Seville Tate

"Little can be strong"

2011-12-20T07:26:00.001-08:00

Sevi dancing to the banjo band at the Farmers' Market

2011-11-07T07:59:00.000-08:00

Sevi at 3 1/2

2011-11-07T07:54:00.000-08:00

Sayings from Sevi:
"Mommy. We eat lots of food, then we BM, then we grow. That's how we do it."

"Mommy. I want to be a mom when I grow up, just like you."

S: "Mommy. If I got to start ballet when I was three, what do I get to do when I am 26?"
Me: "Well, what do you want to do when you are 26? You can do anything you want."
S: "I am going to order food by myself."

Sevi and her ballet teacher, Carla. She is totally teacher's pet.

Sevi at Ruta Maya listening to the band in a creation of her own.

Jammies day at school for Halloween.

September 2011

2011-09-16T07:11:00.000-07:00

Sevi in Emily's big girl carseat on the way to the beach.

Rapunzel hair from Margy. We are obsessed with Rapunzel right now.

When we let Sevi dress herself in the morning for school.

How I find my Sevi every morning now that she has started ballet. She gets up at night and finds her ballet shoes and sleeps in them. We are also obsessed with ballet right now.

Ballet because she's 3 years old

2011-09-13T14:24:00.000-07:00

I told Sevi that she couldn't start ballet until she was 3 and only if she was potty trained. That was the kicker. She potty trained herself and on her third birthday, reminded me that she could now take ballet. We watch the dancers at Ballet Austin on Saturday mornings after we do our shopping at the Farmers' Market so that is where she is taking. I don't think I could have convinced her to go anywhere else because she has been talking about being a ballerina at Ballet Austin for close to a year now. She loves it and did everything that the teacher asked her to do and ran out after her first class and hugged me and said, "Mommy, can I take lots of classes?"

Dance party zumba with Emily and Natalie

2011-09-13T13:46:00.001-07:00

Sevi's Modeling Debut

2011-09-13T13:46:00.000-07:00

Sevi was in the Mi Gigi fashion show for Austin Fashion Week courtesy of Matt Swinney. Her friends Sadie, Emily and Callie were in the show as well.Hair and makeup.

The transformation.

Rehearsal

Downtime while waiting to go on.

Hugs backstage.

Emily and Sevi on their pedestal stage. They had to walk around to four different pedestals and did such a great job.

Backstage.

Tea party in the showroom after the show. I think the other designers resented having all of this cuteness because the photographers went nuts over these girls. Sevi adopted the smile that you see in this photo for the night. I haven't seen it before so we may have created a monster.

With the designer, Kathy, who was such a good sport in dealing with three year olds with bad tempers and lots of potty breaks.

Sevi's stories . . .

2011-08-17T19:55:00.000-07:00

Sevi has been cracking me up lately with her stories. She is also a little snarky right now - terrible 3's. Here are a few things that made me laugh:

One night before going to bed, she said, "I love you, Stinky Face," which I didn't think was very nice. I told her that she needed to use nice words or whatever PC term Child's Day is using, but didn't have much of an effect because she thought she was so funny. I asked her where she had heard that and she blamed her teacher, Katherine. I found it highly unlikely that her teacher would call her that so I asked Katherine about it the next day. She said it's a term of endearment. They have been reading a book about a mom who loves her little one no matter what, even if he has a stinky face, etc. Awwww.

Sevi has picked up a new way of being contrary and no longer answers every question with, "NO!!!" Now she says, "NO FOREVER!!!" Fantastic.

Sevi has also created an imaginary baby sister. She is in her tummy and mostly stays just below her right-side ribs. Her name is Tyrone and we can't see her or hear her because she is trapped in her tummy. Sevi daily says that she may come out tomorrow.

