We made it!

Daddy was traveling this week in the sunny parts of Florida while Ev and I froze our butts of in the windy city...ha! Thankfully Evan was really good and kept me entertained by doing new things almost everyday. He started using a walker (well his make shift walker) by pushing the bar stool along the floor. He is also pushing his toys along the floor whether they have wheels or not :0) He's also is studying objects more. He will spend about 5-10 minutes inspecting it. I think he's figuring out the function of each object he finds. I gave him a small Crystal light opened box that has individual packets in it while I was cleaning the house and E played with it for 30 minutes. Never knew a box was such fun! Apparently I've been missing out...lol. E also found the soup can in the pantry and had a ball rolling it along the floor and chasing after it. Now he's rolling or throwing anything he can get his hands on across the floor so he can chase after it...it's entertaining to watch. We went to a couple of cookie exchanges and a play date each day of the week. Our last Aquababies class was Wednesday and E was kicking and splashing A LOT. By far the most he has ever kicked and splashed since the first class 2 months ago. Ev tried some new foods this week. Yogurt, pasta, black beans, pretzel sticks, cheerios, and cajun turkey. He loved all of it! He is now eating finger foods, except for the yogurt and cereal in the morning. He much prefer the finger foods so he can do it himself, so stubborn when it comes to that. Wonder where he gets that from ;0)

Yesterday we had our gift exchange with our "city friends" play group. WHAT FUN!!! The kids were sooo cute! Our attempt to get them to all sit, not move, while smiling, was a trip! What were we thinking?!?! We got a few pics of them, but of course, no one was looking at the camera, one was looking away, one down, one crawling, the others were screaming their lungs out, while another one was shoving a toy in their mouth! I can only imagine what us moms looked liked as we were trying to grab and/or sustain their attention towards the cameras...ha ha haha!