So I haven’t really had any posts on Evie lately and I thought I should give an update because big things are a foot!

So two days ago we started Evie on her first solid food (rice cereal).  She seems to like it (she was already trying to reach for my oatmeal this morning) but she has no intention of swallowing any of it.  Everything goes out the way it came in!  Oh well, I know that’s the way it is supposed to go at first.

Today she rolled over for the first time (back to tummy).  She has seemed like she has been on the verge of it for *so long* but she never quite did it.  She certainly is capable of it, but she just hasn’t seemed to want to.  So today we put all of these toys just out of reach on her left side so that she would reach for them and then Sara and I were talking and all of a sudden, Evie just rolls over to her right!  There wasn’t a single toy over there or anything.  So much for our motivation.

She sits up very well now and will stay that way for ~20 minutes before getting tired of it.  She will stand if she’s holding on to something (like your hands or the side of the crib) but she doesn’t try to pull herself up or anything.  You have to set her like that.  She crawls decently well, except only backwards!  It is kind of funny because she wants to crawl forward to get a toy but she can only crawl backwards, getting farther and farther away from the toy.  This makes her very frustrated.

Finally, she is only really interested in one thing…the jump-a-roo!  She jumps in that thing forever and just loves it.  If you ever try to hold her all she tries to do is to get you to hold her up under her arms so she can jump.  Jump, jump, jump she never gets tired of it.  And when she goes up in the air in the jump-a-roo she does these funny plies (sp?) with her feet in the air like a ballerina.

So we are currently experiencing a wave of the black plague sweeping through our condo.  Evie was first, culminating on Friday mostly with a really snotty nose and a fever.  Then I got sick Saturday and especially Saturday night.  What a miserable night that was.  Sore throat all day then including a stuffy nose and horrible sinus headache.  I didn’t get much sleep.  Then this morning I felt a little bit better but Sara started to get a little sniffly with a scratchy throat.  So it is pretty snotty around here lately!