From: Joe Gribbin
To: Kirstin Liu
Sent: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:43 AM
Fiona dictated a letter to Eavan just now while we are eating breakfast:
“Dear Eavan,
I really love you. In fact, Eavan likes rainbows just like me.
-Fiona”
From: Kirstin Liu
To: Joe Gribbin
Sent: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Fiona,
I love rainbows. I love sunshine. And I love Fiona.
Eavan
Made it through day 3 of the Xponential Festial fairly intact. Rain and flash flooding got the best of us during the 2nd to last band and we had to abandon 2 camp chairs, a camp table, our picnic blanket and my sunglasses. Trekked back to the car in the downpour and ankle deep water but it was worth it for such a fun end to a great weekend. Let it be know, our daughter is a trooper at a festival. She made friends with everyone sitting around us and all over the park people would stop us and say they had seen her dancing/singing/clapping/climbing all over Patrick and they were impressed she was handling it all so well. Seeing as I think she was fueled almost exclusively on free strawberry lemonade and samples of ice cream, I’m not surprised she had enough energy to make it.
Eavan’s having some fun at WXPN’s Xponential Festival! It’s been a great event and we’re loving Dr. John, Red Baraat, Edward Sharpe and everyone else so far.
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“Mama, I love you just the way you are. I love me just like I is.”
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E: Those jelly beans will go right to my hips.
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Eavan has started singing songs to herself in the car for entertainment. When she was younger she only wanted me to sing to her (bad idea with my awful voice). Then she wanted to sing herself but I could never figure out what she was singing. Now she full fledge sings songs. Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle, Call Me Maybe, Hit The Road Jack.
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Harvesting from the garden has gotten a bit challenging ever since Eavan became more interested in it. She loves to dig in the dirt and help us weed but when it comes to harvesting the literal fruits of our labor we encounter a few problems. 1- if she impulsively tries to pick a tomato or pepper she can take down an entire plant. 2- once a fruit, especially a bell pepper, has been pulled, it rarely makes it into the house without making a trip to her mouth for a test bite. Everything comes in looking like we have a field mouse problem. At least she’s learning to like fresh veg!
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We haven’t posted in a long, long, long time but I’m going to try out this new idea. I’m just going to post a few sentences here and there about the funny, adorable, crazy things Eavan does. She changes so fast and makes me laugh, smile and want to pull my hair out everyday and I don’t want to forget why. Here goes:
She asks for the “dance song”, aka Call Me Maybe, in the car every day and proceeds to sing all the words she can keep up with, which consists of the phrases “wind blowin”, “miss so bad” and “at baby” and the words “kiss”, “you” and “maybe”. Otherwise she is bobbing her head and trying desperately to keep up.
Eavan had a blast this Halloween. During the day she went with her babysitter and her best buddy to a local schools Halloween Parade.
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Then it was off for the new adventure of trick-or-treating! It only took her about 3 houses to get the hang of it and soon enough she was running behind her cousin Colin taking candy from strangers and thanking them with a gleeful "BYEBYE!" as she torn off to the next house. Smashing success!
Just a few shots from our road trip to Atlanta to visit the Fowlkes and new baby John.
Backseat sitting for multiple (read: hundred) readings of Kailan’s Super Happy Heart Book made mommy’s heart less than super happy.
Virginia Beach camping. Eavan was a champ but she didn’t understand the whole “it’s ok to not sleep in your crib” thing.
We were totally unsuccessful at getting a photo of all three cousins smiling and looking at the camera. This was just one of many cute failures.
Our last night in town we had a lovely time at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. They have this great event where they set up bars all over the garden so you can have drinks while you let the kiddies run wild. That’s Eli, Carter and John in the center way ahead with Eavan chasing after them. Thomas and I (and Patrick phototaking) hung back with our drinks. Who are the smart ones here?
More pics to come soon via Patrick.
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