True Story

This is a love story written by my favorite Peanut Pie.

Here is the back cover to grab your attention. It says

Will Princess Gretchen ever marry a handsome prince? You're gonna find out...

And then she decorated with some blue glitter glue that I bought for her that day.

Big D and I had gone out for dinner this particular night when this story was brought to life.
She usually doesn't embellish with color.


So this is a real treat.


This is the title page.


Gretchen and Brant

And there we are in our
royal purple clothes and
royal purple crowns.

The first page reads:

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess.

She had tons of beautiful dresses.

Her name is Gretchen.

And there I am in one of my beautiful dresses and princess crown with stars shining behind me. Oh and don't miss the puffy sleeves, or are those shoulder pads?

One day she was in her castle brushing her hair and singing.

Because this is how you can usually find me on a typical day. I spend anywhere from two to four hours singing love songs while brushing my hair, One hundred strokes on each side. Repeat several times. In. my. beautiful. dress.

And a handsome prince came galloping by on his horse and heard her singing. His name was Brant.

In real life it was a motorcycle but I guess that wouldn't fit the story too well.

He followed the voice to a nearby castle. He went up the stairs. (There was a front door but he didn't use it.)

You can see the tall brown castle below with all the stairs. Eva also informed me that there was an elevator right there too. Silly Prince walking all those stairs when he could have just used the front door and elevator! I mean shouldn't he have seen the big black arrow pointing to the front door? It's right there, plain as day. Geez.

Back in the day, I used to live on the fourth floor of an apartment. Lots of stairs, I'm sure Eva had this in mind while writing.

And the minute he saw her, they were deeply in love.

There really was a giant pink heart in the background when we first fell in love. Quite strange how that suddenly appeared really.

And there's a close up of our beaming smiles and crinkly eyes. Big Daddy's heart is about to beat right out of his chest.

They married each other. And lived happily ever after.

And look, there's my bouquet of flowers from the wedding.

This last page was an afterthought and wasn't written into the original story.

Then, get this, THREE months later she had THREE children and they loved them with all their hearts.

And named them Joey, Eva and Sophia.

There is a calender of February, the month this book was written.

There are the three kids we so quickly had.

Joey has...

Joey has a monkey...

on his head.

Right? This is normal! Really.

Eva is holding one of her masterpieces.

Sophie is holding a baby doll.

So there you have it. The story of how Brant and I fell in love and had our children

Through the eyes of Peanut Pie.

(She's the best.)

All About Joey

Eva has been writing stories lately. You know the kind you did when you were a kid. You take three or four pages stacked, and fold them down the middle and wha laa, you have a cute little book! Here is a book about one of her favorite people in the whole world. Her twin brother Joey.

There are about ten pages to this book but I just highlighted a few of my favorite pages.

Here is the title page.

All About Joey

And there's Joey, arms in air again, smile on his face with that long hair.

As you can see, there is a lizard on his shirt. If Eva had colored this book, his shirt would be green.

Joey has this lizard T shirt and he wears it on a regular basis.







This page says,

"My brother is shie in school but he talks a little."

Well ladies and gentlemen, she hit the nail on the head with this one!

The times I've come to the classroom to do Mystery Reader or bring cupcakes to the Valentine's Day party, Joey really is shy at school.

It's quite a shocker for me to see him so quiet considering at home is loud, aggressive, running and crazy. From school to home he is like Jekel and Hyde.

And that look on his face in this picture is just priceless. Joey sitting at his desk, head cocked to the side, bland stare, cute little glasses. Eva really gets it right on this one.

And the next favorite page here says,


"My brother does not like taking baths. but he does not want to get out when he's done."


Now hmmm....where has she heard this before?
Oh I don't know, maybe from her mama?
I don't know how many times I've said to my children,
"Ya hate to get in and ya hate to get out!"









And finally, the icing on the cake!


"But best of all he loves his family."

And there we all are, from left to right we have Daddy, Mommy, and then Joey with the star behind him because he is the main character in this book, and then the famous author of this best selling book in the household, Eva, and finally little Sophia.





SO! There you have it, yet another great installment inspired by one of MY favorite people in the world, writing about one of HER favorite peeps in the world!

Love note to Mommy

Sorry I didn't take the picture of this note, download it, upload it, tweak it, add image etc...
But here goes...

Dear Mommy,
You are the best mom ever.
You take care of children really well.
(She uses well instead of good! That makes me swell with pride. Doesn't she write well?)
You should be a babysitter too. instead of being just a mom!
from,
Eva

Ode to Sleeping Beauty

This is a letter that I found on Eva's desk.

It is a letter to Sleeping Beauty.

