12 month Bday

Finally one year old! It went faster than I could ever imagine. I'm so proud of her, she's doing so well. Walking, running and climbing like crazy, but no words yet. She's learning to make friends and share with the other children I watch at home and still loves reading books best. She's 30 inches tall and 21 lbs. Her favorite food is mac and cheese and also frozen green peas (thawed, of course!). She still hates bedtime so often gets up at 3 just for some company! So bitter-sweet, her growing up. I wish I could freeze each phase to have it forever, but I can't wait to see the person she's becoming.
She had a great bday party with all her family. She ate butterfly cupcakes (thanks michelle!) and rode around in her new Cozy Coupe car. She also had a great thanksgiving at her Boucha's (my moms) house and loves to look at the xmas trees up in our house now. Can't wait to post xmas pics!

11 months and Trick or Treat

One month to that magic one year! SOO fun. We trick or treated a little early this year, but I hope you enjoy the pics!!

Rocking out her leopard pants:

Right after getting dressed in her french poodle costume:


She was a little scared of her first candy giver!

Pumpkin Picking!

First time in a forward facing car seat!


Packer game with papa.

Pumpkin picking! Watch for pumpkin carving pics to come!

10.5 Months

Colder weather reminds me of last year this time when I was really starting to get excited for Eva's birth. I can't believe she's almost a year old!
I've started watching some children in my home and it's a lot of fun. Eva loves to have the playmates!
She is really walking now! It's very slow but she can walk all the way across a room. The other day I was in the kitchen and she walked in and it was just weird, seeing her turn the corner and just walk in!
Thanks to my sister Tricia we now have a play thing in our back yard with two slides. So fun! We'll try to get lots of use out of it before it gets too cold.

Apple Picking

Eva and her cousin Alayna

So my sister Kari and her family and Eva and I went apple picking today! It was so much fun! We got to walk out into the orchard and pick which apples we wanted and everything! We also got to see some goats, but Eva thought those were pretty scary.

Almost 10 months and walking!

It's official. We've taken our first unaided steps!!
It's only two or three at a time right now, but she's doing it! I love it.
She still crawls when she wants something fast, but she practices her steps all the time.
Other milestones....turning book pages as you read to her which is too cute. She's very impatient though and if there are more than a few words on the page she tries to turn it again right away. She has eaten lots more 'real' food now too! She had her first grilled cheese sandwich and her first mac and cheese. She LOVES peas and will eat them by the handful. I think my mom fed her pizza once (sigh, grandmas). She has three teeth, two tops and one bottom, which she has started to grind together. I'm a teeth grinder in my sleep so i wonder if she gets this from me?? The sound makes your skin crawl though! She hates sleep time as much as ever and fights it to no end. She has herself down to one nap already, usually midday and that one is less than an hour. It's so not cool. She should be sleeping WAY more.
She's doing so great though and looking more like a little girl and less like a baby every day. I love to watch her grow, but I lament her babyhood coming to an end!

9 months plus

Finally getting another post up!
Evalyn is now 9.5 months old. She is still totalling along furniture and standing on her own, but no walking on her own yet. Her little two front teeth come in more every day. She's eating so many new foods too....today she tried mac and cheese! She loves to eat! I think she'd chose to eat over a bottle almost always.
Her grandma Babb bought her a pony she loves to ride and a kitchen! She can only reach the lower cabinets so far, but loves chewing on the play food!
I live for her smile and feel her anger or sadness like my own. I can't believe there was a time when she wasn't here....how did I get up every morning without her insistent squeals or go to bed without checking for her steady breathing under my hand?
I can't wait to see what the next months and years bring for her.