Evie - 3 Months!

Baby girl, your daddy and I are so in love with you!

You rolled over for the first time on 9-20. I had laid you down on your tummy for your nap, and when I later went into your room to get you up, I found you on your back. You also scoot around quite a bit. It's not uncommon for you to push yourself halfway across your crib and then sometimes even turn yourself 90 degrees.

You are very strong and can move around on your back some by digging your heels into the ground and pushing off with your legs. You also often do the same thing when I prop you into a seated position, but somehow this results in you sliding down more onto your back.

You have let out a couple short giggles here and there but haven't yet fully laughed. I think you might be ticklish on your back like your brother. Your daddy was tickling Caleb's back when he laughed for the first time.

You are talking a ton, which Caleb is starting to think is pretty funny. He'll often repeat in an excited voice the sounds you make and then start laughing. I love, too, how you will often furrow your eyebrows a bit while talking as if you're saying something really serious.

Toward the end of this month, you started blowing raspberries and have started sticking your hands in your mouth a lot. You don't do pacifiers, but I'm starting to wonder if you're going to be a thumb sucker.

You still love when I kiss your mouth. You open up your mouth and kind of lean into it and close your eyes a little bit then smile after I kiss you.

As soon as we finish up the rest of the Size 1 diapers we have, we'll move you up to Size 1-2. You're still in some Newborn clothes, but mostly either 0-3 or 3 Month clothes.

You're still very active while eating, with your arms and/or legs usually moving around. You do this thing with your arm where you lay the back of your hand on the bridge of your nose, then pull your hand back across your eye, temple and then back to your ear. You then will stretch that arm out a bit over your head, back onto your nose and then will repeat the process over and over. You also pull on your ears a lot while eating.

I have only tried giving you a bottle 2 more times, but you did better and actually drank a little bit. I know I should be trying more if I want you to be better at it, but it just takes more time and effort than I've been willing to devote to it lately.

I dropped your late night feeding at 11.5 weeks, and you've had no problem going down to just 5 feedings a day. You are now eating around 8:30, 11:30, 2:30, 5:30 and 9 or 9:30. Those times vary, though, depending on what we have going on that day/night.

You nap on your tummy for about 1.5 hours between feedings during the day and then sleep swaddled on your back at night.

















You are still such a happy baby--people often comment on how much and how big you smile. I can't explain how much joy that big toothless grin brings me. Your eyes light up, you often scrunch your little nose, and it melts my heart! I pray that you will one day rejoice in the Lord! Life is busy, but I know God is using you right now to help me slow down a bit. When I look down at you and see you staring up at me with a huge smile, it's nearly impossible for me not to stop what I'm doing and smile back at you.

Sweet Evie, you are such a precious little girl, and we absolutely adore you!

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Keepin' Up the Family Resemblance

Evie continues to look just like Caleb did when he was her age. Every once in awhile, I'll see a picture I've taken of Evie that reminds me of a specific one I took of Caleb. Below is one example. Both pictures were taken shortly after they each turned two months old. The top picture is of Caleb, and the bottom two are of Evie.

I Posted Too Soon...

Another big accomplishment last week (in addition to Evie rolling over and Caleb going "tee tee" in his potty) was that Caleb started sleeping in his big boy bed some. We're easing into this one a little bit, but when I went in to check on him the first night in his new bed, this is what I found:


During nap time earlier that day, this is what we saw in our baby monitor:


*Notice that Caleb is laying in the middle of the floor surrounded by toys...silly boy!

A Big Week

The last few days have included a couple of big milestones in the Bishop household. During a nap earlier this week, Evie rolled over from her tummy to her back for the first time. Then, this morning, Caleb kept talking about his potty, which he got for his second birthday a couple weeks ago. So, we took off his diaper and sat him on his potty. After some prompting to "go tee tee", Caleb started going! He would go a little bit, stop, start clapping and say, "YEA!!," go a little bit more, stop, clap, say, "YEA!!" and so forth. Caleb was so excited! We'll see how his interest level goes after this as far as starting to potty train, but we're so proud of our little ones!