We have also hit the era of having to watch what music we play in the car. As we were shopping at the grocery store, Sevi busted out with, "rumor has it, rumor has it." I asked her if she was singing the Adele song and she said, "the song from the radio?" I guess we are going to have to turn off gangsta rap on the way to school now :)

And to highlight how naughty she has become, my family and I recently visited the Gaylord Texan with Sevi where she wore her self out so completely after a few hours of treating the lazy river like a boot camp every morning that she had no nice bones left in her body and could only respond with tantrums and fits. One night at dinner in a restaurant under the huge atrium with echos, she threw a fit and wouldn't stop crying and screaming. I told her that she was ruining everyone else's vacation and she screamed, "It is not everyone else's vacation. It is my vacation. It's all for me." Everyone out and about in the hotel congratulated me on my notable parenting skills to date and then we had a talk about how it's not all about her. This may be a talk we have into her teens.

Last story. . . My aunt and uncle and cousin and her son were recently in a fire in which they lost everything, but got out safe so are doing great considering. We went to see them the weekend after and Sevi and Mason were playing in her princess castle. Sevi took Mason's hand and told him that they were princesses and were going to play, "Princesses in the Castle." Mason said, "I'm not a princess. I'm a fireman and your castle is on fire" and kindly put her fire out with a lot of siren noises. No one can tell me that differences between boys and girls are environmental. Oh, and Sevi is starting ballet at Ballet Austin at the end of this month. I told her she couldn't take ballet there because she wasn't potty trained. She hasn't had an accident since. Foiled again.

July 2011

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Sevi in her jammies and pink puff at movie day.

Sevi's spontaneous hug with Mason. They are so cute together.

Sevi is starting ballet in the fall. She is very excited.

Sayings from Sevi:

2011-05-09T19:32:00.001-07:00

Her story from tonight at bedtime:
"We have to shut the closet door, so the happy child doesn't get out."
"Why?
"The happy child has to stay in the closet."
"Why?"
"She wants to play with my dirty diapers."
"So your happy child is a girl?"
"Yes, Abby is my happy child."

She is really in to story telling right now. There is another story about how Spec's makes mommy happy, but you will have to ask the Spec's employees about that one.

Here is another one and it is told with a lot of animation:
"Abiyoyo is a giant not a monster and he eats people. He has b-i-g claws and stinky feet. We don't bite our friends because we are not Abiyoyo."

"Mommy, if you need help, you ask for help and I will help you because sometimes things are hard to do."

And most times when I ask her to do something:
"Never!"

She has also somehow confused robbers and robots, at least I think so. Or it could be one of her stories.
"We have to lock the door so robots don't get in. There are bad robots. (after checking the house) Nope. No robots."

Sevi's favorite things as an almost 3 year old . . .

2011-05-02T08:46:00.000-07:00

Dancing with abandon at the farmers' market even though no one else is dancing. And she only wears dresses because Princesses wear dresses. I clearly have not been the one promoting all of the girly princess enthusiasm, but she somehow found it anyway. It must be a girl thing.

First night in her big girl bed that she picked out along with the sheets. When I put her to bed, she said, "Mommy, turn out the lights. I'm big girl."

Princesses, princesses, princesses. This is Disney Princesses on Ice with her friends Emily and Natalie. When it was over she said, "Want to do it again." Then promptly passed out in her carseat.

Baby animals at Olivia's birthday party.

Holding her first real baby, Camden. She was much more careful with this baby than she is with her own. Thanks for being brave, Court.

The other day, Sevi got in her play car and started talking to Brady. Sevi: "I have to go to a meeting, but I promise that I will be back." Ahhh, the life of a working mom. Doing her teacher's hair, luckily it is long.

About one of her friends in her class and hopefully, not to her face, "She's not a princess, because she doesn't have long hair." Mom: "Sevi, put your shoes on. It's time to go to school." Sevi: "But Rapunzel doesn't wear shoes."

Still crazy about the beach so we took her to Port A for Easter weekend. She picked out her tutu (Sevi-ism) "swimsoup" probably because it commands attention, which she got a lot of. She goes back and forth between being a cowgirl (sometimes she is a black cowgirl), a princess and a ballerina.

Sevi and her friend Sadie playing.

Sevi at Yoginos at the Farmers' Market with Meredith.

"Ta Da!!!"

2011-02-16T06:54:00.000-08:00

Moving the flamingos around the yard is an endless activity at Pa Pa and Kicki's.

I love the things she says.

