MN visit

Evan really liked visiting his auntie Suzie and "that man".  It's so hard to keep everyone's names straight.  Evan wanted to do everything Reid and Suzie did from cooking, pulling weeds from the garden, letting the dog out.  We also got to visit Suzie at work.

Independence day 2012

 Getting into the spirit of the holiday.

 Here we are at the parade with our friends, ready to collect candy.  Note Daddy and Evan's matching hats.

Evanisms

Evan has 2 classmates who are twins, when we asked him if he knew what twins are he answered "Its's when they sometimes where the same clothes and sometimes they don't".

According to him we recently ate an "articho" dip with our crackers.

In the last few weeks, Evan had picked up a small metal gadget and a broken zip tie from the sidewalk and each individual thing is his "collection".

The thing you knock down from the tree to get the candy inside is a "pin-yasta".

When we dim his bedroom light for night nights, we almost always count to "firteen" and when he wants a drink, he's "firsty".

Lately, we've been Mama and Dada for some reason.

Apparently we're in the question phase.  Sometimes reading a book involves very little reading but Mommy or Daddy answering a lot of inquiries about  the pictures.  A recent screening of Ghostbusters (still funny after all this time) included questions about what the ghosts do to people, why the boy and girl turned into dogs, why did the girl float up over her bed, why are the ghostbusters driving an ambulance...

Summer storm

We had a daytime storm that only lasted about 45 minutes but Evan got to see and feel hail for the first time. We lost power for about 12 hours which gave us time to have fun with the flashlight.  We couldn't tell Evan when the "wreck-tricery" would come back on.

Just for fun

We're not sure exactly what he's saying but it serves it's purpose.

Evan's new talent.

Carrie's boys.

Party fun

This was the birthday party of Olivia, a friend from school.  The top pic is the big kids lining up for the sack race.  The pinata was not Evan's first but the first one that Mommy had the camera ready.  The footage was cut off early because you can only see the beginning of the candy pounce.

St James Farm Family Day

A local forest preserve that was formerly a functioning dairy farm had their annual Family Day.  We got to see several horse riding and dog demonstrations.  A favorite part of the day was the hands on archery activity.  Mommy didn't get any pics because Evan needed just a little help with that.  The top pic is Evan's first real life fish catch.  Good thing there were volunteers because Mommy really didn't know what to do.