Weekend

We had a pretty busy weekend, cleaning up for showings (fingers crossed!) and taking Evan and Pearl to the park.




Jumping.
Sliding.
Rocks. Pretty much the perfect park trip. Afterwards we went to Dairy Queen and Evan got to share a cheeseburger and a Blizzard with Daddy. Definitely perfect.
Hamming it up, as usual.
Heart. Melting.
Evan got a Mail Man truck and he is CRAZY about it.
Thinking about getting upset about something.

Gender Update

I have heard from a few experts (my Vietnamese nail technicians and a German-Venezuelan hairdresser) that this baby is a boy. When I ask everyone their individual methods of prediction, no one can give me any scientific (or non-scientific for that matter) details on how they arrive at their conclusions, but they can give me success rates which are running at about 100% (according to them, of course).
My long time nail tech, Anthony, even went so far as to tell me to call the ultrasound technician who said this was a girl and tell her she was fired. That sounds pretty serious, don't you think??
So, I am holding off on purchasing too much girl stuff until the 18th week when we will hopefully find out for 100 percent. I am however placing orders with my girlfriends who have daughters. For example, Morgan was wearing an adorable dress/sweater set this morning in music and I informed Tanja that I wanted to put my name on it for a future hand-me-down.
The Petersons are currently accepting lightly used and in good condition girl clothes. Clothes with bows, ruffles, lace, flowers, pastel colors or anything saying, "Daddy's Little Princess" need not apply. These clothes may be returned to you unused in 4 weeks if this kid turns out to be a boy!

Random Weekend Pics

Evan's new favorite place is outside. We can regularly find him trying to break out of the house through one of the sliding glass doors to get to his play area outside.
Here he is getting inventive with a tee ball tee.
Evan got another shiner this week when he fell into a door frame at playgroup. You can barely see it, right eye.
Last night Brian and I were in the kitchen while Evan was playing with his cars over by the couch. All of the sudden we hear, "Daaaaaddddddddeeeeeeee" and we see Evan very slowly shuffling around the couch....
Seriously? Could this kid get any cuter?
Evan is always coming up with new and exciting ways to enjoy Sesame Street.

95%..............................GIRL

Imagine our surprise! Don't worry, I will be writing Draino a strongly worded letter!
Here she is, no name yet but we will keep you posted!

Random Pics by Daddy

Brian is determined to master our good camera so he got a lot of fun shots of Evan this weekend.

Guess what he was doing here? Yelling? Good guess!
Ice.
Reading.
Drooling.
Owie. Right der.
All better.

Daddy Playdate

We took Brian to the park this morning to play with the other dad's. Unfortunately there is no photographic documentation of this. Just the kids. As usual.

"Where's he going?"
Fetching the runaway truck."Wheeeee!"
Dirt. Cool.
"What was I doing again?"
Wipeout.
Evan and Jett sitting on the fence. About what, we're not sure.
John with big brother Aiden and Dylan.

Evan's New Trick

Evan made an interesting discovery today....


We had play group at our house this morning and at one point I was on the other side of the house doing something. When I came back, Tanja asked me if I had put Evan in his bed. Um, no....
Apparently, he had climbed into his bed to get his pacifier (which he only gets at bed times) and that is where the other moms found him, happily sucking away and jumping on his bed like a maniac. As you can see in the above video, as soon as he hits mattress, he is looking for the pacifier, which is now residing on a shelf above his changing table.

Hat/Madagascar

It was a little chilly this morning (50's?) so Evan wore a hat on our wagon ride and he decided that he would wear it the rest of the day. In fact, we narrowly avoided a meltdown when I took it off him for his nap.
It ended up in the 60's today but the hat came in handy on our Costco trip since I am thisclose to being arrested for taking my child into the produce room without a jacket. Take that opinionated geriatric Costco shoppers!

I think we may have also found a new movie that Evan will watch (in lieu of WALL-E for the 237th time)....Madagascar! Evan is really into his Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? book (thank you Sue Clarkson!) and he loves his jungle animals from Grandma, Baba, Shash, Gee Gee & Boo. So when I saw Madagascar was on HBO, I put it on a for a minute and Evan ran and got his animals and his book and magic was made!
Evan was pretty convinced that a moose was going to show up in the book or the movie at any minute. It's his only animal that wasn't in either...he's keeping hope alive.

12 Week Appointment

Here is what the little guy/gal is looking like this week:The doctor says everything looks great. The heart beat is 160 and my hormones should level out soon (did anyone else hear that sigh of relief from Brian?)
Hopefully we find out the sex next Wednesday!

Twinners - In Every Way

Evan and Daddy are pretty much the bestest friends ever and twins on top of that. They now share the hobby (obsession?) of Matchbox Cars, favorite books (Twenty Four Robbers & Llama Llama Mad at Mama), bats (I personally think both of their bats should be foam covered) and they dress alike....shirts, shoes, jeans, hoodies, that whole shebang.
The questions is...when Evan grows up is he going to think his parents were totally lame??

Draino Test #2

The second Draino test said..............................BOY!
It turned brown after a few seconds so until the ultrasound on the 17th proves this incorrect, I am going to assume we are having another boy. Don't get me wrong, I am not running out to buy any personalized blue onesies but I am feeling pretty confident.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Crystal Draino test, please see the below link:
http://www.babygenderprediction.com/drano-gender-prediction.html

First Big Purchase for New Baby

We bought a new crib today! The plan is to move Evan's crib (which he loves so much he has partially consumed) into his new "big boy" room in early August. We figure that Evan will transition to a bed around the time he is three but we are also expecting it to be a work in progress so better to not be in a rush to re-use his crib.
Pretty exciting stuff. Now we just have to wait until February 17th to (hopefully) find out if we will be re-using Evan's nursery as is for another boy or if we will be re-doing another room for a girl. Yikes!!!
I am doing another Draino test today with my playgroup girlfriends so I will keep you posted on those results, too.