Playing Dress Up

More antics of Evelynn: The Dress Up Phase

Evelynn loves to play dress up. In fact, it's not just a past time, it seems to have become a necessity/obsession with her. There are currently 3 outfits on my floor that she has worn today, and only one of them consists of her own clothing. One outfit is from a shirt my sister Lizzy left here when they visited, and the other is from an old tank top of mine. But she is currently asleep in one of my sister Lori's shirts. Apparently, anything that is long on her and not part of he clothing is "pretty" and needs to be worn the instant she sees it. Yesterday she found my maternity swimsuit and came out of my room with the bottoms wrapped around her shoulders and through one leg, insisting that I help her fix it because it was "pretty." She has even gotten to the point that Lori will come home and if she is wearing something that Evelynn has taken a fancy to she will pull on the article of clothing until it comes off or is taken off by Lori so she can wear it. As you might imagine, this has lead to some funny situation, especially with the dresses and skirts that Lori wears on Sunday. It's a miracle that she hasn't flashed someone yet. On top of this, Evelynn is still inconsistent about wearing underwear. She is in the process of potty training, and sometimes it just makes things easier to leave the underwear off, but then of course I forget, we go outside, and situations with the neighbor kids arise that turn out pretty funny. For example: we were outside and Evelynn had on one of her dresses but no underwear. She went to talk to the neighbor kids ages 5 and 3 over the fence and just happened to lift up her dress enough for the kids to see she was going commando. All of a sudden I hear shrieks and "She's naked! She's showing us her nudies!" Evelynn thought it was a hoot and so she tried to completely disrobe, but luckily she is not skilled enough to take off all of her clothes by herself. Sometime soon I hope she'll be able to understand and then we'll have to have a talk about staying clothed outside. Until then, look out for a 3 foot blonde nudist and make sure you aren't wearing any clothes she finds "pretty" or we may all be flashing people unexpectedly.

In other news, Eloise has found that her feet and mommy's hands taste delicious, and so she seems to have one of them in her mouth as often as she is able. But when it comes to my hands, she bites. Now for someone who has no teeth you wouldn't think it would hurt that bad, but I'm pretty sure I would bruise if I wasn't paying attention. Her new nickname is "my little cannibal."