Growing Girl!

Evie is growing and changing so much every day.  At one year, she weighed 21lbs. and she stayed that way for a while.  She was barely filling out her 12 months clothes, which was surprising because she has almost always worn a size bigger than her actual age.  I think there were a lot of factors that contributed to this.   She had her first ear infection.  She was on medicine (again, a first for her) for almost a month due to the fact that the ear infection was persistent and would not go away.  The medicine made her have a lack of appetite and an upset tummy so she wasn’t eating as much.  I won’t even go into the awful diapers…  Anyway, she just didn’t gain any weight for a while.  Now that she’s feeling better, Evelyn has become our bottomless pit!  She wants to eat constantly.  She loves fruit – especially blueberries.  She loves it when I make sweet potato oven fries – she cannot get enough of them!  She always wants to sample whatever we are having, and we’ve been surprised at some of the stuff she’ll eat.  Casseroles, chicken salad, BBQ, quesadillas, hot dogs, eggs.  I try to balance it by giving her small portions of the not-so-good-for-you stuff and larger portions of fruits and veggies, but our girl is stubborn about what she wants to eat and if she doesn’t want it, she won’t eat it.  She actually started giving it to the dog – Geez!!.  As a result of the this increased appetite, Evie is getting bigger!  At her 15 month checkup, she weighed in at 23lbs and is 31 in. tall!!

In addition to her food adventures, Evie continues to hone her walking skills.  She is still working on getting her balance, but she has gained a lot of confidence.  She is now walking as much as she is crawling!  She's getting better at it everyday. Evie can be stubborn and strong-willed.  She will sometimes throw fits when she doesn’t get her way.  Usually she can be easily distracted, but we are working on teaching her that crying and throwing her toys is not the way to get what you want.    

Evie has really started to mimic us.  She’ll click her tongue and mimic sounds that we make.  She is a big talker, although we can’t really understand what she’s saying much of the time.  But she is trying to repeat what we say.  When I give her something, I’ll tell her to say thank you and she’ll mumble something.  She’s definitely trying.  She still loves dogs and will ooh and ahh when she sees one.  We show her how to be sweet to Crosby and pet him gently, and she’ll copy us.  She knows what a dogs says and she’ll make the ‘woof woof’ sound when asked.  It’s so cute!  

Evelyn is getting so big – we can hardly being it!  She keeps us on our toes, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.