It goes as follows:

"Dear Sleeping Beauty,

You are my true love. I love you varry much.

You are Beautiful like a angel.

See you later.

P.S. I love your hair.

From Eva"

No Idea about Cakes on Heads

This is an interesting one.
Let me try to explain:

The large face with black eyelashes, long blond hair and red candles on her head is a mermaid. You can see,
to the left of her mouth,
there are two arms with purple hands splayed out.
Spawning from the middle of said arms is a rainbow mermaid tail.
The tail circles around to the right, behind her.

It's not the red and black devilish looking thing vering upwards to the left.
Don't ask.
I have No idea.

You with me here?

We on the same page?

Very beautiful.
The mermaid, I mean.
The mermaid with the birthday cake on her head.
Why does she have a birthday cake on her head?

I have NO idea.

Mermaid is saying in bubble one "fue" meaning "shew" like... "that was close."
Why?

I have NO idea.
Bubble two says, "Why is there a birthday cake on my head?"
No one knows.

Two like bubbles up above say,

"Why is there a birthday cake on your head?"

"Is there a birthday cake on your head?"

The blue fish at the end of the mermaids tail is saying,

"Where's the bathroom."

Huh??? Maybe Eva had to pee when drawing this.

The blue fish to the left of mermaid is saying,

"Why is there a cake on her head?"

Dude! We don't know!

"Why am I sharing this with you?" says me.

I have NO idea. I thought it was funny I guess. But now it seems just confusing.

Why did Eva draw such a picture?

I have NO idea.

I think there may have been something added to her cereal for breakfast this morning.

I don't know, I'm just saying...

She does get an A+ for creativity though.

I'll give her that.

And it is quite colorful and busy.

I think if upon asking Eva, she would have NO idea.

She'd raise her evebrows,

give me a shrug of the shoulders and a little nod to the right.

But I have no idea.

Half a Dozen

I wanted to show a few pictures from this past week. Now that I'm writing this blog, I have so much inspiration and almost everything with Peanut Pie can be a story. So here goes:

"THE SUPER DUPER SPYRO GYRO DELUXE MODEL 285 PEN"

Not only does Eva find it necessary to write on paper but she sometimes goes "out of the box" so to speak and writes on her little sister too. Eva is master, as you can see she's got her super duper spyro pen hanging proudly on the red satin bow of her dress. Sunshine is now transformed into Wonder Dog.

Watch out or she'll whip that bad boy out and color you a mean picture!

OR she just may turn you into a Wonder Dog too!

SPRING? or I HATE MY DRESS? you decide...

She brought this one home from school. I'm not sure if this dress is an actual dress from her closet?

Or if she colored it, decided at that moment she hated it, and then gave voice to her self portrait saying she hated the dress. But you can tell she's mad, arms up in the air, probably waving them around... look closely, she may even be flippin ya the bird!

And why does she deem it necessary to tell her Daddy?

What is she expecting him to do about the ugly pumpkin orange moo moo dress?

Is Daddy the fashion designer around here?

Regardless, the flowers are lovely and the Jack and the Bean Stalk vine adds nice composition.

SPRING INTO FALL

There are four seasons, one in each quandrant of the paper

but these two were the cutest.

That little girl is almost as cute as Eva.

Dontcha think?

I mean, the curly ponytails?

The glee of flying through the air?

Arms spread wide?

Don't you just want to say "Weeeeeeeee?"

And she just nailed the fall colors. Beautiful, my darling!

JOEY'S HAIR CUT


Joey's hair was hanging in his eyes. He defies my every word when it comes to me cutting his hair.

He loves his long hair and I don't want to make it shorter, really... I love his long hair as well. I'll be fast I promise... I tell him. He's in dyer need to get back to his alien making goo. (I know, it's important stuff!) and I just want to make it more stylish...

So it doesn't look like a bowl cut with a mullet attached...

You understand, right?

So- in the midst of my conversation with Joey about his hair, Eva draws this picture.

If you can't read it, it says, "Joey, it's just gonna be a quick little cut."

This is Joey's reaction captured perfectly on paper. Mouth open, arms in air,

ACCCKKK! NO! DON'T CUT MY HAIR!

And there is the infamous zipper I was talking about...

OH PRESENTS PLEASE? NOW?
This past weekend we celebrated an early Christmas with my husbands side.

This is Aunt Doo Daa keeping the kids busy before opening presents...

while my husband was nursing his hangover... and that's another story for another blog.

If you notice...all the kids are intently watching and listening to Aunt Doo Daa, except for ours truly.

Eva B Peanut Pie is doing what?

You guessed it, Busily creating yet another masterpiece.

