Happy Birthday to Evie...

Today was Evie June bug's first birthday. We can hardly believe it is already here. We spent the morning together, mommy made dairy-free pancakes and we played until Evie took a nap and then Nana and Grandma came over and we opened presents and thenwent to lunch and to Franklin Park Conservatory to see the butterflies. Here are some pictures from the conservatory:They have a great new kids room which she loved playing in! Then we watched the new butterfly release before heading out:After that we picked up grandpa and all came back to the house for dinner, present opening and the first birthday cake fiasco. Evie did not really like the cake--she got upset when the icing got stuck on her fingers and she flung it everywhere trying to get it off. Eventually most of it ended up mashed in her hair!

And finally, here 1 year card picture. Note how different it is from the days old version:

Easter

Evie got 3 different Easter baskets for Easter--lucky baby! She also went to church and did a really good job during the service and was super cute.She loves banging stuff together and making noise! And she is too cute (and knows it!).She's also a daredevil. Here's her new favorite thing to do with daddy and grandpa--they push her around on a rubbermaid box lid almost like a sled and she just laughs and laughs. She thinks it is super fun when she falls over and that is when she laughs the loudest! They also push her under the coffee table and she deliberately sits up tall so she hits her head on it--so crazy:After nana and grandpa left, Evie got even crazier--she climbed into her rocking chair and was standing up in it and rocking, then she climbed into the bookshelf and tried to stand up--which didn't go so well:

Happy Easter From Evie!

Amy took Evie to the mall to get her picture taken with the Easter Bunny today!

As you can see, she had a great time.

Sassafras--Added Picture

Evie is a sassy little lady. We went to dinner last night with Nana and Grandpa and she just wanted to wander around and show off to people, sticking her crazy little belly (with semi-outie belly button) out all over the place. It was a little bit diva, but also very cute!

She is also really verbal--she says 'no' and uses it correctly and the same with 'down' when she doesn't want to be held. Her use of dada is also much more accurate--for a while there it was just part of her babble. She is saying some new stuff, like the 'Sh' sound (which sounds like something it shouldn't sometimes) and this new thing that is like gagooguh...and requires some weird facial movements and a bit of spitting. It is really fun because whenever she says it (and it is often) she gets this really intent and serious look on her face and you can tell she is thinking hard and really means it. Someday, we might figure out what she's talking about?!

She had a playdate on Saturday with one of my co-workers kids who has a 3 year old son and a daughter born the exact same day as Evie. They did a pretty good job playing somewhat together and no huge tears over favorite toys being borrowed, so that was good. Hope, who is the exact same age as Evie, is a real cutie and she does this fun crab crawl thing which is hard to describe but she just looks totally like a crab doing it and she is SUPER fast!

And drum roll please...can you believe Evie will be a year old in exactly one week? I know people say it goes by fast but it goes by FASTER than fast! Hard to believe she's been around 358 days already.

This is why babies shouldn't dress themselves...

Evie thinks everything is a hat or a necklace!


But she is cute wearing a real necklace: