Mommy took Evie to the doctor yesterday because she seemed a little crabby and snuffly and we were worried about her. She checked out perfectly--no infections, just a yucky cold. She weighed in at 16 lbs, 15 oz which is pretty crazy--an entire pound in about 3 weeks. Guess she is just trying to show mommy up since I didn't weigh much more than that at 12 months! Daddy loves the hat--mommy and grandma agree it is too cute!
On Saturday, we took Evie to our first Circleville Pumpkin Festival. It was the 100th Anniversary and was a good time. It was so crowded that it never even felt cold there! We let Evie eat a teeny-tiny piece of pumpkin donut and she LOVED it. It was her first 'big people's' food since up until now she's been on the kiddie diet. The Festival itself was much bigger than we were expecting--very chaotic. I was also a little dissapointed by the lack of 'pumpkin things'. We went the last day so some stuff had closed up but the most adventurous stuff we got included: pumpkin pizza (crust, pumpkin sauce and cheese--I liked but no one else did) , pumpkin waffles and apparently there was pumpkin chili but we missed it. Everything else I've seen before--pie, fudge, ice cream, etc.
Well, with that being said there is actually one thing she just discovered she does not like. PEAS. Daddy hates 'em and apparently so does Evie. When we fed them to her last night she:
We'll probably try them again but seems like these are a no-go. We made a little video of the pea-hating extravaganza which was pretty cute, and of course daddy was so proud that she hates the peas just like he does!
In other good news (knock on wood) Evie has been doing much better at sleeping through the night so hopefully we have passed the phantom wake-up at 3:30 a.m. thing for a few weeks...months...years would be awesome!
And next week is her very first ever Halloween--can hardly wait!!!!!!
Evie also got to play in the leaves for her first time, but she did not seem to enjoy it as much as I thought she would--maybe because I wouldn't let her eat the leaves!
Then Evie went with both mommy and daddy on voting day for her first set of elections ever and we were super glad issue #5 won! Plus we were sick and then I went on my last scheduled trip for the year, which was to California so I was able to get Evie her first mouse ears. She looks so cute in them!
Nana and grandpa also got Evie her big-girl car seat this past weekend and we also put her crib down so that she will be safe now that she tries to pull herself up and might start crawling around soon--although she seems perfectly content to roll around like crazy!
And then today her friends Jamie, Rob and Jack came over tonight to have dinner and play and she had loads of fun playing cars with the boys:
So we've been busy--and still to come this week she has a doctor's appointment, will meet her cool great-grandma Judy for the first time AND watch her first OSU-Michigan game on TV. Then next week we are going to North Carolina for Thanksgiving for her first trip out of state since she was born (cause she went lots of places in mommy's belly).
