Busy Busy

We have had a very busy past few weeks... So where to start...Well Evan had another play date with my friends- Christy and her son Ryan (4wks younger then Evan), Staci and her daughter Bella (6wks younger), and Mandy and her two kids Brianna (5yrs) and Drew (18months). Bella has already gotten 2 teeth and holds her own bottle. So Ev has some catching up to do there :) Evan really enjoys being around kids so we had a good time. Later that day Ryan's parents came into town. We went to Eureka Springs on Saturday with Ryan's parents and my mom and Alan. It was incredibly hot but we had a really nice time. Evan was of course a perfect angel! Then we had a very nice sunday which we celebrated Father's Day with Ryan parents and my mom. This weekend our friend Bobby turned the big 30 and we rented a lake house for the celebration. Evan was the life of the party. There was a step taking you from the formal living room to another room and Evan was determined to climb up it on the last day there he mastered it! He also had his first boat trip which was a love/hate experience. He loved the wind and the ride but hated the life jacket. Evan has started making bababa and dadada sounds, its super cute. He has also started to curl his fingers back and forth like a wave. As you can see we have been super busy lately but definitely enjoying our summer and our growing boy. Our baby days are gone and our rambunctious little boy is here to stay :)

Evan at the lake house looking cute!!

Evan trying to crawl up the step!

He made it!!

Evan reading

Evan brushing his "teeth"

Evan saying bye bye to Grandma and Grandpa Moll

Evan and his new sandals!

Swimming in the hippo!

Top of The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs

Desert with Grandma and Grandpa Moll

Evan's play date with Bella and Ryan ( and Drew and Brianna)

Still Crawling!- Father's Day!

So its been 24hours and Evan is still crawling! And its sooooo adorable we of course had to get another video. Evan celebrated his first father's day with Ryan's parent, my mom, and of course Ryan and I today. After dinner we were just soo excited for Ev to show off his moves we got another video of him crawling. We had a very nice Father's Day!!!

He is crawling!!!

Well our video luck hasn't ran out yet and we captured Evan crawling for the first time this morning!!!! Ryan's parents are in town this weekend and Evan was playing on the floor with his Grandma, he was scooting around all over the place. So I said hey set something in front of him that he would really want. So Ryan set the remote a few feet in front of him, it was just the carrot he needed!! I had a scare afterwards and couldn't seem to get the video to play back on the computer ( only on the video camera) but daddy came to rescue and fixed it! Evan has been crawling all around this morning ever since!! Time to start baby proofing...

7 months old!!

Evan is now 7 months old and he is getting sooooo big!! He will be crawling any day now, he is up on all fours most of the time rocking back and forth so its just a matter of time. Yesterday for the first time he pushed himself up to a sitting position from laying down on the floor and he did it again this morning. So its time to put the bar up on the crib because we wouldn't want our baby boy to fall out.
Evan has found a new friend, I am watching my friends kids for the summer (Carter and Katie) and Evan just loves Carter! Katie has been gone all week so its just been me and the boys. Carter is sooo good with Evan he loves to play with him and usually sits in the back seat with him just to talk and make faces at him. The other day he asked if he could put him in his carseat, his friend Timmy was with him too ( they are 13) so the boys were trying to figure out how to get all the latches together and it was so cute to watch.
I know Evan is my son and I am slightly bias, but he is the smartest baby in the world! Yesterday we were down at Carters and Evan has his own little room there with his toys. Well we had just got done swimming and Evan was sitting on the floor, he scooted himself over to his basket full of toys and started reaching in and pulling things out I was sooo impressed. I ran and got the camera and got these pictures of him doing it ( see below). When it was all said and done he had pulled out about 6 toys!
Evan is eating really well and loves his big boy food. He east about 4 tablespoon of both fruits and veggies every day. He would probably eat more if I let him but from what I have read he shouldn't be getting too much of his nutritional value from baby food yet but should be getting majority of it still from formula.
Last weekend Ryan and I took Evan to a local park and had a good time walking around, it was miserably hot so we didn't stay to long, but we still had a good time.

Evan pulling toys from his basket

Evan and Carter

Mommy, Evan, and Daddy at the park

Mommy and Evan at the park

Daddy and Evan on the swings

Evan after bath time

Evan reading his book

Evan trying to crawl and read!

In the last week Evan has started to push himself up on all fours and manage not to get one of his feet in the way ( for weeks he always had one foot stuck under him). Today we were folding laundry ( so excuse the mess in the video) after one of Evan's nap. As you can see he is so close, I swear the other day I walked in as he was moving one knee and hand at the same time completing his "first step"!
After his crawling work out he started "reading" one of his books. Evan loves books.. more because of how they feel in his mouth then the story... but I always think its so adorable how he holds it so well and lately has been trying to get the book open. Our boys is a smart one, what can I say!

Evan sitting in the bathtub

Evan is officially sitting up by himself and today for the first time he went in the big bathtub and didn't need me to support him. He is getting so big!!

