Adventures of Evie

  Today Evie woke up in a sad mood and what better to cure a sad day than a SPA DAY?! I told her to hang out in her room for a few minutes and then I set up a little tray for her with a face mask, rainbow eye masks, cucumber patches, a bottle of water mist, and a jade roller. Then I brought her a pair of slippers and a mask, a cat band (to hold her hair back), and bathrobe and led her to the spa! We started with an Orbeez pedicure complete with a choice of snack and juice to eat while she soaked in the rainbow tub... Then we moved on to the face mask and she took some time to relax while she let her eye masks do their thing. When we were done she ran to grab some dolls to give them the royal treatment as well.  After we finished up I figured, what better way to complete the day than a picnic... ...in Italy! Full disclosure the ambient background in the photo is actually The Shire because our Italy one got locked up and wouldn't reload. But we STARTED in Italy and frankly, a ha...

Today we learned about the human body ! This was a really fun activity and it opened up conversation for a lot of topics about how our bodies work. Evie was especially interested in how we digest and use food.   We have a lot of conversations about food and we have a very easy going approach to it for the most part. While I try not to do the "healthy/unhealthy" game, we do talk about how foods fuel our bodies differently and why some food are going to give us more energy and make us feel better versus others. So today she had a lot of questions about how and why our bodies need that fuel. While Evie sewed up a little heart, stomach, and brain we talked about what each organ does and why it's important to our bodies. We also talked a bit about bones, muscles, and the cardiovascular system.  When that was all done we made a REAL working stethoscope which Evie used on all of us, even the cats! It was a fun activity and I love it when we find fun things to do that open up co...

  Today was a slow day for us. Over the weekend Evie did several egg hunts and we also spent a lot of time with family. We made some felt Easter eggs and since the weather wasn't too bad so we got to play outside some too. Because she had such a busy few days (and ate more candy than usual!) Evie didn't get up until 9 this morning. So after breakfast and some Cosmic Yoga I was off work and we set about cleaning the house and running some errands. Pretty boring day overall but sometimes that's how it goes! This evening there were a few food trucks in the neighborhood so Evie got this epic swirled cotton candy on a glow stick! The stick lit up with rainbow colors and flashed in various patterns. It was super fun and the flavors were vanilla and watermelon which oddly tasted like a summery drink. It was a slow but fun day. We wrapped it up with some Finding Dory, popcorn, and snuggles. :)