Evelyn is 6 months!

Sweet baby girl was 6 months on November 13, 2011!

Evelyn can...

Roll both ways, quick!

Get around alllll over the floor

November 3, 2011

Get on her hands & knees and rock

November 12, 2011

Jump like a pro in the jumperoo

October 29, 2011

Babble 2 syllable "words"

Squirm out of just about any kind of hold!
Discovered her feet!

November 12, 2011

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Evelyn...

Eats a veggie for lunch

Eating carrots! October 22, 2011

Cereal of dinner

Has tried all stage 1 veggies & cereals

Recognize & interact with daddy on skype!

November 11, 2011

LOVES attention - from anyone!

She is starting to show signs of attachment, crying when you turn your back or leave a room.
She loves tags! She finds them on everything, eats them. We got her a Taggies blanket, and she still finds the actual tag on it!

October 24, 2011

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Evelyn CAN sleep through the night, but doesn't always.
She now sleeps in a play pen on the bottom (not the bassinet anymore!)

She wears size 3 diaper.

She wears size 6 month, and 6-9 month clothes.
At her 6 month appointment (on Nov. 23) she was 28 inches long (98%) and 18 pounds 10 oz (86%)!

10 Day Challege: 8 Fears

1. Being Alone. By which, I mean, the unthinkable. Being a military wife with a husband deployed, you can draw your conclusions.

2. School shooting. Oh wait. I've lived through this one before...

3. Stopped in traffic on the highway and need to pee, but no cars are moving at all. Yes, this is for real.

                             

4. Spiders. (Really just bugs/animals that can cause pain or death...) One day, at our old apartment in Germany, there was a GIANT spider on the eve of the ceiling. It was so high up in the ceiling that we couldn't reach it to just spray it/kill it. We attempted to hit it by standing on furniture and trying to smoosh it with a swiffer. It fell. Into our COUCH. And we couldn't get it out to confirm it was dead. We banged it, flipped it, I would have thrown it out the window had my husband let me... I even covered every inch of that couch in toxic Woolite. I had to work the next day, and didn't sleep. My husband, also afraid of spiders, swears he got it out while I was at work. To this day, I don't know if he did, or if he just told me that. Even still, I didn't sit on that couch until after we moved...

(I am not posting a picture b/c it freaked me out to google search it.)

5. Being unhealthy. And all the issues that can cause.

6. Financial problems!!! Things cost money. And it's always a lot! I'm a thrifty shopper, but not a crazy one. It doesn't take much to set the spiral going... I will be SO GLAD when my school loans are paid off (Hello 15 years? Or is it 10?) Of course, by that point, we'll likely have a 2nd car payment, and hopefully a house... YIKES!

7. Getting mugged, raped, attacked, and/or murdered... This is what my nightmares are made of...

8. Not having enough time. So much to do, so little time. It's worse with a kid. I hope I never forget to slow down and enjoy the little things...

Grawr

I have been such an angry, frustrated, stressed out, grouch. I need a schedule for my life. I need something more immediate to look forward to besides the screeching that drives me crazy, and a seemingly interminable 2 months before I head back to Germany (and then who knows how I wait). I'm pretty sure I need to go to the dentist, but we screwed up and never listed me on the insurance, so I can't go. Things are going crazy for the cruise, and it's tempting me to cancel it all together. I just need a large drink tonight. I have zero patience lately, and I'm bored, which makes me lazy, and then unmotivated. Today was a good day, and then it all went to shit, and snowballed, so now I'm just sick of all these emotions. And I really hate being so angry all the time.

Why does everything have to be so freaking hard and such a challenge to do? I need a break from life!