Happy First Birthday, Morgan!

Morgan's birthday party started out with some Kindermusik with Miss Brenlie. It was madness, as usual.Tasty scarves.
Some more dudes: Aiden, Brody, Evan and Jake testing out Morgan's chair.
Aiden caught off guard mid-chew.
Making a dash down the hall in search of the cats.
The birthday girl.
"Can someone get this girl some cake?"
"Ah ha! Found you!"
This cat is the Anti-Cat. He begs for food like a dog and here he was trying to get back into the party full of screaming kids.

Play Group

The Fire Car is a huge hit with all the play group kids. Unfortunately, Evan is in the stage where he has trouble sharing his toys...So Aiden brought over his own car, which Evan had trouble sharing too....
Jett riding solo.
Morgan
aka Mo'
aka The Birthday Girl. Tomorrow is her big 0-1!

Misc

Crazy peanut butter mustache guy.
Just sitting and reading.
Topless slider.
Pearl decided to put herself to bed Sunday night after swimming all day.

Bucket Head

Evan got into this entirely on his own, I promise. I was checking email and he was playing quietly, a little too quietly, so I turned around and there was my little Bucket Head.This look is called Dumbo.
"Sorry, Mama. This is not your bucket apparently."

Kissing the identical Bucket Head in the closet.

Back in the Swing of Things!

Evan and Daddy are getting really good at making Empire State Building size block towers.The builder is also the wrecking crew.
Evan just got his Little Tikes Fire car, notice the personalized license plate from Grannie Annie.
Going full speed ahead to help save lives (and to hang out on the field at Vikings games), Uncle John will be so proud!

Manning the walkie talkie.
Evan laughing at Daddy's karate kicks during dinner.
Evan's third haircut!

Weekend Pics

The reason for my shoddy blogging lately is that our small camera has gone missing. The only camera available at the moment is the new fancy one that I am apparently incapable of operating. This means that photo sessions are limited to when Brian is home. We will figure something else out soon hopefully!

Evan posing on his Costco box.

Enjoying facial contortions in his pack n play.

Tug o war with Pearly.
We have now blocked off the kitchen in order to protect our cabinets and refrigerator from the destructo toddler.
Evan is not a fan of boundaries."Dadn, read to me!"
Playing "Where's Evan?" in the drapes with his book. The other day he played this game by himself for about 5 minutes, meaning he was wrapped up in the drapes giggling.
Sliding.
Evan starting the slide countdown for us. He won't slide until Brian and I have both counted down for him.

Classic Silver Speedster

Evan is finally big enough to enjoy the car that Grannie Annie bought for him ages ago. Only problem is he likes to drive it into the walls so we are thinking that it will have to wait until it's nice outside ;)

Island of Happy Days 2009

We had a great weekend with the extended Peterson clan at Stout's Lodge in Wisconsin.
Evan put some miles on his wagon dragging is all over the island. The Dudes.
Walking safe with Daddy & Uncle Andrew.
Evan loved his (3rd?) cousin Christian. They had a lot of fun putting rocks into the wagon and then hurling them into the lake.
Playing frisbee with Daddy and the Dudes.
No high chair in the cabins means that Mom got to chase Evan around to feed him. Here he's having his breakfast al fresco.
Cousin Naomi (Jr.) made the whole family personalized t-shirts. How cool are they?
Schnugglin' with Grandma.

Showing cousin Bella his pop 'n' pals.
Family pictures.


This one is called "American Baby".
Evan's annual Island of Happy Days picture. This is better than a growth chart!