2011-01-19T10:19:00.000-08:00

So, I was on my way out for Girls' Night and talking it up because I would be even more of a lunatic without the unconditional love of my girls. Sevi heard me talking about leaving and started getting upset while trying to eject herself from her highchair. I told her that it was Girls' Night and I had to go. That set off the tears and chant of, "I girl, Mommy. I go with you." It was really hard to leave for that one minute that it took to get to Tracy's house.

This is what Sevi would wear if left to her own devices - socks, pull-up, apron and cowgirl hat. Sevi has a propensity for being naked and struggled to keep her clothes on at school a few weeks ago. She threw a massive tantrum when asked to get dressed so the teachers thought they would out-smart her by telling her that she could go to the baby room if she was going to dress like a baby. She took them up on their offer and spent a naked afternoon in the infant room at school. They showed her . . . that she can get just what she wants if she throws a big enough tantrum. When I got her home, she stripped down, got in my lap and made me rock her while she said, "I naked baby." All in all, I think that lesson turned out pretty well. No room for improvement there.

Happy New Year 2011

2011-01-19T10:09:00.000-08:00

Sevi insists that she is a cowgirl now since receiving a cheapy complimentary hat from the hotel, which she wore the entire vacation. Ask her about her cows and horses next time you see her.

We recently took a family vacation to the Hyatt Hill Country, which was all about Sevi. She walked around the place repeating, "I like my vacation," every few minutes. She got to play on the playground, swim in the heated pools, play glow in the dark put-put, ride horse-drawn carriages, go on hayrides, play games at a carnival, eat all of her favorite foods and deserts at massive daily buffets, watch her favorite movies each night in the ballroom with popcorn with the other kids at the hotel. Bart got to take advantage of the smores at the fire pit by pretending like he was making smores for Sevi. Sevi was so tired everyday that she slept like a champ 12 hours every night and took 3-4 hour naps. I got to read books and nap and watch Sevi have fun. When you ask Sevi what her favorite part of her vacation was, she says, "sleeping in the room with Mommy and Daddy."

My Smart Baby

2010-11-01T07:37:00.000-07:00

Sevi is doing so many things. She can spell her name and she can write letters and numbers. I learned this on Friday while she was at work for Halloween. She was writing on a paper at my desk (and holding the pen the correct way) and said, "Look, M for Mommy and a 7." Who knew? She's two. She talks so much and she is starting to sound like an adult. She is growing up too fast.

Sevi's Awesome Dance Moves

2010-11-01T07:33:00.001-07:00

Sevi is a crazy dancer. When she hears music, she can't sit still. I took her to Cherrywood to watch Trent work the counter and she danced for an hour straight. Megan was doing face painting and Sevi danced outside infront of her booth. Her moves consist of a jumping in a very large circle while flapping her arms like a chicken. Other children try to dance with her, but they generally run away to try to avoid being hurt.

Halloween 2010

2010-11-01T07:26:00.000-07:00

Sevi was a zookeeper and her friend Owen was her monkey. She chose her costume from Goodnight Gorilla, one of her favorite books. She looked fantastic. Seriously, a cutie. She went Trick-or-Treating at work on Friday and on Sunday night with Owen. She figured it out really quickly except that she kept trying to go into neighbors' houses. She didn't quite get the point of stopping at the porch.

Sevi's Tall Tales

2010-11-01T07:02:00.000-07:00

Little Bit is currently obsessed with bras. This is her playing dress up. She has been making up stories lately and her last one was hilarious. She told me this story on the way to visit Uncle Trent when we were driving next to a big truck on I-35. Sevi: "Oh, there's my truck. Oh, no my bra is in the truck." Mom: "What are you talking about?" Sevi: "My blue bra is in my truck." Mom: "How did your bra get in the truck?" Sevi: "Oh, I forgot it there." I don't know what to say about that.

Her other stories that are generally on the way to school are about it raining the colors of a bruise. "Mommy, it's raining blue, brown and green, like a bruise."

Sevi got her first kiss . . .

