10 Months!

This month we got more visitors, my cousin Nikki and Uncle Charlie came down so he could do some hunting and she could continue her college search!
We also got to take a trip, we went to Myrtle Beach for Evie’s first hot weather beach visit! Jonathan and I both LOVE the beach and have many wonderful family memories from the beach as a child, we loved taking Evie to the beach from my childhood at Christmas and were so excited to take her to Daddy’s beach! She LOVED it! She is definitely our girl, she is wild, adventurous and always raring to be outside! We were such new parents taking her to the beach, me with a camera, Jonathan with a video camera, snapping/filming away. It took about 3 seconds for her to discover the waves and want to dive in!
Granna and Papa came for a visit this month as well! Mommy and Daddy had to go to a weekend with the army, so Granna and Papa joined us to hang out with Evie while we went to meetings. The day before our meetings we got to take Evie to the zoo for the first time!
She also discovered walking was way quicker/more fun than crawling! Although she took her first steps just before she turned 9 months, she still preferred crawling to walking until 10 ½ months, at that point she started moving and it seemed like overnight she was trying to run! She went from only wanting to walk in between two people to wanting to walk all the time…everywhere…non-stop…

Hmmm....this looks like it might feel interesting in my mouth...

Rock Star

She was thrilled to dive into the waves with Daddy!

I love this girl!

Thanks Uncle Jed and Auntie Alyssa for these adorable matching outfits!

Gardening with Granna

First carousel ride (Papa was also hiding behind a camera...)

9 Months!

During this month Evie got to start eating food again! She hadn’t had any problems back on just Mommy’s milk. After the month, we started her back on food the way the doctors recommend starting (baby rice cereal/oatmeal then vegetables and fruit slowly, one at a time, wait a couple of days then do another one). Evie did fine for a couple of weeks and then the blood started again. At that point we took her off store bought baby food (no jars, no rice cereal/oatmeal) and put her on just fruits and vegetables that I pureed at home, she got rice cakes for snacks. Evie loves rice cakes and was perfectly content on that diet, and the blood stopped! At that point we questioned “gluten” being the problem and kept her “gluten free”. She gained weight, was taking more and more steps and talking more and more! She was still screaming “Ma” and still whispering “Dada” as if it was too sacred to say loudly!
Mommy and Daddy continued to work on moving into the new house! We also got more visitors! My cousin Charles came during one week and went hunting with friends and family. They didn't kill anything, but we loved having another visitor!

Happy Easter! Evie loves Daddy (and he is SO wrapped around her finger!)

Hard to believe how quickly these three are growing up!

Evie discovered climbing stairs and was quite proud of herself...she is also learning to entertain....the hairbow was making Mommy laugh so she was quite proud of that as well!

Still our little outdoor girl!

Okay, we're late on an update....we moved, Daddy had an army trip, and we didn't have good internet at the new house!


8 Months!
Evie got to visit with her other great-grandma this month, Gee Gee and Granna came to visit us! March 8th was our first night in our "forever home"....which also means it was Evie's first night in her own room! Granna and Gee Gee were our very first visitors. Evie also got her first tooth this month and took her first step! For Gee Gee's birthday we went to visit Daddy at work and had a picnic. Daddy took a short trip during this month with the army, he was gone for 3 weeks, we were both rather unsure what Evie would do since she had never been away from him for that long and people had warned us she might be scared. Instead she just took it in stride, she got upset a few times when he called and she spoke to him but then had to go, she was clearly recognizing pictures of him at this point too, but she definitely never got scared of him. When he came home, her only reaction was to act like it was perfectly normal, she just went to him like "hey, glad you're home Daddy!" She has become quite the little poser for the camera!

She still LOVES the dogs...

Oh ya....and her paci!

We weren't able to use a lot of pictures from this month due to me not realizing that cell phone pictures can somehow show where they were taken...

Thanks!

