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.