Happy Independence Day

My mom, dad, sister, brother in law, and niece came to visit this holiday weekend. Evia spent her first independence day with her cousin Hannah. Here they are in their patriotic outfits. It's double the baby cuteness on the Sharp blog today!





Not holiday related but she wanted to show off her pretty blue eyes.

Grams and papa getting ready to babysit while the rest of us go shopping.

Got Your Tickets...

...to the gun show. Evia is looking very baby buff and showing off in this picture. Mommy is looking sleep deprived and dirty.

She is doing great and likes to eat, probably too much. I took her to the pediatrician Tuesday because I was concerned about some spitting up issues. The pediatrician thinks it may be due to overfeeding. Mommy was feeding often and didn't know that babies don't always realize when they are full and should stop eating. Now that I have adjusted things according to the pediatrician recommendations, she is sleeping better, spitting up less, and is less fussy. She probably had an upset stomach and that totally made me feel like a bad mommy. Having a baby has been an eye opening experience.

My family is coming down for the July 4th weekend. Evia's cousin Hannah is 3 months old and will be visiting too. I'll have some super cute pictures of the cousins to post. They are only 6 weeks apart in age. Here are a few more pictures so you can get you recommended daily allowance of cuteness.

She makes this face a lot. Randy and I call it her monkey face. My coworker Annie says it looks like Zoolander. I guess this one is "blue steel". I'll post further pictures when she perfects "magnum."


Big time mat fun.


Now bored with it.

June 23, 2008 - Baby Got Back

I was looking at pictures from when Evia was born. It's amazing how much she has changed in the past 7 weeks. She was so skinny at first. This is her leg in the first days after birth.

Here she is now. Check out those thighs. She has rolls now and a double chin. She used to have all this loose skin and no bottom. I was changing her diaper last week and noticed that she has a butt now where there wasn't one before. It is so cute!

Taking a bath is just about her least favorite thing in the world. She likes being swaddled and cuddled in the towel afterwards though. She looks so much like Randy. We have some baby pictures of Randy that look just like Evia. I need to get those scanned and post here.

June 16, 2008 - Happy Father's Day

In honor of father's day, here are some pictures of Evia and daddy.

Evia spends a lot of time sleeping. She looks peaceful when sleeping except when she decides to grunt. She wiggles, grunts, and makes a lot of noise when sleeping.

June 8, 2008 - Happy Anniversary

Today is our 6th anniversary. Both Randy and I completely forgot. I remembered at 8 in the evening. I told Randy happy anniversary and he then remembered we had used the leftover napkins from our wedding reception at dinner. We never use those napkins. They have our names and the date of the wedding. I looked at them during dinner and thought "our anniversary is coming up. it's going to be six years." Didn't even realize it was today. When we were eating dinner, Randy said the napkins reminded him that he needed to update his work calendar so he wouldn't forget our anniversary. Oh well, it was still a great anniversary spent with baby Evia.

June 7, 2008 - 3 Nights Later

We just finished night 3 with Evia at home. Baby Girl LOVES to be held. She is most alert at night and is a snuggle bug. I love holding her and have a month of lost baby cuddling to make up for. We are experiencing new parent sleep deprivation which is not fun.

Evia had her first pediatrician visit Friday morning. She is doing great. Up to 5 lb 9 oz and 19.5 in long. She is actually on the length chart for 1 month old babies (5th percentile) but not on the chart for weight. Her doctor says that's expected for a preemie. Here's a picture from her first doctor visit.

Daddy bought Evia a pretty pink papasan. I was amused that he purchased what was probably the most girly one in the store. He says it appeared to be the most well constructed.

I am semi-close to apologizing to Meredith for all the years of mocking all the pictures she takes. They say you turn into your mother as you get older, but I had a baby and turned into my sister. There are over 300 pictures of Evia on my digital camera and I always have it close by. Evia will have the Price photo head touch down before too long.

June 4, 2008 - Home at Last

4 weeks and 1 day later, the family is all home. We brought Evia home on June 4. Here she is the day before. She's taking her bottle and taking her car seat test. She had to sit in a car sear for an hour to show the seat didn't distress her.

We were very excited to be leaving the hospital. Evia's giving a big wave goodbye.

This is while we were taking her out of the hospital.

She's sleeping in the car.