From his mouth....

Just a quick note about all the things Evan is saying these days!  He's literally a motor mouth, which those of you who know his mama well, know that it's no surprise.  Sunday night I was serving him some peaches with his dinner and he shouted, "peaches, yea!"  He has a glo-worm that he loves to take to bed, and he's created a contraction with glo-worm and simply refers to him as "glow'm."  When he really wants us to stay put, he'll use a commanding tone and say, "sit down."  Best of all, he's loving to label people's names. We'll be sitting at dinner and he'll suddenly point to Jake and shout, "Daddy!" Lovin' every minute!!!!

Boys Will Be Boys

Cousin Grayson came over for another sleep over with the little guy. Every time these two get together they seem to have more fun. Of course they played with trains and puzzles... and even a train puzzle. We put on the snow gear and took them outside. Everyone had a really good time - we're glad they get to see each other so often.

Here's a VIDEO of Evan helping Mommy bake cookies.

Train Puzzle!

They both really liked the sled ride

All smiles

One of my favorite shots of Grayson

Grayson did a good job pulling Evan in the sled

Interpretations

As Evan continues to talk more, we're coming across interesting situations where we're challenged to accurately interpret what he is saying.  Like when we had to figure out what he was saying that sounded a bit too much like a word that starts with "F" and rhymes with "truck."  Eventually, he put a visual with it and we determined it was his word for "frog."  We'll be sure to keep him away from any displays of frogs when in public until that word shapes up!

He continues to LOVE to snuggle up and read.  A LOT.   Here's a shot of him with daddy tonight (sorry for the dark photo).

And another situation where Evan's interpretation of something was pretty cute.  He saw this picture in a book he was reading with daddy tonight:

Evan pointed at the cow's udder and said, "sun!" - very confidently I might add! I guess if you look at it, it kind of resembles a sun:)

He's also become very interested in colors.  He gets really into a specific color and can't stop talking about it.  Today it was pink.  Yesterday I think it was orange.  And for some reason, white is every day.  Anything he sees that is white, he'll point at and shout, "white!"  And he always picks the white crayon. Why is this?  Anyone?

My favorite moment from the weekend happened Saturday.  Daddy was working hard in the basement, making a ton of noise during lunch, and Evan was so sleepy that he just crashed in his booster.  Head tilt and all.  He was actually snoring and doing the sleepy head jerk when I took this photo.

Notice the mac n cheese hanging off his chin?  Classy.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Mommy's Birthday Weekend

It was Mommy's birthday this weekend. We spent lots of time at home. Daddy got to work on the basement project a ton - and he was really loud down there! Evan has been feeling a little under the weather, but he hasn't been too bad. Just a runny nose and cough. Even though he's been a bit sick, he still surprises us everday with new abilities.

He has been able to help us clean the house.

And he's been driving his new truck from grandma and grandpa

And learning new words!

Here's Evan trying to work the Temporal Thermometer

Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful holiday season and both of us enjoyed the entire last week at home with the little guy!  It's been amazing to be able to relax, complete a few things on our "to do" list, and just have fun with Evan.  And it's amazing how much he's grown in just the last week!  He's learning new words every day and is willing to imitate pretty much anything we say....not so great if poorly chosen words are spoken, but SOOO cute when he says, "night night" or "love you."  We can't get enough of it!

And when we look back to 2011, we cannot believe how much he's changed and how he's become a little man.  A very handsome one we like to think!  We're excited to see what 2012 brings!

Here's the little guy in January 2011

And here is is at the end of 2011...

Running around outside (with no snow)...

and playing "wake up" with daddy.