Payback!

It took 15 months and 5 days, but Everett *finally* defended himself against Ella for the first time ever!  He bit the crap out of her cheek...

Of course I told him "NO! We never bite!" because biting is never okay, and Ella was hysterical, but on the inside I was like, "you go boy!"  Seriously, if you have ever been around Ella and Everett together, you have seen it- she NEVER stops touching him.  Ever.  She is always hugging him, trying to carry him, putting her hands around his waist, 'helping' him walk, touching his face...it never ends...despite being told 934 times a day, "STOP TOUCHING YOUR BROTHER!!"  I cannot imagine how irritating it must be to have someone in your personal space all.day.long.  Of course, she went right back to bothering him immediately after she stopped crying.  Sigh.

The kids and I have been going on a lot of long walks.  I don't even recall Ella ever having my phone since we listen to music on the stroller speakers when we walk, but I found this photo on my phone!

We've also been going to the park a lot this week, and Everett can finally play pretty much alone on the smaller park equipment (he also spends a lot of time sitting on the step snacking!)...

And although this week has involved LOTS of quality time with the kids (more on that later) and less time working (which means tons of time in yoga pants), I do have some photos of recent outfits...

I took a closeup of the necklace from this outfit because it was one of my 70% off Target finds!  I'm not usually a huge fan of chain/link necklaces, but I really liked it with this outfit...

I couldn't decide whether this needed a necklace or not, but I ended up going with no necklace...

Running into the office with the kids...

Friend's house for dinner...

Weekend Stuff

Everett got to play a little t-ball with one of his two best friends this weekend...

Then we had dinner, and this is what happens when you give a 1 year old a piece of BBQ Chicken pizza and say go to town...

We did some lunch and shopping with Olivia and Sydney.  I love these girls together!  (And we did not plan them wearing matching dresses!)...

The girls got lipgloss watches for being well behaved...pucker up!

Lots of running around the fountain going on...

Everett with his future wife...do you love her adorable flirty expression like he just said the funniest thing she ever heard?!

Finally, can someone please explain to me how my 3 year old knows all the lyrics to Taylor Swift's "We are Never Ever Getting Back Together"?????  And this is a bad version where she was being shy because I made her do it, but before I taped it, she was belting it out word for word perfectly clearly!  What the heck?

Mucho Casual

Not a lot of effort going on around here lately because I've either been home working, home with the kids or just running out for quick errands, but at least I wasn't in yoga pants, right?  Right?!

A Morning in the Life of E2

It was GORGEOUS this morning!  73 degrees and not a cloud in the sky...perfect day for a morning outside!  After a nice long walk, we hit the park.

Let's try to make some new friends...

Time to swing!

Let's play house in the backyard...

Apparently Everett knows how to get up the slide by himself now...

But hasn't quite figured out how go down properly...

Time to rest...

Hey, I can do it too!

 It's so nice out, let's have lunch outside!

 This is Ella's "pose" pretending to take a bite...

Clothes...

So this is the outfit I wore the day after the last all black outfit...I realized I need some color in my life!

Yesterday I wore my new mint and black work shirt, which I love, but I'm having a really hard time accessorizing it because there is so much going on with the shirt- nothing looks good with it!

But I actually had to leave the house like this because I had court, which covered it all up!

Happenings...

Everett loves Ella's playhouse...

Ella still never, ever, ever stops touching Everett and loves to feed him...

Ella loves olives, but we're not sure if she actually likes eating them...

Ella LOVES pushing the mini shopping carts at Trader Joes, and we recently learned that Everett does too!

The kids just started being able to have breakfast together at their little table...

Ella had her final soccer class and got a certificate!

And Ella and I visited newborn twins Ruby and David, who are SO cute!  Ella was in heaven...she got to play with her friend Ava, she got to be around TWO babies, AND she got to hold Ruby!  This girl is going to be a very good mama- she is OBSESSED with babies!

Good Target Finds

I just have to say that I ran into Target yesterday to pick up some Pedialyte and somehow ended up buying two bags of clothes for myself, Ella and Everett!  They have some really cute tops right now in case anyone is interested.  Also, 70% off a bunch of cute jewelry.  Also, a bunch of kids clothes on sale.  Here is the first sweater I got for casual kid days...I love it!  It's even cuter in person (it's a large-ish weave, and the ends of the arms and collar are a twisted t-shirt material)...

I know I'm trying to get away from wearing yoga pants, but in my defense, (a) I literally did not leave the house today except to go running so I was sitting on my bed in a robe working all day long; (b) it was raining today (hence the rubber thongs- my official rain footwear); and (c) I was only going to pick up the kids and then back home so I wasn't going to get all dressed and jewelry-ed up for that. ;)

What a Weekend!

First we had soccer, which is always kind of a disaster because about 10 minutes into the hour long class, Ella is over it.  And I can't say I blame her because soccer is boooooooring.  We have one more class, and then we get to start ballet again- yippee!!!  We both have a lot more fun at ballet. :)

I think Everett may be more of the soccer star...he was dribbling the ball all over the place!  Ella will barely dribble NOW, and she definitely wouldn't have done it at 14 months!

Then we went to a little post-Valentine's Day get together, but of course I only remembered to take photos right when we got there so I missed getting a pick of all 8 kids together- bummer!

The next day we were just pulling into the Spectrum to meet up with friends, when Ella started whining, "mommy!"  I turn around and tears are running down her face.  I ask her what's wrong, and she says, "I PUT A CHEERIO IN MY NOSE."  That's right, she got a cheerio stuck up her nose right as we are about to park.  First of all, what almost 3.5 year old even does that?!  I mean if it was Everett, I could kind of understand, but Ella knows better, and it's so unlike her to do something like that!

Gary decides we need to go to the ER, and Ella starts crying hysterically that she wants to see Hannah and doesn't want to go home.  So I figure we should at least try to get it out ourselves so we bought some tweezers (btw, I will now keep tweezers in my purse at all times).  And here is where all those years of playing the game Operation paid off...I got the cheerio out on my first try!  I should be a surgeon. ;)  So the day was saved, and Ella was super happy that she still got to play with Hannah.

But then, we went to dinner at Great Maple with my parents.  It's not super fancy, but it is a nicer restaurant.  All of sudden, Everett starts full on Exorcist projectile vomiting all over himself and the floor.  Seriously, like everything he has eaten all day.  It's EVERYWHERE.  The beyotch old lady across from us has her mouth dropped open and starts rolling her eyes (geez, so sorry my baby dare vomit in your presence- it was totally on purpose you old bat).  I get it if the kids were yelling or misbehaving, but they were both perfectly quiet and well-behaved...even as he was vomiting, Everett didn't cry or yell!

And of course, I had literally NOTHING with me.  Not a onesie, an extra shirt, NOTHING.  We have to strip Everett because his outfit was completely soaking wet, so now I'm holding a naked baby in the middle of this nice-ish restaurant (and we were at the very middle table).  My mom had to run to Nordstrom to purchase some pjs for him, and of course to top off the night, the cheapest plain cotton pjs at Nordstrom were $35.  Really?  UGH!  At least the waiter and poor guy who had to mop up the gallons of vomit were super nice about it, as I was profusely apologizing, as was the lady sitting next to us, who also had a baby and understood our predicament.

Needless to say, although we had some fun moments, it definitely wasn't our best weekend!

Here are a few outfits from last week...