Evelyn: 4 Months Old!!!

Yup I'm going to say it pretty much every month....I CANNOT BELIEVE EVIE IS 4 MONTHS OLD!!! 

She has grown up SO much over the past month and has become SOMEWHAT more independent!! She's able to sit up in your lap now and even up against the couch if you're beside her! She's SO curious about everything and wants to be a part of everything all the time!! 

Her sleep is still pretty much the same....she is STARTING to nap for a little bit during the day...usually after her morning feed before noon but only for about an hour or so.  Sleeping a solid 6-8 hours every night! Our bedtime routine is pretty solid too.  Starting between 8-9pm she gets her bath and then bottle and she's usually out by the time she's done feeding.  

A HUGE thing this month...we ended our breast feeding days over the last week because I was having way too many issues with Mastitis and such.  Also, she wasn't even getting enough to eat from me.  The first day we started on formula she drank 4-6oz!! I normally am able to pump BARELY 4-5oz and that's with squeezing everything I have out.  She's been much happier since and that's when the naps during the day have started!  

We are starting her on rice cereal next month so I'm super excited for that and also she will get to finally use her exersaucer!! It'll be nice for her to be able to start entertaining herself rather than me having to entertain her ALL the time!! She LOVES to be entertained by the way!! She LOVES going to the mall and looking around at EVERYTHING and smiling at EVERYONE!! Definitely NOT an introvert at this point!!! 

Evie at 4 months can...

~Smile and laugh WITH you!!!! 

~Hold her head up to look around when I put her on my shoulder and when she's sitting in my lap!

~Kick, kick and KICK!! She loves kicking!!! She does this thing where she rubs her feet together!

~Make TONS of vocal noises!! She'll just sit there and make noises for hours!

~Suck on her fist and sometimes randomly grab onto things that are within reach

~Recognize her grandparents now too and I THINK my siblings too? Oh and our puppy Tobey too!

~Roll over from tummy to back!!!

~Roll from back to side!!

Summa Summa Summa Time....

I can't believe August is almost over....and that Evie will be 4 months old next month!!! The weather in July and August here in Vancouver have been AMAZING and that's why I haven't posted much in the last bit....too many fun stuff OUTSIDE to do!!!  Here's a Photoblog to recap Evie's first summer!!!!

Evie's first time downtown....

We had MANY BBQ's at my parent's house this summer!!! 

We also had TONS of walks at our favourite park too!

Daddy started working nights so he was able to be home during the day (and have 3 day weekends!)

Sitting up!!

Semi-napping during the day....it's so hot!!

Starting to build a friendship with Big Brother Tobey!

Uhh ya that's his baby alright!!

Head lifts!!!!

More walks!!

More semi-naps during the hot day!

More walks....

Bumbo fun!!

On realllllly hot days we'll go to restaurants....

...and the mall for air conditioning LOL

She LOVES smiling and laughing too!!!! Can't wait to see what Fall/the next 3 months has to offer us!!!! 

100th Day Celebration!!!

Evie in outfit #1 before she drooled all over herself...she's
been slobbering a lot lately!!!

So since we are Chinese we were supposed to have a 1 Month Banquet celebration for our baby...but we didn't want to make it a HUGE thing and wanted it to just be family and our closest friends.  So we had opted to do a BBQ instead.  The problem was May 29th was a RAINY day.  Actually it was a rainy WEEK. So then we decided to wait until Evie was 100 days old and celebrate then since it'd be in August and the weather surely would be nice by then!!! Well it was a HOT day indeed!!!! We had our family over and the food was so good.  We had so much fun that I totally forgot to take tons of pictures (I've been really bad at remembering to take photos lately!!!!).  Here are some that I managed to get....

Daddy doing his BBQ thing...

Mmmmmm...batch #1!!

Grandpa came over first!!

Happy girl in outfit #2!!

Her Auntie Amy got her a pink ballerina cupcake...but she fell asleep LOL...
not that she can eat it anyways!!!

Yum yum for Mommy!!!

Earlier that morning....Tobey and Evie were totally cuddling!!!!!!

In bed during tummy time!

MILESTONE!! We broke out the Bumbo...she was still a bit wobbly in it
so we put the tray on and tucked in her tummy time pillow too!

My babygirl is growing up too fast!!!