Evie - 6 months old

Hard to believe it's been half of a year since our little Evie joined our family (and really it's almost been 6 1/2 months - this mom has been really bad about updating this blog!).  

Evie is so much fun right now.  She's really starting to interact with all of us!  The boys love to make her laugh and I'm pretty sure she's rather laugh at them than me and Chris.  As soon as we put Evie on the ground she's all over the place.  She does a roll, sit up, roll thing to get all over.  So this week we got out the baby gate to put up!

Evie has been sitting up on her own for about 3 weeks now - it happened pretty fast and then just this weeks she's really trying to pull herself up on things so she's standing.  I have a feeling we are going to have an early walker like Borne.  I think she just wants to keep up with her brothers!

She is such a good sleeper.  Normally she'll go to bed around 7:30-8:30pm and sleep until 7:00am.  Last night she did wake up at 1:00am for a 4 oz bottle and that's the first time I've woken up with her in a really long time.  Seriously maybe like May?  She's a GOOD sleeper!

She loves baby food.  We started feeding her veggies in the last couple of weeks and she just gobbles them right up.  I think her favorite so far might be sweet potatoes or squash.  But pretty much anything we put in front of her she'll eat!

We are trying to transition from soy formula to milk formula.  So far it seems to be going really good!

We visited the doctor last week and here are her stats:
Height: 25 1/2 - 24%
Weight: 15 lbs 3oz - 28%
Head: 17 1/4 - 75-90%

So she continues to stay on the smaller side but proportionally she's just perfect!

Evie has a great little personality and is really laid back.  She just goes along with whatever we are doing - unless she's really hungry or tired - she'll let you know!

Here are a few pictures from her 6 months photo shoot.

 Thanks Aunt Chelsea for the cute pink tutu outfit!

 

4 months

Evie is now four months old and is getting to be so much fun.  She interacts with us so much and it's fun the more her little personality develops.  She is a pretty laid back kid and not much bothers her.  She did have her 4 month appointment yesterday and she was not very happy after 2 shots but is better today.  Here are her measurements:

Height: 24 1/4 inches - 36%
Weight: 13 lbs 6oz - 30%
Head: 16 3/4 inches - 90-95%

In the last week Evie has been rolling around like a mad woman.  When we were at Trevor and Shannon's house on Father's Day she rolled about 5 feet across the room.  I think she likes being able to move.  When she's on her stomach she's already pulling her legs up like she wants to crawl.  We are wondering if she's going to be like Borne and walk at 8 months.  We'll see!

Evie is still a really good sleeper.  Last week she went through a little phase where she got up once in the middle of the night but was back to her normal 8pm-6am sleeping pattern.  Sure is nice having a good sleeper!

She loves to look around and especially at her brothers.  There are so many time she'll be in her swing or bouncer and she's looking all around for someone to look at and many times the boys don't mind sitting in front of her and making funny faces at her.  That will almost always get a giggle out of her.  She's already hooked on her older brothers.

There's been an adjustment having three kids around the house but overall with Evie's laid back personality it's been pretty darn easy and a lot of fun. Although when I'm home alone with all three after a day of work like tonight I might yell once or twice! :)

Here are some phone pictures of Evie over the last couple of weeks.

This is Evie's mobile I finally finished.  I started it when I was 7 months pregnant.  It was a slow process but I'm pretty happy with the outcome.

Evie - 3 month pics!

Ian lost his front tooth.

Evie is 3 months old

On May 16th Evie joined the three month club.  Lots is happening in our world and little miss Evie is along for the ride and showing us lots of new things.

She is sleeping through the night and has been for about three weeks.  She normally goes to bed anywhere between 8:00pm-10:00pm but it's normally around 8:30pm.  And almost like clock work she is up between 5:50-6:10 each morning. Every once in a while she'll surprise us at 5:00 but not very often.  She's my little alarm clock!! :)

She has started to giggle.  It's so cute and we love when it happens.

She kind of babbles as well and she loves putting her lips together and blowing.  I think she's trying to imitate us.  Chris even got a picture the other day.

Evie is really starting to fill out. She's getting chubby cheeks!  Here's a picture in the car seat.

She started daycare and I'm back to work.  She's been doing good at daycare!  Kind of starting to get in a routine for Amanda!

 

Overall Evie is a pretty darn happy girl!!

All About My Mom by Ian

Ian wrote this at school for mother's day.  The underlined words are what he filled in.  I'm spelling just like he is because it makes it that much better.

My mom's name is mel.*
She has brown hair.*
She has brown eyes.
She is 39 years old.+
She weights 800 pounds.+
Her favorite color is yelloy.*
Her favorite animal is me.*
Her favorite T.V. show is facked or faked. (fact or faked)
She likes to play with me.*
She doesn't like to get angry.*
She is really good at paing bills. (paying bills)+
She isn't very good at stoping my little brother.*+
She likes when I am good and sleep when I'm supost to.*
She doesn't like when I am bad.*
I like when my mom gives me kisses.
I don't like when my mom yells at me, but I still love her.

I have to say a lot of this is true - I put little stars by the ones I'd have to agree with!  I got some pretty good laughs out of the ones with + signs in front.  I guess I need to let him know how old I really am otherwise people are going to think I'm a lot older (well maybe I can use that to my advantage - maybe they will think I look a lot younger!).  Also need to start teaching him how pounds work!  I guess all of the time I spend paying bill is paying off!  And yes I do often have a hard time getting Borne to stop doing things.

I think this little piece of paper will be so much fun to look at in 20 years.  I almost want to try and remember to have him do it every year to see how his answers change year to year.

At the bottom of the page it said this is what she looks like.  Here's the picture he drew.

Ian is 7!

Wow!  It's hard to believe 7 years ago Ian surprised the heck out of us arriving 9 weeks early.  He is growing up a wonderful kid and makes us smile often (and not smile every once in a while too!).  Ian had his 7 year check up this morning.  He was 4'3" tall (95th %) and he weighed 78 lbs (98th %). So a big boy we got!

Here's a picture of all three kids last week that Chris got on his phone.