Too Funny....

 Yesterday I picked up the kids from the sitter’s and was informed that Evie will not let anyone near Mitch.  Whenever another kid comes near him, she runs around and screams “NO!  That’s my baby Mitchell!  That’s my brother”.  Apparently she is very protective.  I was also informed that Titi’s neighbors have a chicken and it got lose in Titi’s backyard.  The kids were chasing it around and even got close enough to touch it.  Titi said Evie was having a lot of fun and Evie thought that it was hilarious.  I’m not crazy about her touching a chicken, but hopefully she washed her hands before she ate anything! 

So I pick them up and we go home.  I pull into the driveway and Evie burst into tears.  I had no idea what was wrong. I asked her and, in between sobs, she told me that she wanted to go home.  I told her that we were home and she just kept crying and saying no.  I got her out of her seat and she bolted out of the garage and into the front yard.  She pointed at our house and said to me, in a very accusing voice, ‘This is not our house!  Our door not blue.  It’s green”.  Somehow she just noticed that we had our house painted.  I assured her that this was indeed our house and when we went inside, she looked so relieved.  I said “See?  We’re home”.  She turned around and gave me a hug and said “Thank you so much Mama”.  Then she ran into the family room and picked up one of her stuffed animals, hugged it and said “I missed  you so much!”  What a silly girl!

Later, I was changing Mitch’s diaper and I heard Evie getting into something.  When I went back into the family room, she was nowhere to be seen.  I found her sitting in a corner behind a chair eating a bag of carrots that she had gotten out of my lunchbox.  She grinned at me and looked guilty since she didn’t ask first.  I told her she had to ask next time, but to eat as many as she wanted.  I’m not taking a vegetable away from her!

She makes us laugh every day!