Growing Up Too Fast

Well this was an interesting weekend filled with a lot of firsts for Evie. On Saturday morning we got up and went to the local farm to get a hayride to the pumpkin patch with mom-mom and popi. She loved running around the patch, and was not happy when we had to pick her up because she kept falling in the dirt. She got a pumpkin, and her first ice cream cone! She wasn't sure about it at first, but then she liked it once she got over the coldness!

That night we went to a fair with rides and games. She won herself another kitty and daddy won her a turtle. And she went on her first SOLO ride! We studied all of the kiddie rides to pick one out for her, and the fire trucks were the only ones with a lap belt that went one across so it could get tight enough on her. She really enjoyed it and did so well. And the guy let me strap her in myself. I'm sure we looked like lunatics laughing and yelling and waving to her. Of course she stopped on the complete other side, and the guy got her out first. He stood there holding her out like an object rather than a baby, looking around like "Where the hell are this kid's parents"!? Andy was running over there but people kept getting in the way. We got to her though and it was just so crazy she got on by herself and did SO WELL. Andy got it on video.

THEN on Sunday she got her first hair cut. She looks SO BIG. It's ridiculous. And it's hard for me every time I look at her. Not because I miss having a tiny newborn. I will have a tiny newborn in February. But I miss EVIE being a tiny newborn. It's like time gives you no warning as it just.. disappears out from under you. And now I have an almost 2 year old. Yesterday she was playing her little piano and I was clapping for her and she kept looking back to make sure I was watching. She loves music. She claps when I'm done singing a song to her. I'm so in love with this child I can't even express it. And she's growing up SO fast. But boy is she amazing (and also extremely happy though you wouldn't guess by most of these. As soon as she sees me pull out the camera she stops laughing)!