Our Family

Evangeline turned 18 months this month. Monday, she had her checkup and it was wonderful. The doctor asked very specific questions about her development and brought a few toys in, to she what she would do. She did wonderfully and is right on track developmentally. She is 30 inches tall and 20 lbs 2 oz. She has probably 40 or so words that she uses regularly. Doctor said to expect her to start putting several words together any day now. She is so fun and so sweet. She loves puzzles, books and coloring. She had fun finger painting the other day, but kept saying "mess" "mess." Every morning on the way to school...she says "Bus" "Bus"...we look for school buses every morning and she gets so excited when we see one. She is also doing very well saying "Pease" and "Tank You". Oh and she LOVES having Moses here. She gives him treats and kisses. Here are some pictures over the last several months...there are a lot mostly for the grandparents.

So per Melissa's suggestion, I read this post last week called My Daughters hands, a very sweet tear jerker. Then on Sunday, I had the same experience. We went to the mall Sunday afternoon to walk around a bit. No stroller, the 3 of us held hands and walked the mall slowly. Evey loves to hold our hands and have us swing her. So we were swinging her and I had a "moment." I thought back to when I was a little girl and I loved going on walks and being swung by 2 adults. So fun! Then I thought, one day her and her husband will be walking along swinging her daughter and she will remember how much she loved it.

Evey....I love you, sweet girl, and look forward to many more times of Daddy and I swinging you down the path.

We got to go to The Woodlands for Christmas. All the Dallas crew came down as well, my mom, sister, Memaw, Pepaw, and James's Aunt and Uncle. It was a full house, but tons of fun as usual. Lots of Wii Bowling! Christmas was wonderful and horrible at the same time. Evey was really sick. We were having to wake her up every 2 hours to give her juice or popsicle...anything she would take down. It was aweful...I would much rather go back to infant breastfeeding than this. She wasn't eating so cause of her MCAD stuff we had to take her to the hospital on Christmas night to get and IV of fluids. From there it got better and better, but you can see in the pictures that she wasn't feeling well. It just stinks cause everyone wasn't able to really enjoy her cause she was feeling so yucky. Anyway, dispite that it was wonderful to see everyone. We got to have dinner with some friends from Dallas so that was a nice treat.

We have began some new friendships with our cul-de-sac neighbors so we had them all over for dinner and cookie decorating. It was really fun and nice time to gather and fellowship. I think all the kids had a good time and playing in Evey's playhouse and getting pretty messy.

Last week began beautifully with my sweet husband bringing home these gorgeous roses for me. Evey took some time to smell them. Beautiful...roses are still doing wonderful. (from Sam's for any husbands reading this...great price too)


Then the week tanked...Evey started throwing fits. At least James and I know have a game plan on what to do when the terrible twos start. On Thursday...we were supposed to drive to DC to have an appointment with Evey's new specialist. She fell down the stairs...oh yea...all the way down. She bounced right back up only cried for a few seconds. I checked everything out, no bumps, no breaks, no cuts. Ok we are fine. I get in the car we start down the road, then she throws up. Which is a big no no when talking about possible head injury. Ok, so we whip around go to the emergency room. Evey gets a cat scan and everything is fine, but better to be safe then sorry. So we are fine and she only have one small bruise on her rib cage area.

1. You should now be able to add our blog to Google Reader subscriptions

2. Comments on photos...Why do comments go below the photos on a blog?
We all scroll down the page to read the post. Come to the picture and scroll further down to read about the picture and sometime back up to see the picture. It just makes more sense to me to post the description above the photo so that you read about the picture then you see the picture. I am literally the only one of us that does this. I would love to hear logic on this. Please post your comments.

Saw this and thought it was cute

Jesus Is The Reason

In Bethlehem, God gave to us
The source of Christmas joy;
A star shown on a miracle:
The virgin birth of a boy. He was born both God and man,
A Savior for us all,
The way to get to our heavenly home,
If we just heed His call. So as we shop and spend and wrap
And enjoy the Christmas season,
Let's keep in mind the sacred truth:
Jesus is the reason. By Joanna Fuchs

We went to Texas for Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful and very busy time trying to see everyone. We kicked it off with running the Dallas Turkey Trot...there were tons a people there . It was really fun. We had a wonderful dinner with friends and family.