Some Recent Family Photos

Eva's Six Month Check Up!

It is hard to believe that my baby is six months now! Eva weighed in at 18 pounds, 3 ounces putting her in the 90% for weight. She's standing tall at a whopping 28 inches, which is in the 97%. Her noggin measures in at seventeen inches, a healthy 75%. Most of all, I am grateful for such a happy, healthy, baby. Her fussy days are a distant memory at this point and her shrieks of laughter are what we hear far more than her cries.

Dr. Heigel was also very impressed with Eva's mobility. She predicts that Eva will skip right past the crawling stage and start walking before we know it. In fact, she warned us to start baby proofing NOW! Our home is the furthest thing from baby proof. We have three flights of stairs and a lot of glass! Good times, my friends, are around the corner.

Now that Eva has a clean bill of health, we hope to keep her that way throughout the flu season. Both Jeff and I were able to get our H1N1 vaccine last week. Eva's on the wait list at our pediatrician's office to get one on Monday. Cross your fingers that she gets one of the hundred doses allocated to the office on Monday!

Eva's Laugh

Her first smile had me swoon and I really thought nothing could top that moment. But now that she laughs she's got us in hysterics. In stiches. No matter what we are doing we stop everything to hear her laugh. It's like a drug that laugh of hers. I hope to get it on film so that you can enjoy her laughter but until then this photo will have to suffice. Here's to belly laughs from the mouth of babes!

Eva's First Halloween

Well, she slept through most of it but she has the pictures to prove that she was there and in costume for the big day. Eva went down for a late afternoon nap and slept until about 6:30 pm. By the time we got her into her costume the cute little trick or treaters were long gone and we had only the scary teenagers to contend with. I got her all excited and was amping up the moment after the door bell rang. When we got there it was a group of twelve greedy teenagers who weren't even in costume. Jeez! The day prior was pretty wonderful though. I took her to Bellevue College, one of the colleges where I work as a rep, and they all oohed and ahhed appropriately as I took her around with me. We also went to UW where there was an event for the kids of staff. All in all it was a good Halloween.