July is almost over?

This month has flown by. We took our first just us out-of-state overnight vacation with Evie to Chicago and had a really good time. We went to Taste of Chicago, American Girl Store, Bloomingdale's (where mommy got some fabulous dresses one of which to be featured later), Adler Planetarium (don't ask), Shedd's Aquarium, and Rainforest Cafe in addition to visiting with family that lives just outside of Chicago.

Evie has also gone to the optometrist a few times to get a clogged duct on her eye checked out. We have been torturing her with eye ointment for about a week and a half but the spot isn't going all the way away. We are hoping surgery (something they mentioned at last visit) isn't our only option. Otherwise Evie has been doing really well--some temper tantrums over clothes she wants to wear out of the house:
and other toddler moments. She's been really funny lately trying to play jokes with us, talking about when she used to live in mommy's belly and other silliness (apparently one of her teachers at school is pregnant). She also wants us to tell her the name of EVERY person in the books we read (who's that girl, what's his name, is that ___) which makes books take a lot longer to read and has been super duper in to baths since our vacation. Our hotel in Chicago had a pool and since coming home, Evie has been 'swimming' in our tub and we have a really hard time getting her out of there.

We also went to mommy's godson's first birthday party. Here is Drew eating his cake--he was hesitant at first and then took a facer into it).And so far this month mommy and daddy also celebrated their 8th wedding anniversay by going out to eat at Eddie Merlot's on Polaris Parkway. It is a delicious steakhouse!This is one of mommy's Bloomingdale dresses--$350 dress marked down to $40!