Around here, rain is quite common. Snow on the other hand, no so much. But this entire week we have had SNOW. It has been fun to see Eva's reactions as she plays with the snow and enjoys eating it. She likes to have Matthew pull her around on our cheap plastic sled and will say, "again" over and over when he finishes doing circles with her on the slippery ice/snow. Did I mention that it's also nice to be home this week! School has been canceled since Monday! Always bitter sweet, though, when we can't finish all the kids little projects before the break. I am sure all of you will school aged kids probably feel the same way too. The top picture is just a fun one of Eva showing off her cute little personality and the one with me is of us picking out our tree at the tree farm.

Birthday Message for Nana

Translation:  Happy Birthday Nana!  I love you.

The shorter video was my attempt to get a better video but I posted it because I thought her face was funny.

Ps. sorry the lighting is so bad, my house is dark even with the lamps.

I took this picture a while back but there is something about it that I love. I think it is that these two have such a love-hate relationship. One minute Eva loves her Rivie (it's what she calls River when she is in a good mood) and the next minute she is screaming at her to "go away!" These are two words I wished I never would have taught her. And yet, as look at these two I can't help but wonder how they will handle one more...you see we are adding on to our little family. It will no longer just be Eva, it will be Eva, River and this new little baby due to join our family around June 2nd. So, there you have it! Before my belly can't hide it any longer I figure I might as well go public with this one.

What's a blog without Halloween pictures? I know it's passed already but I just have to have you check out our little giraffe with her dad as a zookeeper following her around picking up the giraffe droppings. If you ask me, Matthew just wanted nice coveralls to work in, but he turned it into his "costume." Clever Matthew!

I wish I could say that life has been totally exciting around here but the truth is things have just been busy. My little Eva has turned into a T.V. junkie. All she wants to do now is watch Shrek and the Incredibles. The good thing is we watch them in Spanish but the bad thing is she doesn't get enough of them. I try to get her to play with her toys and sometimes she will play but most of the time she would rather watch her movies. I think I am going to have to start getting real mean with her and hide the movies. Any suggestions? Toddlers develop some strange obsessions! We have done some fun things. We haven't had too much rain lately so earlier in October we went to the zoo where she got stung by a bee (hence the picture of the bee at the bottom) although she is positive the tree got her. It happened while waiting in line to see the new baby elephant. Can you believe some people were waiting for over an hour to see that elephant? Well, after she met her encounter with the bee we got out of line. And this past weekend we went to the pumpkin patch, which is where those cute pictures from above were taken. Overall life seems to be going well for now so I will take it!

We have been trying to teach Eva the alphabet in Spanish.  She doesn't know it all the way but we are getting pretty close.

I could not contain myself and I have to upload this video.  I know it's not the greatest video and I am laughing hysterically in the background, but I can't believe how well this child moves her booty.  She must get that from her dad!