4.21.2009

I LOVE MY BOYS

I first must say, I absolutely love Eric. And I absolutely love Evan. They are everything to me and they both love me too. : )

We got a new camera today. Eric just really wanted to make me happy. I have been complaining about it far too much, I am sure. It's just that taking photos is kind of becoming a passion of mine. I love photographing Evan and I hope to start photographing some other things soon.

Evan has begun to pull up on absolutely everything in this house. He is getting hurt multiple times a day, but that's what kids do, right? I'm not a mean mommy for letting him fall down, right? I can't just sit next to him and catch him every time he falls. He needs to learn to fall gracefully, or at least that is my opinion. Of course I will cuddle him and comfort him when he falls and of course I would never let him get seriously injured, but he is definitely in for some goose eggs in the next few months. My dad, Eric and I all won't be surprised if he starts trying to take a few steps within the next month. Crazy! He's still so little!

4.18.2009

Broken Camera = (

Our nice camera is broken. : ( I am beyond devastated about it. We don't really have the extra money laying around right now to get a new one. We have a second camera, but in my opinion, the pictures it takes are really poor quality.

I can get a new camera which is basically the same as my old one for $150. We could put it on our credit card, but I think we both feel guilty doing that..

Donate? HAHA

4.15.2009

Book Baby

Evan and I went to his first story time this morning. I cannot provide you with pictures because well, frankly, it's kind of weird to whip out your camera at one of these things with a bunch of other people's kids running around... So I'll just tell you about it, ok?

It was at 9:30am, but we got there early because I wanted to check out a new book to read and drop off some magazines at the Magazine Exchange cart. I let Evan crawl around the aisles while I looked at the cookbooks (They called my name, I know I have a problem). Then we went over to the kid's section and there were a couple other moms there with their kids (around age 1). They were really cute and Evan was smiling at the girls (that little flirt!). Then they opened the doors to the room where story time would occur and we all shuffled in. They had name tags aka chew toys for babies and then we had to pick a little carpet square. I sat Evan on the carpet square and he basically stayed there the entire time. There were about 20 kids there ranging from about 6 months to a little over a year. Evan was one of the younger ones, but that's okay- he was entranced by all the kids walking around. I think he wished he could do that too! We sat next to another mom named Allison and her son, Will, who was 9 months old. He was REALLY cute! Evan was being kind of shy, but Will and Evan touched each other a few times.

During the story time, we sang some songs (which were actually really cute, I wasn't embarrassed because everyone was doing it!) and the leader read a few books. Then at the end, she pulled out a big box of board books and another big box full of fun tubes to play with. Evan liked those, but wasn't really up for moving around much. Will, on the other hand, was all over the room. When more and more moms and their babies started to leave, Evan decided to crawl over to the tub of tubes and he grabbed it, went to his knees, then stood right up. He was so proud of himself! When I told another lady that he was only 7.5 months old, she seemed astonished (And that always makes a mommy happy)!

We have Book Baby every Wednesday for a while now and I am so excited. It was a lot of fun, a good place to get out of the house and meet other moms in the area with babies around Evan's age.



P.S. Can we talk about baby shoes? What is your opinion? Should babies wear shoes or just socks? I have recently realized that EVERYONE puts shoes on their baby and I was in the large minority who didn't. I bought Evan a few cheap pairs at Target because I think maybe he should be wearing shoes now.. I bring this up because there was not one baby at this story time without shoes.. the ones walking I understood, but there was a baby younger than Evan wearing shoes.. Was I totally in the dark about babies wearing shoes up until now?

P.S. #2 Thank you to Jolynn for her donation to March of Dimes! Please donate now! It is a great cause. If you want more info, go to www.marchofdimes.com or message me and I'll give you the 411.

4.13.2009

Evan's First Easter

Evan at Hilldale Mall the day before Easter. We saw the Easter Bunny several times, but I am just way too paranoid about creepers in bunny and Santa costumes.. Haha! We also went to Buddy Squirrel and got Eric some Peanut Butter Cups and Cheese Corn! Oh, and this is the new Maclaren Stroller! We love it SO much!!!


Lil E with his Easter basket!

Yummy eggs

In the afternoon, we went to the "purple park" in Middleton. It was really fun, but it was a little too windy so we went back to the Middleton Hills park and walked through the wetlands. Can someone please tell me why my little baby looks like such a big boy?!

Evan's new camera smile!

4.10.2009

Lately...

Just some random photos.. I'll get back into the swing of this now!






4.05.2009

I know, I know

It's been a long time since I have updated...

Evan has been getting into EVERYTHING.. It's hard to sit down and really focus on a post when I know he is getting in trouble. And when he naps, I have to pick up all the messes.. Who woulda thought! Haha!