Evelyn: One Year

Happy Birthday sweet little Evelyn! It really doesn't feel like she was born a year ago, that year went by way too fast! I've been feeling a little weird about it all day.

Evelyn can now get into just about everything. She has figured out how to open cupboards and climb onto shorter things. She loves to go up and down the stairs. 

She is taking two naps a day and sleeps 11-12 hours every night. I noticed more of her top teeth coming in yesterday. She has been nicknamed a "baby vulture" because she will come up to anyone with food and just whine until she gets some, and she has gotten really good at gumming things down. 

This past week she has gone to bed without being breastfed and has fallen asleep just fine so I think weaning will go smoothly like it did with Hayley. She can use her sippy cup all by herself. She still fits in her 9-month clothes but I will probably be needing to get out her 12-month clothes this month. 

Church is getting hard because she doesn't stay in her car seat anymore and is super wiggly. Plus it's during her morning nap and she doesn't sleep in my arms very well so it is a tiring 3 hours in more way than one. 

I feel like she has changed and learned so much in just the past month. She does not like grass. She will hold her legs up to keep them off of it and if she does decide to crawl she crawls like Mowgli, as we call it in my family. She has started clapping more. 

Her ginge tinge, which I thought would go away but hasn't, is from her Great Grandma Harris. 

She loves to point her little finger, it reminds me of ET sometimes. 

She enjoys reading books and can turn the pages. I absolutely love when she crawls up to me and puts her head on my chest or my legs and just snuggles for a few moments. 

She has a cute little throat laugh and will occasionally snort when she's laughing really hard. And I don't think I'll ever be able to get over how perfectly pointed her eyebrows are. 

She got stuck between the chair

Riding the train.

We spent some time in St. George with Great Grandma.

Begging for food.

She loved playing with the water balloons, just like her sister.

Go Jazz!

Her birthday theme was, "She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes." We had a party at our house and enjoyed some cake and ice cream with my family and our good friends. Evelyn loved her cake and will hopefully figure out how to open her presents by next year ha.

I love my baby girl! I am going to miss her being a baby but I'm excited to see her personality develop more.

Photos by Moments by Ally Photography.
Cake smash cake by Kiss Me Cake.

Evelyn: Eleven Months

Evelyn and eleven are too similar, I struggled typing the title of this post. But not as much as I'm struggling with the fact that she turns one in a month.

Eve finally figured out how to crawl on all fours. She can pull herself up and move around using furniture or whatever she's holding on to.
She is getting more teeth (her top front ones) and has been a little bit miserable. I do not like teething Evelyn ha. But it reminds me how great of a baby she really is and to be grateful when she is her happy, content self. She loves to eat whatever the "big kids" are eating. I was trying to feed her some baby food while I was eating and she would not eat her food. She kept swatting at the spoon and wouldn't open her mouth. She whined until I gave her some of mine.
This week I started putting her in size 3 diapers. She still fits in 9-month clothes, so I'll probably wait to get the 12-month ones out because they're for more warm weather anyway (thanks to Hayley being a July baby).
Her hair is slowly getting a little bit lighter and I wonder if it'll turn more blonde over the summer from the sun. It's still not quite long enough for a ponytail but almost too long for the curl, it falls over and just turns into fluff even when I use gel.
She has gotten more ticklish and so I love to tickle her. She and Hayley are really good at playing together. It's nice to have them entertain each other, except when Hayley climbs into Eve's crib at night when they're supposed to be sleeping ha. It truly makes my heart happy that they are such good pals.
She has learned a few new tricks but won't always do them: she can be "so big," clap her hands, and wave.
Church has become a little more difficult if she's tired because she rarely falls asleep in my arms anymore. And now that she's mobile it's harder to keep her entertained during classes. The countdown 'til nursery is on!
Evelyn loves bath time. She kept trying to dive into my parent's bathtub when my Mom was holding her while getting the water ready. She also started crying occasionally when she has to get out. My girls love the water!
She loves to put anything and everything in her mouth. She started waking up at 6:30 a few mornings last week because she was hungry so we're feeding her food later at night so she'll sleep in more. She is a good sleeper, unless she's in pain from her teeth, and is even good at going down for her naps (most of the time).
Oh and just yesterday she learned how to climb up the stairs. I was folding laundry and she usually plays at the bottom of them and I look up and she's up 5 stairs. So that was a surprise. 

She fell asleep playing upstairs.

She absolutely adores Grandpa.

She loves sitting in Hayley's chair.

Learning all the good habits.

Her hair was crazy and I couldn't pass up snapping a pic of it.

She eats with one foot up sometimes.

First Easter!

Those little fists.

I cannot believe how big she is getting. I just want her to stay my baby forever! She makes my heart burst!