We Did It!!

You may recall my post awhile back (see here) about the insane heat and drought we experienced this summer. Well, I got online this morning to check the weather (which actually forecasts rain and cooler temperatures!), and I found a fun little article. It's a list of Summer 2011's Five Suffering Cities. It's based on the US cities who have dealt with the most challenging weather this summer (including magnitude, severity and longevity). Anyway, I was not at all surprised to see that Wichita Falls, Texas was ranked #1 as having THE most challenging summer weather in the US this year. We don't actually live in Wichita Falls, but it's about an hour away from us and is the closest major city to us.

Click here to see the full article, or click here to just see the records that have been set in our area. One record, in particular, is setting a new record hottest daily low temperature...88! Yep, that was our LOW temperature on July 26...good times! Praise the Lord for the cooler temperatures we've had!!

Caleb - 18 Months (ALSO VERY LATE!)

16 Months
The signs you know at this point are: "Please," "More" (you're now back to doing this sign the way you always have--with one set of fingertips tapping against the palm of your other hand) and "All done". I tried to teach you "Thank you," but the sign for it looks so similar to blowing kisses that you just kept blowing kisses instead.

Listing your favorite foods right now is hard because you eat pretty much anything, but you particularly love your morning banana, cheese, rice cakes, grapes and apples. You also eat lots of vegetables, but you haven't specifically asked for any of them yet. You've also recently tried and loved cottage cheese, yogurt and applesauce. I will say that for months now that you have been a bit of a mooch when it comes to food. It doesn't matter how much food you've just eaten, if we let you down from your highchair when we're eating, you'll always run over and want to eat whatever we're having too.

One thing that you've been doing for a little while is when we ask you where something is (Example: "Caleb, where's the ball?"), you'll look around to find it, but you'll hold your hands up around your shoulders with your palms facing up. I think this is the only picture I have of you doing that, but I love it.

A few of your favorite toys right now include rocks, sticks and your animal book.

You love your baths and whenever I ask you if you want to take one, you take off running toward the bathroom. A couple of times you hesitated, turned around and ran to your toys to pick out either your duckie or your ball. You'll also go to your room and get your towel when I ask you to.

I love the pitter patter sound of your footsteps as you walk and run through the house.

One day while changing your dirty diaper, you were squirming so I made up a song about stinky pooh. You thought it was really funny and started flinging your hands around to the beat of my song. After I finished changing your diaper, you wanted me to keep singing that song, so you would prompt me by flinging your hands up and down. Now, you use that same gesture to tell me when you've gone pooh in your diaper. Hopefully this is a big step toward making potty training easier.

You're generous with your kisses when we ask and will even offer them without being asked.

I'm amazed at how much you understand. I asked you recently to throw something in the trash, which is something I often do myself but rarely use the words to explain what I'm doing, however you did it right away. You've even started picking up bits of leaves or trash that you might find on the floor and putting them in the trash on your own. You're also really good about going to get your coat, hat, socks, book, truck, ball, etc. when asked.

At this point you can take off your hat, shoes and socks by yourself.

You got a lot better at opening presents this month. You weren't too interested in it when you turned 1, but you thought it was much more fun at Christmas.


17-18 Months
The words that you say now are: "apa" (apple), "ba" = ball/bite, "kick," "dada," "mama," "jeez" (cheese), "duckie," "sockie," "k" (rice cake), "boom boom," "good," "hattt" (hat) and "eg" (egg).

You enjoy making animal sounds and at like to imitate a puppy, cow, elephant, snake and whale.


Lately we've been going on walks at night after Daddy gets through with work. It's pretty cold outside, so we bundle you up and give you a tour of Graham in your stroller. Anyway, you are absolutely adorable in your matching hat and mittens, your thick coat and a blanket over your legs.


