I haven’t had a chance to update lately because I have been wicked sick.  Sicker than I have been in a long time, that’s for sure.  Unfortunately, Evie had been sick before me and all I could think about was, “I sure hope this isn’t how she felt!”  Also unfortunately, we were in Fort Wayne for the Johnny Appleseed Festival, and it always sucks to be sick anywhere besides home.  To say nothing of a brutal 3 hour ride home.  (Although, someone did point out that I have probably spent more time being sick in that house than anywhere else on earth)  I would also like to state for the record that Ron’s apple pie tastes exactly the same coming out as going in!

Johnny Appleseed was pretty cool.  I didn’t get an apple dumpling like I wanted, or any food for that matter due to sickness, but we did manage to eat apple baked french toast for breakfast and apple pie for dinner, so I think I made up for it.  I was kind of concerned that it wouldn’t be as big as I remembered since I haven’t been there since I was quite small, but it was pretty huge.  We didn’t buy anything (it was indeed as expensive as I remembered), but we had a good look around and also saw Casey, Margaret and Isaiah who is only 1 month older than Evie.

Speaking of Evie, we had a discussion about how many words she can say.  We had been saying 25 words as a rough estimate, but when we sat down and actually counted them, we came up with I think 63.  She certainly understands a lot more, but those are the ones she will spontaneously and reliably say, and not counting things she just repeats after you say them.  She loves books more and more every day (a child after my own heart) and practically doesn’t play with any other toys.  She knows all of her books and you can ask for them by name and she can go over to the shelf and find them and bring them to you.  This is including her set of alphabet books that she got for her birthday, but only certain letters that she likes.  For example, she can always find ‘O’ (octopus, orange and owl to which she likes to say “hoo hoo”) but other letters give her trouble.

She is eating a little better especially if it is finger foods.  She’s not very good with a spoon.  However, soon after a meal starts she starts yelling, “Chee!  Chee!” because all she wants to eat at every meal is cheese (as I said, a child after my own heart).  You have to be careful what you say because you might accidentally remind her of cheese and once she gets going, she wants nothing else.  It is the same for water.

She still loves shoes and clothes and spends a lot of time ineffectually trying to dress herself with anything that resembles clothes.  She doesn’t even come close.  My mom gave her a purse and she likes to carry that around now too.  She’s going to be something when she gets old enough to really know about clothes!

I almost hate to say it because I don’t want to jinx it, but the last two nights rather than rocking and singing her to sleep, I have put her in her bed and read her a story until she fell asleep!  Granted, she was very tired both nights, but if that sticks that would be a huge deal!  But of course, now that I have told all of you it can’t possibly happen.

That is all.

Oh, P.S. just because I forgot to mention Talk Like a Pirate Day, doesn’t mean I didn’t celebrate!  And even if my reoccurring calendar appointment didn’t remind me, I always have people who do.