{Life Lately}

Children's Aquarium visit with some friends

adorableness

Playing doctor at joyschool

Thanksgiving day joy school

Putting the house together for Christmas!

Dancing with friends

 Walks

Zoo date with friends 

Testing out the new double stroller - it's awesome - I'm a huge fan.

And of course - Chickfila date afterwards

And a chance meeting with Santa at the mall!!

Hanging out with Baby Lily

Swimming Barbies

Another date to the Children's Aquarium

And visiting Daddy at work.

{Fall Day}

Last weekend was gorgeous.... lovely weather, lovely colors....it was great. We spent the morning cleaning up playing in the backyard.

Nothing more to say - just look at my sweet baby.

 

{Broken Face}

On Monday morning Sean took Evette on his morning run. It was awesome - I slept in. 

Before I knew it, I was awoken by the doorbell ringing over and over again.... and you know how I feel about my doorbell being rung. I figured Sean left his keys or garage door opener inside.

I threw on my robe and ran to the door. 

As soon as I open the door he says, "Paper towels! A lot of them!" I just see blood and more blood. It was terrifying. 

About the last block or so of his route Sean lets Evette get out of the stroller and they walk home together - giving him a good chance to cool off. Apparently she tripped while holding her cup of milk and it went straight into her lip.

After some investigation we decided there was no use in going to a doctor. Her lip was cut, but not terribly so, and the top layer of skin on her lip was skinned off. Her teeth looked ok. 

Poor sad baby.

 We watched Mulan to keep her calm and happy. Her lip swelled up pretty bad - she wouldn't let me ice it - not even a Popsicle worked.

Look how far forward her poor little lip was! I gave her some meds to help with the pain but she could barely drink it out of the little cup because her lip was too fat. Broke my little heart.

It was hard for her to eat some things so we had a smoothie for lunch, but we were able to get some solids in her for dinner..

The next day the swelling went down some and she was mostly back to herself. She would occasionally point to her lip and and say, "E-dette hurt...." but it wasn't bad

Day 3 the swelling is mostly gone - her lips are still black and blue and we lathered them up in vaseline to keep them from scabbing up real bad. She was even well enough to shove this huge cupcake in her mouth.

She's doing much better now - minor swelling, can eat fine, lip is still is black and blue, though - probably will be for a while.

Thanks everyone for your prayers and love - we all survived :)

{Zoo Date}

After a couple crappy Mondays in a row I decided to take matters into my own hands and go on a Mommy-Daughter date to the zoo in hopes that that would make our Mondays better.

Guess what - it worked beautifully!

It was one of the best days I've had in a while! It was cold and wet and rainy but we were the only people at the zoo! We seriously ran into maybe 3 other families while we were there. We had the entire zoo to ourselves.

We went first thing in the morning and all the animals were out and about and we had front row seats.

We even played in the children's section for a little bit afterwards.

Evette was completely soaked afterwards and rode home in the car naked and covered with blankets.... she thought that was funny :)

Awesome zoo trip! We'll be going much more frequently now that the weather isn't stupidly hot anymore.