Our Littles

Collin has his first crush. It's pretty adorable. He's in love with a girl from our church named Tierney. She was a helper in Anna's ballet class and he would watch her every week and then come home and talk about her constantly. He pretends about her and gets so shy when you talk about her. He made her a card and gave it to her this Sunday and gave her big hugs and told her all about Disney. See the love? ;)

The little monkey told me he was going outside this morning and was already in the back yard by the time I got to him. I made him come right back in because this is the outfit I found him in. No need for clothes, just Daddy's shoes and some sunglasses!

He is OBSESSED with shoes right now! Every single day he wears our shoes and then we can't find them. One day Dave found a pair of my tennis shoes in the neighbor's yard!

Eva has fallen hard for her little blankie. It is so precious! She always has a hold of it in her bed (while she sleeps and when she cries for us to come get her when she wakes up). She brings it downstairs every day and loves to cuddle it, especially when she nurses. Here she fell asleep after nursing and I just couldn't take her to bed right away. She is so very sweet!

Since getting back from Disney (where she insisted on her Momma holding her all day everyday at the park when she was sick) Eva has decided she would like that to continue. She has "The Moms" so very bad! I don't remember the other babies needing only me this intensely. A lot of the time she won't even let her Daddy hold her! So anytime I'm sitting down, this is usually what my view looks like....Miss Eva pulled up on my leg with a toy. She will get down and play for a few minutes and then look back and find me and let me know I'm not to go anywhere.

Momma's girl!

She really loves pulling up to standing right now! This is a special picture, because Eva is our little smirker and most of her smiles aren't this big. She always smiles with her eyes too which is so sweet!

Big, bright blue eyes!

I had planned to do her 9 month pictures myself when we were in Florida (I have had bad luck with 9 month pictures in studios in the past as they just want to crawl off and have major separation anxiety). Unfortunately, she was sick so that didn't happen. It took her awhile to fully recover when we got back as it's pretty tough on a baby to have a respiratory infection and stomach bug at the same time. :( So, I insisted that we take her 9 month pictures this Saturday.....since it was the last day she would be 9 months and all! Here she is getting beautiful and ready for pictures!

The big kids had fun playing Simon Says while Miss Eva had her photo shoot.

It was hard to capture the little 9 month old as she could care less about grass and will just crawl and crawl and crawl when she's outside!

She loves inspecting pieces of grass and leaves and flowers and sticks....and anything she can get into her sweet little fingers.

She's a very happy girl! (As long as she doesn't think Momma is leaving)

Close ups of our sweet pea.

She loves to clap!

Doesn't miss much of anything and loves to watch all that's going on around her.

Beautiful baby girl!

The end!

I should note, the end of our photo shoot did not happen naturally. It ended in tears...mine! You won't believe what she put in her mouth......bird poop! :( Dave and I pulled (we think) all of it out but were so upset that she had something so gross and potentially dangerous in her mouth. We called our nurse on call who told us she would be fine, but we may want to call poison control to be sure. So of course we did. They said she would be fine but may have a stomach ache later. Then she ended the call by saying we should mark the day on the calendar that it happened in case she gets really sick so we can tell the doctor....gee thanks for that comfort! Thankfully, she was completely fine and never showed us any ill effects and hopefully won't. Yuck, yuck, yuck!