four legged friends, beware!

evie recently discovered cats. it started when we were feeding kimberly's cat frida, and continued on our trip to chicago, where there were three cats. mike's niece daryl's cat "big" was a big hit with evie. she basically chased him whenever she saw him. she couldn't figure out what to do when she caught him, though.



towards the end you'll hear a shout out to "mom"!

at the museum

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we took evie to see the olafur eliason exhibit at the sfmoma on a rainy day a couple of weeks ago. they built a giant kaleidoscope on the walkway to the 5th floor. lots of great things to look at. evie seemed to enjoy all of the lights.

we bought her a children's book of andy warhol drawings to mark the occasion. nice for evie and mom and dad.

thanksgiving with the mccurdys

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we flew to chicago to spend thanksgiving with mike's family and have a memorial for his dad. the trip's been great, and dinner was fantastic, but evie started to get overwhelmed with all of the people today. she's sleeping now, so mom and dad are happy.

heart melting!

so little ms. evie has been pretty great lately. getting more and more animated all of the time. she's a little chatterbox (like her mom). last week she was in her high chair, and she looked over at her dad and sai "hi da". we both heard it and wondered if it was on purpose, or a random occurrence. as the week went on we heard more "da's" and more "hi's" and some ""ma's"". still, i was a little skeptical that it was on purpose. then this morning i walked into her room to pick her up from her crib and she reached up an said "ma ma". yeah, this time i decided it was on purpose. amazing and heart melting.

made being up at six totally worth while! it even made me forget about those four teeth she has coming in on top for a minute.

we head to naperville (chicago) later today for thanksgiving. evie's going to get to meet more family (aunt sue and her family and buzz & judy). please cross your fingers for a smooth trip!

it's an 11!

yeah, an 11, as in 11 hours of sleep last night for evie! all that meat is making her sleepy. she was a little cranky tonight, and actually refused most of her dinner (a first), so i'm not hopeful that we're going to see a repeat performance.

evie gets the pincer down

evie is developmentally ahead of schedule on all thing eating related. more proof that she is our daughter. check out her pincer grip. that girl wants all food in her mouth.



it seems that she's finally topped 16 pounds, so all of this eating is good!

vegetarians need not apply

evie's taking after good ol' moms and pops with her love of all things food. we started her on meat a couple of weeks ago, and so far chicken, turkey and beef are all to her liking. of course she's getting the fancy grass fed, organic beef that mike and i can't afford for ourselves...

evie of destruction

my girl likes to crawl and climb and get her hands on whatever mommy might have.

evie's first halloween

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ok, so i didn't get her a costume. does it really make me a bad mom? i did find something vaguely ethnic looking in her closet, and she has her little bandana bib... maybe a cowgirl? i think i could convince her of that if i had too...

and the new record is...

10 hours! evie went 10 hours between feedings last night. she slept until 5:07 am before she woke up and wanted to eat. absolute joy on my part. we're getting closer and closer to her being able to go the whole night - i'm looking for 12 hours, is that greedy?

we added chicken and butternut squash to her diet recently. not sure if the new foods are helping, but they sure aren't hurting!

battan down the hatches

as of yesterday, little ms. evie can now pull herself to standing. we're rethinking the placement of everything.



sorry about the orientation, i keep forgetting to keep the camera horizontal for video. perhaps someday i will learn, or evie will teach me.

and then there were three...

teeth that is. top left tooth came in last night. it wasn't pretty, but it did make me feel good that i was eventually able to comfort her. today she's in high spirits. probably because she doesn't realize there are more teeth to come...

nice sunday

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Originally uploaded by rockgirl2670

we hung out over at my boss' house this sunday afternoon, and joy took this nice picture of evie. click on the image to see some other pics from the day.

evie crawling without quotes

so evie's really crawling now, no more "crawling" for her, and no more leaving stuff laying around for mom and dad.



note: i played with a different upload method this time, so the video looks a little strange. i may play with it and go back to the old format.

too cute

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Originally uploaded by jcampioni

ok, i know i've already covered this ground in the video, but i just love this picture of mike and evie.

sunday morning jam

evie really enjoys when mike plays the guitar for her. this morning, she decided to get in on the action.

9.5!

yup, that's the new record. nine and a half hours of sleep in a row last night. can you hear my smile?

mmm. bananas.

so we can add bananas to the list of things that evie likes. i like how long the "likes" list is getting.

swingers

evie hit the swings at the park with her friend lucie today.

there's no place like home

evie got some new shoes, and she loves tapping her feet together trying to get back to kansas.