Speaking of cold weather, we had a pretty major snow storm here, and though you've been in the snow before, I think this was the deepest snow you've experienced. Our "big" snow storm in Graham resulted in more than half a foot of snow in our backyard. When we first went out in the snow, you were confused at how to get the snow off your mittens. I showed you how to hit your hands together to get it off, and after that you seemed to enjoy the snow more.

You still LOVE your tummy and love to lift your shirt with a huge grin and pat it while saying, "boom boom". You also love to see my tummy and will often come to look at my tummy when I ask you where the baby is.

One of our favorite things that you do has to do with a head lamp that your daddy has. You love to play with it and will hand it to us while squinting your eyes and scrunching your nose (in anticipation of the light being turned on).

You love to play on the bed. You like to lean back against stacked pillows like you've seen us doing. You also play games like you're going to get off the bed and will hang your feet off and then grunt for us to help you. The problem is that you don't seem to know whether you want down or up because if we let you down, then you'll hold your arms up to get back up. However, if we pull you back up, you'll just get back into that hanging position. Silly little monkey!

You've learned to take off your pants by yourself, which usually happens as you play in your crib before you fall asleep for your nap. I'm just hoping that you don't learn how to do the same with your diaper!

One day when I was laying you down to go to sleep, I started to walk toward the door and I heard you make this "mmm" sound, which is what you do when you're giving kisses. I turned around to see that you had your face pressed up against the side of the crib, trying to give me a kiss between the slats of the crib. Well, there was no way I could turn down an offer like that, so I came over to you, bent down and we kissed between the crib slats. You giggled in delight and scooted over several slats and then did it again, so I followed you and got my kisses. This has definitely become a game with you every time you lay down for a nap or bed time. Now, though, to tease us a little bit, you'll often wait until we start to walk off before you pucker up between the slats. It's so cute and is a game you would likely play endlessly if we kept going with it.

One new thing you started doing with this month was sort of a game. Usually while holding a ball you'll quickly lay down on the ground on your tummy, propped up on your elbows a kicking your legs a little in the air. You'll look up at me with a huge grin and stay there until I lay down on my tummy with you. You think this is pretty funny.

You had your first home haircut, and you handled it like a champ, (though you don't appear too enthused in this picture). You sat pretty still and didn't fuss, even though it took me forever because I had no clue what I was doing. Your daddy cut the back of your hair with clippers, and I attempted the top with scissors.

Unfortunately, you went through a hitting phase that mainly just happened when we tried to lay you down for bed and you didn't want to go. Sometimes after you had gotten in trouble for it, you'd switch to playing gently with my hair or even giving us a kiss. It broke my heart, and I'm thankful this wasn't a long term behavior.

Any time you find something on the floor (a crumb, a piece of trash, a broken off piece of Wally's dog food), you'll walk over and throw it in the trash. Mama's little helper!



You recently went on your first hike. This is something your daddy and I really enjoy, so I hope you do one day too. You weren't terribly interested in the hike portion of our time at Enchanted Rock--you were much more concerned with stooping down every couple of steps to play with all the rocks and sticks.

Caleb, you also recently discovered bowling, and you LOVE it! You were so excited about all of the bowling balls.

At this point, you're still taking 2 naps a day--one from 10 or 10:30 to around 12 or 12:30 and one from 3:30 to around 5. You don't sleep that whole time but will often play until you wear yourself out. You don't have any toys or blankets in your crib but can keep yourself entertained for quite a while. You're wearing mostly 18 Month pajamas, 18 Month shirts and 12 Month pants. We do 18 Month pants sometimes but have to roll the waistband. Your shoes are a Size 4 and you wear a Size 4 Overnite diaper at night and either a Size 3 or 4 diaper during the day. I guess you went through a growth spurt over the last few months because people are always commenting on how tall and thin you've gotten.

By the time you turned 18 months, you had 2 more teeth (incisor and molar) on your bottom right and your incisor on your top left, bringing your teeth total to 10.

