growing, changing, and entertaining

Eve is talking SO well lately. She speaks in complete sentences and says pretty sophisicated stuff. The other day she came up to me while I was sitting on the floor and she patted me on the back and said "Nice shirt, Mom". She has started calling me "baby" a lot too. I think she hears Travis call me baby sometimes, so she copies him. It sounds so funny to hear her say "Here baby" and hand me something. She also shouts "Time Out!" at Veda when Veda offends her in some way. When I ask her what movie she wants to watch she'll say "Belle, favorite, I like ut". She'll also say "No want ut, no like ut". She insists on wearing dresses or skirts everyday. Even to bed she'll only wear her princess nightgown Nana and Papa gave her. I went in last night and sneaked some pj pants on under her nightgown to keep her legs warm. She came in my room in the middle of the night and said "Jammies off!"

We have a field behind our house with a herd of cows. The girls have been fascinated watching the cows and how close to our fence they will come. One morning Veda came in my room early in the morning confused because Eve had gotten into bed with me in the middle of the night. She whispered in a very concerned voice "Mom, where's Eve?" I said "She's here in bed with me." Veda gave a big sigh of relief and said "Oh, I thought maybe she'd runned off with the cows". It takes something pretty funny to get a laugh out of me at 6 am, but that did it! I could just imagine little Evie sneaking out in the night and running off with that herd of cows. Now we use that quote often with Eve - "Oh, Eve there you are. We thought maybe you'd runned off with the cows."