Eva

Oh Eva girl, she is my feisty girl for sure.  She is so easy going most of the time, but when she has an opinion about something...watch out.  

This girl and eating, she keeps me on my toes.  

Eva has some serious opinions about food, I don't understand them and they are ever changing.  Recently she decided she didn't like me spoon feeding her baby food anymore.  No problem, I started giving her fruits and veggies so she could feed herself.  Apparently that was not what she had in mind, she refused to eat them, threw them on the floor and acted as though I was torturing her.  If the offending food is "hidden" she will eat it no problem (banana slices on a PBJ or tomatoes on a grilled cheese).  Thank goodness for the baby food pouches.  She will eat almost anything out of those pouches, she is self feeding but can't see the food!

Tonight for dinner I made some wagon wheel pasta, I thought the girls would like them.  Ally loved them, she thought they were so cute.  Eva wouldn't even try one, this from the girl who loves pasta.  The shape offended her.  I finally did get her to eat, some leftover penne pasta, she scarfed that up.  Ally said it best "she wants what she wants", truer words were never spoken.

While not quite walking she keeps getting closer.  This week we went to a children's museum in Napa and she did walk around with the shopping cart.  So cute!

This girl has an amazing internal body clock, her stomach informs her every day at 5pm she is hungry.  It doesn't matter if we ate lunch at 12pm or 2pm, if she isn't eating dinner by 5:10pm she lets us know she is upset.  It is so consistent, heaven help me if I am still cooking dinner (which is often...animal crackers to the rescue).  At 7pm she has a personality change from her happy self to grumpy, tired why am I not in bed girl.  Oddly enough her internal clock works best at home, when we are somewhere else she can be thrown off a little but when we are home she is on schedule.  

Quite a while ago Eva started babbling something that sounded like "dukca ducka", which is ironic because that was exactly what Allyson did. I realized I never recorded her so when she started saying it tonight I grabbed the camera.  She has now added many more sounds to her vocabulary but she started with "ducka ducka".  

Last week Eva and I went grocery shopping, she was her usual cute self.  We were in the bakery department when a cute older couple started talking to Eva.  They made the usual adoring comments and Eva gave them a smile and we both moved on with our shopping.  A few minutes later the old man came back over to me, I thought he needed help with something, but instead he gave me this dollar folded like a shirt.  He asked me to put it in Eva's baby book.  It was such a sweet thing for him to do.  

I love my crazy opinionated girl, I can't wait until she can communicate her very strong wants a little better!