All about Evelyn

Next up it's Evelyn's turn in the spotlight!  In the process of writing this post I went searching through past blogs and ended up running across a post about all the reasons Why I love Evelyn.  I'll admit I got a little sentimental remembering what she was like as a teeny tiny toddler and it reminded me why I started blogging in the first place.  It's been my pleasure to watch her grow up from a precious baby into a beautiful intelligent little lady.  So now, without any further ado here are a few things you might want to know about our sweetheart, Evelyn, at age 5!

Dec. 1st, 2010

She is currently attending Bright Beginnings Preschool where she has an amazing teacher, Laurel, who also happens to be Andy's cousin.  Evelyn loves school and enjoys learning.  She is super smart and a very fast learner!  This past year in preschool she's learned how to recognize and write every letter in the alphabet, how to count, how to spell her name (meticulously writing it on every paper she draws on), she can also write MOM and DAD with no help, she can tell you the colors in Spanish (red rojo, yellow amarillo, purple morado) and recite the entire Pledge of Allegiance word for word.  Andrew and I are very proud of her accomplishments and never miss an opportunity to have her show off her new skills ;).  At home we've been working on teaching her how to read and write simple words like sat, bat and mad.  She does a great job sounding each letter out (C-A-T= CAT) and gets better every day.

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 April 5th, 2011~ Evelyn's Report of Health Examination

I couldn't be more proud if this was her college acceptance letter :)

 Kindergarten has been a much discussed topic in our house lately.  Since her physical back in April she's been really excited about going.  She's officially enrolled in Kindergarten however I've been sadly disappointed with our local school.  It turns out it's easily the worst rated school in the district and has been on what's called Program Improvement Status for 4 years now.  For that reason we've decided to transfer her to another school but so far it's proved to be a much more difficult process than I imagined.  However, she is enrolled with the district and I think I've finally figured out the system.  Now it's just a matter of waiting for the district to pick two better schools that I can choose to send her to and crossing my fingers that at least one of those is near the top of my list of preferred schools.

Nov. 22, 2010
 

Evelyn loves to play with her grandma's dog, Lucy.  She likes to watch movies and her favorite cartoons are Garfield, The Pink Panther and Max and Ruby.  She has her own camera and loves to take photos and videos like her daddy.  She has been obsessed with the color RED ever since she first learned her colors!  100% of the time she will pick "the red one" and according to her teacher she's pretty much claimed the red chair at school.  She loves to read and one of her most favorite places to visit is the library.  We try to go at least once a week.  Her favorite two foods are macaroni and cheese and quesadillas.  She's very creative and loves to draw and make up stories.  She's written two original books!  She's always been a very curious girl and seems to have a question for everything... although she's finally catching on to the fact that I don't have all the answers.  Recently she's taken a sudden interest in the solar system and frequently requests that I read The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System.  One day she sat down and drew all 9 planets (notice I include Pluto which in my mind will always be a planet).  Her favorite planet of course is Jupiter because of its Great RED Spot. She's made a hobby of collecting random things like rocks, leaves, shells and pictures and somehow they all end up in her room.  One of her favorite things is to cook in the kitchen with mom.  She says when she grows up she wants to first be a ballerina, then an astronaut and then a cook.

Her best friend is her second cousin Mia who is in her preschool class.  

Feb. 1st, 2011- Evelyn and Mia  

Sep. 27th, 2010 

She is a great help around the house and is good at keeping her room clean and making her bed. She's very passionate towards little kids and loves taking care of her baby dolls.  She is a great big sister to her brother, Preston, and she's very excited for the arrival of the new baby.  When I told her I was going to write about her she specifically asked that I include the fact that she "loves her brother, Preston".  That made me smile :)

Evelyn with her Papa
Jan. 20th, 2011 

I love this girl more than ice cream and I'm proud to be her mom! 

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