Bits O Fun

Evie is such a talker!  I love it.  She coos endlessly, and is now starting to giggle.  She gets a huge smile, and then a somewhat serious look on her face, and then an 'ah'!  Her eyes beam with such an intensity sometimes.  We have a whole conversation ritual that we go through on the changing table.  Wiping butts can be so much fun sometimes.

She is starting to get interested in toys.  I brought out the toy elephant last night and she really looked at it and started trying to get it with her hands.  I'm excited to start introducing her to all the fun toys we have.  

Sleep is going pretty well.  Evie can usually stay awake for an hour and then she needs to sleep again, so this kid needs lots of sleep.  This doesn't mean that it's always easy to get her to go to sleep, and she often doesn't nap for very long...but i'm working on getting some longer naps out of her.  I think a daytime 'schedule' is starting to emerge.  Nights are not as good as they were when she was tiny and a fuss monster (i guess she's not wearing herself out as much!)  but hopefully those will straighten out.  That's what i'm hoping.  She does a 3-4 hour stretch followed by a few 2 hour stretches till morning.  I feel fairly well rested most days so that's good!

Marea has been doing and saying the funniest things lately.  Like the morning when I got up and she told me that I was smelly.  I just can't say what happened next, but it will be in my memory forever.  And how she loves the raccoon story....and has to hear it over and over again.  The story of how the raccoons came in our house and gary had to chase them off and throw pomegranates at them.  And she loves running around in her raccoon hat, saying, i'm a raccoon and i'm gonna get you!