been tossed aside in her latest attempts to get "naked!!!!" Sometimes it's hard when I see the same mess, day in and day out, to not grow weary. I love my baby to death, but there are some things that get old after a while, haha. Anyway, I was trudging a long through my recovery efforts in the living room, when Karl walked in, picked up a little tiny pink sock, and said, "I love that there are baby things all over the apartment; I like that there are little tiny clothes and baby dolls everywhere."

That caught me a little off guard... I'm pretty sure I thought something a long the lines of, "I really DON'T like having baby things all over the apartment... It's ALWAYS a mess, I'm always picking them up, and our apartment is too small!" (remember, I was tired and cranky at this point). But I looked at Karl holding that miniature sock, looked at the princess doll and the babies sitting in the toddler sized rocking chair in the corner, and realized, I love it too.

I've always been into decorating my home and trying to give it a "unified theme" (I have a "thing" about things not matching...), I really like doing things like looking on pinterest and seeing all the cool things I can do to make my home look awesome. However, it took Karl saying something so incredibly simple for me to realize, I have the best decorator in the world. She might be a year and a half old and like to use rocks from the park as accents in my  living room which may now be half playroom, but I love it now more than I did when it was empty, clean, and everything was the way I had planned and placed it.

I love that Karl can see things like that and remind me. I have not looked at my "mess" in the same way since.


He and Evie truly are the "fun" in our home. He is adventurous and energetic with her. He runs and dances and climbs and plays with her. He is an incredibly kind and loving father. And I love him. I know I've said it before, but I could not have asked for a better father for my children, and that is so incredibly important to me. One of the very first things that solidified in my mind that he was the one I was going to marry was the fact that I could see what kind of dad he would be someday, and he has completely lived up to the hopes and expectations I had so many years ago.


Now, he's not perfect (quite), but he works so hard to be the best daddy possible. He works very hard to take care of us and provide for us, even when it means giving things up that he wants, being uncomfortable, or doing difficult things. At the same time he tries to spend time with Evie whenever he can, and I know it makes him so sad when he has to work and be away from her.



I know I couldn't do it without him, and I hope I never have to for very long!!

Happy Father's Day, Karl!




Sunday, June 9, 2013

18 months... Time for Nursery!!

My beautiful little Evie-Cakes is 18 months old!! I keep calling her my baby, but every day I'm realizing I can't really say that any more, she's getting to be such a big girl!


  • Evie now weighs 19.4 lbs (which now puts her in the 10th-ish percentile), which means she has gained about a pound since her 12 month appointment, lol. She is 31.9 inches tall, which means she has grown 2 inches since her 16 month appointment (putting her in the 52nd percentile for height). So she's skinny!!
  • She's a climber!! She's ALWAYS climbing on things... I don't know if there's really anything else to say about that, lol. I think we've got a natural born rock climber on our hands (she takes after her daddy!!)
  • She loves to push her stroller around... It's been forever since we've been able to get her in it, but she likes to take it for walks. It's adorable watching her push a stroller that's more than twice her height.
  • She loves to share her toys with other kids, except for mommy's phone and the kindle... those she's decided are hers.
  • Evie knows a TON of words. I was keeping track up to about 75 words... and then I gave up. That was a couple of months ago, it seems like she says new words everyday! She loves to shout out the names of all the things she knows, which is a lot, so she's generally talking up a storm, haha!
  • She's just recently started to use two word sentences like "go outside", "get chocolate", and "cute baby"
  • She can name 21 of her letters! She loves to point out all the letters she knows every time she sees them. She knows, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, X, Z!
  • She knows a few of her colors, she's usually pretty good with yellow, blue, and green, and sometimes she can get red.
  • She started counting to 10 (minus the number 7) about 2 weeks ago... But then in the last few days she's decided that she has favorite numbers and now counts "2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10"
  • She's still very into Yo Gabba Gabba and Finding Nemo, however she recently discovered the movie Cars... She really likes cars (she has a couple of hotwheels she plays with and she likes to point out all the real cars on the street) and I think she must have seen the preview for Cars 2 on her Tangled movie, and so she's been pretty into that one lately.
  • She really likes to stack blocks! I can't remember what her record is, but I know she can stack at least 7 blocks pretty consistently.

18 months also means... Nursery!!! I feel like she's needed nursery since she was about 11 months old, so I'm pretty darn excited about this! Karl went and stayed with her the whole time (he couldn't leave her, lol!) and she seemed to have a good time, she did look for dad a few times to make sure he was there, but she was pretty good. We have a TON of nursery kids and there are a lot of kids who are bigger than her, but I'm hoping she'll be okay :)



 




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