Summer Fruit

 

This is how Evie looks when she first wakes up in the morning. All sleepy eyed and smiley.

Walk into Evie's room and, Oh Look! Artemis has claimed the changing table as his bed. And my dad was gone this past week, so that picture of Cali is pretty representative of how she looks when he's not here. Mopey puppy.

New toy from Grandma

Giving kisses to her Miss Monkey Face blanket.

She has recently started sticking out her tongue like a little lizard...makes it look like she's concentrating on something.

Evie has been VERY interested in our food lately, so the other night we let her taste a piece of watermelon. The look on her face initially was priceless, but soon she was grabbing my hand with the watermelon and pulling it closer to her mouth. Safe to say she liked it, I think.

Last night we went to celebrate Caesar's dad's birthday, and Evie got in some playtime with her cousin Anthony. What cuties.

I felt like having more than just cereal this morning, so I made myself a Big Delicious Breakfast of fried potatoes, fruit, and an egg and cheese sandwich on French bread with spinach. Mmm.

Evie still slouches a little in her high chair, so when nobody's around to hold her and I'm hungry she sits in her stroller while I eat. She generally doesn't fuss till I'm 3/4 of the way done, which in this case was when she saw me eating the strawberries. Poor baby REALLY wanted some, but those little seeds would probably give her some trouble for now.

This is Humptey Dumptey. He goes way back to when my older brother was a baby. He and Evie are quite close. Besties, you might say.

We also got her some of those frozen teether toys, which she loves chewing on, but tries not to touch with her hands for too long, which is pretty funny.

There are millions of apricots and cherries in the backyard. So today we all headed out in this beautifully not-to-hot weather to collect some. I'm thinking of making apricot cherry crisp? So there is nothing to distract from the freshly picked summer fruit. Except butter. And sugar. Mmm. Yes, I think a nice crisp or two will be perfect.

Evie helped us pick the fruit.

Then she played tickle monster with Grandma.

And now she's taking a nap. It's hard work being a baby.

 

 

Four Months

And now, my rendition of "My Favorite Things", from The Sound of Music.

"Tea in my new mug,

And flowers for no reason,

Baby smiles,

Crochet,

And rain out of season.

Homemade cake,

Picnics,

And babies who "sing",

These are a few of my favorite things.

When no one calls me, and baby's crying, when I'm feeling sad...I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don't feel so bad!"

TA DA! But really, they are some of my favorites. (I know that picture of the rain/umbrella is a couple weeks old but it's true, and it rhymed.)

So, Evie has discovered that she has control over her voice. And BOY does she know how to use it. (See video on facebook) I thought she was chatty before, but no. She just yells and babbles and "sings" and laughs away, all the time. No noise, she's probably sleeping.

This is the quietest she will EVER BE.

Happy 4th of July! We got all matchy and took some pictures, then just hung out and had a little BBQ with my family. We didn't take Evie to the fireworks cause Crying Baby? No thanks. But Caesar and I went and it ended up being a nice relaxing quiet day.

The cake was what I made for dessert on the 4th. Caesar thinks the middle looks moldy but it's just blueberry jam. I also picked some cherries from the backyard and made a cherry sauce thing. Mmm. The cake is pretty basic. Just weigh 3 eggs and add that much sugar, butter, and flour, plus a teaspoon baking soda, a splash of vanilla and a couple tablespoons milk. (Cream sugar + butter, add eggs one at a time, then flour, then the rest,bake at 350) Nice and simple. I think it's called a Victoria Sponge Cake? Something like that. Anyway, it was delicious.

And Caesar brought me flowers. :)

The resaurant we picked this week was the Himalayan restaurant on the Windsor Town Green. I think it's actually called...Himalayan Restaurant. Yeah. But we got it to go and ate on the grass with Evie and it was SO good. We had the Veggie Masala and now I'm hungry and want more. But the picnic part was really fun; it was nice to just hang outside the three of us with no tv or ipad or anything. And Evie enjoyed her leaf-watching of course. We will do this more, I hope.

And LOOK! We saw a rabbit! Just being all cute on the Green munching some grass. Caesar thought I was silly for getting excited about it, but I can't wait till Evie is big enough to either; a) get excited with me, or b) roll her eyes at me with her dad. My money's on a. I mean, it's a bunny, right!?

Talking to her paci. Because things don't need to be animate for this girl to carry on a conversation.

Tummy Time!

Also, she still enjoys eating fingers, and not just her own...she was born with that tooth on the bottom so beware!

And now my baby is Four Months old. I've decided she should stop growing now.

 

From rain to a million degrees

 

So at the beginning of last week it was nice and rainy...perfect for a walk with an umbrella. :)

Evie took the pacifier out of her mouth (she's getting really good with her hands), and she laid there talking to it....so funny.

 

Vegan pancakes...so naturally I smothered them in butter and had a big glass of milk.

Finished Quilt! I love it! And Evie loves looking at all the patterns too...

 

 

Later in the week it got super hot so we went to the river one evening...Cali and Evie both loved it.

Evie was sitting on my lap and Cali runs out of the water, stops in front of us, and shakes all the water off her! Poor Evie was not pleased, so she buries her face in Caesar's chest for a few minutes.

I brought my silver paint pen to write on some rocks :)

She's a genius! ;) she was fussing while I was trying to comb out my hair so I opened the book and held it in front of her. She grabbed it herself and just stared and stared.

We are trying to eat out only once a week and we want to try places we have never been before. So we went somewhere called Viola's in Santa Rosa and it was SO good. For dessert I had chocolate mousse, which was delicious, but not as awesome as Caesar's fried apple pie. We will definitely be going back.

We went to the park yesterday and let Evie lay on a blanket under a tree...she loves looking up at those leaves.