Some things Evie is saying are wow, chimichanga(which sounds like 'anga') but it's so cute, Mom, Dad, 'pease'(please) and she signs it too, bah(bye), baby, Tu(Tux our dog), top(stop), duck, signs more and all done, when she is going to the bathroom she signs it, and starting to say Grandma. When she is whining and we say to rephrase she says please very well.
She absolutely loves books! Can't get enough of them. She loves to sit in the laundry basket with a book. She lay down with her blankets the other day and I thought she would take a nap in there!
She has started to climb on the couches, with a little help she can get up. She love sitting in the big person chair and not her high chair. When there is music she signs "music" by swinging her hand back and forth and then snaps her fingers. She's pretty close to snapping. But most importantly she wants you to sign music, snap your fingers, or tap you lap with her and the music. She looks at everyone in the room to make sure they are participating. She loves Primary on Sundays because of the kids singing. She likes to dance then. She has started to spin in circles when you ask, it's so cute, cause of course once she does it, you have to as well.
One Sunday morning Chad was whistling and so Evie made a whistle shape with her mouth and blew and some sound came out. She is such a smart little mimic! She likes to facetime with the family in Oregon, but when she's finished you have to be quick or she'll press the red button and hang up on them! She loves using my phone to play and say "hewo"(hello), she also texts random people or calls them. I love calling home on the way from work and she'll just say "ma ma ma". In the morning when she wakes up even though I don't want to get up yet, I smile that the first thing she says as she is rustling around in her crib is "Ma!".
Evie loves the outdoors. Any mood can be turned around by getting her shoes on and heading out to play with Tux and some fetch. He knocks her over sometimes in his excitement, but she forgives him. I can't wait til she can actually throw the ball. When she does it's about 5 inches and he looks at her like "really?" We like to clap and say good boy when he comes back. It's the best when we go to the baseball field down the road to play because we can walk a lot and Tux has lots of room to roam.
In other news I am about 6 months along with the new baby. It is kicking lots and my kids at school finally took notice that I a not fat...but pregnant! So observant :) I am working part time meaning I teach one class, and they're pretty great. I come home and we all eat dinner then bath time and bed usually.
Chad is preparing for his licensure exam in April, as I prepare to have the baby thereafter. He is working part time at the funeral home and studying. It's a pretty low key life we have right now. We are blessed.
So all the following pictures are from around last June(2015) she's about 9-10 months old up until recently.
This was a huge Day of the Dead Project for school I made all of these skulls out of sugar and my kids loved decorating. A lot wanted to eat them...yuck!
Hope to be better at updating, it's one of my goals :)
