Waving

Here's a video of Evelyn eating Cheerios and waving. Her wave is more of a "come here" gesture, but it's so darn cute it works.



Her hair is getting so long we have to always keep it pulled back somehow. It goes down to her nose.

They just divided our ward, and we were released as CTR 8 primary teachers. We're going to miss our little boys. Stacey was just called 2nd counselor in the Relief Society, and I was called to be the Assistant Scoutmaster. I'm really excited about my calling. Stacey is jealous, she misses getting outdoors.

Stacey and I have started "reward cards" on our refrigerator. (You know, where you put up stickers when you complete certain tasks, and when you fill up a row you get a reward.) Stacey gets stickers each time someone asks her for a favor and she says "No". Her rewards are Sonic Runs. I get stickers when I do a big sink of dishes, and when I fill my card we're going on a steamboat tour/buffet (guess which part I'm most interested in). I would rather clean the whole house than do dishes, so this has been a good incentive.

Clapping

Evelyn learned how to clap and to wave, it's so cute. Here's a video of her clapping. Her technique is a little different, but it's probably easier than how we do it. I'll have to post a video of her waving some time.

She's wearing a winter coat over her pajamas because she won't stay under her blankets at night. Stacey would like to heat up the house more at night but I'm too cheap. We've compromised at 65 degrees.

Trip to the zoo

Here are the latest pictures.

We went to the zoo yesterday, it was awesome. Evelyn wasn't interested in the elephants or giraffes or tigers; she only liked animals that were within a couple feet and moved a lot. She loved the swimming snapping turtle, we could have left her there for hours.

Evelyn used to eat so well, but now she only wants to eat without our help. We're starting to eat outdoors when the weather allows it.

Here's a video of us introducing Evelyn to Mannheim Steamroller Christmas music. She loves watching the Windows Media Player visualizations while the music plays.

Videos, 10 months old

Evelyn has been snorting like a pig lately, it's so cute. She does it when she gets really excited, or wants attention (like during sacrament meeting or prayers). Here's a prime example:



Evelyn looks like Cindy Lou from Whoville in this video:

10 months old

Here are the latest pictures.

Evelyn loves to play with books as you will see here. Isn't her hair so AWESOME??? :) She looks like a unicorn.

Celebrating Christmas

So I was talking to some of my friends about Christmas and got really excited for some reason. I couldn't figure it out at first, I thought it was because it would be Evelyn's first Christmas or something when I realized that Nathaniel and I haven't really have had a Christmas for the past 2 years!

Why? One might ask??

Well, December of 2006 Nathaniel was finishing his BS in Electrical Engineering on top of having crazy projects like programming a robot to play soccer and giving a graduation speechs; I was studying like mad in Neuro and CV and having clinicals that lasted from 3pm to 1am. Oh yeah we were also getting married on the 28th. Christmas was far from our minds. Heck my first Christmas present to Nathaniel was a bag of Reeses Pieces Cereal that I stole from my brother. It was a last minute kind of thing. It was so pathetic. (Especially if you've ever tried Reeses Pieces Cereal. -ND)

Ha. Ha. Nathaniel.

So then December of 2007, Christmas was just another uncomfortable day before my due date (December 28th). I did manage to get a shirt for Nathaniel though so that was exciting. So we are enthusiastic about this Christmas. Plus Nathaniel's parents are coming!!!! It's going to be so much fun!!! Evelyn is growing up so fast. We are excited to share these times with some of the family.