Wurstfest 2011

Evelyn, James and I all made the treck down to Austin/New Braunfels for our annual Wurstfest trip! Evie did great in the car and ate her lunch just fine when we stopped. We had a wonderful evening in Austin at the Young household. Stace made everyone dinner and we all hung out with ze babies! Yes Ethan you are still considered a baby even though you are 2! I miss my Austin girls!! Hopefully I will get to make it down there more often in the future.

Stace holding baby Natalie and me holding Evie

Smile off!!

Kristy held her!!

Besties

Evelyn even decided to sleep until almost 0400 too! She also must have known we were on vacation because she slept in each day til almost 0700. Mom and Dad were pretty happy!

Only had one meltdown at Wurstfest, someone got a little hungry, tired and overstimulated all at once but after we ate and finally passed out was a happy camper. We were able to stay at Wurstfest from 1130 til almost 730pm. I really enjoy hanging out and talking to everyone. There were a lot of babies in our group though. James enjoyed the festivities more than Julia, but hey someone had to drive all of us home. Evelyn even went for a walk in her baby bjorn with daddy and really enjoyed it. Now that we have head control we like to look out at EVERYTHING.

Stack of pitchers at the end of the night, impressive this year. A lot of people were jealous of us!

Our little German!

Baby girl turns 3 months tomorrow and we have a professional photo shoot on Wednesday to celebrate it! I have a special outfit all picked out!

Next up Thanksgiving trip to Houston. AND.....Katy coming home, YEA!!!!!!!!!!!! So super excited to see my sister! We are also having a professional family photo taken b/c the entire Walters clan will be in Richardson Texas at the same time! Hard to believe I know. Aight someone is fussy, peace

More October

So my last post was very quick b/c someone was being a little cranky. Wanted to include some more photos from the lovely month of October. Evelyn is doing great! Mommy is getting a little sad that she will have to go back to work soon. I work my 1st night shift this Friday, little nervous about how it is going to go, but it is only the 1 shift. We found a daycare for her to start at in January, super sweet b/c they will let us only pay for 2 days a week.

Evelyn has pretty much mastered head control, we attempted the Bumbo today and did all right, not fantastic. She even had 2 nights this week where she slept from 9pm til 7am, I actually had to go wake her up at 7. It was only 2 night but hey it is a start. James and I were actually a little confused when they happened. Baby girl is growing so big! I want to her to stay small though so she can keep wearing her cute outfits. Guess I will just have to buy her some bigger ones, James will LOVE that. 

Well enjoy the photos:

Aunt Brittany and Evie

Our attempted photo shoot from the arboretum

Cousins!

Took forever to get this profile shot

Sleeping during our 1st peprally, I put cotton balls in her headband to protect her ears from the noise

STATE FAIR trip with Mommy and Aunt Brittany, she slept the whole trip!

Happy b/c I look cute

Happy October!

We have had such a wonderful October! Aunt Brittany came to visit, we carved pumpkins, went to the Arboretum, went to the State Fair of Texas, celebrated our 1st Halloween! It has really been such a FUN month!

Mommy's Pumpkin

Daddy's pumpkin

My other halloween outfit

Pumpkin and Bumble Bee!

I am working very hard to finish Evelyn's scrap-book before I have to go back to work. Really not looking forward to going back to work, but alas.

Mommy & Me Moment

Well baby girl woke up a little early from her nap today and while I was rocking her back to sleep she started to smile. For some reason that smile was so adorable that I got a little tickled and started to giggle, well then Evelyn decided that while she was asleep she was going to giggle too. So there we are both giggling on the couch, her half asleep & me exhausted. We even had a moment when we both stopped giggling and then immediately started back up again at the same time. I really wish I had had a camera to record it, oh well the memories will have to do for now. I guess I never realized how much I would love this little girl, it kinda blows me away. (Even though she is exhausting!!)

A week full of 1st's

It has been a while, apologies. We all have had a rough week. Made it down to Houston last weekend to introduce little miss Evelyn to the McBride family. She was adorable of course and I am pretty sure everyone loved her. (How could you not?!?) She did great traveling in the car, however little did James or I know what would be in store for us when we got back to Dallas. Miss cutie patootie decided that sleeping during the hours of 0200-0600 would no longer be necessary. It has been rough. We did make a stop to the pediatrician just to make sure that everything was ok. Apparently Evelyn does not like change, well most infants her age do not. Yesterday/last night was the 1st 24 hours that she was back to her 'normal' schedule, fingers crossed for tonight.

sleepin' on great aunt sharon

The Great One and Evelyn

Talkin' to great-grandpa Mcbride

Great Aunt Joanie

  Evelyn got to go to her 1st pep rally to cheer on Aunt Ginny! The JJ Pearce mustang onesie was too big but mommy made sure she was dressed super cute anyways.

Slept through the whole thing. Note the cotton gauze over her ears in her headband

Go Pearce Varsity Cheerleaders! (Aunt Ginny is 3rd in from right on the bottom)

Evelyn's future lol! Go Gin-bin

 Evelyn also got to meet her Uncle Marcus for the 1st time. We all got together to celebrate Jay's 1st birthday, it is really amazing how fast a year can go by.

Bonding with Uncle Marcus

Birthday boy!

Gigi and Jay

 Other than the sleep issues, life has been good. Baby girl is 2 months old today, where has the time gone?!?! Stinks b/c I will have to go back to work soon, boo. Although I found out last night that both my sister (Kat) and my brother (Marcus) & his family will both be home the entire week of Thanksgiving. So might not go back to work until 1st week of December, sorry Presby folks. Aight off to finish the Texas game!

Playing With Mommy

You have to watch until the end but little Miss Evelyn smiles for the camera, well her version of a smile. Lately after our morning walk we like to hang out on the couch and play with her butterfly toy. She has really started to smile these past couple of days, which makes Mommy & Daddy very happy. 

The Pout

Oh how we are perfecting our pouty face! She definitely is taking after her mamma, poor James. Maybe Evelyn and I can time it so that we both give him our pouty faces at the same time, haha.

Evelyn is growing bigger everyday! I love playing with her chubby arms and legs! Starting to outgrow our newborn size cloth diapers but not quite big enough for the next size. I am addicted to finding her new clothes, Julia should not be alone with a computer and the ability to online shop! We did buy her Christmas outfit the other day though, I am so excited to dress her up.

Yesterday she smiled, like legit smile while I was talking to her, was unable to get her to do it again for the camera though. Enjoy some photos!

adorable onesie from Suzanne!

Evelyn LOVES naked time on her changing pad (this particular session happened after she had a poo-splosion followed by immediate mount Vesuvius of spit up, after mom had already dressed her for the day of course)

we love us some bath time

Great Aunt Sharon cuddling with Evie

solving the worlds problems

PJ day with mommy

Scott holding Evelyn, so mad I did not get photo of Stace holding her!

sleeping on mommy