Pictures!

Evie now has 2 teeth and is over 11 months old which is just crazy. She has officially been alive (outside of mommy) for every single one of the 12 months in a year! Here are some recent pictures:

Evie and Glenn (above)
Evie cooks! Evie and Jack! Evie's first homemade dairy-free cookie eaten while holding Pasquale's squirt gun (below)!

Evie does the dishes (is that a psycho butter knife?)!

Evie on her 11 month birthday! Evie loves her tupperware and kisses daddy through it!
Evie and Allison! Evie and her doll Noel!

First Pairs of Shoes

Evie got her first shoes this past weekend from Stride Rite. Since she has a super chubby foot I wanted to make sure we got her fitted for the first time by someone who does this for a living. She has a pair of brown leather mary jane's with flowers on them and some white bootie/sneakers which have 3 very discreet little flowers on them as well so between the 2 pairs she can wear them with everything she owns, including her red Valentine's Day track suit. At first she was either paralyzed or very 'frankenstein-esque' in her booties but this morning I had her practice walking in them and now she is a pro!

She has also been crazy interested in the kitchen and playing around in there. Daddy took some cute pictures of her yesterday and we'll have to post those and a few shoe pictures soon. The shoe video would be fun too if she hadn't been in paralyzed by shoe phase when we tried to take it!

Last week was really busy for Buggies. She had a playdate with Glenn and at his house, then we all went to the Fishes for game night on Saturday (after going shoe shopping) AND she had her last swim lesson. She did pretty good with everything but refused to nap Sunday after swim lessons and was really crabby.

She appears to be breaking in a second tooth next to her first one and has been in really good spirits in spite of that! I feel terrible because I have been really sick all week and not able to enjoy her as much:(. Monday I started feeling yucky at work so took it easy when I got home and went to bed early, then Tuesday woke up feeling awful. I dropped Evie off at daycare and then came in to work since I was up and figured I might feel better but I just got worse--made it about 2.5 hours then went home and took a nap before going to the doctor. Here's where life gets really fun:

• the doctor did some blood work and set me up to get a CT scan the next day to check for a sinus infection. Because I just stopped taking an antibiotic to get rid of the stupid infection I got from taking another antibiotic they can't just put me on any old thing and hope it works (oh plus I was originally on a different antibiotic that I had a nasty allergic reaction to two weeks ago so this is like antibiotic nightmare for me)
  
• yesterday, my doctor called and said my CT scan was normal (no sinus infection) but my blood work was not--my white blood cell count was about 2x normal. So I went back in to have blood drawn again after work yesterday and they ran some other quick tests to see what was causing my infection. I also had to drop by this morning for more tests before coming in to work.
• I just got a call saying my white blood count came back high but much closer to normal. So now I have to go back in a week and do this all over again, plus probably won't hear back from the tests from today until next week.

Meanwhile, I feel like crap. I am super congested and a little out of it and I really don't think I can miss work since I started this job less than 2 months ago and I already took time off to take Evie to the allergist and an entire day off to get the stupid test done so I could find out I probably have Crohns. This has not been a healthy start to the year for me! Daddy can hardly believe how I got hit with the sick stick all at once, and I find it pretty incredible myself.

Meanwhile, Evie is healthy as ever. She gives germs to others but is impervious to them herself!

Documented Evidence

Finally, a picture of the elusive tooth! It's easy enough to see just playing with her and while she's eating (though spotting top ones will be significantly harder), but nigh-impossible to photograph.

I did manage to snap a couple. The one above is more of a close-up, making it a bit easier to spot. It's not a particularly great picture of Evie though. The one below is better, but you'll have to zoom-in to see the tooth.

Short Weekend, Long Sunday

The weekend feels like it zipped by too fast, even though Sunday was a long day. Friday we hung out at home, then Saturday we hung out with all the grandparents and Cousin Shari. I had a lot of errands to run and weird family stuff to attend to so it was an exhausting day. We did have fun at House of Japan though with Evie being fascinated by all the fire!

Sunday we were greeters at church so Evie went with us to help and so we could show her off. She was adorable and did a very good job holding her 'tell me if you are visiting' tag so people could read it even while she chewed on it. She had fun for the first go-around but got bored (and chatty and loud) during the church service) before semi-melting down during greeting at the second service.

Yesterday was also Evie's next-to-last swim lesson and daddy got in the pool with her. I had an allergic reaction to an antibiotic I am taking on Thursday and had remnants of the nasty rash covering my body still so didn't want to run around in a bathing suit. The rash is finally mostly gone but I had to go on another, much more expensive, antibiotic. Who knew I was allergic to flagyl? Well, now you do.

It seems like every swim lesson makes Evie less comfortable with the water instead of more so. She has just been getting crabbier and crabbier, which may be due to a very short nap before lessons, teething, who knows but I think part of it is not having any funny in the frigid pool. I could hear her crying on and off the whole 30 minutes she was in there which is a bummer. Audry seemed upset a bit too but Allison was having a ball. Katie and Glenn weren't able to come yesterday so it was just 2/3 unhappy campers for the teacher Allix.

Otherwise, the buckeyes won their nail biter of a basketball game and we caught up on a little bit of television. I was actually kind of glad to come back to work today since the weekend was so stressful!

Toof!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have a tooth sighting. A tooth-nubbin began sticking through over the weekend (Evie's front bottom-right), and while there's been teasers before, it looks like this one is progressing to full-on toothness.

Unfortunately, Evie is completely uninterested in letting Mommy and Daddy (or anyone else for that matter) look or poke around in the mouth long enough to see if there's any other progress being made - let alone take a picture!

You didn't REALLY expect me to cooperate with documenting this, did you?