hockey! Hockey! HOCKEY!

Evelyn's favorite new pastime is to take a walk down to the ice rink a half mile down the street on the weekends to watch the pee-wee hockey - usually just boys, but she was excited to see ponytails this morning and it opened up a whole new world for her. It's fun seeing all the hoity-toity suburban hockey families trek to crummy hockeytown Malden to play each other - but what's to say E & H won't grow up to be great stars on the ice - the only thing holding us back in Rhody was the lack of a rink right?

Evelyn's other big breakthrough is that she knows her (our) name now! She mimics the doctors office with a pad in hand calling out "Schomp!" Evelyn Schomp, Hendrik(s) Schomp, Nate(!) Schomp and Mommy Schomp - just have to get her to memorize Linwood St now..

Hendrik is... cute still. Not quite bouncing in the resuscitated Excer-saucer (when Evelyn gets out of it) and seemingly getting heartier and stronger by the day. He better be given how much he's eating (night feedings are back!)

*UPDATE*
Flipped over to the figure skating nationals and Evelyn was beside herself - the music, the dancing, the skating, the jumping, the twirling, the dresses "Goodness!" shrieks Evie with her hands over her mouth hopping up and down doing all she can to contain herself - looks like hockey may have to take a back-seat. Either way, the rink is down the street for those 6am practices..

And also of note: the old couch has *ruined* it's last picture in our living room. It originally came from grandmother Schomp and now resides in grandmother Noordzij's basement. Can't guarantee that the new one will be any better yet (arriving Tuesday) but that wasn't the point. It is un-sleepable (and doesn't have Polly/Harry/Pootie/Jamie claw destruction) to Mommy's delight..