Merry Christmas

We're almost there.  Christmas is upon us and it's been so amazing to watch Evan enjoy the different aspects of the holiday so much more this year!  He loves all of the sparkly lights and of course enjoys the cookies (one of his new favorite words).  We are just so happy that we have been able to be with both of our families for the holidays and Evan will get time to celebrate with everyone who loves him!  We are VERY blessed!
We hope everyone haves a happy and healthy holiday season!

Evan explores some of his new trucks.  Christmas started about 10 days before the big day with a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Stalder.

Grandma and Grandpa took Evan to the Children's Museum where they had an exhibition of story books, some of which Evan knows well and loves.  Above he is exploring the mouse's bed from "If you give a mouse a cookie" - a book he loves to get from the library.

If there were doors to open and shut, Evan was all over it.

Evan in heaven....driving the bus.

Evan spent quite a bit of time trying to work against the water tubes, shoving balls back up the tubes instead of dropping them in.

He loved the bubbles.  He kept trying to drag the huge bubble wand around the room to all of the water tables.  

Evan brought home this adorable ornament from daycare this week. We're still amazed that she had any time to help the kiddos put them together!

Merry Christmas to all!

Comrades

Evan's Cousin Grayson came over Saturday evening for a sleep over. The boys got to spend lots of time together. Most of the time was spent playing with trains. It's really amzing how long these two will sit and play with trains. If we didn't distract them with other toys and give them meal breaks, I think they'd be content playing with trains all day...

Videos from the morning:

Here's a VIDEO of the boys having breakfast.

And a VIDEO of the boys pulling around trucks with strings.



Trains... Saturday Evening.

Tains... Sunday Morning (notice the pajamas)



We were able to distract them with a puzzle... or couse it's a train puzzle



Finally we played with Duplos.. (there's a Duplo train in front of Evan)



Holidays arrive

 We've been busily enjoying the beginning of the holiday season.  We were able to make it to Nebraska for Thanksgiving and had a great time visiting family.  We baked tons of Christmas cookies too - Evan joined in for a bit of it.  We think he'll be baking independently by next Christmas for sure - look below for examples of his mad rolling and cookie-cutting skills!
And Evan's Packers continued their undefeated streak today - Jake worked hard to get Evan to dance to the Packer's scoring song.  Here's a VIDEO of his best attempt.

Evan showing off his new and slightly too-big jacket and snowpants.  He still seems to like the snow, but just gets worn out from trying to move in all that gear - you can hear the "swish, swish" from a block away:)