Thanks so much for all the prayers! Evie came through with flying
colors. Dr. Gates (the surgeon who was absolutely wonderful) didn't really find
anything to cause the bleeding so he wants us to just take her off all
food and only give her Mommy milk for a month to see what happens.
He's thinking it's not anything in my diet but it's something in her
diet that got her little colon irritated and caused fissures and now
it just isn't wanting to heal.
I think we both breathed an audible sigh of relief when we went to
post-op recovery and you could hear her ALL across that section! She
was SO mad, there were about 4 people trying to hold her down to get a
blood pressure and calm her down but she was NOT having it. Other
than being snuggly for about 30 min after we got home she has been her
normal wild self! She is literally climbing up furniture now! She
has learned how to do a pull-up and actually lift her feet off the
ground....we're so proud :)
As you can see from pictures she was perfectly content in the hospital and has been smiley playing with Daddy (and Belle the dog) this afternoon!
Thank you again, we love you all!
Jonathan, Sadie and Evie

7 Months

I realize we are a matter of days away from 8 months...but maybe I'll actually post one during that month! :)
This month Evie has been on the move!!! She is such a curious, happy baby, she gets a hilarious "mad scientist" look as Uncle Jed calls it when she really can't figure something out and she's always trying to figure something out!

This was how she crawled right after the "inch-worm", she would "high-step"

Her stroller walker is just the right size to practice walking!

We love this happy girl!

She's pulling up on everything!

Waving at Granna...another new trick!

Our outdoor girl still LOVES to be outdoors! She got to crawl on the ground for the first time and of course tried to eat the grass...

We feel like there have been so many fun new things over the last few months but there's a brief update on each of them! We are so very blessed and continue to be amazed by our little wild thing. I (Sadie) was asked today if she was "average" for her age, meaning if she had hit the milestones she was supposed to....I said, well, actually we think she's exceptional! We may be just a little bit biased though :)

Evie has to have a procedure done on Tuesday to look into some tummy troubles she's been having, we would appreciate prayers for her as well as the people that will be taking care of her, and of course for Jonathan and I to remember that she was the Lord's before He gave her to us and she's always in His hands! Thanks so much for all the prayers up to this point on this wonderful journey!

6 months

At 6 months Evie had many more firsts! She started crawling!!! She made her first "inchworm" movements at the beginning of her sixth month and couldn't be contained by the end!

Inching along....it wasn't the typical way of "crawling" but it was SO cute! And effective...the girl got to where she wanted to go!

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During her first visit to Maine she started the more typical form of crawling....and hasn't stopped moving since!

She had her first flight and traveled like an old pro! We were worried, but as always, she impressed us and acted like it was no big deal....

Perfectly content traveling through the airport with Daddy, he was showing her a fire department display in Philadelphia.

Her first Christmas was a white one so of course the grandmothers had thought to get her a snowsuit (or 3) :)

That was also her first visit to the ocean, and the night of Mommy and Daddy's first night away! We got to stay the night where we honeymooned, thanks Granna and Papa!

Evie got to meet several more relatives and friends, see her first Christmas tree/lights and of course sit on Santa's lap the first time with her cousin Andy.

Playing on the computer with Uncle Jeremiah

We had to add teether toys to the tree so she wouldn't be so interested in the other ornaments!

"Meeting Santa"

4 Generations on the other side! We are so blessed!

Evie also started eating solid foods in Maine and loved it!

As always, we were amazed by how quickly the time flew and how fast our little Peanut is turning into a big Peanut :)

5 months

At 5 months we discovered how to make Evie laugh!! I guess I should clarify....Daddy discovered how to make her laugh, Mommy was the first to make her laugh but no matter what I did I couldn't reliably get her to laugh...all Daddy had to do was look at her and she would chuckle! Her favorite activity was Daddy playing fetch with the dog, it made her laugh and laugh and laugh. Mommy (or anyone else) playing fetch was somehow not as amusing....

Evie also got to meet her Great-Grandma Dyer for the first time! We had so much fun having Nanny Dyer visit us for 3 weeks. Granna (Sadie's Mom) got to come down for the end of that visit too, right before Evie's first Thanksgiving, we had lots to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!
Four generations of us girls...

And she did her first 5k race (a fundraiser for some friends of ours)

It was a busy month, filled with food, family and fun times to treasure! (And obviously not blog....)