Our Family

Evey and I went to The Woodlands for a long Easter weekend. My good friend Kathryn got married. I had a wonderful time hanging with friends and Evey had a blast with Grandpa and LaLa. We were both exhausted when we got home last night.

Her favorite thing to do at Grandpa and Lala's house...This was so funny. She looked like she was doing ballet with her feet.

Evey turned 8 months on Monday. She is still such a great baby. She is a great eater and sleeper. She loves everything I have given her so far...sweet peas are still her favorites. We have tried butternut and acorn squash with nutmeg, spinach, zucchini, sweet potatoes, bananas, apple sauce, lentels, and tofu. We have so much more to try. (For the record, I would really like to encourage those with little ones out there to make your own food. It is super easy. I feel like she is learning the real tastes of foods. Plus at 8 months you can start adding in spices for a whole new thing. I am really having fun with it. )
She sleeps 6:30 to 6:30...of course I still wake her up at 11pm to feed her cause of her MCAD, but she can go 8 hours now with out eating. She loves to stand. She tries to pull up on everything. She is even making a little more effort in the crawling department. She learned DaDa and was saying it a lot before James left. So now we teach her MaMa!

We had visitors before Daddy left for work...GrandBob, Alexa, Aunt Heather and Aunt Laren. We had a good time. It was a beautiful weekend. Thanks for coming to see me.

Here are several pictures of the house from the dump of snow we got a couple of weeks ago.

I didn't quite get it on film, but she was holding on the the edge of the bath tub and screaming like she was on a roller coaster is was so funny. This is just her enjoying her bath.

So I got to experience my first plane trip. It was so much fun. I got to see snow for the first time, got to meet a bunch of new family in Michigan, and i got to poop at 30,000 feet. The flight up to Michigan went pretty smooth. Mommy was able to time the nursing at good intervals so that my ears didn't hurt...I even got about an hour nap. It was fun watching all the people and playing with Mom and Dad on the plane. The plane ride back wasn't as much fun. Mommy thought the plane was going to take off, so I started eating. This would have been fine but the pilot told us that we had to wait to get de-iced. ONE HOUR later we were finally ready to take off. I didn't really eat or sleep very well so I started getting cranky. But I did OK and I got some sleep for the last 45 minutes or so of the flight. Since I wasn't feeding on the way down though, when I woke up my ears hurt and we had to be the last ones off the plane while waiting for me to eat.

All in all it was a great trip. I hope you enjoy some pictures of the weekend.

I'm sure we could say this every month, but wow...6 months. Can't believe how time has flown. No longer does it feel unnatural to say "my daughter". She's getting so big and learning new stuff every day. It's so great watching her grow during this time. She is learning so much and soaking everything in. She is 15lbs and 25in - we have dropped a little to the 30% percentile in both, but still healthy and doing great.

Christmas Day was a great time with family. We got to have Christmas morning in The Woodlands at Grandma and Grandpa Janisse's house and then an awesome Christmas lunch at Uncle Joe and Aunt Mary's house. While Evey didn't totally understand what was going on, she had a good time seeing all that family and she has LOVED a lot of the toys and learning things she received.