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Summer Pics

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Evie swimming with her cousin!

We have been having so much fun this summer! Evie and I have spent every day together - playing in the back yard, going on walks, hanging out with friends and family, reading books and playing on the living room floor, and just cherishing every moment together. Brian has been working hard but every night we all sit down for a family dinner, go for a walk or play in the yard, and watching movies on the nights it is blistering hot. We have a couple of weekend trips planned so more pics are sure to come.

Girls Weekend!!

Brian, Evie and I had an awesome weekend but the weird thing is - we weren't together! When I was a working Mom I felt that we needed to spend every weekend together as a family to make up for the time Brian and I spent at work - well, as a stay at home Mom I feel a little different. I spend every hour of every day with my beautiful daughter and enjoy most of the time but when she is crabby or won't stop whining until I pick her up - my patience wears a little thin. When I start feeling that way I walk over to my neighbor's house - yup you heard correctly - I finally made a friend!!! Don't get me wrong I have wonderful friends but I don't get to spend that much time with them and to be honest most of them still have their childhood BFFs, which I do not. So, I have been on the search for several years for a BFF, which had to have a significant other that Brian got along with - well I finally found her in my backyard:) Stacy has two beautiful children and a wonderful husband - who has a lot in common with my awesome husband. We immediately hit it off and now have Cocktail Tuesdays, I watch her children on occasion, we spent 4th of July in their backyard, we have been shopping and to several home shows together. She gives amazing Facials because she is an estecian at Renue Spa in Altamont. We have only known each other for 4 months but Stacy was nice enough to invite me to Girls weekend at Abernake Lake in the Adirondacks this pass weekend. I have never spent an entire weekend with girls, none the less, 10 other women I barely know- I was a bit nervous but I trusted Stacy to get me through the weekend. I ended up having soo much fun and realized how much I needed this time to myself - to be completely selfish.
Evie went to my Mom's for the weekend so she was spoiled rotten and loved to pieces - I had no anxiety about leaving her for two whole days. Brian bar tended at Camp Bisco (some hippy festival) from Thursday until Sunday morning- he was able to make some extra cash and enjoy some good music and great friends.
Sorry if this was all over the place but I was just so excited and needed to share!!!

12 month update

Evie went to the Dr's on Thursday for her 12 month check up. She is weighing in at 24 pounds, 31.5 inches and is in the 93rd percentile. She is completely healthy and the Dr is very happy with her progress. We are going to start switching her to a sippy cup (not working that great so far) and putting her to bed on her own. She was a great sleeper until she got strep throat, which caused us to spoil her - I would lay down with her in our bed to get her to go to sleep and then brian would move her to the crib. If she woke in the middle of the night I would lay with her in the spare bed. We both loved this sooo much but I once I go back to work this is not going to work so we are trying to get our good sleeper back. We have been putting her down at 8 and letting her cry it out- so far 30 minutes has been the longest but it broke my heart!
Evie is attempting to crawl but really just wants to walk. We think she is just going to get up one day and start running. She can pull herself up to standing but can't figure out how to sit back down. She is babbling up a storm and we can understand a few words- momma, dada, uh-oh, wow and Hi. I swear she said kitty cat the other day but could just be wishful thinking. She has 6 teeth and has 4 more pushing through. The teething causes some fussing but overall Evie is always smiling, willing to cuddle with anyone, and just a happy toddler!