Playful days

These days Evie is spending lots of time playing with her new toys.  We have tea parties daily – sometimes multiple times a day.  She also loves to play with her kitchen.  She likes to continually put her play food into different containers and serve it to us.  Let me tell you – Evie makes a mean banana, egg, garlic, fish, bologna soup!  She likes push her shopping cart around the house and fill it with odds and ends.  I’ve contemplated moving the baby gates so that she can circle the house more easily, but for now they stay.  I need something to slow her down once in a while. I’ve been a lot more tired this pregnancy than the last and sometimes I need to corral her so that I can sit down for a second!  Luckily for me, Evie doesn’t mind much, as long as I keep playing with her.  She got a table and chair set from Grandma Rita this year and she likes to command us to “Sit! Sit!”.  I think she’s getting us confused with Crosby. I often have to remind her how to ask nicely and she always responds ‘please!’  We have spent tons of time coloring at her table.  She’s an avid scribbler and obviously hasn’t yet mastered staying in the lines, but she’s seems to be quite proficient in abstract art :).  Evelyn is starting to have more interest in her baby dolls.  She likes that her Cabbage Patch doll wears a diaper and has a belly button.  She feeds her baby a bottle (or used to until Crosby chewed it up.  Don’t worry Evie – Mama will get you another one!).  And she loves it when I wrap up her doll in a blanket so that she can rock it.  She  can be so gentle sometimes – I can only hope that she continues to be gentle when the new baby gets here!
As for the new baby, things seem to be going fine. I finally got to actually hear the heartbeat yesterday (16 weeks)! What an awesome sound! I'd seen the baby's heart beating on the three ultrasounds I've had, but finally getting to hear it was amazing. :) We are so blessed!