I've Been Tagged

My sister Meredith tagged me. Here are 8 things about me.

8 TV Shows I Watch
1. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2. Burn Notice
3. The Office
4. 30 Rock
5. Real Housewives of OC/Atlanta/NYC
6. Project Runway
7. Football (college/NFL/i've even been know to watch arena league)
8. Anything MMA (ultimate fighter/UFC/WEC wrekcage)

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen
2. Hungry's
3. Babin's Seafood
4. Carrabba's
5. Texadelphia
6. Chilleno's
7. Hideaway Pizza
8. Luby's

8 Things That Happened Today
1. Got an iced hazelnut coffee at McDonald's (mmmm love)
2. Got sick at work
3. Left work early but worked at home anyway
4. Napped with Evia
5. Knitted on a sweater
6. Worked a Su Doku puzzle
7. Sang Evia's favorite songs to her when she got mad. She doesn't care that I can't carry a tune.
8. Surfed the internet

8 Things I look Forward To
1. Relaxing this weekend and getting over the bug that Randy and/or I have been sick with for the past week.
2. Hanging out with Randy & Evia
3. Christmas
4. Seeing Evia crawl. She can't sit on her own yet but she can get on her hands and knees and scoot.
5. Finishing the sweater I'm knitting for myself.
6. Christmas - i miss family
7. Randy finishing the killer project he's currently working on.
8. Christmas - Can't wait to see family

8 Things I Wish For
1. That I live long enough to raise Evia to adulthood.
2. That I go to Heaven.
3. That I'm a good example to Evia and she grows up to be a christian woman.
4. To have a good relationship with Evia like I had and continue have with my parents.
5. That Evia throws Randy and me a super awesome surprise 50th wedding anniversary party.
6. Unlimited amounts of cashmere yarn
7. A maid. Randy has agreed we can hire one but I just haven't done it yet. busy and lazy...the very reason my house is dirty and a maid is needed in the first place.
8. That I would win mega millions, move to a big house in Oklahoma closer to Randy's and my families, and buy an Aston Martin

8 People I Tag
1. Haley
2. H-Bomb
3. Aunt Sissy
4. Bennett's Mom
5. See #1 on Meredith's tagged list
6. All of the above
7. Do you see a pattern?
8. Seriously Haley, update your blog already!

Evia's First Bedlam

It's Bedlam Baby! Evia is ready for bedlam. Her pals Bullet and Pistol Pete are going to watch the game with her. Go Pokes!

Baby's First Christmas

Here is Evia's first picture with Santa. She wouldn't smile for us but at least she looked at the camera.

Six Months Old

Where does the time go? Evia was six months old on Thursday. She went in for her check up and is doing great. She weighs 13 lbs 11 oz and is 25 in long. She's in the 10th and 25th percentiles. She can roll over and sit if supported. She is very vocal and her jumpy seat is hands down her favorite toy.

Here she is all dressed up for the OSU/Texas Tech game. I had to change her after she got mad and spit up. During the second half, mommy was also so mad she could spit.

Randy and I enjoy watching UFC fights, so a coworker bought this onesie for Evia. She is pound-for-pound the cutest baby in the world.

She enjoys her mat and rolls around to get to her toys. We have to keep small things off the living room floor now because she will roll to something and immediately stick it in her mouth.

A not so fun first

Monday night was our first emergency room trip with Evia. Before I get into it, she is doing fine. She has been sick since Sunday with symptoms of a bad cold. Last night, she started having difficulty breathing and we called the pediatrician. Her recommendation was to go to the ER. This worried Randy and me. Fortunately, her issues are all upper respiratory. No RSV, no pneumonia. She is feeling much better today but is still really stuffy. I can't imagine not being able to blow my own nose. I am now an expert with a bulb syringe. Here is video proof that she is feeling better. She loves her bouncy seat. She has figured out how to make it jump and play music.

Happy Halloween

We had an enjoyable first Halloween with Evia. She was super cute in her shark suit. She's in her stroller ready to go to our neighborhood Halloween party. I'm glad we went with the shark since there were other baby bumble bees there. Evia in her bee suit was way cuter than the other bees and we wouldn't want the other baby bees feeling bad about their costumes.



She quickly tired of the shark suit and finished the evening in her pumpkin onesie.


I think this picture of Evia and Randy is really cute. They look so much alike. Sometimes, she will make a face that is just so Randy.

Halloween Practice

So Meredith emailed me the other day about a website having a 50% off sale on baby Halloween costumes. I was very excited because I wanted to buy a costume but felt the baby costumes were too expensive. Hooray for 50% off! Great, except that I used the sale to justify buying Evia 2 Halloween costumes and ended up saving $0. Here are some pictures where we tried on the costumes to make sure they fit. We'll post more on Halloween when she's not wearing her PJs too.

Costume #1 Bumble Bee - This will likely be her primary costume since most people think the second costume was an odd choice for a baby.




Costume #2 Great White Shark - C'mon. How many babies do see dressed like this? I've seen many a baby bumble bee before. What else do you expect? As Meredith described us once, "you are the only two people who can show up to a party in costumes no one else gets."



I have knit many things for Evia but this is the first garment that fits her. I still need to put buttons on her jacket. All the others are too big and she won't be able to wear them until this winter.

I just think this picture is cute. She can move around and rolls a lot now. She has a blanket she plays on in the living room. She was having a good time playing this weekend and wore herself out.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Friday was my 32nd birthday. Randy got me a super awesome gift. I've wanted a video camera for a while and he bought me one. It takes HD videos and still pictures.


I had to play with it once we got the battery charged. Me and Evia on my birthday.


