Adventures of Evie

  Today was camp day!! Evie got to go to camp at her gym and she got to meet a real live penguin...FOR REAL LIFE! The Cincinnati Zoo brought Mira, an African Penguin up and they got to watch her go around in a circle and they learned about where she is from and what she eats. Evie had a ton of fun watching her run around and apparently she liked Evie's sparkly pants and kept coming back to them. She also got to have an indoor snowball fight and play in her gymnastics gym. It was a lot of fun for her! After camp we headed up to nana's for family night. It was a great day full of fun and family. :)

  We had a pretty fun weekend this week! On Saturday I had to work for a bit but we made the most of it and played some games while until I wrapped up. Evie had a little Halloween photoshoot in the afternoon so we got her dressed up and ready to go and spent some time playing outside for awhile until it was time to leave.  I got her this Queen Anna costume about a year and a half ago while I was near a Disney outlet and it finally fits so she was really excited to wear it around.  We also set up a little doll skate park complete with half pipes and ramps and a little Tech Deck skateboard. These things always remind me of my brother because he used to have a ton of them when we were younger. She played with this for an hour or so and cried when I had to put it up so it might show up again in future weeks! We had a bonfire Saturday night and ate some s'mores. Then on Sunday at Evie's request we both dressed up like Anna and headed to the zoo for Hall-ZOO-ween. Evie got a li...

  Today got off to a frustrating start. For some reason Evie woke up very needy and cranky and she did NOT want to go to preschool at all. She spent most of her morning crying instead of getting ready and asking me if she could please just stay home with mama. On another day I might have said OK but this is her last week in preschool and working multiple jobs with a toddler unexpectedly underfoot (especially a needy one) isn't easy! So I promised her I'd pick her up early today, just after lunchtime.  I didn't have a definite idea what we'd do with our afternoon when I made that promise but when I went outside during my work break and realized how nice it was it crossed my mind that it might be a perfect day to visit the zoo. It's been awhile since we've been. We spent most of our summer swimming and riding the rollercoasters at Kings Island and it's just been SO hot outside that walking around all day hasn't felt like the best plan but today was absolut...