Popular Baby Names

http://babynames.com/Names/Popular/

So who knew that Ava was going to be the #1 most popular name for girls in 2007? I know 2 families with a baby Ava--do you know anyone who used this name?

As for Aiden, Jaden, Caden, Hayden, etc. I saw that one coming over a year ago. I can't count on one hand the number of people I've run into with kids who have this type of name. So how are other baby names of friends fairing (#s are for 2007 unless otherwise noted)?

Eva (closest): from #41 in '06 to #51 in '07
Alanna: #35
Allison: didn't make the top 100 in US in 2006, #31 2007
Andrew: #21
Glenn: didn't make the top 100 list
Julia: #93
Catherine (Katie): #71 in 2007
Lilly (closest to Lilah): #98 in 2006, #12 in 2007
Luke: #46
William: #32

So now you know. If you want a popular name there are plenty to choose from and even if you aren't going for a popular name (as we weren't) a very similar variation of it could end up being #1 next year!

Evie Moments

It has been incredibly busy lately. Evie is learning how to jump and run and climb and has a vocabulary that is growing every day. Except for calling every color green and every ball blue she really seems to be getting the hang of all of this.

Some fun Evie moments when Evie:

• decided to wear her swimsuit over her regular clothes
• wore pjs to the store one day (after we convinced her that 2.5 pairs of jammies and some spankies from a dress were too much)
• wore her princess hat all during lunch at Ruby Tuesdays because she thought it was cooler that way.
• yelled out yeah at church into the silence after the choir's big song--everyone laughed and the minister said, "I say yeah too!"
• sings and dances to Christmas and other songs. She seems to be a big fan of 80's rock.
• tried to ride Emma like she was a horse.
• played with Drew, gave him kisses and posed:).

Photo evidence below:)

Halloween to now

Evie was Tinkerbell for Haunt the Halls when we trick-or-treated in the residence halls at OSU. Here she is with cousin Melissa in Siebert:
The following day (on actual Halloween) she was a spider. She loves her spider costume (with pink bow here to try and help people figure out gender). She has asked us to put it on her many times since Halloween--I had to hide it yesterday!Her hair is now long enough to do pigtails in the back. Here she is yesterday in her cheerleading outfit and lucky socks. Needless to say we no longer feel the socks are lucky, but the hair is cute!
Evie has really been into my dancing hamsters lately. I will try and figure out how to get video on here so you can see her dancing to 'Tequila'. Slightly inappropriate, but she loves it!

She has had a bad stomach virus for the past few days including lots of early morning bed clean-up. Hopefully we won't catch it and she will get better soon. What a way to spend a 3 day weekend (or 4 since we split time off on Friday to stay home with her).

I also forgot her stats from last doctor appointment. At the time she was:

• 32 and 3/4 inches tall: 90%
• 24 lbs: 40%--but on Friday she was 24.5 lbs.
• Her head is still enormous: 97% at 19 and 1/4 inches

Evie also said her first 'real' sentence this week. When looking at her animal sheets on her bed she looked over at me and said: 'This is a lion' and pointed to one of the lions on the sheets. Pretty nifty.

Finally Slowing Down

Life has been super busy, but is finally slowing down a little, which is a welcome change of pace. This Saturday was the first Saturday in since the last weekend in September that I was in town. For real:)

I have had the uber plague head cold now turned sinus infection but seem to be on the mend now. Evie was running a fever late Sunday but whatever that was all about seems to have been very short-lived. Max, of course, has not been sick at all. Grandma is recovering well from surgery and we hope to hang out with her tomorrow--since I have been sick we haven't been over much.

Last weekend we went to Norwalk Ohio for Andrew Fay's baptism. I was one of his sponsors and he did really good during the ceremony--didn't cry at all (unlike the shenanigans of the Juner a year ago this time). Here we are afterwards:
Evie was not a fan of sharing mommy, but she did alright...except for screaming with daddy in the church play room during the service. We also finally got Evie a halloween costume(s)...one if very girlie and fun--Tinkerbell:The other is super cute, warm and cuddly...if you like spiders that is!We went to Glenn's 2nd annual Halloween party and did a mini-parade (see above) so folks could see the costumes.

What have we been up to for the past month?

Well, it has been quite a lot. Evie started at OSU daycare two weeks ago and things are going well so far. They are being really responsible about her milk allergy and we hope to have no further problems. The other little kids in the room seem really nice too.

Mommy is teaching a class at Newark Thursday evenings, so that keeps life extra busy. Grandma V just had surgery on her neck to fuse it together and remove some bone spurs and she is recovering pretty well.

The last weekend in September, we went to Hocking Hills with Nana and Grandpa. We had a great time hiking, pumpkin picking and letter-boxing. It was a perfect weekend for being out in the country.
The first weekend in October, mommy and Beth and Carrie (plus Mo and her sister Christina), went to Berlin Oh/Amish Country for their annual shop, eat and relax weekend. We had a lot of fun and ate a ton of good food!

This weekend, we went to Randy and Heather's wedding--it was beautiful and we had a lot of fun. Heather looked fantastic--just like a princess. Evie kept running around just so she could stare at her in her pretty dress. She also had fun with Abby, Katie and Allison.

Evie and Abby.

Evie now has four molars (her first on both sides and top and bottom). We went today for her 18 month pictures. She was super crabby but they actually turned out pretty good in spite of that. You'll see in two weeks:)