Our Family

It is official. Evey can crawl now. I picked her up from Mary's yesterday and she crawled over to me. Very exciting. Now her version of crawling is a little different...maybe like a 1/2 bear crawl crawl...her left leg is bent sideways and the right leg is extended where she pushes off with her foot. It is very cute. I guess after Grandpa Janisse worked with her this weekend, something clicked yesterday. I put her on the floor to try to get some video last night. She crawled right over to the coffee table, put her hands on the bottom shelf, pulled up a little, then moved her hands to the top of the table and pulled her self right up with no help. What a big girl! Here is a little video.

Despite James being gone. I had a wonderful first Mother's Day (weekend), just hanging out with family. Tim and Leanna drove up. Saturday night we all went over to Flay and Brenda's for a wonderful meal and fellowship.Sunday Johnny and Christanne took us to a beautiful Mother's Day brunch at Brookhaven Country Club. Food was great and Evey was wonderful as usual. She tried fresh Blueberries for the first time...yum.

Evey is hanging in there between 10 and 25%, but she is proportioned 26.5" 16lbs 12oz. She is really getting fun and animated these days, very talkative. I am having so much fun with her. She is such a joy. She is so easy going, such a trooper. As long as she is in the mix, she doesn't care what she is doing. I have noticed that she gets a little frustrated with me when I don't know what she wants. This is mostly at night when she is hungry, tired and dirty. So I don't know if she is full or hungry and wanting something different or just ready for bed. Anyway, we have been doing signing, but now I will get more serious about more signs so she can tell me what she wants.
Her food items are rapidly expanding. I love making new things for her and she seems to love trying them so we will continue. I have noticed that she prefers a variety of items on her menu.

I think she has finally seen the light...there is so much fun stuff you can do while on your stomach. She crawled Sun night and Mon morning. Crawl...as in inch worming backwards. But hey I will take it. She also flipped over and is sleeping on her stomach for the first time tonight.

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.