For Nana

Serious consideration....

I'm seriously considering quitting blogging. I hate catching myself up on everything!

Anyway, here goes another try. My parents came out to visit this month and brought my family heirloom. My great, great, great, great, great grandfather made this little rocking chair, and it goes to the youngest child in the family. I love it, and Evan does too. It's been so fun. It's the chair he insists on sitting in for family scripture study.

Evan has really enjoyed playing in his "cave" lately. The hat with a light helps that enthusiasm along!

Evan's cousin Kenna was baptized recently. It was great to see you guys and be there for Kenna's special day!

We went to Chester's Party Barn for their pumpkin patch. It was a pretty fun place, with a pony ride, petting zoo, tractor "hay" ride, maze, giant slide, and of course, lots of pumpkins. Evan had a blast.



It was so fun having my parents here! Wish we could see them more frequently. We went on a tour of my Dad's school, ate at Ted's, and just generally enjoyed their company. Thanks for making the trip!


One down, more to come. It's birthday time!

Touch a Truck day

We love the Mustang library. They always have great events planned for kids. Like Touch a Truck day. They had all kinds of fun vehicles and let the kids have free reign! I mean play with the police sirens, honk the cement truck horn, run around in the fire engine, and more! They had the aforementioned vehicles, plus an ambulance, garbage truck, sheriff's car, a backhoe, a school bus, and a dump truck. How cool is that?? Well, it would have been a lot cooler if they had controlled the beeping of the horns a little more. Evan would jump and look like he was going to cry every time someone laid on the cement truck horn. So it didn't last as long as I had thought it would with a little guy like Evan. We ended up going inside the library to play in their play area. Yep, the library has a play area inside. Super cool. We found a lot of other little kids inside who had to escape the noise too.

Next year will be better. Maybe.

Evan's first girlfriend

Who knew library story time could be hazardous to your health?

Library story time drew blood today. They were playing with bubbles, and while I didn't exactly see what happened, I saw two kids go down, and one of them was mine. Evan bit into his bottom lip. There are two perfect little tooth marks. So sad. Poor my boy.

Evan recently discovered the merits of a slip and slide. We definitely need to work on his technique.

OCD

Evan has a mat of letters and numbers. Every night before we go to bed I arrange the letters and numbers into a nice 6X6 square. This is how it looks:














Then Evan gets up in the morning. This is how it looks approximately 10.6 seconds after he hits the front room.















John says I'm crazy to put it back together every night. But I have to! I must be OCD.

In other news, Evan got his first big boy haircut this week. He did great. He seemed a little uncertain at first, and hated wearing the bib, but as soon as the stylist gave him her water bottle he contentedly sprayed himself in the face the rest of the time.
















It turns out that big boy haircuts are pretty expensive. Time for me to learn a new skill. Have any advice on giving boy haircuts to someone with no experience? Please share!

What we've been up to.

We've enjoyed having John at home for the past month or so. But now it's back to the real world with John starting work this last Monday. Evan and I have tried to stay busy with story time at the library and going to the park. He is obsessed with rocks, and loves to throw them in the water at our favorite park. When we go on walks he tries to pick up every rock he sees and carry it with him. Today he had so many that I caught him trying to put some in his mouth so he could carry more! Silly kid.

They had a free day at the Museum of Natural History in Norman so we went to check it out. It was pretty cool. They had lots of dinos and a playroom for little kids.















We also went to the OKC zoo this week. It's a really nice, with a children's play area. They had a waterfall and stream with rocks. Evan was in heaven! They also had a bird area where you can walk around with the birds flying and running around you. That was Evan's favorite place. He chased the quail the entire time.


Evan and his friend Geryn at the zoo.


Playing with the rocks.







John passed part 3 of boards! Now all he has to do is get licensed in OK and we're good to go! So this weekend and next weekend he has a seminar and tests to pass for that in Tahlequah, OK. Good luck John!