Baby girl doll

Everything that I haven't yet posted about...

















Spring & JT & Jack & Tommy & Ruby left forever :( Eva asks every day where they went...with her eyes since she can't talk yet. I am kind of a mind-reader.





We also had Lauren spend one day and one night with us, which was super great! I happened to leave something in her room and this is what I found in the morning --- we really ARE related! Well only in the stuffed animal obsession part - I don't think I've ever made my bed that nicely. But now I have something to strive for!

Eva is a master gardener and loves eating rocks and dirt. She also has an affinity for dandelions.
And our tulips were thebomb.com this year. Except now all the petals have fallen off and they are hideous! What to do what to do...

A few weeks ago this chubby baby found the corner of our kitchen and proceeded to play naked (her choice) for half an hour, entertaining herself...its so funny that she can totally entertain herself now, usually without any of her own toys. (side-note -today i heard her being incredibly quiet for about 5 minutes in our hallway/bedroom entryway. I realized that is not normal so i went to check on her and sure enough she had found a little bag i filled with teeny tiny objects i didn't want her to get into and she had dumped them all out and was trying to eat them one by one! I'm still not sure if she swallowed a miniature pool ball but i don't think she did.) Anyway, if you look real close at the picture, I documented her picking up a piece of scrap paper she found, holding it in her mouth for a bit, spitting it out, and then trying to get it back into her mouth. She is so much like a little dog sometimes I love it!





 I also have to give a shout out to "baby-led-weaning." This DOESN'T refer to her stopping nursing(albeit in a sense it does?) but rather weaning in this sense means eating their first foods. So it should be baby-led-feeding, although that is not the coined phrase. And it is so confusing any time i talk about it. But still, I love it! I feel like Eva can eat anything and I don't have to worry that much about her. If you need to read more about that do it here.

And she plays the piano like a champ! She loves standing on everything and anything.

 This makes it really hard for her to go to sleep. Ever.

Tybee Island aka where they filmed The Last Song ft. Miley Cyrus andLiam Hemsworth

A few weeks ago we journeyed 4.5 hours south to Tybee Island for a relaxing weekend retreat with Spencer and Sonya and their kiddos. It was aaaawesome! We stayed in a vacation rental that had a view straight out to the ocean, so the whole time we were inside we had the balcony open to hear the crashing waves...ahhhh I loved it! The first 2 days we were there it was super windy, so Eva wasn't real sure what to think so she just grunted the whole time.

Eva and I were ALWAYS the first two people up in the morning, so we had the gorgeous early morning pictures all to ourselves! And don't worry about the power lines in the backround, it's still pretty!

Eva was not the most cooperative early morning picture taker...

We also went to Savannah which was super fun to walk around, and it was the first time Eva used her umbrella stroller. She looked so chubby in it! And I'm so mad at myself for not getting a picture!

This was the only Savannah pic I got - her first ice cream at Leopold's

on the boat looking for dolphins

The last day we ventured to the south beach and the weather was perfect for swimming! The water was too cold for Miss Thang so I tried to have her play in the wet sand but mostly she wanted me to hold her. When she couldn't take it anymore I went to wash her feet off in the ocean but then a wave came up and her whole bum got soaked and she lost it! Then george took her back to our umbrella/towel set up so she could feel better, and she discovered the sand! She dug in between our overlapping towels, and george said she was grunting and mad the whole time, but we think it was therapeutic. By the time I got back to the umbrella Eva was doing great and crawling all over, eating all her toys covered in sand, and even face planted in the sand when she crawled over me.

When we got home I knew I had cleaned all the sand off her/out of her crack(s)...and then she pooped and deposited more sand back in her crack. Agh. And then it happened 2 more times.


On the way home the best part of the whole trip (ok not really but kind of) was stopping at a random gas station 1 hr away from savannah that Spencer and Sonya randomly stopped at on the way down..it was a gas station with a talking bird out front in a cage that danced and did tricks....and wait for it...a PETTING ZOO! Which was the best petting zoo I've ever BEEN TO! And it only cost a dollar!

We were all a bit terrified of the emu- they were unpredictable!