Out growing

Lately Evalyn has been losing interest in the "baby" toys she's always had to play with. She's out growing most of them. And to be honest they are for younger babes. She's getting older and starting to explore and trying to see how things work! We have just as much of a blast watching her as she does exploring!

So this last weekend we went to Toys'R'Us and sought out the activity center that would be the most for it's money.

This is what we found:

As you can see it allows her to stand. And there are many gadgets that all make noise and twist, turn, swivel, etc.

Around the other side is a keyboard that plays songs or allows her to "make up" her own songs. The keyboard part also detaches from the activity center and works stand alone.

So far she loves it and enjoys playing a little while and then she will check out something else and then come back for some more!

You may have noticed the "gate" that is up behind her. That was also a purchase we made this weekend! It's actually a 6 panel "gate" that can be linked together for an enclosed play area or used as a barrier. We are using it as the latter for the time being. The tv room, where we spend time watching movies or {Playhouse Disney in the mornings}, has many hazards for little fingers, to include a fire place, and was seeming to be impossible to baby proof with out emptying the entire room! 

The barrier set up is much more practical. So far it's great and just keeps her away from the outsides of the room, where the fire place, tv, and wine cabinet all are. The rest of the space she has free reign and she doesn't even seem to mind that she can't get to those things any more.

And we feel much more at ease that our little explorer won't be harming herself anytime soon, at least we can hope!

9 month check-up

Today was my check up at the Dr's office, since I'm 9 months now!

Here's me with dada waiting for the Dr. They made me wear only a diaper so dada was keeping me warm with my blankie!

Mama forgot to post about my milestone last Sunday so I thought I'd help her out! She is busy growing my lil brother or sister in her 'tummy', you know.

Lately, I've been exploring and climbing and opening and digging and pulling and dragging pretty much anything I can find or get my hands on.

Mama says "No no" a lot and I think she is trying to hide or keep me away from the really good stuff... cause she always says it and then when I go ahead and do it anyway she comes over and picks me up and puts me on the complete opposite side of the room. So then I have to crawl all the way back over to find out what she's hiding! It's the game we play pretty much all day long!

By the end of the day I'm pretty pooped out and ready to go to bed.

I eat three meals a day just like mama and dada do. I still have a bottle in between. Although mama keeps putting my milk in this weird thing with handles on the side. The milk comes out the top part and I'm still trying to figure out what she expects me to do with it. She looks a little frustrated when I get sick of it and throw it on the ground. But then she gives my my "baba" and we are both happy again.

I've got two teeth on the bottom now and the doc said today that the top two are not far behind. I'm sure hoping they don't hurt like these others did but even if they do, mama is nice to cuddle me and hold me any time I want her to. I think she loves me a lot.

I've been toying with the idea of trying this walking thing. I like to pull myself up on the furniture so I can see better whats going on around me and then I'll hang on and walk along it. I can even stand up from sitting with out holding on, but usually I get a little worried by the time I'm up and so I sit right back down.

For now I can get around pretty quick on my hands, one knee and then one foot. At least mama and dada say I'm fast!

So here's my stats from the Dr's office today:

Weight: 20.1 lbs (75%)

Height: 29 in (90%)

So that's me at 9 months. I'm going to go see what I can get into ;)

        Evalyn

Friend

On Friday night and Saturday morning to afternoon we watched a little girl of a couple we go to church with.

She is also an E!

She is a couple months younger than Evalyn.

They got the biggest kick out of each other.

Evalyn did show a little insecurity with having someone else getting "mama" and "dada's" attention!

I think they had fun together.

This is the beginning of a long friendship. :)

Heartbeat

I went to my ob appt yesterday and everything is great.

I heard the baby's heartbeat. 170 bpm (which is normal).

It was a standard visit so not much more to report.

I am hopeful that I might see the end of the sickness before too long!

I'm really excited about that.

Food still has strange tastes and I avoid some food like the plague.

But at least I am able to eat 

which is a vast improvement to my first pregnancy with miss E.

My sweet family.

My sweet family.

Slacker

I know. I'm a slacker.

I haven't posted in forever. And a day.

Despite the quiet in blog world, we have been rather busy around these parts. We do have a crawler now, you know.

And not only does she love to crawl to see any and everything, but she can pull herself up now too! Sometimes she will even let go of what she's holding on to and just stand on her own for a few seconds.

She is also a talker. We have lots of conversations through out the day. She tells me whats on her mind and I ask her questions to find out all that she is thinking.

I love our conversations.

We made a recent trip out to see my mom (Nana) and got to visit with some friends too. We had a nice trip and baby girl did so well adjusting to the different environment and then being back home.

On the drive home I noticed little missy was getting her first tooth! Right down in the front on the bottom.

Daddy is sad to see her toothless grin go, but we know she will have a beautiful pearly white smile!

We've spent a lot of time outside the last couple days. E is getting more used to the swing and sat in it the longest today!

I don't have much more to write about today. But with the nicer weather around the corner I'll be taking more pictures and hopefully getting back to blogging!