2010-09-27T19:45:00.000-07:00

actually, she stole her first kiss. Sevi has a boyfriend at school and they are inseparable from what the teacher tells me. They hold hands and play together, so Sevi thought she would take it to the next level and give him a kiss. He ran away screaming. However, there was no lasting damage done. We had a Turtle class mixer this weekend and the two were once again inseparable. Andrew's parents also made a point to find me. I heard them asking the other parents, "which one is Sevi's mom?" I was introduced as "that mom." You know, the one. Awesome.

We're going to the beach!!!

2010-09-27T19:38:00.000-07:00

Finally, we are headed to our annual friends' trip to Port A. Sevi has been talking about it since the last time we went a year ago during OU weekend. Seriously. There are days she pops up in the morning in her crib asking for October beach. A few weeks ago she packed for the beach. She put on her bikini and frog goggle glasses and filled her purse and backpack with Mardi Gras beads (a necessity for any destination). I told her we couldn't go because it was raining and she went and got a towel and said, "we put it on our heads, it's ok." I also tried the "how will we get there" route and she told me to put her bags in the car and get in. Foiled again by a two year old who is clearly not a baby.

Sevi is a turtle.

2010-09-27T19:26:00.000-07:00

You are going to see a trend in the pics I post. It seems everytime that I turn around, Sevi is in her bikini. I just started her in swim lessons since the little monkey has no fear and jumps in any body of water she sees. She is doing great in her lessons.

Sevi also moved to her new class in August. She went from being a Kangaroo to being a Turtle. Her entire Kangaroo class moved to the Little Lamb's room - everyone except for Sevi. I think they must have talked up the move to the Little Lamb's room during the transition, because for the first few weeks of school, Sevi cried each day in the car and said "Sevi's a Little Lamb; Sevi's not a Turtle." Drop off was in the Little Lamb's room as well, so each morning I would leave her where she wanted to be only to be picked up by a new teacher to go to a new room without any of her friends. It was the saddest thing. All is well now. She has come to terms with being a Turtle and they changed drop off to her room.

A few random pics from over the past few months

2010-08-23T20:07:00.000-07:00

Sevi is a Turtle today!

2010-08-23T19:12:00.000-07:00

She started in her new class at school today. Hopefully, she will like her new friends. She is starting to become aware of other kids now. She talks in full sentences and has started to tell stories about her favorite things. She also sings songs - do a deer, a female deer . . ., giddyup Old Joe, and row row row your boat. Sometimes I catch her singing her babies to sleep with hush a bye baby. I have her into singing so ballet is next.

Sevi as a Two Year Old

2010-07-06T06:50:00.000-07:00

I did not tell her to pose for this by the way. This is just what she does while lounging in the yard. I think I need to be more careful about what we have on tv when she is around.

Sevi helping to make one of her four birthday cakes. She still thinks everyday is her birthday. She woke up this morning and ate her happy birthday muffin, which was really just a piece of banana bread.

So, it's been a while, but here goes.

2010-05-12T19:42:00.000-07:00

I can tell that my busy season was exactly that since my last post was at Christmas. I am back in the world of the living now, sort of. Sevi turns 2 in 2 weeks and the only thing I have planned to date is a birthday cake and ice cream - two of her favorite things. She also enjoys a nice manhattan before bed, but that's only when she is at Tom and Tracy's. They spoil her.

Sevi is talking now in full sentences. She says something new everyday and of course has an independent streak. I know, I know. She got it from me. She picks out her outfits, washes herself (including her mop hair), gets snacks from the frig and pantry by herself, uses grown up cups without lids or straws and insists on doing everything herself. Her phrase is, "No, Sevi do it." She also claims everything as hers, including people. In her defense, her friends say, "Sevi's Mommy" when I pick her up from daycare. So, maybe she thinks she should have been calling me that all along instead of just plain Mommy. She has been spending a lot of time with Sevi's Uncle Trent lately. He and his girlfriend, Sevi's Megan, have babysat a lot through my busy season. Trent even changes diapers and Sevi adores him. I think I can safely say that he does not want a munchkin anytime soon. You're welcome, Mom.

Sevi and her cousin, Mason.

