Ev had her first day of kindergarten last week. In the morning as I got her ready, she told me that I need to stop talking to her like she's a baby because she's in kindergarten now.  She was so excited to get on the bus. We got to the bus stop too early, and she was getting frustrated because the bus wasn't coming fast enough. When she finally saw ( Read more... )

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  The other day, we were at a Korean restaurant. While waiting for our food, Ev unwrapped the chopsticks and decided to pretend they were people. She gave two to Kevin and said, "Here, you be the two daughters. I'll be the two mommies." She proceeded to play with them. As part of the play she said, "We are in love and married.  Mom, can two women get ( Read more... )

Last week, Ev explained that she loves Ann Arbor. We strongly suspect that it has to do with Kilwin's, a chocolate store and ice cream parlor, but she said it while we weren't even there when she said it. It's funny for a four year old to identify that she really likes a city, when she barely has an understanding of what cities really are.  ( Read more... )

Ev continues to amaze us. She has recently begun to draw and write "chapter books." She draws a picture on one page with some scribbles for words, then she just has words on the next page.  We tried to introduce an actual chapter book to her, but she didn't like them because they don't have pictures.

Ev has started a new thing that her friends think ( Read more... )

Ev loves the Doodlebops. Mom and Dad do not love them, but we humor her anyway. She recently got a Doodlebops CD from the library and she forces us to listen to it on the way to and from work in the car. Some Doodlebops song came on and Ev said, "Turn this up, this is my jam."

The other day Ev said, "Wow! That's enormous!" I thought it was funny, so I asked her what enormous meant. She said, "It means gigantic." All right then ( Read more... )

Ev has been struggling with daycare. She doesn't like it and she tries to fake like she's sick to get out of it. We have been working with her, thinking that she's bringing on the behavior. After a conversation with her teacher yesterday, we've learned that Ev's demeanor has changed. She used to be happy go lucky, but she's lost patience with the ( Read more... )

Evelyn asked me if it was okay if she slept on the way in to daycare this morning. She immediately passed out, all leaning to the side. I tried to wake her up at twice as we neared daycare, but she didn't flinch. She finally woke up when the car was turned off. I went to help her out of her seat, and she was COVERED in drool. Gross. She sleeps like ( Read more... )

 Ev's magazine cover came out on Monday. Here is the link to it (while it lasts):

http://metroparent.com/

I did not know it was out and when I went to daycare, I could see one of the parents on the inside of the building pointing at me and jumping up and down. She held up the magazine and she was so excited for Ev. The daycare was buzzing. The ( Read more... )

Dad made us a delicious breakfast of cinnamon french toast and boca breakfast sausage. Ev dumped some powdered sugar on her sausage and said:

Ev: "This is so good. You know what this tastes like?"
Me: "Gross! Like a sugary sausage?"
Ev: "It tastes so good. Like pink, ballerina, mother's love."
Me: "Mother's love is delicious?"
Ev: "Yep, so is daddy's ( Read more... )