Sunday, March 18, 2018

Miss Everly Mae - 8 Months!


Weight - 16.5lbs

Height - 26.5 inches

Feeding - You breastfeed 4 times during the day and once at night.  You LOVE to eat real food and are eating three meals a day.  You eat almost anything, but meat is by far your favorite!

Sleeping -  Your sleep has improved greatly!  You nap twice a day and sleep 12 hours at night minus one short feed, normally somewhere between 3-5am.  We have been happy with your progress in the sleep department and look forward to it continuing to improve!

Milestones - The big news this past month was that you starting crawling!!!  You took off last week and haven't stopped since.  You have progressed quickly from just going short distances to flying across the room!  You still don't fully roll from your back to front, but you are able to move in every other direction.  You go from sitting to crawling to back up again.  You have a few more teeth starting to poke through.  You are babbling a lot more and have started singing with us when we are all in the van together. 

Likes -  your people, peek-a-boo, music, eating, being tickled, showers

Dislikes - thinking you are alone, being hungry, napping when you don't think you need to

Fun Times -  Visits from Grams & Gramps and Nana & Papa, going sledding, visiting Vancouver Island, celebrating your first St. Patrick's Day!



Thursday, March 8, 2018

The Island

Last weekend we made the trip over to Vancouver Island.  Matt's Woman's Basketball team made history by making it into provincials.  He wanted to be there to support them and we thought what a great excuse for a little family getaway!

Waiting for our ferry.

The ferry ride is a fun part of the entire "island" experience and God gave us two sunny filled ferry rides - which this time of year is a miracle!



We stayed at an AirBnB that was very comfy!

The boys at the game 

slow morning at our condo

Exploring Nanaimo - such fun to have no agenda and just be free to explore


we ended up at a coffee shop to warm up

after a quick warm up we went to check out the marina


we were able to meet up with Matt's Papa and Shan, who just arrived to spend 6 weeks on the island

on Saturday we went to see Papa and Shan's place on the island and went exploring on their beach


so many fun shells and crabs




we had dinner on Saturday night in a 100 year old firehall that has been converted into a restaurant - very fun for the boys!

what fun to get away for the weekend - just the 5 of us!  we love to be together, relaxing and exploring and all the sunshine was a beautiful added bonus!