HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We had all sorts of fun this Halloween!  We visited a pumpkin patch, carved pumpkins, watched "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and dressed up to give out candy on Halloween night. I think Evelyn's first Halloween was a fun one! 

Happy Halloween from our lil' pumpkin!!

Picture Update

I love my Daddy!

I've been shot! 

Me and Mommy

Knee pads!!

What insomnia looks like :)

Mommy!  Look what Daddy did to me!!  I'm trapped!

Meow!

Kiki is teaching me about the slots so that I can go to the Boat with her in 20.5 years.

Making a mess :)

I love my Halloween pj's!

Snoozing with Kiki

Hanging out with Aunt Holly

I love my G.G. Mitchell!!

Inspecting Pops' mustache

sweet girl

7 months!!

I'm a few days late, but...My sweet Evie is 7 months old!
She can army crawl and she’s everywhere.  We can surround her with toys and she will make her way over to much more interesting things – like the entertainment center or a stack of books.  What is it with kids being inordinately interested in whatever silly thing that they are not supposed to have?  Evie would rather see if she can fit the entire TV remote in her mouth than play with her toys most of the time.  She’s loving solid food for the most part – although most of the time she’d rather chew on her bib than pay attention to me and the spoon.  We end with baby food everywhere – but cleanup is no problem because we have a little water baby.  Evelyn absolutely loves baths and showers.  Her face will light up when we got in the bathroom and she bounce up and down in my arms because she’s so excited.  She loves splashing.  She also likes to put her hand under the stream of water from the faucet and watch it.  She’s wiggle her fingers and it looks like she’s trying to catch the water.  She’s not happy when bath time ends and she’ll express her displease by wiggling like mad when we try to put her in her pajamas.  It’s definitely harder to get Little Miss dressed than it was a few months ago.  It’s especially hard when Pat is trying to get her dressed if I am in the room.  Evie is a little attached to Mommy right now and when she sees me, she wants me NOW. 
Happy 7 Months Evie!  Can’t wait to see what the next month brings!

Evie's 6 month and Family Pictures!

These pictures were taken by my awesome brother Adam!

Evelyn's First Cereal!

Happy Half Birthday!

 6 months. 6 months.  My baby girl is 6 MONTHS old.  I honestly cannot believe that so much time has already passed.  Before Evelyn was born, people would often tell me that time will fly by and my baby go from crawling to driving in the blink of an eye.  I’d politely nod my head and agree.  But silently, I’d tell myself that it was going to be to be different for us.  I was going to appreciate second and remember EVERYTHING so that time didn’t pass by so quickly.  Fast forward 6 months and…I’m wondering where the heck time went.   It feels like just yesterday that we were picking out baby gear, wondering which types of diapers to use, and washing and folding teeny, tiny baby clothes.  Now, Evelyn has out-grown all of those tiny outfits and she’s starting to get too big for some of our baby things (like her swing).  As for diapers, we don’t care what kind we use as long as they don’t leak!  Evie is starting solid foods and while I’m excited about all of the yummy messes this entails, it also makes me sad that she’s already at that point.  Don’t get me wrong – I want her to grow and learn and have new experiences, but with each passing day she becomes a little more independent of me and needs me a little bit less.  I’m trying to cherish this baby time – the snuggles, the gummy smiles and lullabies.  But no matter what I do, it just passes much too quickly.  As far as remembering everything goes – sometimes I think I left my brain at the hospital when we brought Evelyn home.  I can’t remember anything unless I write it down – and sometimes I forget where I wrote it down so that doesn’t help much either!  Luckily I can reference on of the hundreds of pictures we’ve taken when I want to remember Evie at a certain stage.  I look and think “oh wow.  I barely remember when Evelyn’s feet didn’t dangle off the edge of the baby swing.  She actually used to look tiny in the thing”.  Or “Look at that – Evie did have ankles and wrists at one point instead of rings of lovely baby fat.”  It’s hard to believe that Evelyn is the same baby we brought home from the hospital.  She’s no longer a little newborn that we can just sit and rock all the time.  She’s a busy, wiggly baby that is fascinated by the world around her. 

I can’t wait to show you more of our world baby girl! 

Happy Half Birthday!  

Mommy and Daddy love you Sweetheart!

I love my books

 

First time using a sippy cup!

I love my cereal! Yum!

Learning New Things

I often wonder what goes through Evelyn’s head these days.  She’s learning so much and changing right before our eyes.  Gone are the days when she would just lay on the ground and stare at the zoo animals hanging above her head on her play mat.  Now she’ll look at them, cock her head to the side as if to say “now how in the world did they get there?” and then promptly try to shove an entire stuffed zebra into her mouth.  Once I’ve extracted the now drool-covered zebra from her jaws, she’ll roll this way and that way, chewing on anything that gets in her way.   I have to assume the our ceiling is no longer fascinating to Evie because as soon as I lay her down on her back, she will immediately flip to her belly.  Once there, she’ll crane up on her hands, and offer a grin to anyone in the immediate vicinity.  I love that she smiles so much. Honestly, all you have to do is talk to her and she grin so hard I think her cheeks will pop.  She delights in people’s faces and has taken to examining them when she is being held.  I try to take advantage of a teaching opportunity and tell her “yes that is Mommy’s eye” as she jams a sticky finger into my eyeball. :) She's learning to sit up, but balancing is still proving to be a bit of a challenge.  But she's trying and she always seems thrilled when I sit her up with her toys, like she happy to see the world from a different perspective.  We have other milestones coming up, like eating solid food for the first time and sitting a high chair.  We are looking forward to each new day!