Our Jumper and Climber

If you're wondering how Evie's arthritis is doing, she's in a medical remission, only having her weekly medication left. In July we expect she'll be taken off of that to see if she's in a full remission. Basically it's no longer a part of her life and now she's definitely living very carefree, like a normal 2 1/2 year old should be. :) She's become an AMAZING climber (I'm sorta glad we didn't have to deal with that before...) and LOVES to jump off of anything and everything. We found a park with a climbing wall on the jungle gym and she zips right up that thing with no assistance from us. It's awesome!

Other fun facts:

-Last month we got her a big girl bed! She's got a twin mattress on the floor and absolutely loves it.

- She LOVES to cut with her scissors. Almost every day she sits at the kitchen table cutting any scrap of paper she can get her hands on. She's also ambidextrous when it comes to cutting, uses both hands about the same amount. She usually writes with her right hand, but we'll see what other things she'll be a lefty with.

- Evie still loves to sing. Lately she's been coming up with her own songs about anything. The other day it was, "Mommy's cutting my nails, cutting my nailllllllllllllls, ..." Pretty darn cute.

- And finally, she has an amazing memory. Always has. But lately it's manifested through her books. She got the book, "Are You My Mother?" from Grandma Hornickel for Easter. We read it now and then, but not daily or anything. Then a few weeks into having it, she started reading it to us! I couldn't believe it! She's definitely not reading the words, but she can look at the pictures on the page and know the exact line for that page. Down to the detailed words like, "just then, the bird saw...", or "all of a sudden...". She can read pretty much the entire book and it's not a rhyming one or anything. I know I'm bragging, but I'm just really impressed and intrigued by her processing. That memory will definitely help her with school work some day.

Here's a video of her jumping, which she does pretty much daily.

Static hair after jumping/diving on the couch. (Also a regular occurrence.)


Daddy, Evie and Louie lounging around.