Christmas 09

2010-01-14T08:51:00.001-08:00

She is so JLo. Track suit - check. Mardi Gras beads - check. Side ponytail - of course. My years of collected Mardi Gras beads were Sevi's favorite gift for Christmas and they didn't costs a thing. Truly. Everyone has to wear them in the house, including Brady the dog, who has gotten quite used to his new accessory.

That leather headband was my Dad's way back when and we thought it would be a good idea to bring it out for Christmas. Peter and Cora came over and somehow Cora or Peter decided that people only say nice things about you at your funeral and that we should really be saying those things and telling those funny stories when people are alive. So we did and I heard some good stories about my parents.

Shelby and Val came over as well and Shelby is as tall as I am now. She used to sleep on my shoulder.

Uncle Trent came to visit, too and spent a lot of time with the fam. He is doing great and only has to finish this semester and the summer to graduate. We are already planning a party. Everyone is invited.

I don't know what I love about this pic, but I just love it.

Sevi got a little people barn with lots of animals. She loves animals right now and makes all of the noises. This was the second gift that she opened and this is where she stopped. We had to spend hours opening the rest of her gifts, which we need a bigger house to hold. That's what I am asking Santa for next year.

Sevi also loves her new rocking chair from Kicki and Paw-paw (pronounced po-po by Sevi). She got a kitchen and is having all sorts of fun cooking and cutting up fake plastic food while Mom cooks and an easel with a chalkboard and paper where she draws her shapes. She is so smart.

Brady has to get a gift at Christmas, too or he pouts. He can even open his own gift and always manages to find his bag under the tree.

Sevi and Lucy.

Sevi's early Christmas gift from GG. We take a walk in this every day if the weather is nice. She won't even go near the stoller anymore.

Santa Baby

2009-12-07T14:05:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving 09 - DC

2009-12-03T07:42:00.000-08:00

We went to visit Corey and Erika in DC for Thanksgiving and overwhelmed their house for a week with the entire family. Erika and I did a "Good Housekeeping" pose with the china.

Sevi and Linc were a big fan of all Thanksgiving food. Linc didn't like the sweet potatoes despite Erika's attempts to convince him they were candy. Sevi ate it all. She was going through a growth spurt while we were visiting. When she was awake she was yelling "milk" or "more," and she slept like a champ in the basement

Sevi is obsessed with trains, as is Linc, so we took them to a winter wonderland train exhibit at the Botanical Gardens. Sevi just kept saying "chu chu" over and over. She needs a larger vocabulary.

Sevi's first ride on a "train."

Every morning Sevi would crawl up the basement stairs and fling open the door and yell, "Ink!" Then Linc would come running yelling, "Evi!" Then they would roll around and kiss. The kisses lingered a little long for toddlers. I blame television and Facebook.

Sevi took her first plane ride. She slept or played and never cried. Those passengers who rolled their eyes and sighed when they saw us coming can kiss it. My baby was an angel.

First day of school

2009-11-12T11:49:00.001-08:00

Seriously?!?! When did my baby turn into this?

Mommy's favorite holiday. . .

2009-11-12T11:41:00.000-08:00

Sevi went trick or treating at my office and wore the tutu on Friday. So here are a few pics with her tut on.

There was a rockin' red tutu and sequined headbands to go with this outfit, but she was a Texas Rollergirl. . .

and her name was Curl Crush. In true Rollergirl fashion she threw tantrums on the front porch of all of our neighbors houses (we stopped after three). You would have thought we were on a campaign to convince others not to have kids. Like LDS, we were pretty effective.

Careful, Lenny.

2009-11-12T11:36:00.001-08:00

Sevi went to a Fall Festival at a church in our neighborhood and terrorized the baby animals for a good hour and a half.

I need to get her to the zoo one of these days.

Family days

2009-11-12T11:26:00.000-08:00

Playing blocks with GG.

Lazy Saturday morning.

Belly shirts for babies - awesome.

nobody puts Baby in a box . . .

2009-11-12T11:23:00.000-08:00

Sevi's new language happenings to date . . .

