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I think I might have accidentally deleted some comments recently. The problem is that my comment system is being totally spammed these days and I get 100 comments each day. Sometimes when I clean them out I actually delete something I want to keep. So if you made a comment recently and it disappeared, I apologise!
Evelyn has been pretty good lately I am happy to say. She has been much less difficult at mealtimes. I have found that if I mix yogurt into vegetables and / or meat she is quite willing to eat it. And I also found out she just doesn’t like the barley cereal I was giving her and is quite a fan of oatmeal. Also after a month of working on it she will now let me brush her teeth! She has also stopped rolling over during diaper changes (for the most part) which is a relief. She still really likes to eat crunchy things and isn’t interested at all in trying to eat pieces of food that are soft (e.g. strawberries, steamed carrots, rice, pasta) so most of her food is still puree but she will eat pieces of grapes, cheerios and sometimes toast. And she’s totally hooked on Mummums so I have to ration her to only a few a week. She screams when she sees them.
We switched to flat diapers a month ago and now that they have been washed about 6 times they are working very well. The fitted Kissaluvs were indespensable before she was eating solid food but now the flats work quite well for the job, which is great since they are 1/3 of the price! Evelyn is getting some bad diaper rash though and it’s been hard to clear it up. Attempts at giving her “diaper free” time have generally ended in disaster!
We have finally got most of our place sorted out after the move and it’s quite well babyproofed so we can relax a bit (just a little bit) with Evelyn tearing around. Evelyn is still crawling at the speed of light and pulling up on everything. We have practiced walking holding her hands and she is getting better at standing up on her own for a bit but she isn’t ready to walk just yet without us. That’s ok by me, there’s no rush! Her cousin Zoe just started walking from what I heard which is great!
This winter has been horrible, just horrible. We are close to breaking the record for snowfall and it seems like it snows twice a week now. Unfortunately this is the time we decided to finally get a car and it has been a lot of trouble to move it when they are plowing the street, which is … at least once a week. So we are constantly digging out the car, moving it and moving it back again. Plus there are not enough parking spots on the street. It’s a real pain in the ass. And we have had two parking tickets already although I am going to contest one (long story). BUT - having it to get places with Evelyn has been really good. We just can’t wait for summer!
We went to the Old Port for the “Montreal En Lumière” festival last weekend and took Evelyn on the ice slide! She enjoyed it. It has been a Montreal tradition to have the ice slide since 1885!