Hi All,
Its been a about a month and its time for another blog update ;) Evey will be 9 months old soon, Nov 1. She's crawling like a champ now, very quickly and as many places as she can get to before we can catch her. She can stand up if there is something in front of her to climb up, like a tall toy, the couch or a baby gate. I've put up some pictures and quite a few movies. There is a picture of her with her Daddy and one of her and her Mommy (in the park). There is also a picture of her with her pumpkin, from this week. And there is a picture of her in her Gator outfit and a little hair tie, getting ready to watch the Gator game today. The gator game is still going on, but Evey had to go to bed at half time. I'll let her know how the game went in the morning. There is a movie of her drinking with a cup, very amusing. There is a movie of her standing and playing with her new toy table. There is a movie of her feeding her self a banana cookie. We've been working on having her eat solid foods that aren't baby jar foods. She'll eat ground up meat, like from inside a tamale or steamed dumpling. She'll eat yogurt and some Gerber puffs too, which are just a type of baby treat.
There is also a video of her saying 'Da Da'. She does say 'Da Da' and 'Ma Ma' a lot and she knows who is who. In the mornings John usually picks her up and changes her, so when she wakes up in the morning we can usually hear her calling 'Da Da' into the monitor. And when she's fussy and wants to eat or nap she'll usually make a sad face and say 'Ma Ma'.
We met with her teacher at school today and she said that Evey was very smart and can catch on to what she's trying to teach her very quickly. Her teacher is very nice and has a Masters in Education, and after her kids went off to college she decided she really wanted babies in her life so she started teaching at day care, which she has done for 13 years now.
For Halloween we were planning on walking Evey around our street to see the neighbors. We didn't get a costume, they were all ployester, but we got her a little Halloween Outfit to wear. So, to wrap it up, she's doing great with her crawling, is standing up pretty well and is doing great at school.
