July pictures

 Grandma Curtis bought my girls matching flag dresses for the 4th of July.  They both love them and still wear them weekly.

Cute girls before church one Sunday:

They really wanted me to take a picture of their hair, but it's not actually that fancy.  They just loved the flowers in it.

Evelyn rarely takes naps anymore, but I still make her have a "quiet time" in her room every day.  In July she actually took a few naps. Here is a picture of her asleep on her floor, surrounded by her favorite toys.  She also recently took a nap on her closet floor with the door closed, and also sitting upright in her hamper with her blanket over her head!  She was so sweaty when I found her and transferred to her bed.

While we are on the topic of Evelyn, it is worth mentioning a couple of rascally things she has done since Abigail was born.
1) She decided to use our diaper pail as a toilet for a couple of days.  Yes, there could have been worse places to choose, but by the time I found out, there was pee everywhere!  It had leaked through the bag and got all over the inside, too.  It took me a while to rinse and air it all out.
2) Just this week during her quiet time she colored all over her closet door and the border around her closet with a purple and a magenta crayon.  That has NEVER happened to me before with any of my kids.  It took more than a half hour for us (she helped!) to clean it all off with magic erasers.  Sigh!

This picture doesn't do it justice

3) Alan took Jared, Maggie and Evelyn to a Stout family reunion in Southern Utah a couple of weeks ago, and Evelyn banged her nose pretty badly on a metal bunk bed while she was (presumably) bouncing on the bed.  She had a bloody nose, a swollen nose, and two black eyes for about a week.  I actually thought it looked a little crooked, so we took her in to get an x-ray to see if it was broken.  Luckily it wasn't.  These pictures from Alan's phone don't do it justice.

4) During the same reunion mentioned above, Evelyn fell asleep on the couch at a local church at a Stout dinner (NOT on Sunday), and wet her pants while she was asleep.  Alan went to the store later that evening to buy baking soda and sprinkled some on the wet spot, but since the church was far away from where they were staying, he didn't ever make it back to vacuum up the baking soda.  Oops!  I bet some people were sure surprised the next morning when they went to church!