7 months old

Has it really been seven months since this guy was born? I feel like it was just yesterday!! 

The past month has been a tough one with him... he has just been fussy and we have had a hard time figuring it out... but the past few days we have given him lots of gas drops and it is back to happy easy Evan. I guess his little body had a hard time with gas once he started solids. Once you have things figured out kids like to throw you for a loop I guess.

He is going through a mommy only phase... I love it and hate it at the same time. It really is awesome to be the best thing in the world to someone... but it is exhausting... especially when that little one is having a really hard time sleeping. 

In these pictures you can't really tell his eye color. We aren't entirely sure that it is settled but they are hazel right now... how crazy is that? 3 kids each with a different eye color... what are the odds of that? Probably a lot higher than having a kid with hemophilia.

Evan loves his siblings right now. He spends a lot of his time laughing at every thing they do. If Ezra is throwing blocks across the room Evan is laughing. If Eve is playing dress up Evan is laughing at her. That is the best part of siblings. Ezra likes to attempt to ride Evan as he scoots around on the floor. Eve likes to carry him... all 17 plus pounds of him... It is enough to give the adults seeing this a heart attack.

Evan is getting around but not classic crawling yet. I think this is because he thinks that he can get up on his feet and walk... he spends hours getting up on his toes... please don't be an early walker. He can get up from his tummy to sitting position no problem right now. He also thinks he is a big boy now and doesn't want pureed foods any more.

Friday Evan gets to go to Seattle for his hemophilia check-up. So far we haven't had to treat him so I think we are pretty good. He has had some good bruises... but I was noticing tonight when I bathed him that he doesn't have a single bruise on his body right now... what are the odds of that? You would think I have been wrapping him in bubble wrap or something. Nope just that lucky. With Ezra I don't think we had a bruise-free time once the bruises started so it is nice that at least for today Evan looks like a normal baby.

Ez's big day

Yesterday was Ezra's 2nd birthday. We had so much fun having a lasagna dinner and cake with Grandma Helen, Grandpa Syne, and Grandma Mil. It was so fun watching Ezra open his presents because he loved them all... it wasn't like he was so focused on one that he didn't pay attention to the others. Ian, Eve and I worked on a special construction themed birthday cake for him... and though it wasn't perfect it was just fine with Ezra. 

10 Ezra facts in honor of his birthday

1. He now lays down on the floor so we are able to infuse him with just one of us!!!

2. He calls Ian mommylo.

3. He is in love with swim shorts and wears them all of the time.

4. He thinks he can get dressed on his own, if you see him out with his shirt on inside out and backwards it is all him.

5. All he wants to eat are noodles... morning, noon, night... he had noodles for breakfast this morning.

6. The boy is obsessed with toothpaste! We really need to put it under lock and key.

7. He is so proud that he can fill a cup with water from the fridge door that he does it ALL the time. It is inevitable that he then spills the water on the floor and slips on the wet floor and we then have to ice some part of his body.

8. He is scared of most animals... if he even hears a dog he will run to the closest adult to be picked up.

9. He wears rainboots ALL the time... usually on the wrong feet.

10.  He has just discovered cartoons and his favorite is Little Einsteins. (pat pat pat anyone?)

Swimming movie

So originally I thought I had no pictures to show for the past month... my camera battery needed recharging and that is one step too many for me to do in a timely fashion. Luckily I did have something... there were pictures from the night my camera battery died...so I have several attempts at pictures with my sister and her kids with my mom and grandma... besides missing smiles on the kids faces on this one we are missing Ezra... that boy never want to sit still... such is life. My mom went on vacation and drove back up here with my sister, her kids, and my grandma. My grandma stayed for a little less than a week and my sister has been here for about a month!! How lucky are we. Eve thinks we won the lottery because she actually has cousins to play with. My favorite cousin moment is Eve in the woods with Alex helping him tie up rope. She actually changed into jeans and a baseball hat to have the correct outfit for playing with him... awesome! So we are soaking up cousin time, attending swim lessons, and of course watching the swimming movie (what Eve calls the olympics). Eve says when she is 6 1/2 she will be ready to do the uneven bars.

Evan loves the computer... and all things electronic. Like father like son.