At your 18 Month checkup, you weighed 24lbs (24.1%) and were 33.75" long (86.49%). I just can't get over how tall you're getting and how much older it makes you look!


Caleb, you bring us so much joy, and we are so incredibly blessed to be your parents.

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Caleb - 15 Months (WAY LATE!)

Ok, so I know this is pretty ridiculous to just now be posting this (considering it's now 9 months late!). I started these next few posts a long time ago but never got around to finishing them. Caleb turned 2 on Saturday, and I really want to post up-to-date stuff about him, but I'm forcing myself to first go back and finish these older posts first. Some of them are pretty incomplete and unfortunately I can't remember enough specifics about that time frame to expand on what I'd previously drafted, but at least it's something.


13 Months
During your 13th month, you got your first haircut. We took you to a children's salon in Wichita Falls for the big occasion. You handled it like a champ! You didn't fuss at all and sat perfectly still. It made me kind of sad afterward, though, because you looked so much older with your big boy haircut.














You LOVE your walker, and you now push other things around the house, including our kitchen table chairs and random toys.
You love to play with Wally and are slowly learning the meaning of "Be gentle." You haven't seen him for the last few months because your Gamgy kept him for awhile after we moved to Graham. You also now love to play in Wally's crate, as evidenced below. You went in the crate on your own AND closed the door while you were in there.















This was a big month for you because not only did you start walking by taking 5 steps on your own, but you also became a big brother!




14 Months
We finally had your one year pictures taken this month. I wish I could post some online, but we weren't able to have any digital proofs.

You learned to sign "More" and a couple times "Please". Instead of touching the tips of all fingers on both hands together to say, "more", you touch the tips of all fingers on your right hand to the palm of your left hand.

This month you were officially walking all over the place. Oh my, sweet Caleb, you are growing up way too fast!



15 months
The stats from your 15 month checkup were: 22lbs 9.5oz (21.47%), 31.25" long (52.97%) and 19" head circumference (79.01%).















On your 15 month birthday, your second bottom left tooth broke through, making 8 teeth! You're still a GREAT eater, and there's hardly anything you don't like.

Unfortunately, you had your first ear infection this month. You were so great, though, and didn't seem fussy at all.

The words you now say are: DaDa, MaMa, sssockkk (your favorite word, I think), no, for awhile you were saying sssoe for shoe but have stopped, ssss (cheese) and ba (ball). As far as animal sounds, you now make the sounds/motions of an elephant and a puppy. You have learned to sign "all done", which is great because now I know when you're finished eating. Your sign for "more" has now (often) evolved to tapping all your fingertips on one hand on your chest, and when you see a ceiling fan, you'll point your arm at it and move it around in a circle.

Caleb, you became such a big helper to me this month as you decided on your own to help unload the spoons from the dishwasher.











You really enjoy patting your belly, and you LOVE your baths and run to the bathroom whenever I ask you if you want to take one. You also LOVE shoes and socks and will often attempt to walk with my or your daddy's shoes on your feet.

Caleb, you are so very precious to us!

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Evie - 2 Months!

Some of this may be more information than any of you care to read, but I realize as I look back at Caleb's monthly posts, that I appreciate the most the little mannerisms that I recorded along the way. Therefore, I'm going to try and make it a habit to document the same kinds of things about Evie.










At your 2 Month checkup, you weighed 12 lb 11.4 oz, which put you in the 88th percentile for weight, you were 23.75" long (90th percentile) and your head circumference was 15.35" (52nd percentile).

You started going 8+ hours between feedings at night at 5.5 weeks. At this point, you typically eat around 8:30 am, 11 am, 2 pm, 5 pm, 8 pm and 11 pm. Your daddy (and Caleb) tried giving you your first bottle this month, but you weren't having it. You didn't fuss, but you also didn't want anything to do with that bottle...hopefully we'll conquer that challenge soon.

