Here We Are Together: October 2012

10.30.2012

Longer out than In

We've hit the all important milestone now. Eva has now been living outside of me longer than she was living inside of me. She is 9 MONTHS OLD! How did that happen?

Eva has learned many new things in the last month. Here are some new facts about Eva:

She can wave bye-bye; hello; and good night!
She can clap her hands. She does this when I say "yay!"
She can crawl all the way up the stairs by herself. She doesn't now how to go back down them yet, so it's still pretty dangerous!
She can shake her head "no" and will do this when she's finished eating whatever I am trying to feed her
Eva still has no teeth.
We just barely moved Eva from a size one diaper to size two. She never did leak out of the size one, I just felt like it was getting a little snug around her upper thighs.
She is still not walking, but is becoming more confident and she will stand on her own easily.
Lately she has been sleeping about 10-12 hours a night without waking up, which has been heavenly!

She is still on the VERY small side. I took her Monday for her 9-month check up and the doctor was less than impressed. She is 27 1/4 inches long (which is about the 50th percentile), but she only weighs 13 lb. 14.8 oz - which doesn't even get her onto the chart, so probably less than 2nd percentile. He wants me to supplement her, but I don't really think she needs it because she is happy, developmentally she is right on track, and both her brothers were small when they were babies as well. So, for now, I am just continuing on in the same way I was and hopefully by 3 years old she'll be on the charts (that's how long it took her brothers to get up to 'normal' on the standardized chart).


Top row: 9 months, 8 months; bottom row: 7 months, 6 months

Last month we went to a water park as a family and Eva had a pretty good time hanging out.

Just bouncing around!

Riding the frog with Daddy!

She loves to play with this tree at our house and has knocked it over several times and pulled several leaves off of it. She can be a bit of a mess maker!

Her little eyelashes have grown quite a bit - lucky little girl!

She has started to make some funny smile faces and this is a good one I caught when my mom was visiting.

Love you Eva and can't wait to see what the next month holds for you!

10.12.2012

Preschool

Levi started preschool in August! He only goes two days a week, but it has been awesome!


All ready the first day of Preschool with his backpack and lunch box!

Levi putting away his lunch box.

Playing with one of the kids in his class.

Levi was ready to go the first day I dropped him off. We had taken him the week before to Meet the Teachers and he was very drawn to this little playhouse. So the day I dropped him off, he got right back down to business. He has enjoyed it ever since. He is such a good student too. They have a behavior system where you start the day on green and then if you get in trouble at all, it changes to yellow, and if you go in time out, you're on red. Not surprisingly, Levi comes home on green every day. Love that about him! He's always such a good child and generally does what he's supposed to. He is my saving grace at times. It's so fun to hear him when he gets done with school. He tells me about his friends and sometimes about what he does at school. I love it. He's gone twice a week for 4 hours each time. So, a couple of days a week, I get a little bit of alone time to get some stuff done since Eva generally takes a nap for some of the time Levi is gone. Yay for preschool!

8 months...a little while ago

At the end of September, a little someone turned 8 months old. I figure since it's the middle of October, I should write about it!

Eva learned quite a bit during her 8th month. She learned to pull up on things and we found her like this much of the time:

Standing at the cabinets while Mom washes dished.

Luckily, she has also learned how to sit herself back down carefully.

She's not falling here, she's going down to the sitting position.

She also found a few hiding places. Here's one of her favorites.

Who needs a dog when you've got an Eva under the table?

She also likes to hide under the side tables in the living room. I even caught her crawling behind the couch between the wall the other day.

She had a check up at about 7 1/2 months old and she weighed 13 lb. 7 oz. So maybe she'll be at 14 lbs. by the time she reaches 9 months!

She also is learning to stand by herself. She's done it for about 9 seconds at a time, before falling back onto her bottom. I'm thinking maybe by 9-10 months she'll have taken her first steps. We'll see though.

A couple of weeks before Eva turned 8 months, she fell out of her crib! Crazy, eh? She was pulling herself up already, but we hadn't gotten around to moving the mattress to the lower setting. Well, she climbed up on her bumper and somehow got her whole self out onto the floor. It did not make her happy! The crib mattress was lowered almost immediately!

Eva is such a fun girl. She loves to laugh, play with her brothers, and babble. She does the cutest thing when she gets tired. She takes her arm and puts it over her eyes, signaling she's ready to be put down for a nap or for nighttime. I don't always wait for this signal, but I know when she does it, that she's ready to say goodnight for awhile!