Learning the Alphabet with Daddy

Eva's sporting' a new do, and she's learning the alphabet with the new magnetic letters that Jeff bought the other day. Right now she loves taking them down more than putting them back up. She seems to recognize her name, and loves to say the alphabet song with some help. I love watching her do her little dance when she gets excited! Go Eva!

Seattle Art Museum Visit

We try to have family day every Sunday and do some fun excursion together. This Sunday we chose to go to the Seattle Art Museum to see the Picasso exhibit with Eva. HA! Quite a large undertaking for a seventeen month old, no? Honestly, we went in to renew our membership and check out their newly remodeled kid's section. Let's just say that it's pretty obvious that they didn't consult anyone with children when designing it! Eva was pretty happy with all of the artist easels and toys. Her favorite part of the museum by far was the car exhibit by Cai Guo-Qiang.

According to the museum's website, "Inopportune: Stage On" consists of nine identical white cars outfitted with pulsing colored lights. Suspended from the ceiling of the museum, the cars are composed to create a rising and falling that suggests a repeating cinematic loop, arrested in time and space. Eva was entranced by the pulsating colored lights and the image of the nine cards suspended in the air. She ran through the exhibit space and shouted "car-car-car-carhhhhrrrrr....." at the top of her longs and with a Boston cabbie accent. I wish I could have captured the moment on film but she was just too fast. I love to try and imagine what's going through her mind when she sees an image like that. Cars? In the sky? Oh my!

Eva's First Boy Friend

Eva first met Lochland at Stroller Strides, and they have been best buddies ever since. I love watching babies and observing their little personalities play off their baby counterparts. When Loch and Eva first met it was as if she had been waiting for someone who spoke her language and saw the world in the way that she does. They are both super active, curious, highly verbal little mover and shakers. Together they find trouble before you can get to the letter T! It is so adorable to see them play and giggle and chase after each other. Loch likes to ride along in Eva's Charriot Stroller. Like brother and sister, they share snack, water bottles, even moms. Loch's mom, Nina, was the first person that Eva ever went to on her own. Eva's pretty particular about who she goes to. Mom and Dad are pretty much the only people she lets hold her but Nina worked her way into my little girl's heart.
We are smitten with our Loch and Nina. I look forward to many years of play dates, lost sippy cups, and adventures to be had with Loch-a-Doodle Do.