Evelyn Clara: 3 months

Evie is three whole months today- time is flying by! She is growing up so fast, I can't believe how different she is already. Evie smiles all the time now, especially for people she knows. Grandpa, Nana, Aunt Allison, and Jen can always get a smile out of her- and of course Mommy and Daddy! She also is cooing and making lots of noises, although within the last week or so this has lessened- because she has discovered her hands and they are CONSTANTLY in her mouth. :) It was actually hard to get a photo with her hands away from her face.

I suspect she might be teething because of the drooling, hand chomping, and occasional fussiness, and I'm so not ready!! Thankfully (or maybe not) it could be a while until she actually cuts a tooth, but I just can't believe we've started already. Overall though she's a really happy baby. We've gotten onto a good schedule, especially when we're at home, of eating every 3 hours, and 3 solid naps a day of about 1-2 hours. Of course going out sometimes messes things up, but she's pretty flexible and is really easy to put down for a nap as long as I catch her before she gets too tired.

Evie loves tummy time now that she's mastered rolling from back to belly, I will often set her on her play mat, walk away to do something, and come back to find her on her belly about to knock over the arch of toys above her. :) Eric's decided her favorite colors right now are yellow and orange, since she seems to get more excited for toys and other things those colors. She is a wonderful baby and we feel blessed (and spoiled!) to have her.

Tummy time with Daddy

Evie is a long and lean baby, but Daddy caught this hilarious face that makes her look like a chunker!! :)

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

A video of Evie rolling from back to belly- she'd already started but it's the best I've got because when I keep the camera in her face trying to get her to do it, she just stares at me. So I've gotta be stealthy! ;)

Milestones and New Toys

Evie has now started rolling from back to belly- yay!! (video to come) Sometimes her bottom arm still gets a little stuck, but for the most part she's got it down. Before I couldn't keep her on her tummy- now she wants to be on her tummy all the time! Unless she's on her playmat, she's constantly trying to roll onto her stomach. It's exciting to see her learn new things, but having a baby that's more mobile is definitely different. I realize that I can't leave her places like I used to, and she's getting less cooperative for diaper changes already!

Even though she's a little small for it, I decided to put together Evie's Jumperoo. She sits up so well, and I thought she needed something else to do during the day besides her playmat and the swing. I figured we'd give it a try and if it was too much for her I'd just put it back in the basement for another month or two. But she loved it! We had to put a box under her feet because she's not tall enough to touch the ground, but she sat up in the seat wonderfully and can reach all the toys around her. She especially likes the two wheels and has figured out how to spin them. :) We're so pround of our growing girl!!!

I finally got it!!

A video of Evie rolling over. :) She does it so often now that it's hard to catch- because as soon as I put her on her tummy, she immediately rolls over onto her back. I literally had to keep my hand on her back to hold her there until I started recording- and she went right over! Well, at least we know she's mastered this skill. ;) Moving on then!

Evie's First Convention

Our yearly convention in Rochester was this past weekend, and it was Evie's first time attending!! I was nervous that it would be hard for her to be there all day, and that I'd be up walking around to keep her happy. But she was SO good! She adjusted really well to our change in schedule, and she was a really good girl. She sat at the seats with us even when she was awake and just looked around at all the sights. It all went a lot better than I expected it to. And then I realized that this will probably be our easiest convention ever- by next year Evie will most likely be walking... and then I'm sure there will be no keeping her in a seat!! ;)

Evelyn Clara: 2 months old

Today Evie is two months old. She is growing so fast everyday I feel like I can barely keep up! It is amazing how quickly babies change at this stage. In the last month, Evie has learned to smile, laugh, roll from her belly to her back, and so much more. She interacts with us more and more every day, smiling and cooing when we talk to her. She is a friendly baby, smiling for most everyone and when she's happy she'll let anyone hold her.
Evie is still crazy strong for her age, the pediatrician told us that she's at the level of a four month old with her head control and leg and arm strength. Eric says we need to enter her in some kind of "Strong Baby" contest. :) At her two month doctor visit this past week, she weighed in at 11 lbs 9.6 oz and 22.25 inches. This puts her in 50th percentile for weight and 60th for height, so nothing too crazy. She handled her shots well (it was AWFUL to see her in pain like that!!), she calmed quickly and displayed no adverse effects from them.
We are loving our time with our Eviebean, she is so much fun!!

Good Morning Evie!

Every morning after her 5 am feeding, I let Evie go back to sleep on the Boppy instead of moving her back to the moses basket next to the bed. So, when I open at my eyes again a couple hours later, I see this....

What a sweet little face to wake up to! Even when we've had a bad night (like last night, poor girl had her shots yesterday so she was fussy and woke up for an extra feeding), all of the frustration and exhaustion from the night before melts away when I see this little girl's face. :) She starts to stir- a little kick, a stretch of the arm, and soon she's awake.

"Ma, get that camera out of my face, I just woke up!!"

"Is it time to wake up? Well alright then."

She's always so sweet in the mornings, smiling and cooing and making cute faces. I sing songs or make silly faces and we enjoy our morning time together. This morning I was so distracted by thinking about how wonderful this time is and how it won't be like this forever and all that.... and then Evie brought me back to the here and now.
She pooped on my leg. And the sheets. Sweet! That's what I get for being all sentimental in the middle of a diaper change and not putting it on fast enough. ;) Good morning!