Eowyn

I cannot believe that the girls are a year old today.  I wanted to write a post for each one of them to celebrate this special day.

Eowyn is always on the move.  She has been crawling since just after 7 months.  For a long time, she crawled like an inch worm.  It was pretty funny.  It took awhile, but she was finally able to get herself to sitting and back down again.  Not long after this, she also learned to pull herself up to standing.  She is now cruising around the furniture, but she refuses to walk holding anyone's fingers.  She will try to either sit down or pull her legs up.

Eowyn is very determined.  If she see something she wants, she will go after it even if it mean crawling over the top of her sister to get it.  I have been transitioning the girls to finger foods.  Eowyn has enjoyed it so much (or at least she is enjoying making a mess) that she will yell whenever she runs out of things on her tray until you give her more.  I am hoping that she will learn to harness this energy to determinedly pursue what is right in the future, but that she will learn to temper the methods of getting there. 

She is sleeping through the night.  We had a bit of a hiccup around the time I got out of school.  She started waking up in the middle of the night screaming at the top of her lungs.  At first since she was not prone to doing this, we went to her, but she would immediately settle down if we picked her up.  Finally, we let her put herself back to sleep a night or two, and now things have gotten better again.

Eowyn continues to remind me of Gabriel when he was little, both in looks and personality.  She can be fairly serious much of the time.  She likes to play with toys and read books, but she rarely laugh.  It takes a lot to get her laughing.  She does smile a lot more these days.  She has developed a smile where she crinkles her nose.  She doesn't like to cuddle much unless she is tired.  When she is tired thought, she will put her thumb in her mouth and settle her head under my chin.  Sometimes she will only do it for a moment before she is squirming to get down and be on the go again.

I will leave you with some of my favorite pictures of her throughout the year.