Eva at 20 months

This crazy little girl is so much fun.  For Christmas Tal gave her this monkey hat.  Sometimes she just spies it in the closet and begs "Hat, hat" or "Monkey" until she gets to wear it.  Of course she gives us the obligatory cheeser smile.  At 20 months she is making the fast transition from baby to little girl.  She now runs into Nursery at church where she loves "bubbles, pop, pop".  Mom weaned Eva from nursing at the beginning of January, a teary transition for Mommy but Eva did just fine.  After she was weaned we also worked more on sleeping through the night.  We again had a few rough nights, but Eva is a good sleeper now.  Though I miss my little snuggler and nursing times with Eva, I love sleeping through the night.  How did I do that for so long?

Eva loves wearing her little blue jackets.  I think maybe because mommy often wears a sweater during these cold winter months, that Eva is copying me.  She wears her jacket all day, through naps, and sometimes even over her PJ's at night.  Luckily she has 2 little blue jackets so I can switch and wash one every couple of days.  In this picture, Eva is also holding another favorite toy, Mommy's phone.  Eva loves phones, especially looking at the pictures and moving my apps all over on my screens.

Often the only way to get Eva to hold still for a diaper change is to let her hold a phone.  Kris was on diaper duty at church and Eva snapped this picture of him.  There were also several of the ceiling, wall and carpet but Kris said that we had to include this one.  Eva's vocabulary is exploding with new words every day.  She is putting together 2 and 3 word phrases.  She loves to read books, especially ones on Dad's iPad.  She also loves songs and games at family home evening like "Popcorn Popping", "Once there was a Snowman", and Ring Around the Rosies.

Eva is on the go whenever she is awake, but when she is asleep she is still our sweet little Bubby.  Sometimes she wakes up from naps after just a short time and needs to snuggle to finish our her nap.  Kris and I obviously had the same thoughts to record these sweet moments with our Bubby.