Fall Fun!

Well, here we are already into the cool, crisp air that fall time brings! I know it has been a while but we have just been overwhelming busy in the Tylec household! I told you that Evelyn is now walking...and I mean she is on the go!! The little lady hauls her butt all over the house...she even loves holding your hand and walking to the park that is down the street from our house! (although, one morning I made the mistake of letting her walk to the car with me so I could take her to daycare before work...yeah, she thought we were off to the park...boy did this ensue some tears and pointing towards the swings!) She has been walking for a little over a month now and it was just like everyone had predicted - one day, she just started taking steps. First, it was just walking back and forth between Jay and myself but eventually she got the courage to just go off by herself! She still has that 'drunk' wobble walk every now and then but she gets around
just fine! We are so proud of her, but it really is going to fast!!
She recently went for her 15-month check up and she is growing just beautifully...as if you didn't know just by looking at her pictures. She weighs 23 lbs and is 32.5 inches long. Her pumpkin head is measuring in the 75ht percentile now so its finally starting to even out with the rest of her body...she's just perfect! While we were with the doctor we reviewed a cough Evelyn has had for quite some time. Not sure if its allergies, a cold, a combination of both...the doctor decided to take action and put Evelyn on an inhaler with steriods to try and knock the cough out of her (she doesn't weeze or gasp for breath, she can just sound very chest congested and doesn't know how to clear her throat quite yet...but it doesn't bother her in the least) So, with the inhaler came a small tube and mask we were to use to administer 2 puffs in the morning and 2 puffs in the evening....yeah, this was more like torture to both pumpkin and us then anything. Of course she was scared of it, she had no idea what we were doing and no amount of reassurance from us was helping. We more or less had to hold her down and as quickly as possible get the 2 puffs out...to be honest, I don't even know how much we were getting into her because she woudl move so much and we didn't want to be to forceful! So this went on for about 2 weeks and then we started noticing some behaviorial changes in her...she became very whiny, lost her appetite,wanted to sleep all day and would still sleep all night. I would go to pick her up from daycare and my daycare provider, Kathy, would be at her wits end because Evelyn would just cry and whine if she wasn't sleeping all day long...not something that I would imagine is that easy to handle when you have a house full of kids! So, we decided to stop teh inhaler to see if that would help these mood swings and wouldn't you know it, within 2 days she was back to normal and we haven't had a problem since. She goes back to the doctor next Monday for a follow-up (the cough is still there) and the doctor is aware we stopped the inhaler so we will see what they say next?!

But onto more fun, exciting things!!!
It was a great summer and we did many thigns as a family! Evelyn had her first trip to Darien Lake and Fantasy Island! She was able to go on some rides like the Merry-Go-Round and the rides in the kiddie parks! We went to birthday parties for her fellow 1-year olds Sophia and
Nevaeh. We took many trips to the parks, bike rides down at the river, dinners outside...its just been great!

We kicked off fall right by taking our pumpkin - where else but the Great Pumpkin Farm! We had such a good time going on some of the rides they had like the giant slide and tasted some great BBQ...and of course lil' Miss Evelyn got her favorite - corn-on-the-cob! However, when it was time to roam around the pumpkins, I don't know what happened but it turns out
our pumpkin has a slight fear of...go figure...pumpkins!!! Check out these pictures!

We are looking forward to the coming holidays! Halloween, then Thanskgiving and of course Christmas!!

I'm still debating on her Halloween costume. I picked up a pink kitty cat outfit that she is super cute in...but...she was a black kitty cat last year? Plus, there are so many super cute outfits out there for babies!! Ohh...decisions, decisions. They should have Halloween week for babies 5 and under...just so the parents could dress them up everyday!!