We went to church on Christmas Eve with Grandma. Evie had no patience for the service but greatly enjoyed chasing and playing with another little girl, Hudson, and crawling through Hudson's dad's legs (slightly embarrassing but he said it was ok). Afterwards we joined up with Uncle Carl and Aunt Reagon. Evie got a baby doll, books and tons of clothes while we were there. She had a lot of fun and really liked her special Christmas Evie nightgown:
The next morning she woke up to her special surprise from Santa: a play kitchen! She kept saying 'Santa brought it' and 'I making food!' and 'cut it'. She was really into trying to cut the fake food apart with the fake knife.
Next, Nana and Grandpa came to over and brought her the Bitty Baby twins and stroller, as well as tons of clothes, books and toys. Here she is in just a shirt and some cute bunny shoes she decided she had to wear right away with the babies:
After opening all of these items and taking a much needed nap (while the rest of us played a cool new game, Life Twists and Turns), we went to great-grandma's house. Evie was a little low on present-opening steam by this point, but she continued to get more fun stuff including a table and chairs set she can use after she makes meals in her kitchen. She also got an aquadoodle which she really liked but we had to take it away because she was putting the pen in her mouth.
Before we left for great-grandma's house, Evie got all excited and started talking about how she wanted to get dressed and put her coat on so we could go 'shopping at the store'. She brought it up over and over and over again--we have no idea what prompted that. The day after Christmas she was insisting on going shopping again, so we stopped so daddy could spend a gift card and Evie and I got surprises for some other folks we know:)It just seems crazy to me how much Evie knows--like talking about making food in her kitchen (with no prompting) and the whole store thing. She also brushed her baby's teeth and was generally just fun!
The only other thing that happened recently is Evie got some really bad hives on Saturday--we're not sure if they were from a bad food (milk) exposure or a late reaction to the penicillin she was on for her ear infection but one diaper change she was fine and the next her torso was covered in hives. Then on Sunday while visiting the Fishes (Luke and Allison are so cute!) the hives started to look worse again and on Monday morning they were terrible--there were hives on top of hives and her entire stomach was just one big, nasty hive. She seemed completely unaffected by them but it made me itchy just looking! We're still not sure what caused this, but I am leaning towards the penicillin causing a reaction after reading through a medical book we have called 'Your Child's Health'. A rash from the 'cillin usually only occurs on the torso (her butt, arms and legs were pretty much clear) and can also occur on the face--she did have a few small hives on her face Monday but it was weird how some large areas of her body had absolutely no hives on them. She also didn't have any other food allergy symptoms...who knows though?
