Lots of warm weather fun

"Driving" a car is what boys' like, right?  So here they are driving and bumping at the county fair.

We were lucky enough to do a last minute trip to the Dells.  Here is Evan in the safari themed lobby.

What's wrong with the above picture?

Evan's new favorite thing to do in pictures.  This one is actually not bad, ususally there is head tilting, tongue showing, eye scrunching.

Evan could have stayed at the water park all day, he has to be reminded to eat and go potty.  These slides were just his size.  There were huge slides that require an inflated raft that the whole family went on together. Couldn't exactly get a picture of that.

Fun with the cousins

Here are the cousins getting reacquainted, actually it took all of a few seconds.

These Bey Blades were something Evan first saw at Josh's house so it's appropriate that they do this together.

Museum fun for all.

Grandma and Grandpa are here!

Evan was so excited to see Grandma and Grandapa.  Here we are at the IL Railway Museum.  We weren't sure what to expect but there were many real functioning engines to see inside and out.  Above, Evan is not a fan of the loud engine sounds.

Our ride in a caboose.

Here's Evan showing Grandpa how to play Playstation.  Notice how he has to sit in the same chair, there is a loveseat, couch and another chair, all empty.

Off to the races.  Look who got the best seat in the house?  Evan was surprisingly interested in cheering on his horse and when his horse won, it was like he won the lottery even though Daddy only won a few bucks.

Here he is checking out his winning horse.

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.