Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with our families! On Thursday we went to my grandparents house for dinner. E got a new toy...that he absolutely LOVES! It lights up, plays music and rolls. He ate his first Thanksgiving dinner... turkey, mashed potatoes, carrots and stuffing. He sure was stuffed after eating all that and his milk. I think his bib said it best "I'm Stuffed". The poor boy barely could move but it sure did make for a good nights sleep!

On Friday, we went to Wauwautosa to visit with Dave's family. We had a great time with them. The girls played and entertained E with music, legos and a sit-and-spin that lights up and plays music. We sure missed out on that feature when we were little...darn it. He also got lots of love from his Grandma and Aunt. Jackson did not leave a dry cheek on Ev either :) He had plenty of love to go around.

Today we were glad to be back at home and chill out. We went to Family Grounds Cafe so Dave could check out our local hang out during the week. It was fun for Daddy to see Evan in his element! We built some towers, crawled all around the play space, bounced on some bouncy animal pillows, and played with the train set and cars. Later this morning we went to Best Buy to buy a new camera. LOVE IT!!! Still playing around with it, but boy have I been missing out. The picture quality is fantastic on the new one. After Ev's afternoon nap, we went to the park to snap a few shots of E in the leaves, on the swing and as Daddy did "tossers" with E. I posted some pics to the left. Hope to learn more ways to add depth to the photos and use different angles to achieve a higher quality picture. Can't wait :)

Overcoming food issues

Well what I once thought may be a problem is no longer a lingering one...phew! At one point in E's short life, he was refusing solid foods and when he didn't refuse foods, he'd only eat about an ounce of it, if that. It was terribly worrisome for me because all his friends were eating 3-4 ounces at one sitting, and wanting more! Luckily Ev has come around and is now eating just about everything. He is not a fan of turkey though. If it's ground, forget it. If it's in little pieces, he will suck on it and then swallow what's left of it. Aside from not liking turkey, he has added carrots, cauliflower, blueberries, peaches, bread, goldfish crackers, and shredded cheese. I made the mistake of giving him mandarin oranges before reading that it is a forbidden food...oops! Now I see why! When I took him out of the carseat the same day I fed the oranges to him, he was soaked!! His digestive system must not have been made to handle it yet, it came out as orange water...lol...at least he smelled sweet :0) Hoping to try some cottage cheese and yogurt next week!

On the road to recovery :)

Slowly... Evan is getting past his nasty cold!! He spiked a fever Thursday night and it lasted into Saturday morning. Poor little guy was on fire! You could cook bacon on him he was that HOT! On Saturday went to get E a swine flu shot, the first of two that he will get, and then we visited Aunt Callie. Callie was resting up from her surgery she had the day before and we were looking to bring her some company. We were happy to see her smiling despite the discomfort she was in. The cats were a bit unsure of Evan. He wanted to pet them, like he does with Dexter, but they didn't want anything to do with that. We were sad to have had to postpone our visit to our friend's, the Teschner's, but didn't want to chance spreading our germs to them and their new 2 week old little girl. Although we have missed out on a lot of fun things the end of last week and this past weekend, we are happy to say that we are back in full swing again with hope that we remain healthy for the rest of the winter...ha!

Another Cold

Poor little guy! It looks like he is on cold number 3. Hope this one is short and the worst day...today, is behind us :0)

Despite Ev's cold, Evan spent some time with his grandparents on Saturday while mommy was out with the girls and daddy was golfing. They went for a walk and played with his toys. He started getting some seperation anxiety and was crying for a good part of the visit. I hope this too shall pass!

E's a cruising machine these days. He's been finding lots of stuff like the door stopper-boinger thingy, Dex's bowls (yuck), and the toilet bowl (double yuck). All of our floor standing decorations in the house have been moved into the office closed off to our little Curious George :)

He now has a friend that he wrestles with. William and Evan give it back to each other at our play dates. It hysterical!! I should catch it on video sometime. I can only imagine what's to come as they get older..ahhh

Learning More

Well the nap schedule is back to where we used to be. Three naps a day... 8am, 12, and 3pm. Go figure! I thought we were finally getting down to just two longer ones. Oh well! Can't complain too much since he is a good sleeper :)

Today was a busy day!! We went to get Ev's 8 month pictures taken at Picture People. Won't have the pics for a couple of days, there printer was down...seriously?!?! And the internet system to send the pics to us via email was down...double whammy! We also went to our Aquababies class this afternoon. Evan learned how to sit on the side of the pool and lean into the pool as I caught him. He seemed to like it because he kept smiling as I counted one...two...three and he dipped into the pool!

Poor Daddy has been at a conference all week and is exhausted! We are looking forward to spending time with him this weekend. Yay for Daddy time!

Tomorrow we are having our friends over for a play date and book talk. Babies will be showing off their most recent accomplishments and the mommies will be discussing the book Love & Logic. Great book that I highly recommend!

Grrr...nap transitions

Well it's not due to the time change, but that didn't necessarily help matters, but E's naps are a changing :( Not too sure about it yet. Usually he takes three naps, 8, 12, and 3. Now, he is sleeping in later and going for his first nap around 9/9:30am. The second one isn't until 1pm. Hmm...I hope he and I get this figured out soon...ha! Hate being such a routine person, sure doesn't mix well with parenting ;0)

Trick-or-Treating

On Halloween Day, Dave, Evan, Dex and I carved Ev's very first pumpkin. He appeared to enjoy it! He wasn't too sure at first, probably wondering why we were letting play with his food when I am usually busy cleaning him up as he is eating and making a mess :0) But needless to say, he got into playing with the gooey slimey seeds and wasn't too happy when I took the bowl of seeds away so I could clean up the mess.

Around 4pm we headed out to trick-or-treat...lol...well sort of. Dave, Evan and I met up with some of our friends to walk up and down Greenview between Irving Park and Montrose while we talked and observed all the kiddos dressed in costume and the homes that were decorated. We had a lot of fun. Wishing we had known about this neighborhood's tradition in years past. Very festive! I think we will be laying low today since the last week has been so action packed. Need to refuel for this week...Gymboree class, Mama get-together, swim class, book and babes at our house, , hobbitland, mom's day & night out!