hopefully not one to go in embarassingfamilyportraits.com
my mom insisted on taking family portraits when i was in high school all the way up to the end of college which is when it all stopped... wait that is not true... i believe we took one when i was already working and thank goodness my college graduation photo (taken post college) did not show the 20 lbs i gained my senior year eating chocolates for breakfast and a sonic wacky pack for lunch...
i thought it would be fitting to continue the tradition and since we didn't get good photos of evan when he was born, we took family pics for his 1st birthday
yes yes we know we've been delinquent BUT we also had some adventures this summer...
1. Paul's first wedding in Lake Tahoe
thoughts: loved the weather... loved the 3 night sleep over at a gorgeous house with friends... did not love Evan's chapped face or almost missing our flight back or being charged $$$ for a dirty rental car
2. the waco wedding
thoughts: evan had loads of fun messing with stuff around the house while everyone was busy with the wedding ;-) and the best steak/fish entree i've had at a wedding
3. the toronto wedding
thoughts: loved the weather... loved spending time with family... loved having evan meet and play with his cousins... loved chinese food in toronto... loved that veal and eggplant parmesan sandwich at the farmer's market
did not love evan screaming at the top of his lungs while we were having our anniversary dinner... did not love that we missed "the best sushi" in north america or susur lee's restaurant
4. the family group
thoughts: we've been putting together these family get togethers at church and absolutely have enjoyed getting to know them and learning from people who have more experience with this family thing than we do
5. the 15 month milestones
thoughts: love that the tooth fairy is now in business at our house albeit 2 teeth is not much of an invite... love that evan is showing us more of his goofy nature (blowing raspberries on our legs, spinning til he falls, playing hide and seek)... do not like the teething pains or the dropped morning nap or that he seems to know how to push our buttons and be rebellious (what? you said, "come here," i think i'm going to run the other way now while i laugh at you chasing after me)
and because you know you came here to see a video... here's one of evan laughing at rocks coming down a slide..
our lives are about to change drastically. no, k is not pregnant. e is walking. thats right...e is walking. life as we know it will change forever.
we were at my cousin's house in canada, and e had been getting more and more brave about taking his hands off the wall when he cruises around. well, he decided to go for the gold and just do it...
that was taken about 5 days ago. now he is walking up and down the hall from our room to the living room. he also has an opinion about where he wants to go. he no longer has to go where we want him to go. sad day for us...good day for e.
the other day i'm putting evan to nap which usually just means i lay him on his loveseat, put a barrier so he doesn't fall off, and leave the room... he's usually good about going to sleep on his own but recently we catch him playing when he's supposed to be sleeping... and he's being sneaky about it... he doesn't make any noise so we don't come in and check up on him...
so i put him down... silence... i think "oh great he's sleeping"
15 minutes later
room: GIGGLES
me: huh?
room: muffles giggles
5 minutes later
silence
i walk in to check and evan fell asleep sitting down with bevo sitting next to him
friday i put him down... same thing except this time the giggling ensues...
i walk in his room and evan is laying down... paci on the floor... stuffed bevo on top of him...
and he is poking bevo's head giggling (cute but weird)
yesterday paul texts me with this: evan fell asleep hugging bevo
apparently paul says he just laid before down next to evan and he fell asleep rather quickly
so i tried the strategy yesterday afternoon and evan ended up playing with bevo for 30 minutes (bevo = little rascal's partner in crime)
when evan woke up i showed him bevo and he quickly hugged him...
we have yet to see if bevo is friend or foe (when it comes to naptimes) but can i just say how proud i am that at such a young age evan loves our UT mascot... go little longhorn
man, we feel really lucky to have such awesome friends and family. there were those that drove down from dallas just for the couple of hours that his party lasted. crazy. thank you to all that came to the party. it was a good time, and evan will be able to look back at the pictures from this party and know that he was loved.
it is times like these when you know that you are not raising your child on your own, and that there is a community of people that love our son. it means the world to me and k.
i will let the pictures do the talking now.
this was my first birthday...
this is evan's...
e was getting so tired by the end of the party...he crashed when he got home.
evan is one! wow, time flew by this year and we thought we'd never make it (hello, 6 hour crying sessions!?!??! post partum blues!??!?! no sleeping at night!?!??!) but here we are... thank God
to celebrate we bought evan a cupcake... all they had was red velvet so we took it... of course with our luck he had an allergic reaction to the red dye they use (i think) but he enjoyed it so much that i didn't really feel too bad
i wish you could have seen the entire video because it captures so much of evan's personality... part tiger, part foodie, part ravenous glutton (he really is! he cried over potato chips the other day and he now yells until we give him food that he wants to eat) part ham and part laugh monster (he LOVES to laugh and crack up things we cant even decipher)
alas, the batteries ran out and you only see a glimpse of his love for food... later on he squeals and makes grunting noises and laughs and yells
