A Big Girl and a Baby

I love how Jed stretches after I'm done feeding him in the middle of the night.  I lift him up to put him on my shoulder and he sticks his little bottom out, raises his knees up, arches his back, sticks his arms up over his head and makes an adorable little old man face, then he plops him self against me and cozies up in my neck.  Oh, how I love this.  He is already starting to do it less and less, but last night he did it and I already caught myself saying, "oh yeah, I forgot about this and how much I love it".  I thought I better write it down before it flits out of my memory as fast as babies grow out of the newborn phase....

Evangeline was Star Student at school this past week.  She thoroughly enjoyed her special week.  She talked about it a lot.  Here's the graphic organizer I found in her backpack she had written about herself. 

After several weeks of anticipation her rocks came out of the Rock Tumbler last weekend.  She received this gift from Papa and Karen the week before Christmas and the gemstone blend she started with have been tumbling ever since.  After 4 different grits, they were done, finally.  It was exciting.  She made piles of her favorites.  She made piles according to color and type.  She looked in her rock book and identified what she had.  The girl loves rocks. 

 

The rock on the right is a Tiger's Eye rock before taking many turns in the tumbler.  The rock on the left is one of the finished products.  

 

Brrr...it's been cold outisde.  

 

But we've been staying cozy....



We've been doing a little cleaning.  I can't believe how many outfits Jed has already outgrown.    Here are a few pictures of little Jed's room.  

 

And then there's E.B.'s room...I love the wall above Evangeline's bed.  She's always decorating it according to the season.  

 

Evangeline's always loved Beatrix Potter and insists on keeping this book opened to this page on her hat boxes at all times.  It's been here in this very spot for probably a year now.  

Don't you dare set this baby down.  He. Will. Get.  Grumpy.  We can't take a sad Jed though.  We scoop him up right away.  It's just too much.

 

Danielle Burress has been watching Jed on Wednesday's.  She sends me pictures and videos on my lunch break.  I love it!  Here are two that she sent me last week.  She mentioned how she loves his look of concentration and how he was hiccupping, but it didn't interfere with all of his babbling.  

 

Me and my friend, Molly Richardson, took our girls to see a Russian ballet company perform Swan Lake at EIU over Martin Luther King weekend.  It was an awesome production.  The girls had a great time.  Evangeline wants to start dance classes again.  Her face during the show was priceless.  She was FULL of questions about what was going on.  Each time I take her to a show or production of some kind I enjoy watching her face more than the actual show.  It's a gift to watch a child experience the world. 

 

This was in her backpack the next day.  

 

Evangeline was disappointed that we were out of her cereal the other day.  I told her that her options were either Grape Nuts or oatmeal.  She was not too thrilled.  Then I told her that we could make some Swedish pancakes.  She said, in a relived voice, "the clouds have lifted!".  She has a real flare for the dramatics.