Boyish Girl

Of COURSE I think that Everly is the cutest!!! (and she is).....after all, I AM her mother.

But Brooks and I (ESPECIALLY Brooks) are also objective/realists about our children. For example, ALL our girl babies look like boys. You take their bows and pink away and they could definitely pass as little boy babies. It's so funny. (Then again, the old ladies at Walmart STILL get genders wrong whether they are painted pink with 20 bows on them or not!)

See what I mean?

This picture REALLY got me because she was playing with an Iron man notebook!

And there are SOME things Little Ev has a growing-boy's-appetite for..... like when you peel a whole orange and hand it to her, it will be gone in a few minutes. The WHOLE thing.

(It's serious business with her orange-attacking too)

Where are her other two at-home sidekicks? Oh, ya know, being normal.....for them.

There is a LOT of dress up going on here. Everyday. And Kellyn has to MULTI-LAYER her dresses.

Kellyn is kinda full of personality if you haven't noticed....

(I love her disappearing-eye trick when she smiles)

But Kellyn has decided over the past two months to take out her morning nap. Now she's just down to one nap (around noon when Royce and Everly go down too). The problem with THAT is I used to take my shower during her and Everly's morning nap!!!

So lately I've had a few visitors in my bathroom with me when I step out of the shower.

(Apparently I took too long that day for Royce?)

As you can imagine that got old, so after putting Everly down for morning naps a few days ago, I took matters into my own hands to make sure my bathroom didn't turn into a toddler visitor center.

I turned on a show and buckled Kellyn in a carseat watching it. #motheroftheyear 

She thought she was SO special sitting up in that throne. 

It was beautiful. 

Oh, and because I want to remember our most fun date ever, I'll include the only two pictures I have from it. Here we are at a "Mascarade Ball"

I realize they aren't really "masks" but we didn't know what to expect (there were people dressed like Phantom of the Opera there!!), so we went for the Throw-on-the-obnoxious-Pepto-Bismal-colored-dress and put-something-ridiculous-from-the-dollar-store-over-our-eyes look. 

I think we pulled it off perfectly.

Turns out everyone was basically dressed in black there, soon, weeeeeeee, kinda stuck out. Which made the dancing all the more fun.

We danced our hearts out. Swing dancing, line dancing, slow-dancing, cha-cha-ing, waltzing and ridiculous farm-yard dancing. We never sat down to eat, it was just too much fun. This is SOOOO not my husband's thing naturally, so it made it all the more memorable.

Sometimes it's fun to let loose like you're at a college sock hop again. And that's exactly what we did.