The Best 6 Months Ever

Post doctor visit, we stocked up at Target

We've reached the 1/2 year mark and time has FLOWN!   6 months could have been 6 weeks as fast as it feels time has gone.  And what fun it has been!  The rate Evan is growing and learning is so rapid...every day is a new ability!

Official stats: 18.25 lbs and 27 inches of pure joy!  What a little bruiser...our little man cried for about .5 seconds after getting his 6 month shots and was smiling before we left the office.  What a tough little bugger!

Didn't take long to figure the cup out!

Evan is sitting up with some support and rolling all over the place.  He scooches on his belly all around the tile floor downstairs.  He's making a gazillion noises, however his favorite is to put his tongue between his lips and blow, making a slobbery "nener-neener-boo-boo" face and noise.  He follows this lovely action with a laugh and a smile. Evan is pretty sure that he is the funniest guy around (and his father and I agree, however biased our opinion may be).  Evan is SO close to crawling, too.  He has successfully gotten up onto all fours, lifting his belly off the ground, but hasn't figured out what to do from there.  Time to baby proof!!!

Evan helps Ainsley use the exer-saucer.

The amount of food he takes down seems like a lot to me, but I guess he's a growing boy!  He'll take down a jar of food at night mixed in with a bowl of cereal.  Then he gets an 8 oz bottle...and then he nurses.  The boy loves to eat!  I have been making my own baby food lately.  Lizzie (and Ainsley!) came over yesterday and we spent hours making peaches, sweet potatoes, avocados and squash.  We would have made the pears, apples and mangos I have waiting to be pureed, but we ran out of ice cube trays to put them in for freezing. It'll be enough food to last Evan for at least a month!  And so much cheaper and healthier than the jarred stuff.

Celebrating Tyse's Pregnancy in Marshalltown

Evan's 6 month mile mark falls at the end of summer...where did it go???  Rhett, Stokes, Chris and JJ golfed 36 holes last Saturday, book-ended between 2 indulgent nights of grilling (the perfect summer weekend!).  Evan and I traveled to Marshalltown for my cousin Tyse's baby shower, which was definitely memory-making as Lizzie, Ainsley, Lorena, Evan and I all made the trek north together.  Poor Lizzie was sandwhiched between 2 crying babies who seemed to play off each other the entire trip up...and back. Of course we had a trip to the Iowa State Fair recently, too (Evan loved it!).  All of this molded around the crazy busy goings-ons of the farm as time winds down to this years Polo On The Green, the charity polo event held at the farm which brings around 500 people yearly.

I have to say - I'm looking forward to the fall.  Polo activities will be done mid-September and our roommates will eventually leave for their winter destinations (I will miss their company, but I'm definitely looking forward to only cleaning up after JJ and myself for a few months).  Of course we're staring down the barrel at a whole season of Hawkeye tailgating and the 1st Anniversary of our marriage.  How did I get so lucky? We have so much to look forward to!  I leave you with a video of Evan and his buddy Jim (sorry it's sideways...our technology is extremely limited here). :)