Yet another Evie update

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So it was a pretty big weekend in Evie land.  The biggest development is that she finally learned to roll from her front to her back!  Of course all babies in the world learn this first before learning to roll back to front, but I guess she is a little different.  Well, unlike when she learned to roll back to front, once she figured this out she kept with it.  So probably the first day she learned how to do it she did it like 6 times.  Now she can roll back / front / back / front all the way across a room!

She also kind of waved bye-bye.  My mom and sister were leaving and we were all fake grinning and waving and saying “bye bye!” like idiots for about 10 minutes and then all of a sudden Evie waved!  And then we all just looked at each other like, “Did she just do that?” so we all started waving madly again and she did it again.  Of course we have tried a million times since then and I don’t think she really gets it, but hey, it is a start.

Along the same lines, we were trying to test her to see if she knows her name.  In a constant tone of voice we were saying, “Door knob!  Purple Shirt!  Nala!  Evie!” and sure enough she seemed to look only when you said Evie.  Of course, on later trials she responded to Fart Face, so again I’m not really convinced it wasn’t a coincidence.

Showering with Axe Murderers

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I was taking a shower today and I heard the door open and close.  I said, “Hello?” assuming it was Sara…but nobody answered.  So I waited awhile but it was completely silent and then I started to get nervous so I said, “Are there any Axe Murderers out there?”  Still no answer and I thought, “Geez, I’m so stupid!  Why leave them a loop hole??”  I don’t want someone later to say, “Well, you asked about Axe Murderers and I’m really more of a Knife Murderer.”  (“I have a hacksaw.”  “Oooh, I’m an axe murderer”  See below)  So I said, “Are there any murderers of any kind out there?”  Still nothing.  Then I started thinking, “What if I am actually their first victim?  So they wouldn’t actually be a murderer yet…”  So I was formulating another question, but then I just decided to get out of the shower. 

And p.s. it was just the cat.

Just in time for black history month…

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You can educate anybody who isn’t quite sure what kind of Stuff White People Like.

Update

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And thus fulfills my obligation to make an update.

J/k.  Look, I’m getting sick and tired of you folks (you know who you are) bothering me about an update!  None of you* have a blog and / or a 6 month old baby, so I don’t think you realize how much work it is to keep up such a thing!

*With the exception of InteractiveReader of course, who puts my posting to shame.  However, she is not bothering me for updates, I assume because she knows what a burden constant blogging is!

Evie suddenly decided she wants to roll over and now she can’t be stopped.  She has been able to for awhile, but it took a lot of coaxing.  Now she just automatically does it whenever she is on her back.  She still can only drive in reverse though.

I’m going somewhere this blog doesn’t go very often…economic stimulus packages.  Read this really exceptionally fantastic idea about how they should be implemented.  I personally don’t agree with economic stimulus packages in general, but neither does he.

One final note, Live at Radio City Music Hall by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds is really good!  Dave and I used to have a pretty good relationship.  We hit a rocky patch during the whole Lillywhite Sessions debacle, but Busted Stuff and Some Devil were better than a dozen roses.  Still, the endless live compilations began to wear on me (see Live Trax vols 1 – 10).  How many CDs can I own with the same songs on them?  Finally, Stand Up did our relationship in.  But here comes Live at Radio City to make me remember all those romantic weekends at Deer Creek.  Of course it is good!  Did we forget that Live at Luther College inspired me to learn how to play the guitar?  And that Tim Reynolds still can play the hell out of a guitar.  Dave’s voice is a little more raspy, the song selection is decidedly spiritual and I’ve never heard acoustic guitar sound so…sinister.  They really work that low E!  But it certainly brings back memories and I’ve spent more than a few trips in the car singing my lungs out.

That is all.

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!