A New Baby to Welcome and More!

Welcome Jhett! My lovely neighbors, Dale (she is orig. from South Africa) and Rob had a baby boy last week! He was 6 lb 12 oz. It is so much fun to see the new parents and all the trials and tribulations and JOY that comes along with that. They are adjusting well and very proud. He is a very precious baby.



Evan finally is enjoying wearing his super hero shirt. He wore it out to a play date the other day and after we were home for a while I told him it was time to go up and rest, at which point he asked me to take off his cape. I un-velcroed the cape from the back of the shirt and Evan said, "I not a super hero anymore."





Last week was a holiday so there was a long gap in between preschool days. I had to get out of the house on Thursday and though it was pretty cold out, I loaded the kids in the car to go to a really fun park all the way across town. Once we got there I bundled them up and put Drew on my back and I proceeded to chase after Evan for the next 2 hours.



Evan was very wary of this Dragon and wouldn't go near it until right before we left and he saw a couple other kids his age standing on it.





Our weather has been so mild lately that this cold snap was almost odd if we still weren't in February. Here is a blooming tree.





Evan insisted Drew sit next to him the other day after Drew got up from a nap. This was worth about 20 minutes uninterrupted dinner preparing time for me. Evan was holding Drew on like I had been at first, and then I asked him to give his brother a kiss for the camera.







Some recent Evanisms:

Evan even after being told "no" in the past, finally reached up the other day and touched a hot pan on the stove. I gasped, he started crying, but luckily, after some rinsing in cold water, we saw there was barely a pink mark on his middle finger. I told Evan to stand in the bathroom with his finger under the water after I had shown him how and I went back to take some things off the stove. When Evan came out of the bathroom he said, "I have a cook on my number 2 finger!"

Evan had an unexplained fever Thursday night and Friday and some things he said when he wasn't feeling so hot were:

Evan: I have ABCs in my eyes.

Me: ABCs?

Evan: Yes, A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z, in my eyes.

Me: ...


He also said, "I have butterflies coming out of my ears."

When I thought his tummy wasn't feeling well, I asked him if he felt like he had to throw up, he said, "No! I keep throw in!"

He also woke up one of those mornings and said, "I have puffies in my eyes!"


Finally, here is a little tent-time fun! Take notice that Evan is calling me "Mom" now. That is my name, all the time. And James is Dad.