2009-09-10T14:12:00.000-07:00

Words:
Strawberry
Me
Baby
Yes and No
Mamma
Daddy
Brady
Fish
Bath
Cracker
Cookie
Belly button
Truck
Janet

Phrases:
Yesterday she started walking up to Brady (while he was doing nothing but lounging/napping) and shaking her finger at him while saying, "No, no, Brady." My dog is nuerotic enough as is, but this ought to put him over the edge.

Last night I got her snow globe down (under the sea-themed) and she pointed to it and said, "fish." Me: "Did you just say fish?" Sevi: "Yes, fish," like I was in idiot for asking the question. She is one and already giving me attitude. I knew she had it in her based on her behavior, but the verbalizing of it may put me over the edge.

15 Months and she is starting to say words. This morning she said "Hi, Brady!"

2009-09-02T07:23:00.000-07:00

This look just cracked me up.

And her moppish hair on top of that little body is hysterical.

We went out to the Oscar Store in Oscar and it reminded me of what I liked about Temple - family, room for the kids to run around and not get run over, an outdoor stage with a great band, steak and only steak and cold beer.

Sevi getting away.

Mom bringing her back and I didn't even have to put my beer down. Moms can multi-task.

What passes for outdoor seating where I come from. A cut-off flatbead on stilts. I am so putting this in my backyard when we start landscaping.

My fam.

Her hair could have come from my side of the family.

She carried around a lot of big rocks while she was running around - better than toys.

Grandpa.

Starting to show socialization skills. She looked like the 2 and 3 year olds out there. No one believed that she was only 1.

Harper, the baby in our first nanny share, came to visit for a few days. Harper has words for everything so I suppose that is what we have to look forward to.

14 Months and she just gets more stinkin' cute!

2009-09-02T07:10:00.000-07:00

Her first black eye.

Her first time in a big pool at GG's house. We went to visit GG and she had the best time in the pool. I thought she would be scared, but she kept pushing me away and wanted me to let go of her. She swam back and forth between Grandma, GG and I.

Sevi and her GG.

Luke and Sevi in her playpool. This was the tryout for the big pool.

14 Months!!!

2009-07-14T14:12:00.000-07:00

Completely skilled at drinking out of a straw. Useful for the George S. Roundtable on Sunday mornings.

Mommy and baby pigtails.

Hair band.

"Love the baby" is one of our favorite games.

Naughty face.

Sevi goes to Temple . . .

2009-06-30T11:02:00.000-07:00

Bart and I went to STL for Stark's wedding so Sevi went to stay with her grandparents and GG. She got to have a play date with Ty and as seen in these pics, clearly does not know how to share.

13 Months

2009-06-22T20:58:00.000-07:00

She got a pink cowgirl hat because I am ridiculous. She has also added the word "Hi" to her vocabulary and waves to everyone, including dogs. All dogs on Town Lake beware when we go by - she likes to try to grab tales as she is waving.

Sevi started walking exactly one year to the minute of her birthdate. We were outside doing a countdown to her real birthday and she picked up Brady's ball and started walking. She hasn't slowed down yet. In fact, she has gained speed and starting running about two weeks after her first steps.

Sevi spends hours trying to put her hat on while she is walking around the house. I am not sure what the allure is for this game, but it certainly passes the time.

We made it 1 year!!!!

2009-06-22T20:48:00.000-07:00

I made Trent's favorite b-day cake for Sevi's b-day. She was very excited about all of the attention. All of her grandparents, GG, Aunt Connie and Uncle Trent came to her party.

Clearly the stardom went to her head. She had to wave the paps away.

She got a stroller and immediately started walking. Apparently, that was all that she needed.

1 Month Away from the Big 1-0!

2009-06-22T20:24:00.001-07:00

Sevi got baptized in Temple at First Pres. We had just learned how to wash our hands with the swine flu scare so when she saw the basin of water, she got very excited. She washed her hands and splashed during the entire baptism and soaked the minister. It was pretty great.

GG came to visit and they took their usual positions on the swing, except Sevi sits up now instead of laying down.

She had a weekend play date with Cousin Mason and they had the best time.

Mason followed her all over the house.

Mason reads the books and Sevi eats them.

He thought about touching and then changed his mind. She is a little scary.

10 Months

2009-06-22T20:05:00.000-07:00

Sevi has picked up a few words - Mama, baby, ball, Dada and Brady.