Evan's First Beach Trip

We all went to Florida this weekend to visit with Ryan's family. It was Evan's first trip to the beach and first time meeting his Uncle Jerrod, Aunty Susan, and Cousin Meredith(2 1/5years old). We had a great trip! Unfortunately we were only there for 2 full days so it ended too quick. We got Moll family pictures taken on the beach, spent a few hours in the pool, did some outlet shopping and before you know it it was time to come home. Evan was great as usual. His nap schedule wasn't the best, but like I always say he is happy if he takes a 2 hour nap and he is happy if he takes a 30minute nap. Its a win win situation :) He loved the water and I can't wait for all the summer water opportunities.

Well to do a 6 month update (yes my baby is 6 months old!). Evan has probably had the most change this past few weeks. I can't really put my finger on it, but its like he isn't my baby any more but turning into a big boy. He has been sleeping through the night for about 2 weeks now!!Which is great, but I do admit I miss our midnight meetings. He is sitting up almost all by himself. I usually am close by or have pillows around him just in case,because he hasn't quite mastered the "fall" yet. He is increasing on the amount of baby food he is eating. He has rice cereal and fruit in the morning and oatmeal and veggies in the evening, along with 4-5 bottles a day. I am always waiting for his belly to burst, but it hasn't yet :)

Evan asleep on the way to the airport (holding on for dear life:)
Evan and Grandma and Grandpa Moll

Uncle Jerrod, Aunt Susan, and Cousin Meredith

Mommy, Daddy, and Evan

Evan and Meredith

Daddy, Mommy, and Evan

Evan's Dedication

Evan was dedicated at church on May 10th, 2009 which was also our first Mother's Day together! We had a great day. In the morning we went to church. Then my Mom and Alan came over for brunch and exchanging of Mother's Day presents. Evan and Ryan got me a new camera!! (mine was awful the pictures were almost always blurry) And me and my mom planted flowers. It was a perfect first Mother's Day!

One Leg Up

So for the last few days Evan keeps holding his right leg up in the air. It was cracking me up so I decided to take a picture every time I saw him doing it!

Smiling Faces

Evan eating bananas

5 month update- Evan weights 17lbs 3oz and is 27inches long. We started him back on rice cereal and added bananas for the first time yesterday ( see attached video on it!). Evan is sooo close to sleeping through the nite. For about the last week he has been waking up between 4 or 5am for a feeding then falls back to sleep until 6 or 7ish. So if we could just get him to go for 1 or 2 more hours mommy would know what a full nights sleep feels like! He is slowing starting to develop longer naps and takes at least 2 naps a day that are at least 1 hour long. He has had a cough and runny nose for the last few days but no fever, from what I have heard it may be because of teething. He has been a emotional roller coaster the last few weeks ( baby pms) I was worried that he was getting spoiled already :(, if he didn't get what he wanted he would scream then once he got it he would be giggling again, but thankfully what I read in this book, that follows babies development for the first year, they are going through a phase where they don't know how to deal with all of their emotions and they will mellow back out in a few weeks. Evan is sitting up really well, but not quite on his own, I think its only a matter of a few more weeks. His favorite things to do right now are sit in his high chair and play with kitchen gadgets and of course watch Baby Einstein. Its been really warm lately and Evan has got to wear shorts, he has the cutest cangles in the world!!! I will try and get a pic and post later. We are meeting Ryan's family in Florida in a few weeks so I am sure I will get lots of great leg shots then :)

Evan's Family Reunion- Pictures

The entire gang

Elise and Evan Jason, Elise, Ryan, and EvanEvan's after

Evan before hair cut

Rachel, Madeline, and Matt

Elise and Jackson

The Fam at dinner

Evan and Mommy at the Safari

Evan's Family Reunion

Well there is sooo much to update so I thought I would do good old fashion bullet point to make sure I remembered everything and don't bore my readers!

-Evan met his cousins Madeline and Jackson and his Aunt Rachel and Uncle Matt for the first time this week when they came into town from California to visit. His Aunty Sarah, Uncle Jason, and cousin Elise also visited from Ohio which Evan already met back in February.

-Evan ate rice cereal for the first time and got his first bad diaper rash because of it :(, so we are back to a strictly liquid diet
- After a lot of coercing Evan got another hair cut, and his baby locks are all gone :( and now he looks like his his ready to leave for the army with his buzz cut :(

-Evan went to his first zoo this weekend when we visited the Wild Wilderness Drive Thru Safari.

-Evan and his cousins all got their pictures taken together.

-If Evan can see it he wants to grab it and put it in his mouth. Before Evan was really only attracted to his toys, but now he wants my mascara, my menu, my cup, basically he wants it all and he wants it in his mouth!

- I know this sounds weird to some people but after Evan got his hair cut he found his hair, he rubs on his head all the time now.

-Well as mentioned in a lot of my blogs Evan hasn't been the best napper, 30 minutes naps is all we were getting. The last few weeks majority of his first nap of the day is lasting over 1.5hrs!

Everyone loves a picture update

Evan watching Baby Einstein

Evan and daddy watching the game

Evan and his finger

Evan standing like a big boy with mommy

Evan and his elephant

Evan in activity bouncy