Evan will be 9 months next week. But here is her 8 month picture:
She is standing up on her own all the time(with the assistance of something to hold on to). She is getting in the crawling position a lot more now and not fussing, so we will see if she starts to crawl or not. She LOVES to walk while holding your hands, or by holding onto anything. She still loves to clap when she gets excited. She will wave at everyone now, and she's just started giving hi-fives to everyone. We're working on blowing kisses next. haha :) We are giving her small finger foods to try to get her to feed herself more. She is starting to get the hang of it. She only has 2 teeth on the bottom front. But I think she is working on a top tooth which might show itself sometime soon.
We went to Lake Gaston back on June 9-10. It was Evangeline's first lake trip. She had a blast and loved her new float. Here are some pictures:
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| Mama and Evan |
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| Enjoying her float |
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| Got a little bit used to her new life jacket |
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| GanMama and Evan |
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| Playin with Daddy |
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| Not excited about having to wear her life jacket |
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| Daddy's girl for sure! |
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| Mama and Daddy going for a ride :) |
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| Family |
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| Mmmmm flavor ice! |
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| hanging out! |
We just went back to the lake yesterday for July 4th. I will post those pictures later. We are going to the beach tomorrow for a week, so there will be tons of pictures to upload when we get back.
Evan got to meet her great-great Aunt Love the other week also. Aunt Love is Grandma Sybil's Aunt. Here are a couple of pictures:
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| Evan and Aunt Love |
She is a lucky girl to have family that loves her so much!
We also went to a small baby pool party the other weekend. Allison and Brantley Satterfield hosted and the baby girls had fun splashing and just playing with each other. Here are a few pictures:
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| Brantley, Evan, Katie, Aubrey, Finley |
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| loves her ducks |
I can't wait to see all of these girls grow up together! We're so blessed to know so many people with babies around the same age....it will be fun to have birthdays and sleep overs in the years to come! :)
We also hosted a baby shower for Jake & Amanda last weekend. Mom, Chicky and I worked to decorate everything and have an ice cream party for them. We needed something cold, because it ended up being 107 degrees on the day of the shower! Thank goodness for air conditioning! Here are a few pictures from their shower:
Amanda's aunt threw a joint shower for Amanda and her sister, Kim on the next day. Here are just a couple of pics from that shower too!
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| Amanda's having a girl, Kim is having a boy |
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| Evan and aunt Chicky! |
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| Evan and Miss Abigail! |
We had fun at both showers and the babies racked up a bunch of good stuff! :)
And here are the final 2 pictures I will post today. Evan was having a ball playing the tambourine with mom, so we had to snap a picture. And then, the other day, she was being cute standing and playing with her leap frog table, so I snapped another quick picture. She is hilarious and sweet and I love her so much! She is growing WAY too fast!!!!