She is very vocal about what she wants and is quite fiesty.

Sevi is almost 9 months!!!

2009-02-21T09:49:00.000-08:00

Just so you don't think she is always happy. . . . She gets very frustrated when she falls. She likes to stand or crawl and never sits still.

She is very proud of herself once she gets back up.

She crawls now.

She has two bottom teeth.

She is the most beautiful little girl I know and not because she is mine, just because she is.

Almost 8 months!!!

2009-01-18T11:18:00.000-08:00

That's my little one.

Did someone say party?

Wait - it was me!!

I am not sure what prompted this look.

And we're off . . . .

Look at that perfect turnout. I knew she was going to be a ballerina.

There is clearly something worth pondering.

Candy cane baby

2008-12-19T13:19:00.000-08:00

Sevi weighs 18 1/2 pounds now.

I set her bottle next to her and went to get a bib. She decided I was too slow and started feeding herself.

She gives kisses (not gently)

and loves her mommy.

She can also sit up now and has quite the grip.

Seville is 6 months!

2008-12-08T15:28:00.000-08:00

The Bohn Family Christmas Party. Sevi liked watching the Langam Creek HS band.

Sevi and GG.

She has wringlets now and likes to dance.

Chubby knees.

Helping to decorate the Christmas tree.

Sevi is not a fan of squash, but apparently I am pretty funny.

Sevi's First Halloween

2008-11-02T11:28:00.000-08:00

She was an acorn.

Uncle Trent.

Getting ready for winter.

Month Five

2008-10-25T08:35:00.000-07:00

Boo!

Sevi is going to be an acorn for Halloween. I think she likes her outfit.

Shelby used to be that size when I took care of her. Now she is almost as tall as I am. I am so old.

Sevi loves Shiner. She definitely has Maxwell genes.

Our first experience with solid food - oatmeal is getting a little hard to get used to.

Fat day.

Happy morning.

My baby is getting so big.

2008-09-20T19:28:00.000-07:00

See what I mean.

Sevi's two favorite things to do are listen to music and sit outside. She was doing both at the same time in these pics from tonight. She changed a lot in the past week.

This is similar to the face that she makes when she poops in the bathtub at about the same time I am about to finish bathing her. That is her newest trick. It is not pleasant for mom.

Inserting her entire fist into her mouth is her second newest trick. Brady hasn't even mastered that one.

I show up to work every day with spit up on my shoulder. Very professional.

Obligatory bath fotos

2008-08-26T17:13:00.000-07:00

Seville is 3 months old today!

2008-08-26T16:21:00.000-07:00

Nicole's Party

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Gayle and Nic. Nic came back from Atlanta for a visit. Our parties have changed with the addition of babies. We still think it's appropriate to carry the kitchen table outside for cups, but now we have to "paper, rock, scissors" to decide which parent gets to play and which parent is DD.

Fist bump, Brynn.

Blow it up!

Peters has a baby, too.

Susan and Baby Ginger.

I taught Dad Danny how to hold the bottle with one hand so that you can have a beverage in the other one. I am a good mom.
Paterson was still the first to fall asleep at the party, even with the addition of babies.

Sevi is pretty alert. She is probably learning something she shouldn't. I can almost guarantee it.

Cassie's Birthday Party

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Fillman - "Please let me have boys and not girls."

Good Paterson.

Bad Paterson.
The newly engaged Shannon and Cara.

Cutie Mere and Cass.

Weekend in Houston

2008-08-20T13:48:00.000-07:00

My adorable family.

Sevi wore her party outfit (courtesy of Aunt Erika) to Ryan and Carlye's party. Bart said that he would not carry her around in public in a pink tu-tu. And that was before he saw her complementary pink ballet shoes (courtesy of Aunt Holly).

Carlye and Ryan are moving to Rotterdam so we had to say goodbye.

We took pictures in the bathroom of Ryan's parents house because it can hold about 30 people and Alex was playing telephone with the faucet. Sevi is in the peapod.

She knows me

2008-08-07T14:36:00.000-07:00

Seville getting her swaddle on. This is in the middle of the night when she was wide awake and would not go to sleep. She wasn't fussy, she just didn't want to sleep.

