Book Baby

Evan and I went to his first story time this morning. I cannot provide you with pictures because well, frankly, it's kind of weird to whip out your camera at one of these things with a bunch of other people's kids running around... So I'll just tell you about it, ok?

It was at 9:30am, but we got there early because I wanted to check out a new book to read and drop off some magazines at the Magazine Exchange cart. I let Evan crawl around the aisles while I looked at the cookbooks (They called my name, I know I have a problem). Then we went over to the kid's section and there were a couple other moms there with their kids (around age 1). They were really cute and Evan was smiling at the girls (that little flirt!). Then they opened the doors to the room where story time would occur and we all shuffled in. They had name tags aka chew toys for babies and then we had to pick a little carpet square. I sat Evan on the carpet square and he basically stayed there the entire time. There were about 20 kids there ranging from about 6 months to a little over a year. Evan was one of the younger ones, but that's okay- he was entranced by all the kids walking around. I think he wished he could do that too! We sat next to another mom named Allison and her son, Will, who was 9 months old. He was REALLY cute! Evan was being kind of shy, but Will and Evan touched each other a few times.

During the story time, we sang some songs (which were actually really cute, I wasn't embarrassed because everyone was doing it!) and the leader read a few books. Then at the end, she pulled out a big box of board books and another big box full of fun tubes to play with. Evan liked those, but wasn't really up for moving around much. Will, on the other hand, was all over the room. When more and more moms and their babies started to leave, Evan decided to crawl over to the tub of tubes and he grabbed it, went to his knees, then stood right up. He was so proud of himself! When I told another lady that he was only 7.5 months old, she seemed astonished (And that always makes a mommy happy)!

We have Book Baby every Wednesday for a while now and I am so excited. It was a lot of fun, a good place to get out of the house and meet other moms in the area with babies around Evan's age.



P.S. Can we talk about baby shoes? What is your opinion? Should babies wear shoes or just socks? I have recently realized that EVERYONE puts shoes on their baby and I was in the large minority who didn't. I bought Evan a few cheap pairs at Target because I think maybe he should be wearing shoes now.. I bring this up because there was not one baby at this story time without shoes.. the ones walking I understood, but there was a baby younger than Evan wearing shoes.. Was I totally in the dark about babies wearing shoes up until now?

P.S. #2 Thank you to Jolynn for her donation to March of Dimes! Please donate now! It is a great cause. If you want more info, go to www.marchofdimes.com or message me and I'll give you the 411.

What's Been Going On?

Just because it's cute.

Evan loves to sit in here. I think it gives him a sense of security to know that there is something surrounding him.

Evan was not impressed with the swings.

Since he was such a good boy at Walmart, he got his new toy. It rolls and jingles. Unfortunately, he isn't really into it. I'm not sure he understands it. He will when he can crawl better, I hope.

He finally likes his Elmo!

It's been a while since I last posted. A lot has been going on lately. Evan got his first tooth (and the second one needs to hurry it up!). He has also been sitting up a lot better. He is still working on crawling, but he is almost there. He'll make a couple moves with the knees, but then plops right back down on his belly. He's been having a little bit of separation anxiety, so that's been rough on all of us. Recently, we have "taught" him how to put himself to sleep. We had to wean him off of his swaddler blanket, because he was rolling over onto his face in it and with no arms, we were worried he would get stuck like that. It's been a rough transition, but we are at a great point right now. It hardly takes more like 3 minutes for him to get to sleep anymore.

Big Kid

Ready for a walk in the stroller!

Apparently there was something back there?

REALLY getting up on all 4's now!

FINALLY sitting up on his own really well! & he LOVES this basketball hoop!