Evie Update

Evie Update

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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!

Growing up

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I know that I am an adult now because today I received this email from Sara:

“evie is hving some really wet sounding poop right now.  oh, stated jmping again, better change her quick!  oh no, not done!”

The joys of parenthood!

What else?  I’m excited about the prospect of a farmer’s market opening up a couple of blocks from my house this summer.

Sara and I got library cards over the weekend (that’s for you InteractiveReader).

It was really nice to have a weekend at home.  Even though I worked my tail off, it was nice to think that I didn’t *have* to do anything! 🙂  Plus I think it may have helped Evie with her sleeping too. ::crosses fingers::

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year?

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Better late than never, right?

Hey, I’ve been busy.  Did the usual 3 state trip (IN, MI, WI) over the break.  It was exhausting!  I couldn’t believe how much stuff we had to bring for Evie.  We couldn’t have fit very much else in the car.  How do you do it with more than 1 kid?  It’s still not over with yet, we still have more traveling for the next two weekends (IN and WI respectively).  I was really worn out by vacation. 😦  I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that Evie has apparently stopped sleeping.

Okay, check this out.  Yeah, I read that book…saw the movie too.  Were they Rita Hayworth pictures by any chance?  You’d think they’d at least make prison escape movies that were up for best picture required watching for all prison guards.

So I get frustrated with LiveJournal from time to time.  (BTW did you notice all those annoying “link preview” things are gone now when you hover over hyperlinks on here?)  I found a program the other day that downloaded all of the content and comments from this blog and saved it on my computer.  So I have it now, which opens up the option to switching to another service (probably blogger because Sara won’t let me pay for my own domain).  But should I?  Loyal readers what say you?

On one hand I think I would have better features since I won’t pay for an account on LiveJournal.  On the other hand would I be disloyal to LiveJournal and to Stacy if I switched?  Although it seems like a long time ago, I really started this with her in mind and it kind of feels disloyal to her memory to switch to something else.

Myspace videos

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Sorry, problem fixed with the videos.  You should be able to see them now.  Thank to Jen for pointing out the problem!

Speaking of technical issues, what’s the deal with the pop-up window things when you hover over the links on my blog??  I guess in time I could come to like it, but my first instinct is nuh-uh!  I don’t know if you can turn it off or not.  I’m also annoyed there is a search box at the top that doesn’t search my journal!  And while I’m complaining about things, I wonder if I’m allowed to use Google analytics yet?

Videos

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Naturally I put new Evie pictures up on my myspace frequently (see link over there to the right under General Links), and naturally you all check them religiously for updates, but I’ve also added a few videos.  They have to be very short for myspace so I only have a few.  I’ll have to cut some of the other ones down or compress them or something.  In the meantime you have a couple to hold you over.