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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