Lovin' the Fall!

Update:

Lyla is still not walking, though making progress with a few steps she accidentally takes when she isn't thinking about it. Sleeps like a champ, but not a good eater. Cracks us up with her expressions, and signs (she signs more, all done, eat, and the typical bye bye...but she applies her signs to many things beyond their purposes). She says mama and dada, and is loving her daddy more and more each day...so much for being a momma's girl. Loves her big sister and literally follows her from room to room throughout the day. Still takes two good solid naps the majority of the time. Loves her blankie, and pretty much anything her sister takes interest in...ha ha, I think this is often the case with younger siblings!

Evelynn is definitely over the terrible twos! Praise Jesus! Now she is just ornery and silly most of the time. She still is "Miss Independent," but at least now she obeys ("the first time every time" - we got that from our friend Alisa!). She is very creative, and would love to paint, stamp, playdoh, etc. all day long. She also loves to use her imagination with Barbies, dress-up, her doll house, and baby dolls. She loves her sister too, but is definitely still adjusting to the idea of sharing all of her things (minus her "special bunny" which she reminds us daily is hers and hers alone).

Okay, sorry for the rambling! Some people want to know a few more details, for everyone else...here are some pictures!!! Click on the image to get a closer view!

Guess who's walking? Well, at least taking those first steps!

Well, she isn't exactly walking yet, but she has definitely taken those first tentative steps. She isn't quite the dare-devil that Evelynn is, so she is still warming up to the idea of flying solo. Anyway, here are a few pictures leading up to some of her first steps.

Lyla loves playing with the kitchen food. I love this little mischievous grin!

Lyla starting to crawl towards me...

...so, I stand her up and tell her she needs to walk for me!

Don't you love the look of oh-my-goodness, this is so fun and yet scary?!?

She is still pondering the idea, so I switched my camera over to video, where you can watch the rest...

Play doh Princess

My little princess still loves to play with play-doh. I use one of the kool-aid play doh recipes, and we make a new batch everytime the old starts to get a little stiff. Anyway, here are a few pictures of Evelynn from this week.

Such concentration!

A Little Fun Outside!

Two Girls in One Picture

Hmm, I tried to post these picture before and it didn't work. Let's see how it goes this time.

Basically, this was my attempt at getting both of my girls smiling in the same picture....

Woops, Lyla isn't in that one. Woops, I cut off part of Lyla.

Oh man, Lyla isn't smiling in this one. No, Lyla stay over there...grrr, Evelynn you weren't looking at the camera!

Photographer in the family?

One day this week, Evelynn saw the camera sitting on the mantle and asked if she could take some pictures of Sissy. I didn't see why not, so we went back to Lyla's room and I showed Evelynn how the camera worked. I was so excited by the images that she captured that I just had to share them with you. Now, regretfully, I am in some of the photos and let's just say I am au naturale, but then again, how many of you haven't seen me like that?! Ha!

I told Evelynn she should ask for a camera for Christmas, and she told me "Halloween comes first, Mom!" Oh, sorry about that. Maybe she should tell that to the stores that have kind of jumped the gun as well!