Wings on Cardinal Lane

Oh, the turkey watching we've been doing!  How amazing to have a whole flock, plus babies right in our yard! They have been so fun to watch.

Evangeline looks forward to every holiday.  I always try to make them extra special for her.  She woke up to a scavenger hunt that lead her to a pot of gold (peanut butter cups in a mason jar).  The clues were all over the house.  She was upstairs and downstairs several times, in the refrigerator, dishwasher, etc.  It was fun. 

 

Over the weekend we made Irish soda bread scones and ate them with tea on my grandma Mary's China.  Evangeline thought this was very special.  

 

Jed loved Sis' shamrock headband and jumped at the chance to put it on when she was out of the room. 

Jed and Pickles...my, my, my.  Jed's learning to be gentle...poor Pickles has been the guanine pig for the lessons.  That cat has the patience of Job.



But a cat can only take so much.....good thing for Jed Pickles has no claws. 

I finally got around to taking a picture of Jed in the sweater I knitted Evangeline several years ago. It's my favorite thing I've ever knitted.  Lots of love in every stitch...all for my children. 

Ammie took Evangeline to Indy last weekend to meet the cousins and do their annual Easter dress shopping.  Kyle and I took Jed to TH to do some shopping for the house.  The little dude was a trooper.  He was just too cute sitting there in the cart waiting for Daddy to pick out the new hardware for our doors.  We met Evangeline and Ammie for dinner when they got back to town.  We were all pooped out when we got home.  

In the Yard

Evangeline has had so much fun playing "papergirl" lately with the newspapers being delivered to our house in our neighbors absence.  She puts them on the back of her trike and peddles up and down our walk flinging her papers at our front porch.  She wants to be a papergirl when she grows up and this is currently trumping tea party planner, which has been her goal for ages, so this is a big deal. 



 

Jed's favorite thing to do is walk around outside with his ball.  He throws a HUGE fit when it's time to come in.  

 

Jed lately.....Jed loves to each bananas, avocado, yogurt, cottage cheese (any cheese of any kind). 

 

For some time now when you ask him how old he is he says "two".  We say, "no, you're not two" and he laughs and laughs. It's so funny. 

 

Jed tries so hard to say "baa baa, black sheep".  He loves that rhyme.

When I'm changing Jed's diaper he always pulls the arm that's closest to his head to his mouth and gives me kiss after kiss, "mahh".  

At night I tell Jed to put his hands together for our prayer and he claps his little hands together.  After I say the prayer I tell him to say "amen" and he mimics me.  He always whispers something like "hata".  These are the things I want to remember forever. 

 

 

My co-worker sent me these pictures yesterday after an author visit.  She said she just looked over and saw Evangeline so into it.  She said she just had to snap some pictures of her.  Evangeline was excited to see Candice Flemming and have her sign her book, Boxes for Katje, a book we really love.



Kyle's Birthday Party

 

We had a birthday party for Kyle over the weekend.  Evangeline decided that we should get him a Dr. Seuss cake since he shares his day with Dr. Seuss.  It was perfect. 

 

Lots of family filled our house, which made it kind of nice that we still don't have tons of furniture.  There was plenty of room for everyone.  Cale and Jed had a great time together.  Evangeline, Savannah, Lily and Ira spent most of the day outside building a leprechaun house in the back yard.  

 

Kisses and hugs...

 

Just snapped this as Evangeline was running through the room.  She stopped just long enough to give her Jeddy Bear a hug. 

 

Happy Birthday, Kyle!  We had so much fun celebrating you!