LETTER TO SANTA


I'm awful with the quality of these letters. I'll write it out for you:

Dear Santa,

All I mostly want is a little horse for Butterscotch. That way she can have a baby and I want ever buddy to be happy. MARRY CHRISTMAS.

And then, very large, she spells HAPPY,

-picture of smiling curly haired girl with spiral cheeks

-picture of Butterscotch and baby horse.

She doesn't ask for the latest greatest. She doesn't ask for paraphenelia of that girl....

um... what's her name?

the skitzofreniac (yes, this is a word and this is how you spell it.) that all the girls love today?

Oh yeah- Hannah Montana and/or Miley Cyrus. What's that all about anyway? Great idea! Let's teach our young impressionable fragile sweet girls to have two personalities! Two people in one! Genius! That's worse than an imaginary friend! Geez! Again I digress.

She doesn't ask for the High School Musical movie.

She doesn't ask for Bratz dolls, make up, nail polish, glittery sparklies for her hair, cheeks etc.

She doesn't ask for fancy clothes.

This is my girl!

She asks for the gift of a baby horse, for her beloved stuffed animal horse Butterscotch.

And finally?

She asks for world peace in her sweet loving seven year old way.

"I want every buddy to be happy."

Merry Christmas, everyone. Well, all four of you who read this.

A few Golden Nuggets

Now Eva has just written her first novel.
It is an endearing story about a dog and a horse that are friends. It's titled "The Dog and Horse." The parents of these loveable tikes get in a fight and the pair are forced to seperate and the friendship is diminished. However, being smart little doggy and quick witted horse, they are able to fix the problem and become BFF's once again. (BFF stands for Best Friends Forever)

Can I get a Woo Hoo here?

So don't cha know that it doesn't matter if you're a horse or a dog or a pig or a rat for that matter. (Am I speaking Chinese horoscopes? no I am not.) We can ALL be friends. The parental community needs to put their predjudices aside and welcome differences in the world, even befriend them. And then everyone is happy and the world is filled with buttercups and roses.
Can't we just all get along?

She's pretty smart for her age, isn't she?

A wise old soul, I believe.

This is the prologue written on the back of the book. It tells all about ours truly. And this is what is says: (love the bullet points)



Written by Eva Schneider
yes it was.

Illustrated by Eva Schneider
written AND colored- she's a double threat



likes horses and dogs
Now her two favorite animals hense the book title

this is the first book I've written
yes this is true

has lots of friends
she's the sweetest so of course she does

lives in a house
everyone needs to know this

has one sister and brother
yep

has one mom and dad
not always the norm these days, so better write it down

is seven years old right now
the future's so bright, isn't it?

favorite food pizza
Now, in my opinion, I think the answer here is tomatoes. When I tell her we're having pizza for dinner?
she wrinkles her nose at me. When I say "salad too, and I'll heat up some peas." Then we're good. I think pizza is just the "go to" answer for kids when asked about favorite foods. I think it's in the Crazy Kid Handbook. and that, my friend, she follows closely.

loves family
How could she not! I mean look at us!

likes friendship
family=love, friendship=like. She'll learn one day you can love both.

favorite time of year Christmas
I think because it's in like nine days and she's chompin at the bit to open those presents.

has ocean room
yes- her choice, I wanted pink and black and girly girl but whatever, it's her pad.

is an artist too
obviously

I have a horse named Butterscotch
Oh dear Butterscotch. That Gaa Blessed Butterscotch. That is a another story for a later date. It's not a real horse, stuffed animal that takes up half her bed.

I have a dog named Kasey
The dog is real, see blog Kasey Mable

And that's me.
That's my Sweet Eva B Peanut Pie!









So this is one of MANY family portraits. It happens to be her latest family pic. I don't know how she does it, but she captures amazing similarities.
Look at Joey (the one with the glasses) That looks like Joey, the hair, the expression on his face.

Here, from left to right it goes: Mommy, Daddy, Eva, Sophie and Joey.



I think it's very sweet that Eva is very close to Sophie in this picture.

No, Daddy is not always that fat.

And Yes- Mommy is always that skinny, right? go along with me here...

I'm not too sure what the "90" and the "less than boobs" (or is that a butt?)stuff is on Daddy's pants. I don't know if that's decoration? or what. I'll have to ask about that.

She goes through phases. One phase was that everyone had some very peculiar markings around the groin area. I should clarify, the boys had the markings. Everyone knows that girls always wear skirts.

"Um Eva?" I ask.

"Yes?" she replies, so proud of her work.

"What might that be? There, on the pants?" I point to said peculiar markings.

"Duh, Mom. They're zippers."

"Oh, of course!"

Get your mind out of the gutter, come on, she's seven, remember?