I am able to laugh at this email sent out at my work yesterday, but only because I had a coffee at home this morning....

From: XXXX XXXXXX
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 3:35 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: new coffee maker

Hi,

Please be aware that if you wish to use the new coffee maker on the 2nd floor, you must turn it on 30 minutes before it is required. The coffee maintenance person told me that it could not be left on all of the time or a fuse would burn out.

The on/off switch is located on the back of the machine on the left hand side.

Working the fields (queue Patches, by Clarence Carter)

Click here for musical accompaniment

Developing her bargaining skills

Evelyn: I'll make you a deal.
Elise: OK. What's the deal?
Evelyn: You come over here and colour with with me.
Elise: And?
Evelyn: (staring blanky at Elise)
Elise: (suddenly realizing there is no second part to the deal) I'll make you a deal. I'll come colour in 10 minutes.
Evelyn: (shaking her head, unhappy with the terms of the proposed deal) No.

Tall tales

Yesterday, Evelyn told Gramma C all about the incident involving the moose at the cabin. Apparantly, it ran through the field, came over, and kicked her. Luckily, Mommy was near and was able to rush over and save her and make her feel better.

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

It's busy. It's fun. And it could be my favourite summer yet with Evelyn.

You won't hear too much from me in the month of July as we are away on two trips and have friends visiting from out of town.

However....I will post the odd photo and update with humourous tidbits as I find the time.

Hope you are all enjoying the summer.

Monkey Business at the ALS

Misc

Help celebrate Bob and Doug's 2 - 4 anniversary...

Cars overload

Evelyn now uses car speak to refer to the different body parts/functions, as follows:

"Put my tires on mommy."

"I want to wear my blue tires."

"Daddy back-fired."

Mom and Evelyn watching fireworks

The Getaway Car

In the dressing room

Not many make-up counter staff would allow your child to experiment with all the samples, and even get a camera to capture the spectacle:

Me(to the tune of Blue Suede Shoes): hmm hmm hmm hm hm hmmmhmmm....hmmm hmmm hmm hmmm....
Evelyn: Stop moo-ing mommy.

imagini

My Visual DNA

hot damn

They make Lightening McQueen PULL-UPS? Just when I thought life was perfect, it gets even better...

Year Two

On March 17th, Cory turned 38. On March 29th, I turned 33, and on March 31st, Evelyn turned 2. Our month was full of friends, family, cake, and ice cream. Then, Evelyn became sick with a nasty flu that lasted about 5 days and knocked the life out of me.

So...this month Evelyn started her love affair with ice cream. Vanilla ice cream, to be exact. She wants ice cream for breakfast, ice cream for lunch, and ice cream RIGHT NOW. Over the course of the three March birthdays, she developed a sneaky little tactic to get her hands on as much ice cream as possible by offering up her cake in exchange for another's ice cream..."You work on the cake, Daddy, I'll work on the ice cream."

Evelyn's indepedance continues to rear it's head - and she is very particular about choosing her clothes (one of her fashion statements, featured above).

Cousin Dylan introduced her to the movie Cars - and it's now replaced both Madagascar and Winnie the Pooh as her favourite. She's taken to calling Cory 'Daddy Mac' and herself 'Lightening McQueen'. I'm just mommy.

Other than that, we are just patiently awaiting warm weather.

The best birthday card yet

Spring is in the air