Managing the cold Chicago weather

Despite the cold wintry Chicago weather, I have been trying to keep us busy with lots of fun and 'new' activities.  Our latest adventure was a new music class at Bubbles.  Ev wasn't too sure about it at first, he sat in the room and just took it all in.  After the instructor started playing the guitar and singing songs, Evan finally began to warm up but didn't really get comfortable until the last 5 minutes of class once he saw all the tumbling equipment.  Not that he didn't appear to like it, I just think he wasn't too sure what it was all about.  The last class we took was a swimming class, so this music class was, let's say...a. bit. different :0)

We also went to our favorite play place hang out, Family Grounds Cafe, with our friends last week.  We got a monthly membership there and will go every Wednesday for 2 hours of play.  The place is so popular that there is usually a waiting list.   You can imagine why our little man likes it sooooo much!  That is also why we decided to get the reserved Wednesday play time.

On to Evan's latest accomplishments!  So much has happened since my last post.   (I guess you can say I am a bit behind...oops!)  E's latest and greatest act is standing on top of his musical table (check it out on the right).  If we had space for a jungle gym in our house, it would be perfect for him.  He loves tumbling over things.  He still likes crawling with things in his mouth and would rather crawl than walk.  Looks like his walking days are still a ways away.  Thanks goodness...I am in no rush for that!

E's is babbling a lot and saying "dada" "ha", he's making the "m" sound, but still doesn't say "ma ma".  He's also saying "la la", "ba ba", and "ga ga".  Some times he sounds like he is trying to say "Dexter" but those sounds are all too complex, so I think I may just be hearing things ;0)
In addition to his talking, he is putting things into containers and pulling/ dumping them out.  The funniest of all things he likes putting into something... is his dirty diaper into the baby diaper genie garbage can.  As I am holding E, E holds onto the diaper, I step on the foot pedal, the lid opens and E drops the diaper into the opening of the garbage can.  After he makes it in, I take my foot off the pedal so the lid closes, then quickly push on the foot pedal again so he can look inside and see that it's gone.  Then we give each other a HIGH FIVE!   He is all smiles!!!  It's too funny!  You've got to see it!

WOW!  In rereading this post, quite a bit has happened in 10 days...I think I need to update every 2 days versus once every 2 weeks.  Too much to remember :0)