First and foremost, I have a new niece!! Mila Delphine has joined the ranks (a little early) and she is a perfect little girl. At 6lbs and 12oz, she is exactly 1lb less than Eli was. And he is at least twice her size at 2 months. (I like to call him porky pig in this pix!) We have a doctors appointment in a couple of weeks, we'll see where he stands then...Back to Mila, she looks just like Darrell, and as a new mother I hate to say it because it really chapped my hide when everyone told me my children looked like Scott after 9+months and all that recent hard work of bringing them into the world and whatnot. But I have decided that it is mother natures way of ensuring, for the daddy, that he is the baby's daddy. After all, there is no doubt who the mother is, right!?!? So I'll just have to leg it go.
While in Austin for the birth of the baby, Scotty purchased a
new vehicle. We now have a 2008 Honda Ridgeline to try and fit in our garage. Why do they not make garages bigger? It's a good looking car and I think he is very happy with it. It will be nice to have a truck bed again. We drove it home from Austin with both the kids!! They were both perfect...until the last 30 min of the drive. Eli basically slept the whole time and Evi sang songs and watched movies the whole time. We went through the Arbuckle Wilderness, sort of a drive through zoo. Evi love
d it. She fed animals out the window, like deer, donkey, & zebras. The giraffe was technically behind a fence, so Scott got as close as he could and I stood out of the sunroof and fed it. Man, they have big heads! Evi finally took a nap after that and woke up just in time to alternate crying with her brother for the last 30 minutes of the ride home!!Eli is just shy of 2 months. He holds his head up great, is cooing (when his sister stops talking long enough for him to try), and is obviously having no prob
lem with eating. He loves, absolutely loves his "fire" aka, pacifier. He's only awake about on hour at a time. Wakes up twice a night to nurse. And pretty much only cries when he's not being held. And today, his mother let him fall off the couch. Yes, I know, I am a horrible mother! It was totally an accident! Luckily he hardly cried and sought revenge by only taking his naps in 10 minute increments for the rest of the day! I tried to make myself feel better by saying, he's a boy, he's going to fall off lots of things..but i still feel horrible! He did have his first flight a couple of weeks ago. Luckily he & Evi were perfect angels...this time.
Evi had her first day of school...and she didn't cry. I almost cried, but she did not! I couldn't believe it! Evi, who cried almost the whole year last year, just turned and walked away without a tear! She is great with her brother. Likes to hold him, but can't stand it when he cries.
Evi-isms for the month:
She was told she had to put her toys in the living room back in her playroom. So she placed all of them just inside the door, which is, technically, what I asked her to do.
There is a phone tower near the exit of our neighborhood and she asked, "is that the Eiffel tower?" Now every tower is an Eiffel tower.
I gave her a nickel to put in the donation box at a checkout counter and she said "a nickel, Flower has nickels. She has them here, and here, and here" and began to point to on her body where her cat has nipples.
I said, "no honey, those are nipples, like you have nipples."
She said, " someday I'll have big ones like you" as she patted my boobie and the man next to us just chuckled. And I began to question why I felt the need to correct her in the first place!
