Guitar Man

I'm so good I can even play up on the neck.

Grandpa Frank, will you play me a song, please?!

I'm gonna play with this. Are you going to try and stop me?

The sound is better when you are actually on the guitar.

Baby wants a BMW!

Where's the stereo on this thing?

Santa is bringing me one of these for Christmas, right?
(For the answer, see previous post)

Evan vs. Santa

Santa is declared the winner ...this year...

Happy (late) Halloween

We were moving on Halloween so Evan didn't get to dress up that day. But his costume was too cute to go unworn. So here are the results...

Happy Fall!

Evan's first pumpkin patch!

Miss you...

This picture is my favorite. It was taken about a week after Evan was born. He was fussing pretty badly, so Grammie took him into the kitchen and rocked him and sang to him. We could hear her making up these little songs for him. She really loved her "biggy boy."

Busy bee

That's right! I'm crawling for you! Watch out!

Helping Mommy study

Chicken pox stink!

Get out of my way, you crazy drivers!

Photo shoots up at the lake

Stay still! I've got it!

I'm a big boy!

I love the new camera!

I can stick my tongue out! Can you?

Beer me!
(He really likes bottles, but everyone thinks the beer bottle attraction is especially hilarious)

His first race was a boat race that a friend of Dad's raced in. Onto the car races next.

Look at me stand!

First meal in his high chair.

Sometimes, when he rolls over on his stomach, he likes to sleep with his butt up in the air.

Back to school

A lot has happened since our last post. I quit my job in July, so I could be at home with Evan for a month or so before school started again. He is getting so much bigger! He is on two and a half meals a day (cereal three times and baby food 2 times). He is so smily (most of the time)! He is sitting up pretty well on his own. His side to side balance is a little off. He's not crawling yet, but he is rolling around so much that we had to put a gate up around his play area. If we sit him in front of the gate, he can grab the gate and pull himself up to standing! It's pretty impressive. When he's feeling really brave, he'll let go with one hand... He started daycare again when I started back to school last week. I think it is going pretty well. He has already caught his first cold, though. I think all three of us have it, actually. It's either that or really bad allergies. He didn't sleep well at all last week. He woke up every 2-3 hours for eight days or so. He had been sleeping through the whole night until then. We are all still trying to recover. The new house is coming along, though pretty slowly. Kenny took a week off two weeks ago to refinish the floors, and he's still working on that. He sanded and stained them. Now he is putting down the polyurethane. Once all that is done, we can finally start painting! Yay! That is what I am really looking forward to. After that, we'll start redoing the kitchen. Our goal is to have the main floor ready to go by the end of October, so that we can move in. While we are there, we can work on the basement. We got a new camera- it is kicka$$! I busted the old one the day before Kenny's sister got married. I was over at the new house taking before pictures for the blog and stepped off the bottom step in the basement into a large puddle of water that I hadn't seen. I had the camera in one hand and the baby in the other. My legs went out from under me, and the camera went flying. Evan was fine. He didn't even cry. He just kind of looked at me like, "How did we suddenly get so low?" The camera, however, was beyond repair. So now we have a Nikon D60. What a shame we had to replace the old one... :) I'll keep you posted as new things come along. Evan is growing so quickly that I'm sure I'll be posting more updates shortly.

First weekend at Lake Erie

Yea!

We think he's going to be crawling soon. Look at high he gets his butt up in the air!

I love the lake!

He loved the feel of the blanket set up in the grass. He kept rubbing his face against it.

Digging his toes into the sand.

What is this stuff? I want to grab some.

First time in a non-electric swing. Anti-climatic...

First power tool. He's a whiz with a saw!