Hadley Elaine Evans : 11 months going on 1 year!

Hadley is 11 months going on 1 year! She will actually be 1 year old this coming Sunday the 8^th. I can’t believe how fast she has grown and how quickly time goes by when you have a baby. I don’t even remember Hadley being as small as a newborn. She has been the greatest joy in our lives.

Hadley still hates more than anything to get her face wiped and be held down in any way. She even hates it when I wipe her hands off because it is restraining her in some sense. She hates to get dressed and be pulled out of the tub. She LOVES her time in the bath. We could let her sit there for a long time and she wouldn’t mind because she is too busy having so much fun. She has curly hair and we think it is strawberry blonde but we aren’t quite sure yet. She crawls around everywhere and gets into everything. I have to keep telling her to not touch my decorations on the coffee table and she just responds with her big, cheesy smile. She claps more than ever now and waves backwards. She also points and we say “Hey you.” She does a big smile that we call her “cheeser” smile. She has 7 teeth now and jabbers non-stop. We LOVE when she jabbers. She dances now and still loves Baby Einsteins. She loves to be held and gets so mad at us when we don’t pick her up. Still loves books, balls, keys, and my wallet. She loves to pull all the credit cards out and hit them together. I put her on the swings in St. George the other day for the first time and she loved it! She was laughing so hard and couldn’t get enough of it.

We took Hadley to the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, NM about a month ago and she loved it. She loved watching the balloons light up at night. She also loved the sand and the beach even more when we went to San Diego with the Giauque family a few weeks ago. She would bolt for the waves every chance she got.

Yesterday was the first time that Hadley has ever really thrown up. We went to dinner with my parents and she will eat non-stop if it’s table food. We think she ate a little too much this time. Hadley was sitting on top of me while I was lying on the couch. All of a sudden she puked all over me. It was all on my shirt, pants, the couch, and the floor. Chris and I just sat there and laughed because we didn’t know what to do and it came so suddenly. We threw both of us in the bath, and Hadley acted as if nothing was wrong at all. She was just happy to be in the tub with Mom. Even though it was gross, we are sad we didn’t get a picture of me just lying there covered in throw up. I am sure it won’t be the last time that happens.

Hadley gets funnier, bigger, and more fun every day. We still can’t believe that she is ours. It only gets better from here.