My mom and dad come down every year for my birthday. It always falls around mom's fall break.



Evia likes the big books.

Picture Post

I haven't posted in a while, so here are some pictures taken since the last post.
Evia enjoying tummy time. She is getting so strong. She can push herself up with her arms and hold herself up now.

I love this picture. Her eyes are so wide and bright.

She was laughing out loud. She laughs a lot now, but whenever I try to get a video of it, she stops. One day, I'll get a video of her laughing.

More Fun With Food

We were feeding Evia her rice cereal tonight and she is pretty funny. She would eat the cereal and as soon as we took the spoon away, she would cry. She did this for a while, and we thought it was cute. Here's a video of her eating.

Evia has been chewing on her hands for about a week now. Today she decided toys were better. She sticks them all in her mouth and even chewed on her bumbo. She drools all the time.

Evia started going to daycare this week. She will be going three days a week since I'm going back into my office part time. When I dropped her off, she was sitting on the floor with one of the workers. Two other babies immediately crawled over and started patting Evia's legs. Evia was cooing and "talking" back to them. It was pretty cute.

She also has started sleeping in her nursery this past week. That has been an interesting transition but she sleeps a little longer each night. I'm hoping she starts sleeping through the night soon. She seems to change every day. I can't believe how big she is getting.

First Foods

At Evia's 4 month check up, her doctor said we could start trying rice cereal and then move to green vegetables when we were ready. By the end, she was wearing more of the cereal than she ate.

4 Months Old

It's been awhile since I last posted. It's been crazy around here with the hurricane and all. This will be a picture post. Evia had her 4 month check up on Monday and she is doing great! She weighs 12 lb 10 oz and is 23.75 in long. This puts her in the 10th and 25th percentiles, respectively, for her age. For her corrected age, she's in the 50th and 75th.
This picture was taken on her actual 4 month birthday.

Here she is sleeping beside me on the couch while I was working.

Tummy time on her boppy.

She can now sit supported for short periods of time. We bought her a bumbo.

Might be time for.....

some new carpet in the bedroom. It appears that Hurricane Ike did reach the interior of our house. We had some water leak into our bedroom carpet, and I didn't find it until it started to smell musty. Seems like it came up through the weepholes. Will need to evaluate the drainage on the side of the house. May have been caused by the extremely heavy rain, or the piles of debris blocking drainage. I'll have to make sure that the drainage path is clear and my gutters are working right too. A section of the carpet and pad was a minor disaster, and the shop vac wasn't cutting it, so the utility knife did. Had to move some furniture and cut out a piece about 3' x 10' on the side wall. To be evaluated again tomorrow to see if more needs to go. There might be even less carpet remaining when Autumn gets home. Will post pictures tomorrow as well as some exterior stuff.

Evia Hearts Elephant

Evia loves this elephant and so do I. She entertains herself with it and I get stuff done. Today she had a marathon play session. She makes it rattle and "talks" to it.

Evia enjoys playing with daddy. Sometimes she can spit up a lot. At these times, we strip her to her diaper and retire the burp cloths for a bath towel. This was such a time. Randy is covered in the towel for protection.

I was on a mission to find ruffled white socks to go with these shoes. Those things are hard to find.

3 Months Old

Evia is 3 months old today. I can't believe how big she is now and how different she looks from when she was born. She ate around 9:15 last night and slept from 10 pm to 4 am last night. Randy and I were very happy about that. She is starting to go longer between feedings at night. I put her in the bassinet with her body lengthwise on the mattress last night. When I got her at 4, she had rotated her body 90 degrees and had moved close to the bottom of the bassinet. She was back at the bottom again when Randy got her this morning. She's a wiggler even when she sleeps now. She is showing some interest in toys now. She loves the octopus rattle on her play mat. She has an elephant rattle on her papasan. Yesterday, Evia would swat the elephant and then squawk in a startled manner when it rattled. She did this several times yesterday in a ten minute period but won't do it today. She doesn't care for tummy time and has figured out how to roll herself over onto her back. It's not the most graceful roll but she does it the same manner every time. Here are pictures taken on her 3 month birthday.

Embarrassing Conversation

My mom makes a great oatmeal cake. She showed Randy how to make it last time she visited. Randy made the cake Sunday night. He added bananas to the batter to try something new. It was really good but that's not the point. Here's a conversation Randy and I had Sunday night after Randy put a very small amount of the cake icing on Evia's lip.

Me (scoldingly): "Don't give her people food!"
Randy: "Uh...She is a people."
Me: "Shut up."

Gram of the oatmeal cake and Evia

I took Evia to church for the first time Sunday. Here's a picture of us getting ready to go. We tried to get a picture without her paci but she screamed whenever we took it out of her mouth. She turns 3 months old on Wednesday. There have been several babies born at my church recently. I think Evia is so big. She is compared to when she was born but there were two six week olds almost as big as her and a four month old who completely dwarfs Evia. She continues to grow and is healthy so it's okay if she's on the small side.


She's showing more interest in toys now. Here she is on her play mat. There is an octopus rattle on the mat that she loves. She likes to "talk" to it. She has some cute sneezes, too.


I started back to work this week and am working part time from home. It's nice to work while she sleeps in my lap. It's been good the past two days and hopefully this arrangement will work out for a few more months.

Say Cheese

Evia has started smiling in the past couple weeks and it is so cute.

Assorted Cuteness

I haven't posted in a while. Here are several pictures taken over the past couple weeks.

Evia and Randy

Evia is definitely a mini-Randy. She looks so much like him. The only mommy I can see in her are her eyes. They are the same blue color my family has. We scanned some baby pictures of Randy for comparison.