10 months old

My baby will be 10 months old tomorrow! (I am a little late in publishing this post, whoops) She is super AWESOME, has learned how to scream for fun, loves ALL animals (sometimes she sees them before I do and will let me know by making some very high pitched and cute noises), and other babies and small people aka children, and has started loving shoes- both eating them and wanting to hold them and wear them (at least I think she wants to wear them). 

We finally got her a crib, which apparently is easier to put together when there is not an extremely helpful little girl right by your side wanting to help you use the allen wrench on all the screws. Nonetheless it is finished, and now I just have to learn how to get her to sleep in it.

 

Her favorite play area in the house is the entertainment center, where she opens all the doors and proceeds to remove all the CDs and DVDs from their shelves. When she is done with that she moves on to emptying the mess of papers from the middle compartment. I also had to put up a barricade around our plant as she loves scooping the dirt from the pot not the floor.

She also has made the transition to sleeping on her belly with her buns in the air. This wasn't the best picture of it but you get the idea.

Oh and she is sooooo good at standing on her tippy toes. Like full on pointe some of the time. Without point shoes! Like it ain't no thing!

This here is her learning how to wear shoes...she likes eating them and holding them and looking at them but standing on them is kind of weird.

And I had to document her wrinkly feet and monkey face. This is after she had a bath and refused to sit down in the water for the first 10 minutes

Fun with cousins

Gaaaah I hate when I'm one sentence from finishing a blog post and then my ipad dies and it's not saved. Just had to get that out there in case anyone thought I liked it.

On a happier note, we got to spend 4 fabulous days with my nephews Trey and Miles and we had sooooo much fun! We made tons of good food (it's way better cooking for more people and with more helpers!), enjoyed the pool, and went to Stars and Strikes. I got my newest high score in bowling - 148 thank you very much - and was 1 pin shy of getting a turkey. Eva rode her first tiny carousel and stayed on great all by herself! Until she fell off. All the way from the horse to the floor. Oh it was sad. But George got the whole thing on video and some people think its pretty funny so we will see if it ends up on AFV. We're all hoping she's not brain damaged and that her tailbone is ok.

Other fun things - Eva likes to put small but large things in her mouth just to hold them there...below she has a walnut in her mouth she found on Liz's floor. She found out she could climb to the top of a flight of stairs, with no idea how to get back down. Miles found out he could do fancy writings on photos with one of my ipad apps...the first picture (featured below) turned out super cute, and then things started getting crazy with all the captions that him and Trey started cranking out. Eva might need a baby bra. Aaaand...wait for it...she loves dogs now! She fell head over heels for Ginger, and I've been begging George (on behalf of Eva) for the last full day to get a dog. It's not working yet.

Last but not least I was reading Eva a book called "Dear Zoo," in which you lift up flaps to see different animals. I make their noises too for all the ones that have noises. Today we were reading it and Eva wants to read it a second time in a row, and at the end there is a doggy. I make the woof woof noise and then she starts making a noise that is more like an oooo oooo noise but that sounds like woof woof. Then 30 minutes later I read it again with her to show George and sure enough she makes her doggy noise right on cue! So I guess she's super smart because she knows what's important.

The end.

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!