Eve is {10 months}

Weight- 16? lbs. 

At ten months old, you...

• are growing a lovely mullet.
• have gone from being nearly silent to having LOTS to say. And loudly. You really don't use consonants at all, but we get lots of shrieks and hollering.
• are crawling all over the place! It happened overnight and now you cannot be contained! It is positively adorable (and exhausting).
• have such a little personality! It is SO FUN to see your little self developing, and this month really seemed to be a big transition to a little person. 
• love to be outside and love when we sing to you.
• had a double ear infection, boo. You were so sad and miserable. 
• love all people. Really, you go to anyone and don't seem to mind. 
• seriously love your brothers. Lawson is still the best with you, and he adores you. Crawford could take you or leave you pretty much. You tolerate even their roughness with you because you just love for them to pay attention to you. 
• love to play peek a boo. We can get you howling! It's so fun.
• wave like a champ, and are sorta getting the hang of clapping.
• are still a tiny little thing. When we went to the dr for your ear infections you were 15.5 pounds. 
• celebrated your first Christmas. You learned to crawl just in time to get into the one present we had under our tree and figured out how to open it! You loved having Babu, Gamma, Ashy, Uncle Bull and GG at our house to play with you.
• are the happiest, smiliest, easiest little girl ever ever ever and we ADORE YOU, Beeve!

Eve is {9 months}

Weight- ? lbs. 

At nine months old, you...

• have two tiny teeth! The first one cut through literally the day you turned eight months and the second one has been slowly making it's appearance since then. You are proving to be like the boys in the teething department in that it is sloooow going. Weeks and weeks before the evidence of a tooth turns into an actually little tooth. You're adorable though.
• have had a stinking cold for several weeks now.
• like to wake up once at night to nurse. Whatev. It's my fault for letting you, and I'm not in a rush to make it stop.
• ate a ton of sand at the beach and loved it! You especially loved all of the attention you got from your cousins. They adored you, and the feeling was mutual. 
• wear some 6mo, some 6-9mo and some 9mo clothes. Ha. We're all over the place. I'm anxious to see what you weigh when we go to the doctor next week!
• have decided you want to be mobile, but you can't quite figure out how to yet. You lean forward from sitting and reach stuff, but you don't know how to start the whole crawling thing yet. I'm fine with that ;) but it's really frustrating you sometimes. So we pretty much can still just sit you in one place surrounded by toys and you're mostly content. 
• moved! It's still surreal to me that you'll never know our Lawson Street house, but our Raccoon Mountain house is the bomb. And you were a fabulous little mover. You're generally just very portable and flexible. Thanks for that!
• really know me and Daddy. It's awesome to see how you light up when you see us. Especially when Daddy comes home from work you kind of freak out.
• really to like eat, but I forget to feed you real food a lot. Oops. I'll work on that. 
• love to play in water! You love the bath - especially with your brothers - and you had a ball in the pool when we were at the beach!

We can't get enough of you, sweet girl! You are our delight!

Eve is {8 months}

Weight- 1? lbs. 

At eight months old, you...

• still just sit there. It's awesome. You don't roll or even think about crawling. I know you will one day, so I'm enjoying the immobility.
• have had a bit of a regression on your night time sleep, but it's totally my fault. If I hear you during the night I just hop up and see if you need your paci, and then I end up nursing you usually once. I'm looking forward to having your room across the hall from ours instead of upstairs!
• pitched a fit when I took something away that you wanted to chew on (pizza crust).
• are typically so quiet! It takes a lot to get a peep out of you.
• don't know a stranger. You seriously go to everyone and don't mind one bit.
• take a morning nap and just after lunch (ish) you take a long afternoon nap (often like 3 hours). Then you go to bed generally about 7:30.
• think your brothers are the bees knees. And they think you are pretty great too. Crawford often says "I love having a baby sister!" You get so excited whenever they play with you. 
• get all jumpy when I'm holding you and you're excited. 
• are still on the small side, so you're pretty much wearing 6 month clothes.
• give "five" when someone sticks their hand out, and using the same motion you sorta kinda wave sometimes. 
• grab my face/hair and give me the BEST kisses. Slobber everywhere. 

This is your last monthly update in our current house! It's so crazy that you won't grow up here since we have lived here our entire marriage. We are SO excited about the new house, and I think it will be such a special place for you and your brothers to grow up.

Eve Geyer (Beeve, Beevie, Beaverton, Beevie Lou, Evie, Evie Lou)- YOU ARE THE BEST. We all say it constantly, and we truly believe a baby just doesn't get any better than YOU. I could just weep over the gift God has given us in your sweet little life. 

Eve is {7 months}

Height- 25 1/4 inches

Weight- 14 lbs. 

At seven months old, you...

• are still the BEST. You just keep getting sweeter and more laid back and joyful! 
• have found your tongue and it is so hilarious. You stick it out and smile if ANYONE looks at you, and you are so so proud. About 90% of the pictures of you this month have your sweet little tongue sticking out.
• sit up confidently! Dr. Good was super impressed and said you are an "advanced sitter" ;). He said maybe you'll be a gymnast with your good balance.
• made your first trip to Ohio to visit the Geyer side of the fam! You slept for a solid three hours on the ride up, which was glorious. And while we were there you were absolutely perfect. You loved your cousins, and they were pretty taken with you. All of the adults just oogled over you, and it was really special to get to spend time together! You did hate Uncle Jayme at first, but you got over it.
• really could use two 2ish hour naps a day, but that rarely happens. You mostly take a cat nap in the car in the morning, and then another cat nap mid-day. Then you nap in the afternoon while the boys do (hallelujah). 
• have just enough hair for clip in bows, and I really love them.
• grab everything you can reach. Handful of hummus? Don't mind if you do.
• haven't eaten much, but that's our fault not yours. I've given you steamed carrots, steamed broccoli and avocado. Each one time. Oops.

It's so different writing these updates for you than it was for your brothers. Most everything that was true last month is still true now. You adore your brothers, don't have any teeth, refuse to roll to your belly and are really quiet.  We are all totally obsessed with you, little girl. I just pray non stop that I can be the mom the Lord has called me to be. 

Lawson is THREE years old

OH, Lawson. You are the best. With most birthdays I feel like "I can't believe you are fillintheblank years old." But this is different. I feel like you have been three for so long. You are so big and mature (hahaha that sounds ridiculous) for your "age". Having a big brother really has made you seem much more advanced than a two year old.

Lawson, at three years old you:

• LOVE basketball. Though, since football season has started you've sort of switched to loving it as much or more. Your favorite activity is to play football in the front yard. Daddy hikes the ball and you make us chase you to take it away. It's so much fun! 
• also love to run. You are adamant about wearing "running shoes" and multiple times a day you insist on "going for a run" up and down the driveway. Since the Olympics, you always start your run crouched on the ground like a sprinter. 
• are simultaneously so rough and tumble and sweet and sensitive. You truly have a tender heart (which is hard to remember when you're destroying everything in sight). 
• are shockingly smart. I say shockingly because with Crawford we actively taught him so much, and you have just picked things up. You know almost all of your letters (you sometimes confuse R/P, O/Q, L/I), know what sound a lot of letters make, can count to 20, can write L.
• consistently say that Margaret Anne is your favorite friend. And HayHay. 
• tell me you dream about frogs after every single nap time.
• have the funniest little voice. We aren't sure if it's just a normal speech impediment that you'll grow out of or something more, but man it's adorable. Your vocabulary is huge, but you pretty much always need a translator. I have a speech evaluation scheduled for a couple months from now. 
• think your name is spelled LawsoRn. Today you told me that when you turn 3 then you'll have an R in your name (since I've been telling you it doesn't actually have one).
• say "it's too fit" if something is either too big OR too small.
• are still my snuggler. You love to cuddle up, and you want me to lay with you in your bed every night. I almost never say no, and it's my favorite time of day.
• stopped calling Crawford "Bubba" about the time that you started calling Eve "Beeve". It sort of crushed me for that nickname to go away.
• still sleep with a paci (insert eye covering emoji here). You know it has to go away when you turn 3, so we'll see how this next week goes. I'm terrified. I'm just certain you'll stop napping... Tonight (on the eve of your birthday), you told me (as you have for months now because of our prompting) "when I'm 3 I won't have a binkie... I don't want to turn 3!"
• are so destructive. SO.DESTRUCTIVE. You just break things and mess up what other people (Crawford) are playing with non.stop. It makes us all crazy.
• hate to be disciplined. The threat of a spanking sends you into a tailspin (but doesn't prevent you from disobeying...). You quickly want to apologize every time you disobey (which is a zillion times an hour. literally feels constant).
• are 100% potty trained. You rocked it. You've had one accident in public (at the Mission Preschool), but other than that you've just done amazing. You even nap in undies.
• are very independent. So much more than Crawford. You can brush your teeth by yourself and do all bathroom things (other than wiping) and get dressed. It really is so fun to watch you figure out how to do things!
• are big. I'm anxious to see your stats at the dr, but all I know is that you are "big for your age."
• prefer to wear "running clothes", but have finally come around to wear what I pick out most of the time. I've given up caring too much about it so we're at a good place.
• are obsessed with Eve. You seriously love her so much. But you also do ridiculous things like stick your nose in her mouth.
• are a total class clown. If you can get people laughing, you just about won't stop. 
• potty talk is your favorite. Spoiler alert: it isn't mine.
• are a total klutz. You get hurt ALL. the. time. Seriously, if you have a day without blood it is unusual. You fall down constantly. You also had an ER visit recently for a concussion. You fell off a chair in the dining room and hit your head on the floor then started throwing up in the middle of the night. It was not fun.
• copy Crawford's every move. You wouldn't admit it, but he is your best best friend. You hate to be apart.
• say phome (phone), mineS, baybe (maybe), big pile (of milk or any drink), "I have too much hands" (when your hands are full)

Basically, you are such a total handful and a joy at the same time. We love you more than you'll ever know, our little Lawsy Loo!

31 pounds 2 ounces, 38.5 inches tall

Eve is {6 months}

Height- ?? inches

Weight- 14 lbs. 

Half a year?! How is that even possible? Time is zooming by, and I don't want to miss a thing. This morning we went to play in the fountains at Coolidge and then walked to Julie Darling Donuts. You rode in the BOB the whole time and even took a little nap. You're seriously just the best, and we all adore you. 

At six months old, you...

• are seriously the best. 
• are still a great sleeper. You do need your paci to be popped back in a couple times a night sometimes, but Daddy and I take turns doing that so it's not bad.
• refuse to roll from your back to belly. You really need to figure this out because it is frustrating the tar out of you. 
• poop out of every diaper. And your poop stains. so annoying.
• freaking LOVE your brothers. Like, get giddy excited when you see then after a while. They totally manhandle you and you adore it. 
• love your lovey. Yay! We've successfully made three kids be lovey addicts. 
• have really started to love the pool. You splash like crazy and it is adorable.
• are calming down on the spit up front. I tried to go without the reflux meds one day though and it was a nightmare, so you obviously still need them.
• have had a nasty cough and runny nose for the past week or so.
• are getting much better at sitting up unassisted. Yay! My favorite milestone!
• don't have any teeth, but are so drooly and love to chew on everything (fingers are your favorite).
• love the indestructible book. 
• are really quiet. You don't babble a lot, and it takes a lot to make you laugh. Whenever we hear your sweet sounds it is like gold!
• have never met a stranger, and it's so fun to take you places because you make everyone's day!
• "look like a Disney character" according to a lady at the pool.
• hate to be tickled.

This is our last week at the pool, and I can't help but think about what next summer will be like with you running around. I never could have guessed how much joy you bring to our lives. Just thinking about you now while you are napping makes me beam. 

Eve is {5 months}

Height- ?? inches

Weight- 13 lbs. 

Eve Louise!
Every single month with you is more fun. Your little personality is starting to blossom, and we are seeing more of your own little person appear. 

At five months old, you...

• don't like having a dirty diaper. This is so different than Lawson. I remember that he could have cared less, but you freak out when you're dirty.
• sometimes hate the car seat. That's gotten tricky this month. Sometimes you are over tired and have a hard time falling asleep, other times you just don't want to be in there.
• are so barfy and spitty. 
• light up when we look at and talk to you. Especially the boys!
• sleep like a champ. Bedtime is 7:30/8 (unless we're not home, then it is whenever) and you sleep a pretty solid 12 hours on your belly. Sometimes we have to go in and give you your paci, but Daddy and I take turns doing that so it never seems that bad.
• nap intermittently, and sometimes fight it when you're really sleepy. You sometimes nap in your crib (on your tummy) and sometimes in the Rock & Play in our room (ok, closet). 
• like to grab hair, faces, toys, anything you can get your hands on. 
• love having a blanket or lovey to hold and put over your face if you're sleeping on your back (R&P, car seat).
• didn't want the bottle the couple of times we left you with one (once with Ashy and once with Daddy), but eventually came around.
• are stilly a bitty little thing. I took you in for a weight check because I was afraid you weren't gaining enough, but you are right on track. Just a peanut :)
• do not laugh a lot. We get giggles out of you here and there, but you seriously make us work for them!
• poop out of every single diaper. Seriously, if you poop, it gets all over your clothes (and stains!!). So annoying. I miss cloth diapers.
• don't really love to be reclining (like in the bouncy seat). You definitely prefer to be upright like in the bumbo and exersaucer. 

Eve, you are our delight.