Snake

Evan has made up a new game in which he gets Pearl's snake and then chases her around taunting her with it while laughing himself silly.
I can already see the traits of a big brother emerging in him.

Sprinkler Time

Evan got in some good sprinkler time at playgroup yesterday.



We kept trying to get a picture with all four of the boys but this was as close as we got...
The original plan was to place the boys in a line and then the moms would run out of the picture before the boys could scatter. You can see Jenn trying to make it. Too slow!

Happy (late) St. Patrick's Day!

Birthday Celebration: Round 3

This past Sunday we had a March birthday brunch to celebrate Evan's first, Val's #%&* and Lindsay's almost exit from her twenties.

Val spent Saturday night with us and watched Evan while Brian and I got things ready. I think he really wore her out with all the walking and getting into everything.
Peyton & Presley dipping into the pool.Elaine getting her fix of grandmotherhood. Now, if Val & Jan would just hurry it up...Lindsay and Peyton.
Never met a cupcake he didn't like.Yay for me, I took down another whole dessert!
After the brunch, we went back to the park so we could have another useless showing of our house.
Bright light.
The Running Hug.
Daddy is SO FUN.

More Laughing

As you can see, Brian and Pearl are still clearly the funniest things on earth!

The weekend is off to a good start...

Fun times with the diaper box. Little did we know we could have saved quite a bit of money on toys!

Oops. He got a little ticked after this one.

Breaking out the Rody horse from Jacob.

If Evan comes home with chaps one day, we are sending him over to Jill & Jens' house!!

More good times walking. This is kind of a walking dance, if you will. As for Brian's commentary, Evan had just finished dinner and had, ehem, unloaded some stuff in his drawers.

Water Sports Playgroup

Anna & Aiden had a water park set up in their backyard for playgroup today...that is what 75 degrees in March will get you!

The new water table from Grandma & Grandpa P. was a big hit with everyone.

Evan hasn't quite figured out that you have to stop sucking on the straw before you remove it from your mouth in order to keep it from splattering all over your face.

Bubble break.

I couldn't resist.

Fat Lip

We had another walking related injury this morning. Last Friday, Evan was walking to the fireplace and fell just short of it, scraping his face on the stone on the way down. That was bad....this was worse. This morning he was walking with a ball in his hand. He was moving a little fast and started to fall and the ball in his hand prevented him from catching himself so he cracked his face on the tile. There was a lot of blood and a lot of tears (maybe more tears from me than Evan). Once he had chewed on a iced teething ring for a few minutes, he let Brian look in his mouth and to our relief, it was just a bloody lip instead of a cracked tooth.
I am not sure I am cut out for this stuff. He looks like a monkey!