New Accomplishments for Evelyn

Evelyn is thriving and continuing to melt our hearts everyday. She is learning about body parts and can point to her ears, belly button, and feet. She can also find them on other people, as well as their nose. She is having a hard time reaching her own nose but it is cute when she grabs yours.

She is also learning about the sounds animals make and can make a few of her own sounds. She can say "mooooo" sometimes it sounds like "ooooo" she is still working on the "mmmm" part. When asked what does the frog say, she says "rrrrr." It is so cute. We will continue to work on others like dog and cat but we are enjoying cow and frog for the time being.

Her last new trick is "knock knock." She goes around knocking on everything and smiling like it is the greastest thing in the world. She especially loves to knock on her own head and the fence down the street she passes on our nightly stroll.

Hope all is well for everyone.


Update on baby #2: I have an appointment tomorrow for a regular checkup and Richard is going with me this time. This baby is VERY active and kicks all the time. I am still feeling girl but who knows. I am about 31 weeks so it is getting close. I can't believe I will soon be a mother of 2. We are getting Evelyn's big girl room ready and finalizing some other things before this baby comes one of which is Christmas shopping. I am hoping/planning on having it done by Thanksgiving becuase I am NOT doing it once the baby is here. Hopefully I can get it done or everyone is getting gift cards. :0)

Boo...

I think I am the only one on Blogger that cannot change the background to another template. I have tried numerous times and it NEVER works. Richard even looked at the code and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. All you do is copy and paste, yet mine poops out and comes up with an error code every time. Enjoy the cool templates. I am going to stick to the ones blogger provides.

Boy Names!

Boy names are proving to be very hard for us to come up with. We have a girl name ready to go but cannot find a boy name that we LOVE. Any suggestions would be helpful. The middle name is Joel and we like the idea of the first name starting with an R so the initials are RJB like Richard's.

Please send any name recommendations my way. We still have 10 weeks but it is slowly (or quickly depending on the day) going by and soon enough our little bundle will here.

With my luck we will have spent hours finding a boy name and it will be a girl. Oh Well. It will be worth it if we find a name that we love.

Happy Name Hunting.

Family Reunion

This past Sunday we had a family reunion with Richard's side of the family. We had a great time and enjoyed seeing people we do not see very often. Evelyn did great. She had a 2 1/2 hour nap before going and good thing becuase that was the only one she got yesterday (other than the 5 minutes she dozed off in the car). Everyone enjoyed seeing her walk and talk, which she does a lot of these days. I am adding a couple of pictures that have us and her in them. Enjoy. Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Congrats!

Congrats to my brother Scott and soon to be Sister-in-law Nicole on closing on their first condo. I am so happy for you both. It will be nice to start your marriage off in a place you can call home and make your own. We look forward to seeing it when we come down in a few weeks. We love you both and couldn't be happier for you.

What we have been up to...

Things have been very crazy around here lately which is why I haven't posted in a while. Last weekend we went to parents so that I could throw Nicole her bridal shower and bachelorette parties. Both went great. Alot of people showed up and they got some good things to put in their new condo. It was a busy weekend but we made it through.

Evelyn was a trooper. We were on the go so much that she was not able to nap well and was always entertained with what was going on around her that she didn't want to stop. She was great. She got to see a lot of family members that she has never met or does not see often so that was wonderful.

On our way back to Sacramento we (of course) had to stop at Olvera St. for some taquitos, yummmmmmy! We brought back some and finished them tonight. My dad bought Evelyn some maracas and a dress that is just too cute I will have to post a picture.

Other than that we are trying to settle back into daily life and trying to get ready for this next baby who is coming in about 12 weeks. OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

Enjoy the pictures.

PS. One of the pictures is Evelyn with a Jackoloupe she got from her great grandpa.