Happy Halloween

Although this is my least favorite holiday, I have enjoyed trying to decide what to dress Eve up as. It started as a carebear which I would make out of her winter coveralls since they had bear ears. However the coveralls are still too big. Then someone gave us a duck costume and it isvery cute. I dressed her up in it on Saturday and took pictures, but she hated the head part. It also would have been a big pain to get in and out of her car seat. So we ended up dressing her up as a cheerleader since before she was even born someone gave her a cheerleader outfit. It is not for the Eagles, but for team elmo. Just as long as it was not the Dallas Cowboys, (or the Giants or Redskins for that matter). Tyler was taking her to friends and family and secretly hoping they all give him candy. We'll see. Enjoy the Pics!

This is the happiest she got in this outfit.

First Friends

Here are some of Eve's first friends. Unfortunitly most of my college friends live far far away (so sad) with their babies. Above is a picture of Eve and the babies from church. Yes there is only 4 put one more on the way and some more trying. Elijah is the one on the left. If you read some of my first posts, you will have some knowledge of the struggles that little boyhas been through. To make it short, Elijah has hemophilia, the most severe case, and has almost died a few times. There were some when the drs gave up on him, but with lots of prayer from people all over the world, he survived. He is doing well and still has some issues and will have the hemophilia his whole life, but his life is still a miracle and he's doing better than they had hoped. The next are the Gross girls. Kacee was born in Sept and Taylor 2 years ago. Taylor was born at 24 weeks and weighed 2 lbs. She has been through a lot and her mom Jaime went through alot to let Kacee be born at 39 weeks. It makes Eve the most uneventful of the bunch and we are so thankful.

This week, I am helping my former boss by babysitting her granddaughter while her daughter goes on job interviews. Her name is Aiyanna. I know I spelled that wrong but I tried. She is 2 months younger than Eve but weighs the same. They are having fun, but struggle when they both want to be held. It has been long days.

Some Fall Pictures

Some Unique Firsts

Here are some of Eve's more obscure and less signifigant firsts. Here she is sporting her first pair of blue jeans. We couldn't help but think about how much she just looked like little adult. And her shirt even had the layered white shirt look. The other picture is Eve playing her first instrument, the keyboard. Tyler tried to teach her how to make sounds and now she does enjoy banging on the keys. We hope she will love music, but have more talent at it than we do.

First Feedings

When Eve went to her doctor's appointment last week, the Dr gave us the go ahead to start giving her food. It is a good thing because everything is goign that direction anyway. So we gave her her first meal of rice cereal on Sunday night. She took a few bites and seemed to like it. Since then she has been eating a little over a Tablespoon every night and just gobbles it down. Her are some pics.Getting Ready for the First Meal

Four M onths Old

On Friday, Eve turned 4 months old, how time flies. She seems to be doing more and more each day. She rolls over and now eats cereal, what next? Sometimes I am afraid to blink and she will be running away. Tyler talks about saving for her wedding. I was working on accepting her going to college and saving for that, now her being married. If he mentions being a grandparent I might go off. Anyway, I love the expessions that she makes and making her giggle is such a highlight. I'm glad that most of the time it takes little effort, she can just be so happy. Above is a picture of her wearing her newest trendy baby item, the baby legs. They are girls or ladies knee high socks that are adapted to cover her legs. I just cut off the feet part and made a cuff and there you go. You may ask what the benefit it,well they keep her warm and I don't have to take them off when I change her diaper unlike most pants. I love them and by the way I did not come up with the idea. I just learned how to make my own at around $3 a pair instead of $12.

Getting Ready to Roll

Sleeping with my Dad

Mover and Shaker

Eve has officially joined the world of the movers and shakers as she rolled from her belly to her back for the first times. Today she even did it at the doctors office while holding onto the paper from the table. She ended up looking like a giant soft taco and was all upset but would not let go of the paper. She has even been trying to crawl out of her bumbo. I came in the other day and she wiggled and was half way out. I had a good picture but it was accidently deleted but maybe I will capture it soon because its hard to keep a good girl down.

Where have we been?

I'm sorry for the lack of posts, but me and Eve have been off for the past week in Pennsylvania. It was a great trip and Eve was quite a trooper which was good because Tyler was too busy to come with us. Eve was able to meet her two great-grandmas and some of her other extended family as well as spend time with her Grammy and Poppop and Aunts and Uncles. We took lots of pictures and I will share some today and in the next few days.