The Adventures of Gak and Eba, Week 1

When Jack was born, the girls had a hard time pronouncing his name correctly; they called him "Gak". It sort of stuck :) When Eva was born, Jack couldn't pronounce the "v" in her name. Honestly, Eva is now most commonly called "Eba" or "Eba Mae" in our house. The Mae just seemed to fit well with Eba and it's a tribute to a wonderful woman from Rob's life - the mother of his best friend, Wayne. We wanted to use Mae as part of one of our daughters' names, but it didn't work out. We love that it's been incorporated into a nickname though :)

Anyway, school starting has been good at our house. The three older girls love it. They have even gotten ready early a few times and waited in the car a quarter of an hour before they were supposed to leave. Beth is doing very well and is absolutely thrilled to finally officially be in school. Gak and Eba are loving having the house to themselves. Jack loves not having to share the kids' computer with his older sisters until late afternoon. Eva loves being able to crawl around and play with whatever toys she wants without the girls moving her so she won't mess up their games. I miss the older girls, but I know this is the right choice for our family :)

When playing on the kids' computer, Jack prefers to sit on the desk rather than the chair.


Beth loves music class at school and has set up a drum set at home. She happily put on a performance for us, informing us at the end that we needed to clap for her so she could bow. Eva thought a drum performance was a great idea and jumped right in.


Megan is such a big help with Eva! She loves to help give Eva baths and even asks to put on Eva's diaper afterwards and rub her down with lotion.

For some reason, my kiddos love lunchables. Don't ask me how something as incredibly processed as lunchables are popular in a house where we almost exclusively eat organic foods. As the kids like them so much, I try to get them about once a month. Costco had a 5 pack on sale when we went on Tuesday morning, so the kids had them for lunch on Wed. Jack shared his with Eva (I choose to eat leftovers instead). He happily made sandwiches and as a grand finale built a man with one of his sandwiches as the man's head. We used raisins for the feet and Jack picked out a big red raisin for the "heart".