When Babies Dress Themselves

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You talking bout me?

Busy, Busy, Busy

We went to Popcorn Pops with the Fishes and Sabs two Friday ago and it was loads of fun! Evie really enjoyed running around and dancing, but she also saved some time to snuggle with Carrie and play with Abby, Katie and Allison. It was a beautiful day and lots of fun!The next day we went with Nana to Hoover Grille (an awesome restaurant with some outdoor seating) and to Inniswood Gardens to see the 'Big Bugs' exhibit which is really cool. We forgot our cameras though!

It was also mommy and daddy's seventh anniversary weekend so we all went to the Park of Roses to see where they got married and saw leaves as big as Evie:
We also tried to get a family picture in the backyard but someone didn't cooperate so here she is with just mommy.
This past week/weekend, Evie had her 3rd music class with Glenn and did so good with the songs and putting her toys away. They actually teach some clean-up/good manners stuff at music class which is terrific. Then over the weekend we went to Abuelo's for dinner and the Hoover Grille (again) for lunch with Nana and Grandpa. We also did some letterboxing with them (found 1/2 items--last time we went we found like 0/4). We visited the Grandview Lazy Daze of Summer too to see Laurie belly dance. Mommy, grandma and daddy all got ice cream at Jeni's while Evie ate fruit snacks. She LOVES fruit snacks if you let her eat them from the bag.

I have been commenting on the last post with new words but forgot a really important one: poopie:)

15 month appointment

Evie had her 15 month Dr appointment yesterday. She did such a great job and the doctor commented on her good naturedness and ease with strangers since she let Dr Gray poke all over her:)

She is growing like a weed. She is now:

• 22 pounds (40%, up from 25% at last visit)!
• 31 inches (75%)
• 19 in head circumference (96%, up from 85%)

So she still has the super ginormous noggin'. She also knows plenty of words and can identify lots more stuff than the minimum they look for at her age. Even funnier, daycare did their monthly newsletter yesterday and it talked all about how so many kids are walking now but for Evie it talked about her talking! She is super chatty and really starting to get stuff (mimics most things we say, so we have to be careful). They said she talks in sentences to them and when they can't figure out what she wants she gets pretty upset. The newsletter predicts she may be the next President!

She had a little trouble last night/this morning being tired and crabby from her shots but it was weird. She would be playing and having fun one minute and then seconds later screaming and having a fit out of nowhere. We put her to bed a little early and I hear she took a nap this morning for grandma because she was still so zonked. Poor thing!

One fun thing we did yesterday was make the coffee table into a 'fort' by throwing a blanket over it. She thought that was a riot.

So here are some of her new, fun words!

• no--and she shakes her head and sometimes does a whole body shake to signify NO
• uh-oh--still a favorite even when it is an 'on purpose' where she says uh-oh and THEN something falls to the ground and also 'Oh no' as a new one
  
• apple, eat, juice, water, waffle, more, yum-yum (sounds like num-num), cracker, 'Os' for cheerios, cheese, spoon (which she is pretty good at using)
• mommy, daddy, nana, baby, nita and geon (from daycare), bubba (all dogs and PQ), emma, ally (cat and dog and grnadparents' houses), woof-woof, quack, ooh-ooh (monkey), moo, vroom-vroom (like every car we pass! plus strollers too), fish (and I swear she is starting to get the hang of saying Allison from playing with her pictures from her shelf most mornings)
• she can identify (and say for some of 'em): eye, ear, nose, teeth, mouth, hair, toes, belly button, shirt, sock, shoe, glasses
• outside, light, seat (for chair), ball, bouncy, rock-rock, bumpy, down, up (although she MUCH prefers to use down for both up and down), done, bye-bye, see-ya, off, book, that? (almost always said as a question with finger pointing), please, thank you, eewww (when something is yucky)
• she also plays 'give me five' and 'peekaboo'
  

Daycare says she is doing colors, like red, blue, green, yellow but she has been a little resistant to say them for us. I am sure I missed tons of things but this is a pretty good start. She says a lot of babble stuff that could be something but is still a little too unintelligible. If I missed one and someone wants to chime in, go for it!

Busy Summer!

This summer has been crazy busy. Just in July alone we have:

• gone to Shakespeare in the Park
• seen Harry Potter V movie
• went to 2 baby showers--congrats Mo and Heather D.
  
• met a former co-worker for lunch over the weekend
• hung out at Randy and Heather's awesome new place
• attended a family wedding
• went to Red, White and Boom (see previous post)
• saw Wicked at Ohio Theater
• saw Rocky Horror Show at Shadowbox (excellent by the way and still showing)
• gone to 2 meal-prep places (Super Suppers and Touch of Gourmet)
• visited baby Andrew, born on 7/11
• went to the zoo
• had out-of-town visitors--we miss you Anne Marie, Jason and Emma!
• attended story time at library
• went to Evie's first music class with Glenn and Bethany

There's probably other stuff too but this has obviously been keeping us very busy. This weekend is mommy and daddy's 7th wedding anniversary which is insane. I don't feel like we're old enough to have been married that long:) Here are some pictures of our adventures:

Emma and Evie in matching shirts

Uncle Carl, Aunt Reagon and Evie at wedding
(mommy, daddy and Evie were all wearing purple but we forgot to get a picture of the 3 of us!)
Evie on the cell phone--she always calls daddy!
WeJoySing music classes

Red, White & BOOM 2007: Energizer Bunny Baby

Red, White & Boom 2007 was this Tuesday, and Evie joined her parents and Nana & Grandpa at the Pepsi/WNCI/WCMH VIP party again this year - she's already a regular! It was a great time, but before I get into that, I have to mention Evie & Allison's play date last weekend. Carrie & Allison came over and played with Amy & Evie for awhile Saturday afternoon. I missed out, but from what I hear the girls had a good time, with some typical young baby drama. None of our pictures turned out particularly well, but Carrie managed to grab a few great ones (which I grabbed from their site):



But - back to the present! This Tuesday was Red, White & Boom, and we took Evie down for her second year in a row! We figured she probably wouldn't be sleeping through the fireworks this year like she did last year, so there was some definite worry that we'd have to bail early due to a crabby baby kept out way past her bedtime... but we were all willing to do that if needed.

Well, this year's new & improved "Mobile Evie 1.3" was definitely a bit more of a handful than last year, and wore Mommy, Nana & Grandpa out chasing around the garage rooftop checking everyone out and making sure all the partygoers saw her pretty new July 4th dress and how awesome she was (duh!)
In addition to running around all over creation, getting a new balloon animal (a monkey, which she happily quoted for the rest of the evening -- "ooo ooo ooo!" She also spent a LONG time playing with this super advanced & expensive new toy... a cup full of ice... Dumping out the ice, picking it back up again, pouring the cubes on a chair, on the ground, handing them out to us... she was having a blast with the ice. And amazingly, never tried to eat the dirty ice! Bonus!

She also had a good time plane-watching with Mommy & Nana:


And trying on Mommy's sweatshirt:

She DID start wearing down a little around 8:30-9 (more than an hour past her normal bedtime, even when she HASN'T been running around like a crazy baby all evening), and we laid her down in the stroller for awhile, but she was too nosy about all the goings on, and never got more than "drowsy" (but also never got more than "mildly crabby"). When the fireworks finally came, she had a great time watching:


The ride home after the show was, as I'm sure you can imagine, LONG and SLOW, and at first Evie was none-too-happy to be stuck in the car seat... but it didn't take long before she was out cold and sleeping soundly for the rest of the night.