Evie- 20 months

I feel guilty about not noting Evie's milestones. She's learning so much and changes daily, it's hard to remember all the new things she's in to!

Favorite books:
Elmo's twinkle, twinkle (see video below of her favorite line from the song).She has a favorite page in the book of a raccoon looking out the window at a star. That is the only page she wants to see currently.
Twinkle Twinkle

Goodnight Moon- she loves the pages with the kittens and says meow every time she sees the kittens.
Bedtime kiss for little fish- I ask where the little red fish is, she answers and points "there e' is".

Numbers and letters:
She likes to count and it usually goes in this order: 2, 5, 2. She really likes 2.

Food:
This girl will eat just about anything. Not afraid of spicy foods like her brother. Lately she's been spitting her food out, but then usually puts it right back in. It's gross and weird, but as long as she's eating it. She was just introduced to, and loves, Popeye's mash potatoes. Since our ground cherries aren't growing any longer, she's switched to cherry tomatoes instead. I can't stop her from picking them and popping them in her mouth! Good thing we grow organically! Once again, Sullivan, wouldn't eat a cherry tomato raw if i paid him i don't think. He will eat ground cherries, so maybe one day. Evie typically eats dinner and then after she's been bathed and is almost ready for bed, she wants second dinner from our plates.

She's hilarious

What she's saying:
winkle winkle, up above upppa above
hut (hug)
shower
towel
apple
Bailey
Sammy (her best buddy at school)
Some form of Sullivan
Come own  (momma, bailey, daddy, etc)
I want (juice, bar, nanna, bow, etc)
(Body parts and animals sounds are big right now)

Evie is a climber. I never had to deal with that with Sullivan, but she can climb to the top of her changing table, climbs the outside of her crib, climbs on any furniture she can...no fear. she has also figured out how to open most of the doors in our house, so we must be much more vigilant these days. Although she can now open doors, she actually loves to close them. She obviously gets that from her ocd daddy.

She LOVES to buckle things, have me unbuckle, and then buckle again. Entertains her for quite a while, so it's great when I need to work. She also loves to put on socks...any socks any where. Case and point:

Sullivan has been doing pretty well in school. We have more green and yellow days than red, so I'll take it. I must say, he's learned a lot of negative things from his peers. The armpit fart noises and redneck speak are getting on my nerves and not exactly restoring my faith in this public school. I'm hoping his confidence will eventually help him quit copying bad role models. Just one more thing for me to worry about. His soccer season has just ended, on time I might add. He enjoyed it and now wants to play baseball...not sure I have another sport in me at the moment. We'll see.

These two really love each other most of the time: