Balancing Baby

I'm finally getting this video up on the blog. This is something that Evelyn and her daddy do almost every day. She just loves it and usually laughs each time. Some of you have seen the video and some of you have been lucky to see this in person. I think we have a gymnast on our hands.

Special thanks to Lori for turning this video for us (we filmed it with the camera turned and so had trouble turning the video for the blog).

Playing outside of Excersaucer

Now that Evelyn is crawling, she is becoming more daring. Blow are some pictures of her pulling up on the Excersaucer. Who knew it could be just as fun playing outside the exersaucer instead of in.

Evelyn pulling up on the exersaucer.

Look Mom....One Hand!

Holding on the exersaucer with one hand and reaching for another toy with the other.

Working Girl

This week Evelyn decided she was going to help me with my work. She just loves my computer (but what can we expect from a kid who's dad is a computer geek and a mom who works from home on her computer all day).

(The computer is on our ottoman. Evelyn is standing and holding on all by her self. She is growing up to fast)

Anniversary Gift

Tuesday night, the Jacksons and us went to the John Mayer and Paramore concert. It was great to get out and relax after the crazy and unplanned weekend we had. The concert was a gift from my husband for our anniversary. On the 6th we celebrated 3 years of marriage. In October, we will celebrate 10 years of being together....wow does time fly by.

Thanks to the Jacksons for going to the concert with us. We had a wonderful time. Lets do it again sometime soon.

Thank you to the Hodges for watching our little girl.

Thank you husband.....that was a great anniversary gift.

Evelyn is Crawling

Monday, after granddad Perkins funeral, Evelyn decided to surprise the entire Perkins clan. She started crawling. My little baby girl crawling 10 days before she turns 8 months...Amazing. Although I shouldn't be surprised....I was an early walker. Below is a small video of her crawling at granddad house (her great granddad).

Grilling Dinner

We are still in Utah and having so much fun. Each day, Evelyn gets her morning nap at home and then we go out for lunch. After lunch we do some activity (shopping) and then come home for the evening.

Each night we cook dinner at home and Evelyn decided to help. The picture below shows Evelyn eating the grill brush used to put marinade on our meat. This was her first time with a kitchen utensil and she wasn't sure about it.

Stacking Blocks

Before heading to Utah, I bought a new Fisher-Price Toy (Baby's First Blocks). This has turned out to be a wonderful toy and I highly recommend it.

Evelyn isn't quite old enough to put the blocks through the special holes on the top of the toy. But she loves to dump the bucket over and make a mess. But her most favorite thing is when mommy stacks the blocks. She concentrates very hard and tries to just take the top block off with out the stack falling. But it falls every time. Below are some pictures of her playing in Utah with the blocks.

Focused on the blocks

Not sure what to do

And they fell down

Playing with blocks is tiring