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!

Babycakes

She's doing alot of old man faces these days...

And also face touching, especially as she's falling asleep. No of course she doesn't have a crib!

Watch out everyone, here comes Eva

Her new favorite activity is playing the role of mail sorter

We love being out on our back deck!

She loves trying to reach into this extra large gap and try to pull dead pine needles out to eat

Star of the show

I loooooove this picture with my whole heart

and in case you needed to see her toes.

Easter

After a wonderful day at church, We all came home and Eva had a teeny tiny egg hunt. It consisted of me putting 3 eggs on the ground for her to "find." She had a reeeally hard time grabbing them because they were so stinking slippery!

Then Eva moved on to the plastic they came in, which entertained her much longer. And finally she found her metal basket. Oh how she loves metal.

I'd also like to give a shout out to my tulips, which weren't around for Easter, but in my mind they are synonymous with the holy day.

Happy Easter!

Puj Hug!

I was lucky enough to be selected to be a product tester for the revolutionary new baby bath towel 

from Puj, called the Puj Hug. If you've never heard of Puj, it is a fantastic company started by a mom who comes up with her own solutions/designs for baby products to simplify parenthood. 

Here is the website if you wanna check it out.

Like I said, I got their new infant towel to try out and review. The towel is awesome in that it has 2 interlocking tabs that are super-duper easy to hook around your neck.

These tabs make it easy to have the towel around your neck 

before even starting bath time (if desired), but most importantly 

they simplify the whole getting-the-slippery-baby-safely-

out-of-the-tub-while-staying-dry process. 

            With the towel hooked around your neck, you just pick baby up

and hold her to your left shoulder. You then unhook the tabs 

with your right hand and bring the tabbed hood over baby's head. 

And then you get to snuggle!

Obviously the idea is genius. But also the quality of the towel is great; it is quite nice and plush. I will say I wish it were slightly bigger. With Eva being pleasantly plump (22ish lbs and 28ish inches), it doesn't quite wrap around her as much as I would like. That being said, it's still big enough to do its job, its functionality trumps my other baby towels, and Eva Girl can't get enough of chewing on the silicone tabs. I really wish I had it right from when she was born!

As of now I have been using this towel for almost 2 weeks, and yesterday I had to give Eva an impromptu bath, for reasons too messy to share. I grabbed a regular old towel because it was closest thing to me, and I almost didn't know what to do with it. How do I wrap my baby up in this old thing?? Okay it wasn't that bad, but I sure was missing my Puj Hug!

Puj also makes the Puj Big Hug towel for older children (ages 2 - 8)

which has hand/wing pockets. Need I say more?

Growing too fast...

Within the past couple weeks Miss Eva has gotten her two bottom teeth, started crawling (and consequently doing yoga, push-ups & breakdancing poses), and started being a better eater of real food. And now I understand what all the fuss is about babies growing up too fast. Also sometimes she looks like she wears a toupee, due to the fact that only the hair directly on top of her head is growing. It only makes us love her more! At her 6 month check up she tipped the scales at 20 pounds 13 ounces and measured 28 1/2 inches long...in the 98th and 99th percentiles respectively. She's also hilarious.

WARNING: nude photos ahead!

sometimes I'll leave her sitting up playing with things with her boppy behind her a bit, and then i come back and she's having the best time lounging...

 

sometimes she gets tired of it all...

oh yeah and she has to constantly have something in her mouth. This is her car seat sun shade which she just LOVED eating.