Woe is me.

Seville is obsessed with her tongue.

She was in a mood - giggling and sticking her tongue out at me for an hour. She acknowledges us now and it is so great.

Bart says she is bi-polar because she can go from surprised to . . .

ecstatic, to . . .

pouty, in seconds. We adore her.

Seville's 2nd Month Birthday!! She went from the 10th percentile to the 75th percentile in her weight class. I think her stomach is distended from all of the milk.

July 08: Part II

2008-07-19T09:29:00.000-07:00

Sevi's favorite thing to do. She has curls just like her dad. Thank goodness she didn't get my straight blah hair.

Papa Max doing what we do most . . . watching Sevi sleep.

You have to fight him if you want to hold her.

She was supposed to be napping, but when we went over to the bassinet, this is what we found.

She was so proud of herself, she started smiling.

Spending time on her quilt with her new bunny from Aunt Kelly.

Looking out the window with Dad. This is one of our many tricks to calm her. She loves the outdoors. She did not get that from me.

First Visit to GG's House

2008-07-19T09:09:00.000-07:00

My cousin Kelly met us at GG's house with her 10 month old, Mason. After my Grandma introduced the babies to the neighborhood, she came back and said that her grandbabies were cuter than all of the neighbors' grandbabies.

Our moms came too. Neither of the babies slept while we were there so after Kelly and I pulled all nighters, the moms took over in the mornings with lots of coffee.

GG accidentally brushed her teeth with diaper rash cream, but other than that, she loved having her house overrun with cribs, playpens, toys, exersaucers and crying babies.

The first night that we got there, I asked GG if there was any alcohol in the house and she went and got me rubbing alcohol. We made mojitos instead.

July 08

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Our first night out without Sevi. She was well taken care of by my parents and all of my Louisiana aunts and uncles that came to Temple for a 4th of July mini-reunion.

Brady's nose was mistaken for a bottle. At least he is warming up to her.

The cheeks are out of control. Hopefully, we are not overfeeding her. I feel as if my entire day and night centers around fixing her bottles and feeding her.

Cheeks McGee is the cutest baby ever.

1 Month Birthday

2008-07-04T14:11:00.000-07:00

After a trip to Babies-R-Us for diapers and formula (the drain on our savings), we went to Doc's outdoor patio for a beer and desert. She was great right up until the point that we got our beers. Then she decided that she was hungry and needed to scream.

June 08: Month 1

2008-07-04T14:02:00.000-07:00

Chillin' with Uncle Mike and Aunt Jenny. They moved here from Chicago just in time. We are so excited to have them close again.

Sleeping like Dad.

Georgia, Holly and Ty come to visit Sevi. Sevi is trying to figure out what she thinks of Ty.

Three generations. It's hard to believe that Holly and I used to play together as little girls and now we are moms.

We have nightly meltdowns. Bart thinks it's funny to take pictures of her when she has her angry face on rather than trying to get the tantrum to stop. This is only slightly angry. She can get a lot worse than this.

We spend a lot of time on the porch swing. It is the one thing that is sure to calm her down.

Seville with Family

2008-07-04T13:51:00.001-07:00

PapaMax

Opa

Marmie

Uncle Larry

First Week At Home

2008-07-04T13:31:00.000-07:00

The only way that Seville will nap during the day is on me. All of those people who told me to sleep when she sleeps should beware. It is not easy to sleep with a helpless baby on you.

Big yawn. She gets that from her dad.

Squinchy face.

Her face changes everyday. I hardly recognize her from day to day.

Zero Birthday

2008-07-03T12:55:00.001-07:00

Seville Tate Bohn
Born Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2008 at 5:52pm
Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz. Length: 19 3/4 inches

Mom makes sure that she has the right number of fingers and toes. I also asked if she was smart, but apparently, you can't really tell that yet.

Getting weighed.

Goopy eyes.

Mom and Seville after she is all cleaned up and takes a moment to look around.

Sevi sucking on her hand, which she did the entire time she was inside me. We couldn't get any decent sonogram pictures of her because her hand was always in her mouth.