The Play Mat Series

We've tried to take a monthly photo of Evelyn on her mat from Aunt Chris to document her growth, so here are a few that are missing!

Three Months: Four Months: Five Months (A little shy of, but I forgot to take one in Oct):

All dressed up

Apple Adventure

Every fall Andy and I drive to Sperryville, VA to buy the most delicious baking apples. This year we really played it up to Drew for weeks. We were going to the mountains to pick apples - out of bins! Yes, someday we will go find the trees where these beauties grow, but it is really much faster to pick them up by the highway, and Drew still had a great time picking out the ones that would go in our bag! And that left us time to drive on Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park and play in the snow that had dusted the ridge.

It was a really fun outing, though looking back, we must have been desperate to keep Drew awake if I let him play with these sunglasses.

The hats of our lives

Back again!

Drew and Evelyn's fans have spoken (thank you Mrs. Bartron!!!) and the blog must go on! So here are pictures this week - and now that I've downloaded over 200 pictures from my camera, we'll do some catching up too.

Friday will be Evelyn's 6 month birthday! So here is her playmat photo for the month.

We also thought it was time to clutter up the house again with the exersaucer. Drew was excited to see it - he still loves the button that plays Fur Elise and "The Loud Thingy," aka the spinner toy you see him with here.

Evelyn enjoyed her time, and seemed happy to be able to hold herself up and see the world a little better, but I was amazed at the contrast from Drew's first experience. He bounced and rattled the exersaucer until I took him out for fear he'd hurt his head with all of the shaking. She wiggled a little and explored all of the toys and played very quietly.