This week in pictures

There are toys everywhere. Instead of cleaning them up and reducing the risk that you may trip, fall, and sustain a head injury, Eve takes the alternative route.

Number 201

This is Eve vs. Wilms blog post #201. That means that if you are my parents or husband, you have read 201 entries by yours truly. I promise you that at least two, at most three, of said posts involve me being showered and presentable enough to interact with government officials.

Well, at least showered.

Daily Affirmation

So, apparently my father is now on a government watch-list.

It all started when we were trying to smuggle 300 Dum Dums into Congress. My dad, known as Papa to our kids and Paparazzi to the adults, decided to document the event with his twenty-pound camera. Cease! Desist! No photography at the entrance to the Capitol.

The Big Beg

We have four objectives tomorrow:

Maintain and increase.

Join.

Co-sponsor.

Co-sponsor.

Pappy's Final Words

The bathroom in the Covington, VA Holiday Inn Express looked like I knocked over a Walgreens. We arrived Friday night for a weekend visit with Matt's family to celebrate his grandfather's 90th birthday, and we arrived bearing pharmacy.

Here's to you, Cigna

Monday:

Eve accompanies Natalie to the doctor because Nat has a cough and a cRaZy-looking bug bite. She has also had a fever, which we don't know whether it is related to the cough or bite. Eve does her best to let everyone know she doesn't respect me as a mother as she flits around the exam room like a hyperactive, ritalin-deprived child on Fun Dip.

Funding for Wiisearch

What does it take to keep a 3-year-old quiet in the gallery of the NC General Assembly for 45 minutes?

Approximately:
2 granola bars,
1/2 c. Cracklin' Oat Bran,
2/3 c. Cheez-Its,

The First Annual Pop Tart Walk

$67,048 for a first year walk. Incredible! Team Eve had a phenomenal 169 members and raised $15,827...and there's still money coming in! We were recognized as the top fundraising team, and two of our team mates, Brooke Howells ($2,179) and Jackie Knapp ($1,415), were recognized as top individual fundraisers.

Well, that was painless.

THANK YOU to every person who donated to Daniel's St. Baldrick's page! He hit $1,000 in less than three days. If you would like to see what's so incredibly awesome about my son, click here.

(He got the awesome gene from me. It's true; I had him tested.)