You will often make this cute sighing noise when you're eating...often with every gulp. Your daddy and I love it! You are fairly noisy and active (arms and legs moving) while you eat.

I'm sure this next little tidbit will embarrass you later, but I think it's sweet. It's gotten a little bit harder recently, but for the first 1.5 months or so, I could always tell when you were about to go potty. You make this adorable "potty face", in which you push your lips out and purse them together. Too cute!

You make me laugh with your Stevie Wonder act. That may sound bizarre, but when I'm holding you against my shoulder, you'll often move your head back and forth against my shoulder like Stevie Wonder. You'll even lead with the top of your head and drag your chin like he does. You will sometimes do this back and forth for 1-2 minutes.

You're wearing some Newborn clothing still, but mostly 0-3 month, and you're in a Size 1 diaper.

Sitting in your Bumbo seat was a new experience this month, and you seem to enjoy it. You'll often sit in your Bumbo on the table while we eat dinner.

At the beginning of this month, you discovered your tongue. You often would play with it and stick it out of your mouth with the tip of it pointing up. You have such a precious, tiny tongue!

You started smiling on your 6 week birthday. You are a very happy baby and are typically the most smiley after your first morning feeding. I usually don't have to work hard to get you to smile--I usually just say, "Hi, Evie," and a huge grin comes across your face. I often intentionally try not to look at you when I'm feeding you because sometimes when I do look down at you, you'll stop eating just so you can smile at me.

Something I realized recently is that through your smiles and the joy in your eyes when you look at me, I can tell you love me. It warms my heart so much to watch you smiling and cooing at me. What a precious girl you are, Evie!

At the end of this month you started opening your mouth and leaning in toward me when I would kiss you. Afterward you would just smile.

Evie, we adore you and are so in love with you!!

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Happy Spiritual Birthday!

Happy spiritual birthday, my love! It's hard to believe that 12 years ago today you accepted Christ and that 2 years ago today you were ordained at Kenwood Baptist Church. It's amazing to look back on the path God has taken us on since August 16, 1999. Vocational ministry was nowhere on our radar at that point, and yet God chose to train you up for his work in some of the most amazing environments (Southwestern Seminary, Southern Seminary, Capitol Hill Baptist Church and Kenwood Baptist Church). What a blessing that he has now given you the wonderful privilege of serving as Senior Pastor at Graham Bible Church.

I love you, Ryan, and am so proud of the godly man, husband and father that you are!

Unfathomable Reality

I had never realized just how much I take my health for granted until my sweet sister-in-law, Jill, was diagnosed with cancer. Jill went to bed one night three months ago without a care in the world and woke up the next morning to find a large lump at the base of her neck. A lump that was not there (at least noticeably) the night before. A lump that after being checked out and biopsied turned out to be cancerous. Hodgkin's Lymphoma to be specific. Jill went from being a vibrant, healthy young mommy of 3 to now being weary and pain-ridden from the poison we call "chemo" coursing through her veins.

I still can't wrap my mind around the reality of their lives now. I know Jill has cancer. I know she's going through chemo. I know the toll that it's taking on their family--physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, you name it. And yet, it's still hard for me to believe.

Jill is doing as well as can be expected and is now, Lord willing, more than half-way through her 8 rounds of chemo, which will then be followed by radiation.

It's been such an encouragement to watch Brandon and Jill walk through this, and God is certainly growing them (and me) in new ways because of all of it.

Please join us in praying for their precious family. Please pray for continued faith, strength and endurance for Brandon and Jill. Please pray for our nephew and niece as they transition from homeschool to starting public school this week. Please pray that God would continue to carry them through this trial and that He would receive so much glory as a result of it all. Praise the Lord that we have a rock on which we can stand when the world around us seems to fall apart!!

Click here to follow their journey.

