Desperate Need of an Update!

Wow!  A LOT has happened since the last post!

Christmas was amazing.  Evan got to see some of her friends and have playtime and exchange gifts.  And then we celebrated Jeff's birthday in Fuquay with mom, dad and Robert.  Evan was obviously a very good girl this year and got a TON of presents from Santa.  We came back home to Roxboro on Christmas Day afternoon to do Christmas with the Jennings family.  Here are a few pictures:

Ready to party!

Gracelyn and Evan

Evan and Katie

Evan and Mr. Brantley

The Whitfields Christmas with Chloe, Steffi & David (the girls wore matching outfits...unplanned!)

Christmas Eve in Fuquay

Helping Daddy blow out his birthday candles

Ganmama and Pappy

with Uncle Rob

waiting for Santa!

some of the loot she got!

Christmas morning

New cowboy boots and on her great-granddaddy's saddle!

Jennings Christmas

playing with new toys!

So yeah, Evan had a great Christmas!  Of course next year will be even more awesome since we'll have 2 kids then!  Can't wait!



Here a picture that is just too cute of Evan not to share:

Ah, I love this baby girl!!  :)

 Christin and Jason welcomed their baby girl, Annalee, to the world on December 28th.  She is absolutely precious and we went to visit them right after New Years. 

Beautiful!

Best Friends! <3

I can't wait to have family get-togethers with these little girls!  I hope they will be friends even though they won't grow up living near each other.  We are so blessed!  :)

January started off with wet, dreary weather.  It rained and a front would come through with extremely WARM weather and then some extreme COLD weather.  At one point, our front yard looked like a pond....seriously.  But when it was warm outside, we went out to the horse farm and had a great time!

Swinging with Mama

On the swing by herself like a big girl!!

Riding Gracie next to Grandma Jackie!

Hangin' with Aunt Jacy

So then, we had about 3 inches of snow the following week.  We ran out and took some pictures before it started to melt.  Evan wasn't too big of a fan because it was hard for her to walk in the snow.  She was ok when you held her hand though!  :)

with Ganmama

So now, and update on Evan and all she is doing and saying:
She is working on building her vocabulary, but she can say Baby, No, Daddy, Mama, Balloon, Ball, Hey or Hi, Papa, Baba (for bottle), Tuck Tuck, Cracker, she still says "who's that" all the time.  She knows that a cat says "meow" and a dog says "ruff ruff".  She knows a lot of animal noises and she can identify most of them in pictures.  She blows my mind with how smart she is!  She nods for yes because she hasn't learned how to actually say it yet.
She is wearing size 4 diapers, still in 12 month clothes (she is 15 months old now), and wearing size 4 shoes.  She loves bath time.  She also loves to color and draw.  Listening to music is huge and she will dance all the time!  She can do the "bernie" and the "caterpillar".  I need to post videos of her doing those moves!  :)  She is such a ham, and loves to show off for other people...She starts smiling and giggling when we ask her to do one of her "tricks".  If we start singing "Barbara Ann" by the beach boys, she will do the "ba ba ba" part and move her shoulders.  She is a trip.  She can now RUN.  She is into everything and climbing up on things.  She loves her swing and slide she got for Christmas...AND her 4-wheeler that she drives by herself.  I am leaving off a ton of other things she does right now, but that is just a quick update!  I am about to post another update on Baby J#2 directly after this one, so stay tuned!  :)