5 months old!

Evelyn has changed so much this month! She is making so many noises. We call her a "teradactyl," because she sounds like one sometimes! I was just looking back at my posts from when she was born and I'm still so amazed in how much God has used our daughter to help grow our relationship more and more. Scott is the best father and husband I could ever ask for. He senses when I'm weak and fills in for me! We are the best team!

1 month to 5 month comparison picture!
Clearly I'm going to have to stop putting the sticker
on her outfit!

This is one Saturday morning
after she decided I wasn't
shoveling it in quick enough
and took the spoon from me!

Our sweet girl is 14 lb 10 oz and enjoying testing vegetables right now. So far, green beans are much better than peas! We will see what she thinks next week after we add squash. I have a feeling squash might be her favorite. I ate a lot of squash while I was pregnant!
   This month we took our 1st plane ride to go see Grandtama and Petapaw in St. Louis. Evelyn did great, nuch better than I would have ever thought she would! We had fun in St. Louis too. We watched movies while Evelyn napped, but anytime she was awake, the world stopped spinning and she got all sorts of attention! So much fun to watch my parents enjoy her!
    Here's this months facts:

• I have cereal and milk for breakfast, veggies and milk for lunch, an afternoon bottle, veggies and milk for dinner  and a bedtime bottle.
• My mom still makes all my milk...although she isn't as good as it as she was at making a whole bunch...so it's a good thing I have a stash in the freezer from when I was born...we planning on making it at least another month or two between fresh and frozen milk.
• I can roll both ways now!
• I love to stick things in my mouth
• I like to reach for things (including cups of coffee) and if something can't make it into my mouth I get frustrated. 
• Blowing raspberries is so much fun, whether I blow them with my spit or with my food. It's really cool to do it with peas...and then my mom has green stuff in her eyebrows!
• I'm still bald headed, but my mom says I got her eyebrows - they are thick and dark!
• Slobber, Slobber, Slobber...that's what I'm the best at! I soak several outfits/bibs a day
• I really love my school, Learn-N-Fun Home Daycare, we have lots of fun and they helped me make a gift for my Grandparents last week!
• My mom is starting working on the sign language they use at school. Right now she keeps making motions for more, all done, and milk. She looks funny!

Some days...

So today I just need to vent...so guess what...you get to hear!

• My day started at 5 am with a little girl waking up and talking in her bed, then crying...so I got up and of course you get to the bed and she smiles! Who can be upset when you get a smile? After nursing for a few minutes she went back to sleep so I went back to bed too. 
• I drug myself out of bed about 30 minutes later, got ready for the day...at least I thought I was ready...
• Went to Starbucks...left Starbucks only to notice that I never took my eye makeup off last night, I had black under my eyes and had failed to put my makeup on this morning...how embarrassing!
• Got to work, realized I didn't have my parking pass because I was driving Scott's car today because he has to go to court for a ticket we got for no registration on our car ~ long story...needless to say it's not our fault. Our registration is tied to another vehicle and we can't seem to get it fixed.
• Luckily I flagged down the parking lot guy, who drives a golf cart around our lot all day...he was nice and told me he wouldn't tow my car and would tell the guy that comes in at 2:00 not to tow my car because I don't have my sticker
• Get to my office...I don't have my key to get into my office because it's on the key ring Scott has. Use my phone to email someone in the office and they come let me in :) 
• Work on revisions to a 34 pg. document that MUST go out today...only to close it and not be able to find it until I'm almost in tears 15 minutes later (it was in the wrong folder and for some reason when I searched for it...that didn't work)
• Decide it's time to pump...only to discover I left my power cord at home...I live 7 minutes away (thankfully)
• However, taking 4.5 hours of my day on Tuesday to take a PhD course means I have to make up 4.5 hours somewhere in my week...so going home is not in my daily allotment of time...
• Oh well, came home, ate a brownie (needless to say I have issues with stress eating and today I just want fried food and junk food...that's a whole different blog post)
• Expecting the plug to be in the wall...it isn't there...yep, it was in my bag the whole time, just in a different pocket.

So, all of this before 2pm. Why am I ranting in my blog? I don't really know. However, as I close this post and head back to my office, I must say. I have a lot to be thankful for:

• 2 working cars (even if the Focus aka Bofus isn't the best to drive); if we didn't have 2 working cars I wouldn't be able to come home even when I need to
• A flexible job, that gives me the freedom to come home when I need to
• Amazing coworkers, who help me when I'm in a pinch. We are a great team! 
• A husband that lets me call him and vent :)
• A beautiful healthy daughter

So, my day definitely wasn't perfect, but I have a lot to be thankful for!