i just love the name evelyn!! sounds classy, rings nice with guinn, fits perfect with grace....and happens to be one of my most favorite favorite relatives-- martha-evelyn waldrop. if you grew up with me, you know grandmother martha quite well. she was one of a kind. loud, wildly entertaining, hilarious, and so much fun. she was a model in her day. she had great legs and great hands. who would ever think-- great hands. they were so great that she was seriously a hand model. i remember at her funeral-- saying my goodbyes, and all i could think was "oh my gosh, those hands STILL look amazing". anyway, she'd be the first to tell you that she was special. in her old age, she would tell me that i better pray i got her great gene's because, "if you'll notice (while looking around the restaurant) my skin doesn't sag like these other old ladies"...and of course she had the "most desirable white hair and not that nasty gray". anyway, we all loved this lady beyond words and i am so thrilled to carry on a little piece of her!
so there we have it. joy avery and evelyn grace. joy and evy. LOVE!
i don't know what's gotten into this girl but all she wants to do is read books these days. i will sit and read the same book over and over again and she just begs for more. she's really started getting into the longer books with more of a story and you can see the anticipation build with each flip of the page as she knows what's coming.
this book was seriously made for birdie. as you know, she is obsessed with my shoes. she puts them on herself, and spends a large portion of her day picking out shoes for me, hauling them across the house, and the putting them on my feet. anyway, this story is amazing. it'a all about this little girl named birdie (perfect) who has this little white side-kick dog named monster (double perf...we sub in pipes, of course). so the story goes, that pipes and birdie decide to ask birdie's mom if she can wear her mommy's big girl shoes. in the end, they decide that barefoot shoes are best of all and that she'll have the rest of her life to wear summer peep-toes and strappy highheals.
LOVE IT!
joy seriously searches the house high and low until she finds this little gem. sometimes when she gets that "on a mission" face and starts rummaging through all her toys-- i know with certainty that she's looking for piggy. her favorite page is the page where piggy plays hide-n-seek with mommy outside. this is where joy learned what trees were, and how to count.
i recently discovered "if you give a dog a donut". soon to be a real hit around here i'm sure.
oh my gosh! if i have to read hop on pop one more time i might lose my mind. she likes to read this one over and over and over. trey decided to speed read it to her and she LOVES the fast version. sometimes when i'm reading it to her normal pace she'll hop out of my lap, grab her book, and take it over to daddy so he can do it right.
an oldie but goodie.
loves this before bed. and has to point out everything in her room as i say it. goodnight lights, points to the lights, goodnight brush-- points to her brush.
read and sung twice through, per demand everynight before bed. i like caroline church's style.
and sometimes she just sits and reads all her books to herself. although, apparently getting under the blanket is a must and can prove to be quite the task.
rise and shine! 7:30am and SO ready to get this party started!!
breakfast with puppy. english muffin with peanut butter, banana, blueberries and yogurt. mmmmm.
64 degree cold front!! we think we'll spend the morning @townlake!!
just frollicking about town with pups
top change time. i knew 60 degree weather was going to be short lived
snacking with mama @ auditorium shores
now down to the trail to watch all the runners and dogs go by!!
back home with time to kill before lunch...i think we'll take pups on a walk through the dorm!
lunching!
napping
awake and, of course, already managed to put on a pair of daddy's "no show" socks which are clearly knee highs!
uncle clutch is spending the night-- here we are on a walk to pick up dad from a consulting appointment at the business school.
SO happy to see dadda!!!
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home for bathtime. not sure what got into this girl during bathtime. you'd think i spiked her drink or something. seriously, at one point she starts speakng chinese.
earlier today-- we got a shipment of fall clothes in the mail and joy thought it would be funny to walk around with her beanie over her eyes....
and then decided that it would be a brilliant idea to try to eat dinner in a similar fashion.
she doesn't miss a beat. everything i do, even if just once. she remembers and repeats.
we showered together the other day and i had to give her a razorless razor so she could "shave too". and now at every bath, she pretends to shave her legs.
taking a phone call. a serious one, clearly.
putting some got-to-be-glued in her and babies hair like daddy
putting on mommies shoes.
dads under armour coupling as a scarf and a belly band of sorts.
this girl is a riot. she could play dress up all day long. not only herself, but she likes to dress mommy too. when she can tell we're getting ready to go somewhere she goes and gets my shoes and starts putting them on my feet. with such persistance too. she seriously starts picking up my foot and trying to cram it into the shoe. this morning she brought me my sandals and i said "joy, i'm not wearing sandals today i'm wearing my running shoes". one minute later she's pacing down the hall with my running shoes in hand. what?! how does she know this stuff? always amazed.
1. walking piper before breakfast and before dinner.
2. laundry.
3. and picking up all her toys.
this video is an attempt for joy to overcome her fear of the vacuum cleaner. i figured if she got right down there with it and realized it wasn't going to eat her, she'd be cool. mission accomplished!
