Evie - 7 Months!

Oh my goodness, sweet Evie, you are growing up too fast!! I feel like this month you became much more independent. This is largely because you started army crawling on 12/28--just 4 days after you turned 6 months old! You now roll and army crawl everywhere! Your army crawl consists of you putting your left forearm on the ground perpendicular to your body and pulling your body as you use your right hand and right foot to push off as well. You'll occasionally get a little frustrated when you can't keep up with your brother.

It amazes me how quickly you can crawl across the house, even though you don't do it on all fours! You often will come play with my feet while I'm in the kitchen cooking or cleaning and will still sometimes manage to get yourself stuck under the bed.

This month, you started eating green beans (Initially you didn't like them, but you seemed to love them the third time you ate them.), squash, peas, sweet potatoes, carrots and bananas. I think your least favorite food at this point is peas; you'll still eat them--just not as quickly as the others. You're so cute when you are eating because you're constantly kicking your feet. You still won't drink out of a bottle or a sippy cup, but I'm hoping you will soon. For the last month or two, you've gotten in the habit of drinking your milk for 10 minutes, and then you want to take a 20-30 minute break before you finish eating.

A new habit you started this month is often sucking your left thumb as soon as I lay you down to sleep. Your thumb doesn't stay in your mouth very long, but it's pretty cute! You often also let out this short, excited giggle as I cover you with your blanket. Your right hand usually reaches out from under the blanket and grabs the side of it.

We loved our first Christmas with you! You enjoyed eating the wrapping paper as you helped open your first presents.

This month, we also went on your first vacation--to Branson. We didn't do much of anything while we were there except to spend time together as a family.

You now say, "ba ba ba", "da da da" and "ruh ruh ruh". You are getting much noisier as you experiment with your voice. I sometimes wonder if you're loud just because your brother is loud too.








Your favorite toys right now are your dinosaur with the bouncing balls, blue octopus, pink puppy, monkey, rattle ball, butterfly teether, teething ring with balls all around it and your bird that hangs from your car seat. Everything goes in your mouth these days, but you still don't have any teeth. More than any of your toys, though, you love to play with Caleb. It's so sweet how much you love your brother and how quickly he can make you laugh.

You still nap 3 times a day--the first two are 1.5-2 hours each, and the last one is around 45 minutes. You wear 6 Month clothes and Size 2 diapers.


I love how you have started sticking out your tongue when you smile more. Words can't describe how much your smile warms our hearts, precious Evangeline! I'm so thankful for your joyful spirit and pray that your joy is rooted in the Lord one day soon!

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Ruidoso

This is super late, but we were so incredibly blessed by some dear friends who allowed us to stay for free in their house in Ruidoso last March/April. The time we spent together as a family--relaxing and being out in God's creation was priceless! Click here for pictures of our precious getaway.

Evie - 6 Months!

Sweet Evie, my, oh my was this a big month for you! It started out when you rolled over from your back to your tummy (while swaddled) on November 27. From that night on, you have slept on your tummy. You rolled from your back to your tummy unswaddled on December 9.

You have been rolling all over the place and scooting. It's amazing how much you can move around the room without actually crawling--maybe you're just trying to keep up with your brother! A couple of times you've even scooted your whole body (except your head) under the pack 'n play or under our bed.

You're now sitting up on your own pretty well.

With all your developmental growth this month, we're no longer able to use your Bumbo seat or bouncer because you can fall out of them. You still enjoy your jumperoo, but not quite as much now that you're more mobile.


When you're upset, you'll get up on all fours and rock back and forth. Sometimes you'll also make a motorboat sound when you're upset.

When you get really excited, you get a huge smile and breath in and out through your nose really fast.

You're ticklish on your tummy, and especially on the sides of your neck under each cheek.


You wear Size 2 diapers and mostly 6 Month clothes.

You wouldn't take the only bottle I offered you this month, so I'm guessing we'll just bypass bottles and move straight to sippy cups.

You usually eat around 8am, 12:00pm, 4:30pm and 8:30pm with a 1.5-2 hour nap in the morning and afternoon and a 30-45 minute nap before your last feeding. When I feed you, you often grab at my face--at my chin, at my nose, but most commonly, you'll hang your hand from my lower teeth. Caleb did the exact same thing!

At your 6 Month checkup today, you weighed 16lb 11oz (58.28%), were 26.75" long (78.66%) and your head circumference was 16.5" (28.47%).

You're such a content and joyful little girl! And, man, do you love to show affection! Though you've initiated kisses in the past, this month it's gotten really sweet. When I'm holding you, and you're facing away from me or when you're sitting in my lap with your back toward me, you'll turn your head up and around toward my face and hold your mouth open until I give you kisses. You'll often reach up and hold onto my cheek with your right hand too. I LOVE THIS!!

You usually get excited whenever someone looks at you or starts talking to you. You'll get a huge grin and kick your legs a bunch.

Oh, precious Evie, your daddy and I adore you!


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