1st Cake

Our Miss Evie Mae loved it!

And this is how it looked after she was through with it...

Chatter Box

Miss Evie Mae is our little chatter box. She talks all the time. Of course, most of the time we have no idea what she is saying, but if you listen to her, she'll throw out some words she already knows like, "bye-bye" or "daddy" or "baby."

In this video she is picking out her Christmas ornament.

She picked the little doggie that she touches. 

In October she was able to put together some two word sentences like "Daddy bye-bye" or "Bye-bye Dada" and "Bye-bye bird."
 

The best part about her talking is her tiny pointer finger is always up pointing at whatever it is she is talking about :) We just love listening to her chattering away ALL the time!

So sweet...

A Baby Turtle on the Move

Our little baby turtle was LOVING the ward Halloween party.


She was crawling everywhere! Under tables, chairs...she seriously was going crazy! And she would never look to see if we were close behind. It was nuts!

However, we did have a costume malfunction. I'd had velcro keeping the shell centered but didn't like how it was pulling on the pjs and I took it off. I regretted it. I didn't realize how much it was keeping the shell centered on her back. At home she wasn't crawling around as fast as at the ward party ha ha :) Oops! Oh well. Evie's mama just had to follow her around and help her out


Our favorite part was when a 2 year-old boy in our ward came running past Evie (who was busy crawling around), stopped, looked at his mom and cried, "A turtle! Hey Mom, look it's a little turtle!" Then he got down on his hands and knees just to look at Evangeline. So funny :) We love our cute little turtle!

Sneak Peek

So we had a dry run with our costume today at the playgroup Halloween party.

It still needs some tweaking, but here it is...

 Our little baby turtle :)

Back view

Side view

(my method of attachment needs some work)

It was a little top heavy so our friend Nicole had a good idea that I think we'll try.

 I loved this picture but she was just moving too fast :(

Off to find trouble...

Thank goodness Evie's Auntie Tess believed that my homemade pattern was even a possibility or this costume wouldn't have happened. Talking with her gave me the confidence to actually go through with making it. She's seriously the best.

If you don't believe me, you should go look at her house. She did it all in three days. Three people! Three!

I love how the ruffle turned out. I thought it would make it look more like a girl turtle. 

Very fancy, right?

This was definitely a labor of love. Especially for a baby Halloween costume. Hand-stitching and everything.

I'm going to try to get some better pictures. Evie was just too fast today!

 And Miss Eden was nice enough to join us. This was the best picture I could get of the two of them together! They were too busy.

This morning the girls' were having a tough time, so I'm glad we were able to even make it :)

Two Little Pumpkins

We were able to go to the Pumpkin Festival in Half Moon Bay on Saturday. I think Evie's favorite part was the pumpkin patch there. Seriously, the best one ever!

Just by luck we went at the best time of day :)

Every time I look at these pictures,  I am just so glad we didn't go any earlier. 

 Jeff gets the Dad of the year by always being the one who explains everything to lil' Evangeline.

p.s.  I love this picture of them. Non-posed pics are the best.

Evie was wondering if all these pumpkins were hers to take home :)

 And she loved touching all of them.

I loved the cute little red wagons!

 "Ridin' up and down in my little red wagon..."

Jeff snapped this cute shot...

 He is very creative and thankfully we had him there :)

 Evangeline was so excited and she was showing off her "touchdown" trick :)

But this is my favorite shot EVER!

(Gasp!) "Look at all these pumpkins!"

 This place seriously had it all. Even a teepee.

 And the best part of all...

a treat from Grammy - two little pumpkins.

Just for Evie.