Eva Kisses the Baby in the Mirror, and Other Things

 

Here Eva practices a little self-love. It's pretty cute.

 

And here, Eva receives a little lovin' from her girlfriend Windsor, who is really into giving kisses lately. Eva's a little more aloof than Windsor, so she was kind of intimidated by the love. I've talked her out of pressing charges, though. 

When you take two really pretty babies and put them side-by-side, their prettiness just becomes absolutely overwhelming. It's nauseating.

 This was Eva's first time in the church nursery with me. I've decided to start volunteering in there to help out, since it's gotten to be too difficult to be a greeter with Eva hanging from the Moby wrap. She's just too big. She had a great time in nursery, though. It was a little disconcerting, since she was kind of a bully. She took toys from the other baby who was in there with us, and when she did, she'd say, "Vava." That's her new name for herself, "Vava." It's adorable.

 

Here Eva was very intently observing her daddy playing basketball. She thought he was at least as amazing as Michael Jordan. She crawled around the floor and terrified me because it looked like Gerald was going to smoosh her with a ball. He didn't, though. He never smooshes her. She is ball-obsessed lately...so combine her daddy with a bouncing basketball, and you have a recipe for fascination. 

 Here Eva is being very, very brave and crawling far away from us at the library story time. She is suddenly exploring her independence quite a bit, and she's getting braver and braver.

And finally, here is Eva on a date with her boyfriend, Hudson. It was very hot, and we were in the middle of nap time, so they weren't able to play for long; however, they were incredibly cute together.

10 Months Old

Eva has a tail! Daddy is distracting her so that the picture isn't blurry.

I have to hold her down to get a picture now.

Eva has outgrown her baby pajamas, so we went shopping yesterday to get new big-girl PJs. She picked this pair out herself. I was a little taken aback by her selection, until we got home and I noticed that she had a tail.

My precious girl is 10 months old now! Double digits! Her latest tricks include:

• She is obsessed with balls. Anything vaguely round is a "ball." She says it with a strong country accent, which Gerald insists she got from me. She likes to hold an apple and call it a "ball."
• She says "Hi" to everyone we see. 
• If she sees a telephone, she picks it up and says, "Hi!"
• She started daycare 2 days a week. She's learning a little sign language there and learning how to play with other kids.
• She's crawling everywhere like crazy and putting everything in her mouth. 
• She can say, "purple," "people," "Thank you," "Kiss," "Doo Doo," "Dad," and "Daddy." GENIUS.

Eva doesn't much like to get her diaper changed these days. She's very busy putting deadly things in her mouth and trying to climb stuff, and it's hard to fit in the 3 minutes it takes to get her diaper changed. Her brilliant father discovered that she loves to hug this teddy bear while getting her diaper changed, though, so now, she has a friend who helps her out. His name is "Diaper Bear." I forgot that she can also say, "Diaper."

And finally, here is Eva doing her crazy new crawl. One leg walks, and the other crawls. This is at our church, so you might be able to hear our pastor preaching in the background. I hang out with Eva and listen to as much church as I can. Next weekend, Eva and I will be working in the nursery. One day, for real, I'm going to leave her in the nursery. I hate to, though, because I never get to be with her, so I don't want to give up the time that we can spend together.

Sigh.

Eva Colors

Baby genius.

Eva Eats My Feet

Monkey Joe's

Here's Eva going a little nuts at Monkey Joe's. I was scared of the big kids running over here, but she had a great time. Please don't tell that we didn't have socks on. I started with socks on Eva, but she kept wiggling them off.

Eva Says, "Bible"

Eva and I have been reading in her children's bible since she got it for Christmas. We read a chapter or so every night in the long list of books she likes to read before bed. We've actually read the bible through once already, and we're already up to King David in our second run-through. When she opens the cover of it up, there's a dog in the scene from the Garden of Eden that adorns the first page. She points and says, "Woof woof."

Sometimes, she wants to read during the day, too, and she'll go to her little pile of books and start pulling them down, handing them to me one by one. We were reading from her little bible this weekend, and I was super-impressed when she said, "Bible," for the first time. Sweet girl!

She also can say, "purple" now, and "apple." She's getting a lot of mileage out of the -le sound!