Evelyn is almost one year old!
She is probably the most hilarious person I have ever met in my entire life. She makes us bust a gut practically every day.
She loves to imitate us. The past little while we have been praying to bless her food before she eats. I take her little hands and help her "fold" her arms, and then I pray. Most of the time, she still has her arms folded when I'm done praying (I make it very brief). The past few days, though, when I say "it's time to pray!" She tries to fold her own arms! And tonight at dinner she did it all by herself. I didn't even have to say "it's time to pray!"
She also imitates words and sounds that we say. A lot of the time I can understand that she is trying to say what I have just said. This morning she was trying to say "applesauce." I recorded it in the last video. And it may not sound like anything to anyone else, but it sure sounds like "applesauce" to me!
Evelyn is obsessed with my phone. Anytime she sees it she gets really happy, but then when she realizes I am not going to give it to her she screams and throws a fit!
She climbs, or tries to climb, anything she can get her little legs up onto. It kind of drives me crazy! Lately it has been the kitchen chairs, and I'm terrified she is going to fall and crack her head on the floor. We have boxes piled up all over our apartment for the move in a couple of weeks and she tries to climb on them all the time!
She knows not only the sign, but what the words "all done" mean. I say and sign it a lot during the day. The one time I know for sure she understands me is when I'm done changing her diaper. I sign and/or say "all done" and she rolls over and is running away before I can stand up myself.
She loves to be outside, and tries to escape very often. She gets really mad whenever the front door gets shut. I would leave it open but she can push the screen door open and climb up the concrete steps (I'm surprised I haven't had a panic attack yet).
Her Aunt Andi gave her a cute teddy bear at the baby shower, and it has turned out to be her favorite stuffed animal out of all the ones that she has. She sleeps with it now, and often she will go find it, and just love on it and carry it around with her. It is extremely adorable. :)
She has started to get more cuddly lately. Sometimes she will just come love on me. Or if I'm holding her she will wrap her arms around my neck and lay her head on my shoulder. I LOVE it when she does this.
Ben lays on the floor to play with her quite often and she loves to sit on him.
She loves piggy back rides! I just need to figure out how to teach her to hold on better.
She is a smarty pants, and we don't know what we would do without her!