Sunday Best

I am not the type of mom who is good at coordinating my children's outfits so they match. However, on Sunday, I unintentionally did that. Here are the 2 best pictures I was able to get of my kiddos. (It was hard enough getting Caleb to sit still for pictures alone, but now that Evie's here, it's super hard to get a good picture of both kids. I can't imagine how difficult picture taking will get if the Lord chooses to bless us with more kids!)

This Is How We Roll...

It may look like we have put styling gel in our little man's hair, but no, this is how we roll in Texas (at least in the middle of the summer). This look is not an attempt to look cool...it's a result of sweat. Poor Caleb is usually sopping wet whenever we arrive somewhere in Graham. You see, living in a small town, there's not time for the car to cool off before you arrive at your destination. Sitting in the back seat with no air vents doesn't help the situation either.



Yesterday, we pulled out a blow-up pool that some friends left when they moved, and Caleb had a ball. It's the only way to beat this insane summer heat!

By the way, we are continually setting heat records in Texas. I read that as of yesterday, we have had 48 consecutive days in Graham of triple digit temperatures. That's insane! That means it's been nearly 2 months since we've had highs in the 90s! It's also been nearly 2 months since we had any rain. Our forecast for the next 10 days only includes 1 day with a high below 104, and just to make everyone jealous (note sarcasm), our high today is supposed to be 110. Good times!

Evie - 1 Month!

*I'm going to preface this post with a couple of things. 1) Some of this post will be repetitive from previous entries, but I want to have it all in one post to make it easier to go back and use to make a photo book later. 2) I LOVE LOVE LOVE looking at my kids when they're sleeping, so there are tons of sleeping Evie pictures. Then again, though, that's pretty much all they do in these early weeks. :) 3) Because we were at the hospital for such a short time before Evie arrived, we didn't have time to bring our camera in from the car, so all the pictures we have immediately after Evie was born were taken with Ryan's phone. You may, therefore, notice those pictures are somewhat blurry. Anyway, on to the post...















Evangeline (pronounced Evangelynn) “Evie” Grace Bishop

Your daddy and I chose your name around Thanksgiving 2010. We were only a couple months pregnant at that time, but we were both convinced that you were a girl. Evangeline means "good news, gospel or messenger of good news" and we pray that you will one day be a bearer of the good news of Jesus Christ! We have always loved the name "Grace" and pray that it will one day, Lord willing, serve as a reminder of God's grace in your life. We have been saved from so much, and we pray that your name will be indicative of the life you will live.














You were born on Friday, June 24 at 2:08 am and weighed 8 lbs 0 oz, were 21” long and your head was 14" around. From what I've seen online, that put you around the 70th percentile for weight, the 93rd percentile for height and the 70th percentile for head circumference. You arrived 3 days past your due date. I actually went into labor after scheduling an induction appointment at my checkup earlier that day. I'm so thankful you decided to come on your own! On Thursday, I woke up having contractions that continued throughout the day. They were somewhat regular, but not very strong. When I went in for my weekly prenatal checkup at 5 that afternoon, Dr. Cawley said I was dilated to a fingertip and my cervix was still thick and posterior. I was discouraged and was feeling like we were never going to meet you. I told Dr. Cawley, though, that I figured we would see him again over the weekend, if not the next day.

Sure enough, around 10:30 or 11 on Thursday night, my contractions started getting stronger and more regular. They started out about 8-10 minutes apart but then went to 3-5 minutes apart. At that point, your daddy started loading up the car. (Your daddy, by the way, did such an amazing job taking care of me and getting everything together so we could go!) Anyway, we had been hanging out at home figuring I had quite awhile before you would come since I hadn't dilated just a few hours earlier. However, my contractions quickly went from 3-5 minutes apart to 1-3 minutes apart. We scrambled to wake up your sleeping brother and drop him off at a friend's house, and then it was off to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital at 1:30am, and you were born 38 minutes later!

