6 flags

6 flags on a Monday the week before school starts is a bad idea. My experiences with six flags here in Atlanta (both amusment and water park) have been awful. Crazy long lines mean mostly waiting and not many rides. Definitely not worth the steep ticket prices, and I refuse to ever go again unless we get flash passes. Now add in a baby who had an allergic reaction to sunscreen and it becomes even worse. And then also add in that George had all the money and he got off the last roller coaster ride after dippin dots was already closed so we didn't even get that. It was still fun though, despite all of my grumblings. We went with Spencer and Sonya and all their girls so at least we were able to enjoy each others camaraderie.

 

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Baby baby baby

Eva is so funny. 'Nuff said.

She went through a weeklong phase of making the above silly face...and then it turned into scowling, as is pictured below. I blame her cousin Issi, who couldn't stop scowling during their visit here :)

Thank goodness for pocket bibs! She likes to bite big chunks of food off and then realizes they're she doesn't want to chew them so she spits them out...and catches them in her bib.

I was taking pictures of us snuggling (me pretending to be asleep) and then after I left her to finish sleeping by herself I was able to look back at the pictures, and realized she might have been pretending to be asleep too! Hah! Or it was just a random eye flutter I happened to catch.

She loves climbing up on stuff (fireplace mantle, the low shelves at Baby GAP with clothes on them, dishwashers) and apparently up into bathroom cabinets too. Poor baby couldn't figure out how to get out.

And then I started to wash her hands, and it turned into a sink bath.

She seems like she will be walking any day now! She likes holding our hands while walking through the house and walking across the living room and down the hall with her walker.

Oh and I got some cloth diapers to try (just to intersperse with disposables). So far I love them, but she hasn't pooped in one yet so we'll see...

 

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Her newest tricks

Yay I can finally put videos on here! Yesterday I documented Eva's 2 newest tricks, clicking her tongue and clapping. She just figured out how to clap yesterday, and already she's practicing whenever she can. I'm trying to teach her some baby sign language, such as "all done" for when she's done eating, and clapping has now replaced that. She also forgot how to wave bye bye and hello (she waves hello to a baby giraffe calendar picture in our hallway) and has replaced those with clapping. And she stayed up extremely late last night in her bed just clapping away. She has already gotten much better than the video shows.

As for her tongue clicking, she's been doing that for about a week now, but I just discovered yesterday that she knows exactly what I'm saying when I say "Eva can you click your tongue?" Even if I'm not making a point to talk to her, or if its in a longer sentence, when she hears that phrase she starts clicking away. Smarty pants!

 

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Turtle Turtle

George found a turtle outside next to our AC unit, in some reeeeally long grass. He was hunkered down for the night, but we picked him up anyways and moved him to the front yard to show Eva. She wasn't quite sure what to think about this animal because he was kind of weird. Although at the end she became quite interested and wanted to follow him into the bushes. He ended up burying himself under a bunch of grass clippings, and I mean really buried himself good! The next day we had to poke around the grass clippings to see if he was still there (he was) but we never saw him come out again. And then yesterday we discovered he was gone for good.

Onto other tidbits, her hair is getting long enough to get messy and even a little curly sometimes. I LOVE it. This is the dog she always looks for outside the window when she's in her high chair, and also every time I walk by that window while holding her. She gets excited whether she sees him or not because she knows that's where he should be. She also likes giving kisses and snuggles to her other baby cousins who are too little to get away...specifically baby Jameson and baby Ollie. It's the cutest!