New Addition

We have a new addition to our family. A new cousin. My brother Will and his wife Susanne adopted their baby girl from China Monday morning. Her name is Olivia Rose and we are sooooo excited for them and to meet her!!

1 Year Update!!!

Evan turned 1 on November 16th. He is such a big boy!! Below are his one year milestones~

-He can take 8-10 steps at a time
-Most of the time he will point at his nose, mouth, ears, and hair when asked where they are
-He is saying Mama, Doug (for Dougie), and Da (for Daddy)
-When you say "Touch Down" He will lift his hands in the air.
-He can drink from a straw
-Eats almost anything and has even been working on biting off his own bites and eating with a spoon
-He is off formula, but still gets a bottle of cows milk in the morning and evening.
-Can climb off the bed and couch with no assistance.
-Got another mini hair cut performed my Mommy yesterday. We will take him somewhere in a few months to even out my damage :)
-He weights 22lbs and 12oz and is 28 inches long
-Evan has just started to hit people in the face when you do something he doesn't like. He usually only does it to Mommy and Daddy. It makes Mommy very sad. We are working on it by giving Evan a firm NO,telling him to be gentle, and then redirecting. Hopefully he will grown out of it soon and won't be one of those kids other mom's don't want their kids to play with :(
-Evan loves to play outside with his car, balls, and golf set. He also loves to read books and bath time!

Evan Making His Grandpa's Proud

This is for you Grandpa Mike and Bob.. Evan playing golf!! I got a plastic golf set for Maddy when she was here in the Spring and I pulled it out for Evan a few weeks ago. He got the hang of it right away.

Evan's Still Walking :)

Evan has been taking several steps at a time for the last 2 weeks. Walking still isn't his main mode of transportation but he is definitely walking more and more every day!!

Evan Turns 1

Evan turned 1 on Monday November 16th!! We had a party for him on Sunday. We had a fabulous time. Ryan's parents came into town for the celebration and we had some friends and other family over for the big event-- which consisted of pizza, fruit, cupcakes, and we ended the party with playing with Evan's new ball pit in his bedroom.
Evan was interested in opening presents (he is a true boy and loves to rip things up) However he wasn't to interested in his cupcake. I think he tried to feed more of it to Ryan then himself. Also he had probably ate close to 2 slices of pizza and a cup of fruit so he was probably full. Towards the end of the party it was getting close to his nap time. All of the kids were playing in Evan's room. Evan walked over to his crib and asked for Dougie and Passy. I gave them to him and then he laid down in the middle of the floor and rested his head. It was too cute. He did it about 5 times.. he was hoping his friends would get the hint :)

Saturday before his birthday party we watched the Auburn football game and Evan got to open up some of his presents early.
Evan goes for his one year check up next week, after that I will update with his one year milestones :)

Words to the Picture Update

So the blog is messed up and wouldn't show me the pictures as I was uploading just a bunch of text (annoying) so I couldn't add comments to any of the pictures because all the text ran together. I also accidentally uploaded an old picture of Evan but again can't delete it because all the text runs together.. any who...

I will start on the bottom pictures and work up.
Evan and I went to the park with Sarah, Harrison, and Avery to feed to ducks a few weeks ago. Despite the scared looked the kids have on their faces we had a lot of fun!
The pictures of Ev in the bathtub are showing off all his new teeth (4)!!

The pictures of Ev in the orange was Evan playing peekaboo with himself. Adorable!

For Halloween we had a lot of fun. On Friday afternoon we went up to Ryan's office where they go over the top decorating and showed Ev off in his Halloween costume. Then Saturday we went over to the Forbis's ate dinner, took Evan trick or treating, then waited for Carter and Katie to come back from their parties so they could see Evan and then headed home for the night.

Picture Update

Evan's First Step

For the last few days Evan has taken a little mini step, actually probably more like a little shuffle... but this morning we got him taking his first real steps!!! I don't think he will take off running or anything tomorrow but its definitely a step in the right direction ( cheesy I know :)