Moses Lake's snowy Thanksgiving

From wintery weather comes to Moses Lake

musical videos

A bunch of videos from the last few weeks. Most involve music and dancing, as Eva has been obsessed with dancing and the musical instruments she got from Bop and Gigi for a few weeks. However, as you can see, she's becoming quite a bossy boss. She tells us how to dance, when/if to dance, how fast to use our musical instruments, and what instruments to use. She's also getting pretty good at the second half of the Alphabet Song. And she seems to cheer for the Packers but not the Bears. Sad!

Evangeline's first kiss

Eva kissing her friend Zeke after the church Halloween party (where she got the face paint) and trick-or-treating downtown. Of course, I don't know if she thinks she's kissing Zeke or Elmo, but either way, it was pretty cute.

Halloween pics

Halloween 2010

Pics from a few different Halloween events. There was a point where Evangeline had both her costume and the face paint, but there aren't any pictures showing that!

Dressing up pics

Documenting the triumph of getting Evangeline to eat something green and uncooked. Strategy: put blue cheese on it.




These boots are made for walking, just not for you:




A whole bunch of dressing up pics, although no Halloween pictures yet:

October pics

funny longish videos

Evangeline learns her lessons.


Evangeline wants her parents to be quiet, I guess...

birthday pics

Eva

Here are some pics from Eva's birthday week. She had fun with her new toys and clothes; she got a heavy winter coat and a lightweight two-pc. snow set that matches the heavier coat, so she should be all set for winter; and she enjoyed a fun group party with a bunch of her friends. We even made a house out of the kitchen box, which is pretty cool, although she (luckily!) likes the kitchen a little better than the box. :-) Phew. Now things are back to normal. We have her two-year checkup today, and we've been working on some thank you cards (scribbled on by Eva) that we should have in the mail later this week.

Labor Day pics

Alone in the chair, she felt suddenly small next to the looming fireplace.

She would soon come to learn that high heels are not as fun as they once seemed.

Blogging Unhappy Hipsters style (http://unhappyhipsters.com/). Now on to all the pics...

Labor Day

August pics

Here are some August pictures of our almost-two-year-old.

August 2010

yummy thistles...

In which Eva learns to ask for artichokes to the exclusion of all other proffered foods...

Evangeline in front of doors on Fourth of July weekend...

a few pics

Evangeline helping mommy paint a mini. When she says "minis" it sounds like "babies." Evangeline knows the plastic mini we gave her is not near as fun as the fragile metal ones mom and dad get.

Like all youth, Evangeline takes an apparently popular trend of her parents' generation (mommy wearing a hairband on her wrist) and takes it to a faddish and probably ironic extreme.

Eva rockin' out

Evangeline rockin' out to the neighbors' music:

Evangeline practicing to be a big girl

Evangeline practices wearing mommy's flip flops and minds her pleases and excuse yous.

new toys

Pics of Evangeline helping Jon put together the new bike trailer, and playing with her new dollhouse, which we got at a garage sale. The video is her playing with the dollhouse and, I guess, putting the daddy doll to bed. At least she's practicing her shushing...

new toys

Evangeline eating dinner

This is a typical dinner these days - lots of blowing on food, holding onto her favorite toy (in this case, her cell phone), and degenerating into whining for food from the grown-ups' plates even though hers is the same. Sigh. I'd gotten the camera to record her as she'd been talking on the phone while eating, but she stopped doing that once I had the camera out...

some April/May pictures

Pictures from the Wenatchee parade and hanging around our yard with the neighbors and their dog (we share a fenced yard, so Evangeline thinks it's her dog!).

May pictures

pics from Seattle and early Moses Lake

Evangeline's Easter in Michigan (copy and paste link).

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/EvaMarch2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCM_KsKSah8mz5gE&feat=directlink#

Seattle outing to Fort Casey.

Seattle babies at Fort Casey

Some pics of our downtime in Seattle and our first few days in Moses Lake.

getting here

some last Chicago moments

Pictures from some last outings around town -- the Brookfield Zoo with Grandpa and Grandma Wood and our family outing to the Garfield Park conservatory, one of our favorite places around here:

last Chicago adventures

Evangeline is just starting to learn all the motions to her favorite songs and nursery rhymes:

funny videos

Here's a few funny videos for you all. The first is Evangeline cleaning the scuzz off our floors. She also likes folding laundry, sweeping, vacuuming, you name it. Don't know where she gets it from!




The second is from this morning, when Evangeline found a small bit of spring amidst the winter that's still all around us!



Another video to add: Playing tot soccer! A new game around here...

a few almost spring photos!

A few photos from last week: We went for a walk on a warm day after the big snow (about 10", nothing like the East Coast!). Then, we played with puppets inside.

winter 2010

new car pics