Wow....My Little Problem Solver

So Friday afternoon Evan and I were having our usual play session when he pulled out all his puzzle type toys....His geometric shaped blocks with the bucket with the shapes in the lid, his farm animal puzzle and his stacking rings. He's always played with them but not really figured them out 100%. He started putting his blocks in the correct holes all by himself, stacked his rings in the correct order, then proceeded to get his puzzle pieces matched up like before but actually turned them so that they fit correctly!!!!! I have attempted to show him how those toys all work and never really thought he was paying any attention to what I was doing since he usually moved on to his own thing so I was really impressed. He then went and grabbed my water cup, put the straw in his mouth and managed to suck out the water!!!!! He's never figured that out before he'd usually get hold of it and chew on my straw. He made a big mess but it was water so no biggie and it made me laugh since he was smiling this gigantic smile and laughing when he'd get water in his mouth. The other thing that was fun that afternoon was that he started to spin himself in a circle so I started to sing the first song that popped into my head, " Ring Around the Rosie," and after joining him and sitting down at the, "we all fall down," part Evan started to "fall down" with me and would laugh and laugh. Gosh he's getting so big lately and I mean that in every sense of the word as he's maturing and learning at a really fast rate.

Our other thing that we've all been going through for a while now are Evan getting his molars....its a family affair as we all share in the pain. This is not so much a fun milestone to hit. We thought all the other teeth were bad but this makes me feel really bad for Evan. He's been eating very little food and I don't blame him; his gums are really red and swollen and we're still waiting to see the center part of the two top molars. Right now he has the outer and inner edge through the gum and I can tell that he's feeling a bit better since his appetite is improving and he's starting to eat more than yogurt, soft fruit and applesauce. I have been giving him an extra bottle of milk a day since it soothes him and to help him get some more calories. He's been drooling like a St. Bernard through this go round of teeth and I hope that the bottom two are less painful for him and less disruptive to all our sleep, eating and may we have less crying....poor baby boy!!!!!

Oops 1st Summersault

So yesterday Evan was walking around at a rapid pace and dropped his pacifier....he had gone slightly past it and instead of turning around reached backwards through his legs for it....needless to say he's not quite coordinated enough to pull that off and did a summersault....he laughed rolled over and went on his merry way lol....

So Evan got his height/weight checked at WIC yesterday and he's 27 lbs and 37 in tall his weight is still in the 76% but his height is in the 96%....I have been spending a lot of time reorganizing his closet and repacking all of his baby clothes. He's grown soooo much lately its hard to keep him in clothes longer than a week or two. He's in 2T-4T clothes and is a toddler size 6 shoe for the moment but I think he'll be out of those really quickly as they're already a tighter fit. Thank You so much Ann and Robert for all your hand-me-downs with Evan growing so fast we would've been hard pressed to keep up with the proper sized clothes and shoes it really has helped tremendously over the last 15 mos!!!!

Ok time for an update

So, I just wanted to update what all we've been up to since I haven't been on in a bit. Christmas week I was tickling Evan and he was throwing his head back when he laughed and I noticed two white spots in his mouth....Evan has two top molars and they're almost all the way in, surprize!!!! For Christmas we spent our time at Jon's parents house opening presents (I'll post pics later). I made two pies and we had a nice time. I think Evan remembered what presents were from his birthday as he wanted to open everyone's presents, he loved the paper.
Another thing that Evan has really been into is being Mommy's Little Helper. He loves to help with the dishes and some of the cooking. Helping with the dishes he has his own scrub brush and basically stirs the dish water.....he keeps the suds going ha ha ha and he likes to wipe down the counter, he stands on a chair and is very supervised don't worry. He also likes to help me wipe the kitchen floor he gets a plain wet paper towel and I get the stuff with the cleaner on it. He loves to help me make granola since he gets to dump ingredients into the big dish and it doesn't require burners.....not to mention he likes to eat the raisins before they get dumped in. Evan is very handy in the kitchen he opens and closes the cabinets for me, closes the microwave door, the dishwasher door as well, and push the button on the toaster oven.
If I'm doing the laundry he puts things in the washer and dryer for me and closes the dryer door....Evan is great at handing me hangers and pushing the laundry baskets back to the laundry area. He's really funny since he really likes to do this stuff....I'll enjoy it while it lasts as I'm sure in a couple of years he will find his toys more fun than the laundry. Evan's been really into pointing at all sorts of things and going "uh?!?" I then tell him the name of the item and he tries to repeat it back. New words are zebra pronounced "zeezee", monkey is "nkee", shirt sounds like "dirt", cheese is eese, he also says "eek" when he plays peek-a-boo. He also likes to take my brush or Jon's comb and brush his hair. Oh and he can turn on the bath water and unplug the tub. I think that's all for now with Evan's new skills.
A fun thing that he does that absolutely cracks me up everyday is when he's done with his bath I help him climb out and dry off and then he runs squealing out of the bathroom and runs around the apartment. He loves it!!!! He'll go and get his diaper and pj's for me but then I have to catch him and he's not a fan of getting dressed....