playground set

My child ADORES going to the park. He specifically loves the swings. In fact, he cries when we leave the park. My parents decided to get E a play set for our backyard and we are SO very thankful that they gave this to him as a gift.

After one and a half days of hard work from my dad, Paul, and a bit from me and E, we started here...

and ended up with this...

Along the way we had this...

Now we don't have tears when we leave the park, but we do have tears when we leave the backyard.

t-ball and flying lessons

Is it too early to start? I think he might be ready! (And he's batting left!)

a batter...and a catcher

Valentine's Day

Paul and I were lucky enough to spend Valentine's Day evening together at home. We made a delicious dinner together consisting of bruschetta, filet mignon and garlic frites, and chocolate covered strawberries for dessert. I couldn't have asked for a better evening. E signed a card for Paul with crayon and it was adorable. I should've taken a picture.

*a few weeks ago, Paul took E to his mom's and they made Valentine's cupcakes. can you tell which one E made?

i don't understand

How some days Evan falls asleep happily playing in his bed (or quietly). But today, it took over an hour of crying, fussing, tears, and several attempts of trying to calm and settle him down. I hope he's not getting sick. Breaks my heart.

six fun facts

1. E has become quite the imitator recently. He has started watching Barney downloads from Netflix on our Roku player. As much as I can't stand the Barney theme song, E really enjoys it. He loves watching the kids sing the "Wheels on the Bus" and will do the hand gestures and jumps up and down for the "people on the bus" line. He will throw his arms up during the pizza tossing scene, pretends to lasso by throwing his arms back and forth while saying "whshhh", and raises his arm and makes elephant noises during the circus scene. Its quite hilarious!

2. Paul and I bought him a teeball set, too. E swings with all his might, can hit the ball, and is actually batting as a lefty!

3. E is into the Sesame Street alphabet DVD we have. He likes to listen to the alphabet songs that are on it.

4. We noticed that E enjoys playign witht the Little Tykes 'cozy coupe' that some of our friends have at their houses. We bought him one and now it is one of his favortie places to play. In fact, while at a friend's child's birthday party laat weekend, E was sitting in the car and another child climbed into the car and sat on E. Paul and I found it hilarious (because the other child is about 14 months old) and E's face was priceless. He looked at us as though he was so confused that this baby was sitting on him. E tried to climb out the other side of the car!

5. E attempts to point and count when we count things in books and with items around the house.

6. For Christmas, Aunt Emma and Uncle Jason bought E a large alphabet mat. E can point out the E, M, G, A, and D.

new camera fun

so...

I know that there aren't many people who actually read my blog, but then again, this blog was meant to be a way for me to remember what's happened in my life years from now.

Christmas came and went as did New Year's Eve. Its wasn't awfully exciting, but it was nice to have two weeks off of work and spend it with my husband and son. I'm extremely happy and thankful that Paul took off those two weeks as well. How I miss him during the week (especially now that he has officially begun busy season).

We spent Christmas eve and day with Paul's family. The morning of Christmas, E woke up early as usual and we started opening presents. E could have cared less and wanted to play with our electric train instead. Paul was so generous and bought me a new digital camera for Christmas and how I love it so! I'm pretty sure that I took over 350 photos within 3 days!

Although we have not been very good church going Catholics since Evan was born, we did go to Christmas morning mass. What a change mass is once you have kids. Stand up, sit down, go outside, go inside, pick up raisins off the florr. I only wish that I was able to focus more on mass!

The day after Christmas, my parents came up to have lunch and dinner. E finally took to opening gifts, but would get sad once all the wrapping paper was off.

My sister and brother-in-law were in Michigan at this time, and as a result, we celebrated with them on the 31st. Luckily for us, my parents offered to keep E for the night so that Paul and I could go out for the new year. We ate dinner at a loval.pizzeria and then went home. Its a true sign that you old and/or parents when you crash at 10:00 after the eastern New Year's celebration.

It was still a great holiday and how sad we were to go back to work. At least there are only 8.5 weeks until Spring Break!!