Another Fun Day

"Guess where I went yesterday?"



"OK, so that was pretty easy. But did you know that in addition to rides, they also have Potato Patch french fries and funnel cakes? What a ridiculous good time.

I can't wait until next year."

Art Studio

Evelyn has new favorite activity. She loves to color. Inspiration usually comes while sitting at her picnic table in the family room.



Evy is very passionate about her art. In fact, she learned very quickly that the harder you press, the brighter the colors.



This masterpiece is entitled Ocean, 2007, wax crayon on paper.



It also contains a baseball and a triangle. She seems to be leaning toward abstract expressionism in her early works.

Kennywood '07

Evelyn visited Kennywood yesterday. We started with a quick photo in front of the giant Garfield statue.

Then we went fishing. The pond was well stocked, and it wasn't long before Evy caught a fish and won a prize.

It was a pink plastic whistle. Woo hoo!

Then it was time for a train ride. As you can see, she was pretty excited about it.



She got even more excited when it started moving.



Evy had a really good time on her second trip to Kennywood, especially since she was able to ride more things than last year. In addition to the train, she also experienced the carousel and the shuttle bus to the parking lot.



She is already looking forward to her next visit - she was saying "Kennnyyy.....wood" the whole ride home.

Hula Girl

Aunt Julie & Uncle Tim returned from their honeymoon and brought back a little something for Evy from Hawaii.

Mahalo!

Aunt Ju-ya & Uncle Tii's Wedding

Evelyn went to her first wedding this past weekend. Her Aunt Julie and (now officially) Uncle Tim got married!



Congratulations!

More pictures of the big day are on Flickr.

All Wet

Now that it's summer, Evelyn's "helping" around the house has moved outside. She's still not quite tall enough to push the lawn mower. But she does like to water the flowers and plants.

Of course, she mostly just waters herself. Since she won't use both hands to hold her watering can, her legs and shoes get soaking wet.

Maybe that's why she's getting so tall.

The First Cut

Evelyn finally let us cut her hair this morning. Below are some pictures of the process.

She was unfazed by the whole thing and it didn't take long at all. If only trimming her fingernails was this easy...

Sitting on the Floor in a Tutu Eating Cold Peas

What? What do you do for fun?

Duck Spotting

Evelyn has seen plenty of ducks. Well, she's seen pictures of ducks, played with rubber duckies, and been wrapped up in a towel that looks like a duck. But she just got her first glimpse of an actual duck.



She now knows what a duck really looks like. And sounds like.

Instead of saying "quack" she now says "whatever that noise is that ducks actually make." You know what I mean. It's not spellable. The duck noise.

The one you're making right now.

Back to the Beach II

Evelyn enjoyed her second visit to Ocean City, Maryland, last week. She had lots more fun this year than during her first visit.

She posed for the camera in her bikini.



She jumped the waves with her friend Annika.

She played with her bucket in the sand.

She got tired of us taking her picture.



All in all it was a good time. You can tell by the amount of sand that made it back to our house.