The Primary Colors

This is one of Eden's favorite songs right now. She sings it over and over again and I wanted to catch it on video before she stops singing it. I'm pretty sure she doesn't know some of the words she's singing, but that has never stopped her before.

Catching Up Part 2

My niece, Emily, who is 11, decided to come to Omaha with us for 6 weeks or so and we're having a lot of fun playing with her. Eden is having so much fun and it makes it easier for me to get everything done. I'm trying to convince her she should stay for the full year, but she's not going for that. I'm really glad she is here this month because Andy has a horrible schedule in July and I have hardly seen him at all. He's working 14 or 15 hour shifts and has been on call every other day doing neurosurgery, so it is nice to have Emily here for to keep me sane.

Emily generously shared her Nintendo DS with Eden on the long drive to Omaha.

She also threw Eden a 'Princess Party' one day, complete with princess snacks, appropriate music, princess coloring pages, and they made their own crowns. Emily is always willing to dress up with Eden and pull her around the house in her "coach".

Andy had the afternoon and evening off on the 4th of July so we set off a few fireworks. Eden loved the smoke bombs and they snappers but wasn't a fan of anything that whistled or was loud. She also liked the sparklers until she dropped one on her bare foot (she's okay).

For those of you who were interested in our landscaping, you can kind of see it here. I still need to take some better pictures. Also you can kind of see what the weather was like on the 4th. I think it was the coldest 4th of July I've experienced. We got rained on a couple times.

The biggest news of the month is this:

Eden is a princess! But it's more than that- she's a POTTY TRAINED princess. I wasn't sure she was ready for it, but we just started in one day and she's done great. She's only had a couple accidents and can do the whole thing from turning on the light to washing her hands all by herself. She's really surprised me with how enthusiastic she has been. I made her a potty chart that she could put stickers on and she gets a smartie for going. It was really much easier than I was expecting it to be and I'm really proud of her.

Catching Up Part 1

We've had quite a lot happen since the last time I blogged so I have a lot of catching up to do. Here's a quick run down:

Our budding artist drew her first family picture that had human forms in it. Unfortunately, I have since cleaned the bathroom and this picture is now gone. Andy is the top right, I'm the top left and Eden is below Andy. Cat is on the bottom. Eden is obviously very proud of herself.

We took a quick trip to Utah to see our families. We got to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house with Andy's parents and sister and the cousins. It was a beautiful temple and we had a nice time there.

We went bowling with Andy's family and had a good time. Eden got to bowl for the first time and did a pretty good job with her ramp!

Eden had a lot of fun playing with her cousins! I hope we can move closer to them some time so she can play more often.

Happy May!

Here's what we've been doing in May:
Eden is still our little artist and one of her specialty mediums is bathtub walls.

She also continues to have a unique style that is all her own.

Well, sometimes all her own...

My parents came out for a visit and we took a day trip to see Adam-Ondi-Ahman. The weather was really beautiful and the trip was a lot of fun.

Eden loves to make dandelion wishes.

Eden loves Grammy and always wants to have picnics with her, even in windy weather.

Happy April

Easter was a week ago but I guess it isn't too late to post a few pictures. The Easter bunny stopped by while we were sleeping and hid some eggs and peeps for Eden and she had a lot of fun finding all her treats (and eating them too). She asks for "eggs" every day now and I don't think she would be too thrilled if I fried up the real thing.

It's been a busy week for Andy. He's working noon to midnight from last Monday to the coming Tuesday with only Friday off. We get to see him for a couple hours each morning but not as much as we would like. Thankfully, after that he gets a 5 day break. I think we're all looking forward to that. Here's a few random pictures from the last week or so for your enjoyment.
Also included is a video of Eden dancing. I think it's a mixture of ballet and rain dancing...

Eden's alter-ego: Her Royal Highness SuperBallerina Riding Hood. Get used to seeing pictures of Eden in this dress (with the sparkly pink skirt under it). She puts in on over everything she wears.

PEEPS!!!

Happy Easter!

Sleepy Girl. She's so sweet.

March Madness

March is almost over and we're all excited for April to get here. It's been a busy month for all of us and April is looking promising. Andy is doing an internal medicine rotation this month and it has kept him pretty busy. Next month he is going back to the ER where he is happiest so that will be great. We're hoping the weather starts warming up for spring. We haven't had any snow for a while, but the temperature has been pretty cold and last Monday we had the first tornado warning of the season (fortunately, it didn't touch down here). We did get a lot of rain and wind and after the storm blew over, Eden was really excited to go outside and play in her puddle jumpers. She jumped in a "river" in front of our neighbors house and got soaking wet, but loved every minute of it.

We were lucky enough to have good weather a couple Saturdays ago so we went to the zoo. It was a lot of fun. As we were leaving, we asked Eden what her favorite part was and she said she liked the waterfall best, followed by the fish and the ducks. Sometimes I wonder why we take her to the zoo for that...

Eden set her own table all by herself (tablecloth included) the other day and she looked so proud of herself, I had to take a picture. She's done this about 10 times since then.

And for your enjoyment, some more Eden-isms:

Eden made me some juice in her kitchen and told me it was "Lemonaid Molecule Juice"

She put her backpack on and told me she was going to "assembly". I didn't know she knew about assemblies so I asked her where she learned it and and she told me she learned it from "my friends at school". I don't think she has any friends that are in school.

She thinks she can tell time. If we ask her what time it is she looks at the second hand on the clock and says whatever number it is closest to. So it can go from four o'clock to eight o'clock in 20 seconds.

Andy was watchin basketball the other night and she told him she wanted to watch something girls watch, not boys.

This was our conversation Sunday morning:
E: "Mommy, do you want to hear a joke?"
J: "Okay..."
E: "What kind of bunny lives in a cup?"
J: "I don't know"
E: "A carrot bunny" (Lots of laughing) "What do you climb in a tree"
J: "I don't know"
E "Tree stairs" (Lots more laughing)
Now she just needs to come up with some jokes that are funny...

Let's get dressed up!

Eden has recently realized she can dress herself and it is such a novel idea that she does it multiple times a day. Layering is the style of choice for her at the moment. She likes to raid her dress up bin (and sometimes her closet) and add her own personal touch to whatever she has on. It's not unusual for her to disappear to her room and come down a few minutes later wearing any combination of skirts, sweaters and dresses over her clothes. A lot of them involve a sparkly pink skirt she got for Christmas (usually combined with some fuzzy duck slippers) or some of the dresses in her closet that aren't meant to be dress ups at all. She always has such a proud look on her face that I have to take her picture. Here are just a sampling of some of her latest outfits.

This next outfit is my personal favorite. She put on a button-up sweater while the top button was still done up - no easy achievement. Still- something doesn't seem right...