Nauticus Trip 5/18/10

On board the USS Wisconsin

Evie checking out the tug boat...

and the sail boat.

Evie and Baby Addison 5/17/10

Addison with Grandma (Blake's Aunt Sue)

Evie & Addison

Proud mama Laura (Blake's cousin) with 9 week old Addison Elizabeth

Aquarium Trip 5/20/10

I guess after the "Best of Blake" series in Dec. '09, I deserve this one...

Not sure what's going on in this one...

Evie and Ana checking out the "fishies"...

Evie: "It was THIS big!"

Two sweet babies.

Just surfing on a sting ray...

A Visit with the Twins 5/21/10

Lara Elizabeth Jones, 1 year

Aiden Jacob Jones, 1 year

Group shot didn't go so well...

Lara checking Evie out.

Leaving on a jet plane...

Evie's first plane ride was to Norfolk, Va. (via Charlotte, NC) on May 15. She did great! Her favorite thing was playing with the tray table and listening to the pilot talking.

Evie’s vocabulary at 20 months…

Mommy, Daddy, Kitty, Meow, Baby, Evie, Lydia (her BFF at day care), Yes, No, Hi, Bye Bye, See Ya, Night Night, Read, Thank You, Milk, Juice, Cookie, Apple, Banana, More (comes out as Mo), Please, Up Please, This, Shake Shake, Doggy, Woof Woof, Baa, Ducky, Quack, Horsey, Neigh, Sock, Shoes, Nose, Cheek, Ear, Arm, Yellow, Purple, One, Two, Three, Bubble, Shh, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, Bath, Go, Off, Get down! (usually right before she climbs up on the coffee table), Tuck Tuck (when I tuck her in at night), Mwah (when she blows kisses)...

(This is the majority of what she's saying, though she seems to understand a lot more than she is able to verbalize.)

Happy Easter!

"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.'"  John 11:25-26 (NIV)

Last Easter, we were moving so we weren't able to celebrate Easter properly. This Easter, we have already had two Easter egg hunts (at Evie's day care and with my mom's play group) and Miss Evie got her first Easter basket from the Easter Bunny. It was so delightful to wake up to the sound of her discovering her basket full of treats!

Happy Easter to all of our friends and family!

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