I'm feeling so happy that both kids are in bed by 7:45 and Jim is cooking dinner and I actually have time to blog again, that I'm going to blog some more!

I don't know when this picture was taken, but I think it's very sweet, despite the fact that Evie has orange food to match her orange tutu all over her face.
Being a good and helpful big sister comes naturally to Evie. I hope that she and Millie will always be best friends!
The day that this picture was taken, we rented a car and drove out to a friend's 2 year old's birthday party. On the way there, Evie was car sick, so we pulled over and cleaned her up. Luckily, she had several layers on (a coat and her orange tutu over her other clothes), but by the time we actually go to the party, she was sick again...andwe didn't get to go to the party, although she did have a quick bath and change into borrowed clothes. By the time we got home, Evie looked like this:
Car sickness agrees with her, apparently. Having her hair done by JIm, on the other hand, does not:
The acquisition of a new big girl bed had a similar deranged effect...
Here is Evie, officially handing off her crib to Millie:
And reveling in her new, awesome big girl room:
Somebody else really like Evie's new room, too:
Before the miracle that is the 7:00 bed time began to happen, we used to spend lots of quality time with Millie late at night. She was very happy for all the attention and also very awake.
Today marks the first day since Millie was born that I haven't sat on the yoga ball ONCE. Go Millie and your new good mood!!! See what a good night's sleep can do for you?!
We have a bunch of fun things coming up to look forward to so if the sleep continues and the bedtimes stay early, I will be updating the blog a lot!

An attempt to be back!

I'm not going to try to catch up on all the little things that have been missed during my break from blogging, but just will focus on the highlights. The major January EVENT was Evie's birthday, which culminated in a CINDERELLA BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!! It was the best day of her life, I'm pretty sure.

Evie is escorted down to her birthday party by none other than Cinderella (the Welsh version):
Millie wore her Cinderella dress to the ball....uh, party...too!
A princess curtsy with Cinderella after her fabulous party (pictures of which I will spare you. There were lots of two year olds, lots of balloons, a parachute, some magic and some fairy dust...and cake!).
As you can see, Evie also has taken an interest in Snow White...and the magical healing powers of Love's first kiss (because every little girl loves her Daddy first)!
Millie loves Daddy, too (see shirt):
And, speaking of Millie, she has suddenly blossomed into a very happy baby (except for right now because I put her down in her crib for the purpose of writing this blog):

She also has decided that facing forward in the sling is the way to go. Today we took a family walk into the Heath and Millie looked out and around, until it got too windy and was nap time, at which point she was forced to face me again:
There is a lot of 'gazing lovingly' going on in this household lately. Everyone is getting into the spirit of Valentine's Day!

A family walk scowl:

As usual, on a windy day, we forgot to bring our kite, but we did enjoy looking at other people's kites. Evie was particularly interested in an octopus kite. The best part about it was hearing Evie try to say "octopus."
The red blur ran down Parliament Hill:

Future Horticulturist?

In the background there was a minor poop explosion, which had to be dealt with, so Jim and Evie broke out the infamous pink ball:

It was a nice, if slightly windy and slightly too long family walk. Here's hoping that spring weather comes to London soon! Millie wants to show off her chubby thighs!