grandma packages

Hello! Today we received two packages from the grandparents....

Grandma and Grandpa Pollari sent Evie some stickers...yay! She loves them and they keep her quietly working

- even if Bunny IS trying to get her attention ;)

The other was an old book from when Jack was a little boy -it's hand made and I love it!!


It's got little activities inside, like flipping up window flaps to see who is inside - it's Mom and Dad! And Dave and Kate, and Jack! How cute.

The caption on the train says Novinger and Kirksville.

She also included a picture of Jack when he was two years old. Now who does Evie look so much like? Cheeks!

By the way, it must be growth spurt time! She has been eating nonstop lately. This morning she finished off her scrambled egg - I make her one and she usually eats half - this morning she asked for more and polished off another whole egg! This evening she has asked for refills twice on her chili and spaghetti combo. (Whole wheat spaghetti - don't worry, mom ;)

I've already purchased her Halloween costume and it fits perfectly. I hope I don't have to get a new one before then!

Did you hear?, the new Evie video is out!

Here is a little vignette of Evie the last couple weeks... Evie says thank you Grandma and Grandpa P. for the wonderful puzzles, hopefully more videos on them will be uploaded soon.

Evie and her dad are a little sick right now with a cold, hopefully we will recover soon, we hve a big trip planned for Sunday..

Congratulations Casey and Emily!!!

We had such a great time in California, but our previous post omitted pictures of the reason for our visit. We got some pictures of the happy couple we'd like to share:



Emily helping Casey get his cuff links on before heading to the ceremony.

Success!!

Casey played guitar and sang before the wedding. It was so touching!
Jack was invited to be a groomsman. It convinced us that we should take the plunge and fly out there. Just kidding, Casey! That's not the only reason.... We wanted to be there and we were so happy we came!
Beautiful bride!!





Casey and Emily had karaoke at their wedding. It was soooo fun! The setting was gorgeous and the location amazing, the food so good, the California wine flowed generously. Thank you so much guys and CONGRATULATIONS!! We're sooo happy for you!!

California Dreamin...

We took a lil trip to California to see some "gentle people there"... Including some people at our sister blogs... Like these guys, and these guys, and these guys (who got married) and also these guys...

Roxanne has put a "flower in her hair" as the song goes...

We had a great time at the wedding... and just palling around in Palo Alto...

Evie did awesome on the plane!!! We were very worried about the 5+ hr flight.. on our laps, but she did awesome... no yelling, screaming, or even fussing for that matter, she was a perfect little angel!

Evie got to meet a few other perfect little angles too... like Ramona (see above), Wes, and Levi. She was however a little jealous when we would pick up other babies or they played with "her" toys. I guess that happens to 18 month olds...

The San Francisco pennisula is beautiful as all ways... and the weather is always great... who would want to live in such a boring perfect place with beauty everywhere!?!?

From the wedding site, you could see the whole bay pretty much, and majestic redwoods galore..

Jack had Wes on his lap and Evie had to get over there quick!

baby's first creme brulee

good times...

Evelyn fun time

David visits DC

Jack's brother, David, was in town this weekend for a conference. On Saturday we picked him up and headed down to DC on the Metro.

Me and Evie in front of the National Mall.... There was some controversy as Glenn Beck was holding a rally at the Lincoln Memorial (see background) on the anniversary of both MLK's I have a Dream speech, and Forrest Gump's Vietnam Protest speech (where he met up w/ Jenny). Thousands of Gump fans thought that Beck had no right to speak on such hallowed ground on such an anniversary and held a counter potest.

Eating bomb pops, my newly established tradition when in DC on a hot day.... Its the patriotic thing to do.

David in front of the Washington Momument....

Jack and Evie in front of the Coelacanth at the Natural History museum.

I bought a ticket for the live butterfly display. It was awesome.

View from the middle of Pennsyvania Ave.

We put David to work as much as possible this weekend.... ha ha

Hope diamond.....45 carat.. we included a hairy old lady arm for scale..

happenings from around the house...

Evie is blogging on her laptop on the porch... Here she is with Bunny on her Princess chair

Priscilla is apologizing to Sushi for knocking him over last week...

And here is Evie eating some ice cream... oh wait... that's not ice cream... thats her new fav food hummus... she eats it by the spoonful.

Does anyone know if they sell non-garlic hummus?... because afterwards her breath smells like a Cairo Bazaar. Just kidding, she is too cute to have bad breathe

toot toot!

I think my new favorite thing Evie says is "toot toot!" It is equivalent to her "Roar!" in my book