10 months older and wiser too...

Happy 10 months sweet baby girl!

She started having an afternoon snack this month and string cheese is her favorite!

 She loves her best friend Eden so much and cries every time she has to go home.

When we say "Ta-dah" to her, she responds with a sweet sounding "dah!"

She loves to sing ("ahhhh") along with any music but especially the hymns at church.

On of our favorite moments this month was when Jeff and I heard Evie singing along with her Glo-worm in her car-seat (on pitch an everything!). So crazy!

She loves giving kisses, especially on noses.

When we ask her to kiss us, she does.

She still has the cutest belly laugh.

She still loves reading books and if we are busy, she is happy to sit and read the books by herself. Still turning the pages and everything by herself (she has been doing for 5 months now!)

And her favorite toy this month is definitely the bean bags Eden's mama made for her. 

They are the perfect size for her tiny hands and she loves the sound they make when she throws them on the ground.

 

 Oh Evie girl, where has this year gone!? 

Good thing we've made the most of every minute.

Thank you for making this year the best year ever.

You make this world better every day!

And now Evie knows...

where apples come from...

We went to Apple Hill festival and who knew that on the West coast when you go apple pickin' it's 90 degrees outside. We had fun but I must admit I was a little disappointed at not being able to dress Evie in her apple pickin' outfit. And it was way too warm to enjoy warm apple cider and doughnuts, so we just drank cold cider instead :)

p.s. - this is my attempt to actually blog about the things we do with Evie and not just how cute she is ;)

We get told all the time...

She's got character. And she certainly does...

Miss Independent

Here she comes...

...our crawler!












So on Saturday, July 14th Evie Mae surprised us all and as if by overnight, she suddenly had an interest in crawling. She started on her hands and knees and would scoot both knees at a time. Then we'd see her move one hand and one knee and the other hand and the other...well almost the other knee. Usually she'd face plant before she could move the other knee. Then for the next week she went back to her old tricks after she start crawling, which means she'd almost finish crawling and then decide instead of face planting to just dive for the toy or whatever it was she was trying to get.

But on July 23rd, she surprised us again and Jeff saw her crawl to a toy that morning. The rest of the day that girl was crawling everywhere and she's been crawling ever since! Especially after her BFF - Eden ;)

When we went to Utah (a month before), she started getting up onto her knees on her own. But when we came back, moved furniture around, and gave Evie her own room, we couldn't get her motivated to crawl again. She was perfectly content to be mobile rolling everywhere. And boy would she get everywhere! We were so shocked that she was so mobile without crawling. But she finally did it!

Three cheers for Evie! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray!

She's a crawler baby!