{Shout out to Chicago!}

This last summer the husband and I were in Chicago on an internship. We absolutely loved it there. We had so much fun and met so many wonderful friends there. Those few months will always hold a special place in our hearts. While we were there I found this little Chicago Cubs outfit for Baby Girl at a garage sale. We weren't sure at that point if we were going to return to Chicago the next summer or not, but I bought the outfit anyways. Even though we didn't end up accepting that job, I'm glad for the time that we spent there. The husband and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves there - it was like our last hoorah as "empty-nesters" between our sweet little birdie joined us.

Baby Girl and I took a photo shoot in her Cubs outfit to give a shout out to the wonderful city of Chicago and all of our friends and wonderful memories there.

She wasn't in a super smiley mood, but cute nonetheless :)

 

If you look closely, you can see her 2 bottom teeth in this one :)

Also, baby girl is learning how to play the piano :)

{Happy 6 Months!!}

Today is Evette's 6 month birthday! She has been alive for 1/2 of a year! wowza! Time goes by so fast....
Yesterday I took her into the Dr. for her 6 mo check up and her stats are : 26.5 inches = 75th percentile; 16 lbs 11.5 oz = 75th percentile; head circumference  42.5 cm = 50th percentile.
This month she has grown 2 teeth, learned how to sit up, and loves solid foods! She's such a fun baby. She loves playing in the mirror, swinging at the park, chewing on anything, gurgling [she gurgles to herself for hours], playing peek-a-boo, going on walks, playing with her uncles and aunt, going out to eat with Momma and Daddy, reading books, and anything else that is noteworthy or of good report.
She nurses 4 times a day and eats solid foods for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She takes between 2-3 naps a day and sleeps around 11-12 hours every night.
Love this baby girl!
Ps - taking these pictures are getting harder and harder since she is so curious and just wants to play with the paper lol

We went to the park later today as well - she's an angel.

{Baby Girl Update}

Once again - just cleaning out the camera/phones of some pictures.....Sorry for bad quality on some of these - they were from my phone

Evette cannot wait to rock this swimsuit this summer! Woot woot!

Evette loves trying new foods! She was a huge fan of sucking the juice out of my plum.

Here she is biting chunks off of the banana at the park. She loves banana and it's great because she can actually eat it and it doesn't need to be blended! Hooray!

Evette fell asleep in the stroller on our walk home from library time last Friday. I love going to library time with her to sing songs and read books with other babies but it usually cuts into her nap time.... I'm loving this hat :)

Whenever I buckle up Evette in the carseat she watches me walk around the car and we usually play peek-a-boo for a bit before I actually get in the car. She is so cute and loves it - I'm sure people love watching me look crazy, too. Oh the things we do to get babies to smile :)

 

 Right after graduation we are headed up to the northwest for a little vacation and we will be stopping in Victoria so that means that Baby Girl needed to get her passport! We stopped to get her passport taken the other day and this is what it turned out like -

She looks a little umm.... tired to say the least. I wish I would have looked at the picture before the girl printed it off and I payed for it....I decided to go back the next day with the hubs so that one of us could make her smile while the other one held her. Take 2 turned out much better :)

 

 The husband and baby waiting in line at the post office for the passport stuff...

We love sushi. Last Monday we went out for sushi. No, Evette isn't eating sushi, she is just eating banana chunks off of chopsticks :) love this girl. 

We walked to the grocery store yesterday morning and by the time we got home Baby Girl was sound asleep...I mean she was out. No amount of bouncing, singing, or tickling could keep her awake for more than 5 seconds. So sweet....

And last, but not least, Evette has her second tooth! It is her right bottom center tooth! We just noticed today. Once again, no screaming, weird sleeping schedule, or more cranky than usual. Everything has just been same old same old and here she goes and grows another tooth! We kinda got a picture of her two teeth - it's a little blurry, but they are there!

She's growing up so fast it's blowing my mind! Today during church she sat on the bench with us and just played with her toys. We didn't have to hold her the whole time - she sat up like a big kid between the husband and I just keeping herself busy. The husband turned to me and said, "I'm not old enough for this!" Ha! I love that girl - I love her dad - I love our family.

{Holi Color Festival}

This last Saturday the hubs and I joined with Dan and some other friends and headed to the Holi Festival. It is basically a religious Hindu festival that celebrates the triumph of good over evil and the coming of spring. I like both of those things and so we decided to celebrate as well, plus, who doesn't love throwing colorful chalk at people and dancing to awesome music? 

My Aunt Noelle was a saint and watched Baby Girl for us for about 6ish hours so that we could go - serious bonus points for her and her cute family.

This is our group before we went into the festival - look how clean and white we are!

 me and the handsome hubs

 I have always wanted pink hair. Always. I think I can rock this look - thoughts? Maybe one day I will just up and dye it pink....maybe... probs not.

 See these girls crowd surfing? I did that. Yes, I did! I don't have a picture of me surfing because the husband was too concerned with keeping on eye on me and where I ended up as opposed to taking pictures. But yes, I did crowd surf - cross that off my bucket list! Seriously an exhilarating feeling.

 

I might have gotten blue chalk thrown in my face/mouth while I was crowd surfing which caused me to spit blue for the next few hours...ok, it's true - lovely, I know.

  Here's the whole gang - kudos to the girl on the right side of the photo blocking traffic for us :)

 action shot...

Here's our "after" picture - ha!

 this is me, just chillin with the llamas!

 On the walk back to the car we were denied entrance into this grocery store. This was the first time I've been discriminated against because of my "color" haha! Thought it was too funny! The store was selling hot dogs and drinks outside though and we did take up that offer :)

Aren't we goodlooking?!

 Driving back home!! [actually, this is driving back from our house to Dan's house because he left his keys in our car....and this is actually a few seconds before we nearly got in an accident. Crazy guy pulling out of a parking lot without looking....aughhh - it's amazing how quickly you can react without really thinking about it. Thanks to my quick slamming on of the brakes and honking of the horn we narrowly escaped a collision.]

 Sunglasses - most brilliant idea ever for this craziness.

Saw this being shared around facebook and thought it was too great to pass up :)

 

Yes, we did go home and shower real quick before heading over to pick up Evette. Kylie, my cousin, had just gotten back from the festival when we dropped Evette off at her house and her painted face freaked Evette out pretty bad and made her cry a lot - so sad! So we definitely wanted to shower before we picked her up :)

Great day! Thanks to Dan for inviting us to go! It was our last chance before we moved and I'm so glad we were able to go and spend time with some great friends!!