Thankfully we live in a small town because we (and Dr. Cawley) barely made it as it was. The anesthesiologist didn't get to the hospital until after you were born, so I'm thankful my labor and pushing were so short! I needed to have an antibiotic administered through an IV to protect you as I delivered you, and the last of my antibiotic finished just as you came out. It was such a stressful situation because I felt panicked that we wouldn't finish the antibiotic on time and that Dr. Cawley wouldn't make it. I vividly remember telling the nurse (in a panicked way), "She's coming...I need to push!" (I found out after the fact that the nurses didn't really think I was in labor when I arrived at the hospital because I was still fairly calm. I don't know if that affected anything, but it sure didn't feel like things around me were moving fast enough. When we arrived at the hospital, I was dilated to a 6, then 5 minutes later I was an 8 and then 5 minutes later I was a 10. I was progressing so fast, and yet they kept telling me not to push. Praise the Lord that Dr. Cawley made it just in time because you came out after only 2 pushes! You were so beautiful and healthy! I believe your APGAR scores were a 9 and a 10.

Sweet Evie, I can't believe it's already been a month since you entered this world! You have been such a joy and such an easy baby, just like your big brother was. You are a great eater and have been gaining weight quickly. When we left the hospital, you weighed 7 lb 12 oz, having only lost 4 ounces from your birth weight. When we went in for your 2 week checkup 1.5 weeks later, you had already gained 1.5 lbs from when we left the hospital. At that checkup, you weighed 9 lb 4 oz and were 21.5" long, which put you in the 81st percentile for weight and 88th percentile for height. Dr. Reed doesn't do a well checkup between 2 weeks and 2 months of age, so I weighed you on our scale at home on your 1 month birthday, and you were 10.8 lbs (assuming our scale is fairly accurate). When I looked online, that weight puts you in about the 75th percentile.

There were a few nights when we first got home from the hospital that I would sleep on the couch with you in my arms for a couple of hours between the middle of the night feedings. You seemed to just want to be held for those couple of hours, but you've done exceptionally well sleeping ever since then. I had been setting an alarm at night to wake you after 4-5 hours, but once we heard you were gaining weight just fine, I started setting my alarm for 6 hours after the start of your last evening feeding. Ever since then, you've been going 5-6 hours between feedings at night and even started going 7 hours the night before you turned one month. What a blessing it is that you're such a great sleeper too!

We usually have you sleep on your tummy (propped up on a small tummy time pillow) during the day and then swaddle you on your back at night. We were able to use receiving blankets to swaddle you for the first 1-2 weeks, but after that, you got too strong and we switched you over to your SwaddleMe blanket (a velcro swaddle blanket).

You're a content little girl and usually only fuss when you're hungry or if you need to burp. You developed baby acne at around 2.5 weeks, which had gotten pretty bad but seems like it's maybe starting to clear up now.

You wore Newborn diapers and clothes for your first month, but I'm sure you'll move up a size in both during this next month.

You don't seem huge on your pacifier unless it's time to eat and I'm not able to feed you right away, and even then, you'll only keep it in your mouth for a little bit.

Evie, you're just like Caleb in so many ways--looks, eating, sleeping, your apathy toward a pacifier...however, you, unlike your brother at your age, seem to really enjoy your baths. You cried during your first bath at home and then proceeded to go to the bathroom all over your towel afterward (like Caleb did). Ever since then, though, you've just sat there and not fussed.

You've begun to make more noises when you're awake, and we've gotten glimpses of your "sleep smiles." We're eager to hopefully see some real smiles and hear lots more fun noises next month!

We all love you so much...especially your big brother. He often wants to hold you so I can take y'all's picture, kiss you, attempt to carry you and will usually ask about you when we wakes up. He calls you, "Ebie" at this point and just the other night as we were talking, he said, "Ebie. Pitty (pretty)." So sweet! I can't wait to see the two of you interact more as you get older.



Sweet Evie, you are an absolute joy! We love you and can't wait to see what next month holds for you!!

(Click here to see more pictures of Evie's first month.)