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.

Swimmin'

Evie's favorite new word is 'more'. She says it a lot and usually it is in reference to food--she has quite the healthy appetite (despite having a very small bum, which means mommy just bought her some deeply discounted 6 month jean shorts that actually fit!).

She got to play in her new swimming pool she got for her birthday wearing her new suit from her birthday and we are pretty sure she liked it. Especially holding the hose!

And now for another fun game. Evie takes the magnet from the fridge...and then runs it over to the dishwasher.
aAnd finally, Evie in her sassy cowgirl outfit.

Glenn's First Birthday & Zoo

Glenn's first birthday party was Sunday at Highbanks and we had lots of fun. Isn't he too cute and look at all that hair!
Evie loved running around outside and then she had her first experience with bubbles!
This is a favorite action shot of Evie as she ran towards us.Grandpa and Nana got Evie this cool car thing (mostly because when she test drove it at the store we could hardly get her out of it). She loves it and says vroom, vroom when we push her around.
We also went to the zoo last weekend. It was fun and Evie did great! The only problem was when she was pushing her stroller around instead of riding in it. The stroller started to get away from her and she held on anyway, with the end result being that she was dragged maybe 6 inches on her knees. The one has a big yuck-o scab on it. Otherwise she had lots of fun and we went in the a.m. before it got ridiculously hot.

That Bites!

Ahh, but who done it? Evie came home with an incident report from daycare today because while in the play area another kid bit her on the leg. This all happened around 10 a.m. and she still has some red toofers marks on her little leg.I photoshopped the picture to zoom in and make the contrast more obvious. As you can see the little scoundrel who dun it has 3 teeth on top/bottom and four on the other side. Daycare says they can't tell us who it was (probably because some idiots would sue or get nasty with the poor tike). I am pretty sure we all just think it is kind of funny now that the dust has settled (Evie was apparently very stoic and took it like a lady). Poor buggy!

Cutie Evie!

Evie got a new play gym so she can be a princess in her very own castle. She had lots of fun with it today:(notice the belly)

Evie is finally big enough to have her car seat facing forward so I flipped them around today. As a note, it is SO much easier installing a car seat forward facing. She was pretty excited about the new view.And here are just some recent cute Evie pics. With the weather being so nice lately it is easy to get some fun outdoor shots! Here she is sitting at her picnic table on the deck:
and here she is in a ridiculous outfit mommy bought where the shirt is WAY too short (belly shot):
and the hat is ridiculous as well. It is definitely not one size fits all as the tag implies:
And these are just Evie being cute!