15 months stats

Evelyn pulled this apron out of the drawer in the kitchen (one of our students in Ukraine gave it to us) and she wore it for about 2.5 hours...

Her stats:
Weight: 20 pounds 2 oz (5-10%)
Height: 30" (50%)

She is also into the moon. She looks for the moon and says moon whenever we are out.

Another Video

For all you back in Oklahoma - I'm sorry to hear about the ice storm. If it's any consolation, we had to turn on our heater last night. (we had to get it fixed first, ugh)

I'm posting a second video. This one has a sleeping theme (as the song indicates), and most of the footage is from Evelyn's first few months. The opening scene was from last Christmas when it snowed, which might be appropriate for those of you who in the cold weather.

At the 2:00 mark, can you guess what Evelyn's dreaming about? And, sorry for the end, it's a bit clumsy and ended up getting cut in our final video montage.

15 Months

Today! Some facts about our 15 month old:
Favorite toys: broom, her kitchen (dishes and food), balls (bouncing on the stairs), phones

The latest Favorite Books (these change often): One Yellow Lion, I'm a Little Teapot, If you give a Cat a Cupcake, Animal Babies magazine, Very Hungry Caterpillar, K is for Kitten (she knows her letter K) Poems to read to the very young, anything with balloons or elephants in it

Favorite Foods: Pizza, waffles, egg, grapes, bread, cheese, sandwich meat, and CRACKERS and COOKIES when she can get them

Latest Favorite Songs: Read your Bible (she likes to do the motions - she often shows our cat how to read her Bible and pray every day), Old MacDonald, ABC song

Other Things of Importance to her (in no particular order): Emma cat, bubbles, spotting airplanes, star shaped kitten, Elmo, Dad's guitar, the rhinocerous mask, shoes, coloring with crayons, her cousins, her new playmate Henri

Latest Words: More, Cracker, cookies, bubble, ball, blue, bread, balloon (sort of), grapes (sort of), all the animal noises. She tries to name the animals but those are not clear yet. She talks to us all of the time now, even though we do not always know what she is saying...

Evelyn is a good backpack rider. We have been walking once a week at Zuma Beach to watch the sunset. Here it is on a cloudy day.

Evelyn's First Basketball Game

All smiles - even though Pepperdine lost.

We went to watch Pepperdine play Gonzaga last night. Our tickets are normally free, but we paid $1 for the "big game." Evelyn was a little overwhelmed by the noise, and for the first 20 minutes or so could only hold her cracker tightly in excitement. However, she did recover to eat a few crackers (there are a few in her cheeks here). Crackers are a big deal these days, and she wakes up first thing in the morning now asking for crackers...and when she wakes up from her naps...and any other time she thinks she can talk us into a cracker.

Solstice Canyon

Today we went hiking in Solstice Canyon, a few miles down Pacific Coast Highway from Pepperdine. It was beautiful...Evelyn really likes riding in the backpack. We had a good morning. Here are some pictures. At the end of the trail, deep in the canyon, there is a ruin of a house that a couple built in the 1950s. It must have been gorgeous - they kept it from burning with an elaborate pump system that was not maintained after their death and the house burnt in 1982. The waterfall and grounds were beautiful though.

There were two trail options - and we unknowingly picked the one that involved a steep climb and descent...It was worth it though.


The ruins...
Evelyn is really into putting clasps together right now, as you can see below -


She also prefers to walk up stairs rather than crawl.

Strawberry Shortcake

Yes - it is that warm here on January 14th!


Cousinly love.



Look at me!

More cousinly love.




More cousinly love.

Videos

For Christmas, we gave our family a compilation of our home videos from the past year. It's mostly a collection of Evelyn videos, but Kim and I do show up occasionally. We thought some of our public might enjoy looking at them, so we will post them one-at-a-time through the next couple weeks. - Enjoy!

Some Pictures for Dad

Evelyn loved this dress her Titi Esti gave her. She held it up to model it right away. How did she know how to do this?

Evelyn had a great time with her cousin Justin over Christmas. He is 2 months older than Evelyn.

Walking with Grandpa.

More Christmas pictures to come.

C is for Cookie

Evelyn and her Granny and Great Granny made cookies today. Evelyn had a great time. We let her hold one of the star shaped bit of dough she cut out, and she immediately tried to eat it. We got most of it out of her mouth. She is quick and she likes dough.