Hello Sweetie!

You have hair now! Sorry I haven't written on this deal for a while, but you really wore me out on our last visit. You think you are cool because you can sing Baa Baa Black Sheep, don't you? Well, I know the words too, so hah-hah! Or at least I know most of them. Love you and miss you and I am glad you have finally decided to be a little girl! More later...Poppy!

New Job

Eve, you are growing up to be such a girly girl. Your mom tells me that you love to play dress up! That you put on as much accessories as you can and want to wear pink everyday. I love it! It is very opposite of your mom. I usually get to talk to you everyday! You always are into something when I'm talking to your mom. You are still asking what everything is and have a great personality. You are now reading books, where i can't even say the words. You will know what I'm talking about when you get to watch your videos on you tube. I'm glad that you love your dance class. You look too cute in your tutu and of course it's pink. I hope you are more flexible then me or aunt Jill. Well since you love to dress up, i do have a new job f0r you to be my flower girl in my wedding. Your mom and I are going to find the perfect dress for you to dress up in and we will even let you accessorize. You are going to be the most beautiful flower girl and i can't wait. Your mom and grandma have been helping out tremondously with my wedding and i can't wait to see you in MAY! I love you and miss you! E

It's Halloween Time Again!

Eve, I just talked to you on the phone yesterday. You talked and talked. It is amazing how well you communicate - especially on the phone! You called to thank me for the cow and Halloween stickers that grama sent you! Then, we started talking about all your animals and what color they were. Your momma puts you on speaker phone and you just run all over your house talking. Sometimes you run into another room and I can hardly hear you, but then you come back and say "HI!" We talked about grama's trip in December (even though you don't know when December is!) and that we are going to the store to get carrots to feed Michaelangelo! I hear you are going to be a princess and brother Ben is going to be a frog for Halloween! I wish I could be there to see you, but I'll make sure that momma takes lots of pictures to send me! I guess you are such a big girl now that you can dress yourself and you do (even though your clothes may not match or be inside-out) You are quite a fashion statement and you love anything pink! Sometimes, you even insist on wearing dresses to bed! I can't wait to come out to Washington, DC to have a tea party with you! Grama will dress up too, and we will have tea and cookies! I am sure you are quite the little hostess! Keep taking care of your brother and helping momma around the house! I love and miss you! Grama

who's my squirty baby

Your dad and I like to sing you that song and you now answer us that Eve is. You are getting so much smarter. You can hold conversations with people and sometimes even prompt the conversations. We'll be in the elevator and you will proudly announce that your little brother is in the back of the stroller or that your elephant's name is Waterhose. Most of the folks can actually understand you too. You announce on our way out the front door to the building where we are going and you usually tell the same person something about our trip when we return. You love getting packages in the mail and ask for them almost every day. You insist on putting on all your clothes and most of the time something is inside out or backwards, but that is perfectly fine by me. You are doing great going potty in the big girl potty (except for pooping), but I'm sure that will come. Sometimes you lift up your shirt and pretend you are nursing Ton-of-Heart like mom does Ben. It cracks me up!! You love the movie The Jungle Book and ask to watch it often usually with no success. We've started building forts, which you love. You ask almost every night to go to Garfield Park or the Little Park and swing. You love when dad pushes you really high. You seem to enjoy the adrenaline rushes a lot. We're going to the creamery this weekend so you can see some milk cows and I can't wait, because I know you will love it! You've been giving mom a lot of hugs lately which really help her forget how tired she is. It only makes her realize that everything she is doing is worth it.

girly girl

Well I have no idea where you get it from, but you are one girly girl. You play dress-up with you princess dresses and high heels. Your favorite outfit is the Sleeping Beauty skirt, shirt, and heels. You also love to wear your leotard, tutu, and ballet slippers. You turn on the song that plays on Ben's swing and do spins. It's adorable. You love wearing dresses every day and putting on makeup.

Speaking of makeup, we went to Pittsburgh last weekend. Aunt Harmony, aunt Sarah, uncle Josh, grammie, poppie, and many others were there. You loved putting on Sarah and Harmony's makeup and would slather the lip gloss on as long as it was in your hands. We'd have to wash your face and you would immediately want to reapply. We actually went into a Walgreen's to get Grandma Rita some medicine and you came back out with your own lip gloss that dad bought you. You were so proud of your beeswax lip stick and you applied it non-stop until we took it away. You also managed to open the box of medicine, pull out the medicine, remove the plastic wrapper, take off the lid, and actually chew up a pill before you said to us, "I don't like vitamins." Luckily it was only a holistic medicine for relieving leg cramps and nothing happened. It was pretty funny.

You've been asking every day to go to the zoo and see all the animals, but we haven't made it yet. We now play the game, I'm thinking of an animal, and you love it. Animals still are your favorite thing and Ton-of-Heart your new Carebear Elephant has become your new favorite thing. You actually brought it to me and said that Ton-of-Heart was your little brother and Ben wasn't any more.

You're such a funny girl!

Miss Eve

You are quite the little dress up queen I hear!! It sure is funny to listen to your mom tell me about all the new things you are doing. Everyday you are into something new. So it seems you are also quite the big sister! You mom says you love and kiss on Ben all the time!! It's good to know you take good care of him!! He will return the favor someday I promise. You have been going to school and going to dance classes, you are growing up so fast. I know you are pretty busy with all that you are doing now, but aunt Jill would love a new picture from you. I will take it to my studio at school and hang it up for inspiration. I get pretty lonely there and a little homesick, but it is full of pictures of you and Ben so that helps. Everyone always says, "AWWWW they are the cutest kids ever." And of course I say, "I KNOW!" I sure do miss you and I can't wait to meet your little brother. Until then take good care of him!!
Love you,
Aunt Jill