Saturday, January 28, 2017

Where did the last 11.5 months go?

Holy Moly! It is crazy to even begin to think that we almost have a 1 year old! Everly is growing so fast and changing so much everyday. It is crazy to think that this time last year we had our bags packed, and at this point, we were still patiently awaiting her arrival (the patients left after her due date). Now fast forward to today and we are planning her first party! Invites have been sent out, Mommy and Daddy got their present for her today, and the planning is coming along super smoothly.

When we found out we were pregnant we both fantasized about what our child would be like. Little did we both know that the child God chose for us was way better than anything we could have thought up. She is the perfect mix between Brian and I. She is very social, outgoing, and extroverted like me, yet she looks like her Daddy, she has his smarts, and she appears to have his engineering mind, because she is always wanting to know how things work. She is very observant.

She is talking so much now. It is hard to actually make a list of all the words she can say because everyday it seems to change. She also has a language all of her own. She say many words in this language but we have no idea what they mean yet, but when she says them you can tell she knows what she is saying. Here is a list that I can think of off the top of my head:

Dada
Mom-ma
Mimi
Papaw
Callen (caca)
Dog
No
yeah
whats that
cool
wow
whoa
bottle (baba)
baby
clock
moo

As you can tell her vocabulary is growing very quickly. She started waving recently and it is probably the cutest thing ever. As soon as she hears the word bye or bye bye she starts waving and blowing kisses. Her other new thing is that she wants to play peek-a-boo all the time, so if something can go over her face she will put it there to try and play with anyone around. She is precious.

Here are the last few months growth photos. (Sorry for not getting them up sooner)



Recently we had her 1st Birthday photos taken and it was so much fun. She got to have cake for the first time and all I can say is her First Birthday party is going to be great because she would have bathed in that cake if we let her. She had her toes dug in, and both hands, and she kept trying to pick up the cake so she could get her face in it. The good news is although she was on a MAJOR sugar high we got some great photos. Here are a few of my favorite, but I don't want to show them all until after her party.