Family Fun Friday's

Loving the water!

'Our Herd'

'Our little Calf'

Cute little biker

Lovin' the ride!

A lot has been happening with the little man this past month... one thing has remained the same...HORSE! Horse is still Evan's favorite word! He says it all the time and loves to visit the horses throughout the day!
Evan also says mom-mom or momma a ton. He says it in his super cute little voice too! We are loving the little guy more and more and just adore him!
Dan has recently been required to take every other Friday off of work, so we are having Family Fun Friday's! We recently went bike riding at Irvine Park and downtown Long Beach (on the Sat.). Last Friday we celebrated Cow Appreciation Day and dressed up like cows. We got 3 free meals at Chick-fil-a, Breakfast, lunch and dinner. :) We did not pay for much on Friday. :)Who says we are to old to make our own fun. Dan and I laughed a ton on Friday.
On Friday we also went to the Wild Animal Park. We saw the cutest little baby Elephant. Evan called them Horses! Silly Kid!
Evan is trying to walk around with help too!
On the 4th of July we went to the Brea Country Fair. We entered Evan in the Republican Women's Beautiful Baby contest. Evan took 1st place in the 9-12 month olds. Evan thought that it would be fun to eat the trophy! Here is the link to the article in the local paper.

I also just updated the pictures on picasa.

HORSE!

Look who is on the dishwasher!!
Had to document it before it never happens again...

Evan loves to carry the carrot out to Peanuts. He shares with her too!

Evan loves to pet Peanuts. She is so good with him too.

Evan's word of the week is Horse. It comes out like hhh-or-se. It's pretty cute. On Sunday he was sitting in his chair eating and turned around to glance at the bathroom window. He often does this to look for Peanuts the horse. Only this time he said "Horse". Dan and I looked at each other as if to say 'did he just say that?' He didn't stop. He continued to say it. We got him out of the chair and while Dan was holding him he continued to say horse. So Dan took Evan outside to see Peanuts. She wasn't cooperating too well, but Evan kept persisting with Horse! All week he has said Horse and Roll-ee of course. It's pretty cute. Whenever we get home he looks at the horse stall and says horse.
Evan's other new word is mom. :) Yaa!! He actually says mmmommma! He holds his m's. Once again his cutness has won me over. :)

Evan's vocabulary currently consists of...Daddy, ball, wawer (water), bir (bird), nana (banana), Roll-ee( rolly the dog), horse and mommma
Of course he only says the words when he wants to say the words, but he is pretty regular with DADDY, Roll-ee and Horse!

Reading!

I caught Evan reading his book! It was so cute. He often gets his books out and flips the pages, closes the book and then starts all over. He loves books! This morning I caught him talking while turning the pages. It was so cute! (unfortunately I grabbed the camera at the tail end, but it is still cute)

Swimmin'

Here's a little swim video of Evan. He loves the water and loves to make splashes! Dan loves to be in the water with Evan too!
Happy Friday! :)

9 Months

He loves to play with the dogs!

Playing at the park!

Hamming it up in the spa!

Here is our 9 month birthday celebration. We decided to use something that Evan could eat!
He is crawling around and pulling himself up on the furniture like crazy...could he be cruisin' around soon?? Here are a few other pics of Evan to enjoy. I love his big smiles.

There are also some fun family pics from our vacation on our picasa page.

Little Glimmer...

Evan is now 9 months and so much fun. He is so full of expression and energy. It is amazing to us how much he learns each day. It seems that we are constantly saying "He can do this today or that!"
Yesterday morning was one of those moments... I was sitting down taking care of something and Evan was playing with his toys. He started to CRAWL to the coffee table to get the coasters probably. I said, "Evan don't touch the coasters." He stopped and looked at me. I said, "Go play with your toys." He turned around and headed over to his toys. This happened a couple more times and each time he listened and went back to his toys! We have been working on Don't touch for quite some time....It was fun to see him get it.
While I was still sitting there he also crawled over to the couch, pulled himself up and played with a few pillows. It was fun to watch him explore the couch and calculate his adventure. He quickly went to the other end of the coffee table (where there are magazines and more coasters to get distracted with) and pulled himself up. Standing at the coffee table he reached for a few of his books and tossed them on the ground. He then laid down on the ground and flipped through the pages of the books numerous times. It was so cute to see him looking at the books. That just brought me huge smiles. I love those little moments. They make the times where he won't go to sleep all worth it! :)
We recently got back from a vacation too! We had a great time. I will have to post a few pictures soon!
In the mean time here is the Watermelon Baby...

8 Months!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Angels vs. Oakland A's

The little Angel Fan!

Petting the deer with Auntie!The little butterfly!

Grandma's string looks far better than the butterflies!

Time continues to fly by! Evan is getting bigger and bigger. He is getting so active too! He rolls everywhere, scoots backwards and lunges forward. He may have even taken a couple of crawls forward recently. I bet he gets going really soon!
Evan has been teething like a mad man. His sad top gum is soo swollen. I thought for sure those teethers were going to come in soon, but sure enough he cut a tooth on the bottom! He now has three teeth on the bottom and what looks like a huge swollen top gum that is ready to cut four teeth any day! Which probably means that he is going to cut another tooth on the bottom too! Yikes! I may be in for it soon! He is so sad sometimes I wish they would just hurry up!
Other then the teeth we have been having fun with him! Evan went to his first Angels game last week. He is a great little fan! He was waving his arms and screeching with the rest of the fans. He wore his little red Angels onesie and Angels ball cap!
On Tuesday we went to the library and had story time with the other babies. It was a lot of fun. Evan was really interested in the other babies and enjoyed the singing and reading.
Last Friday we took him to the Wild Animal Park. Evan got to pet some little deer and goats in the petting area. He seemed to enjoy it. He really has taken well to animals. He loves dogs and cats, fish and ducks and seemed to like the petting area too! He has recently enjoyed feeding our horse Peanuts carrots and apples too! We took Evan to the butterfly exhibit. He didn't notice the butterfly that landed on his head, but he could track the other ones flying around.
Just when you think he can't get any more fun, he does!