19 months and growing strong!

          

Evan is 19   months old now.  He continues to love the alphabet and has been drawing letters for some time now.  Evan has excellent fine motor skills and is very adept with pencils, pens and crayons.  He has started to spell words also - for example, he knows how to spell Evan, Mommy, Dog, Hug, Baby, Cat, Moon and Star.  

Here are a few photos from a recent visit with his birthday buddy, Stephanie, at and around Alki Beach.  

Oh and have I mentioned he loves to climb up on things - the bumps and bruises years have started...

Halloween 2008

Here are a few photos of us having fun at a pumpkin patch a few days before Halloween.  Sorry, no pictures of Evan in his Halloween outfit - he refused to wear it...

18 month old trapped in a 3 year olds body....

Evan had his 18 month check up today and got an A+ bill of health from his doctor - well, except the sleeping part.
We all got a D in that department - spared an F for our efforts, as we are all trying very hard to sleep!
18 month update: Height 50%, Weight 10% (doctor says that's great - not underweight - not overweight).
Evan knows all of the letters of the alphabet, can point them all out when asked and can verbalize most of them clearly.
He also knows his numbers from 1 - 10, can point them all out when asked, and can say some of them clearly.
Evan can "read" a few words - he recognizes the words baby, mommy, mum mum, evan, dog, apple, star and more.
He can say about 30 words and has been stringing some words together.
Evan has started to write also - he can draw letters and numbers best of all. Not all of them, but quite a few.
Doctor Christina says Evan is a 3-4 year old trapped in an 18 month old's body!
In addition to his appetite for learning, Evan has been enjoying gymnastics class and climbing all over our furniture.
Here are some recent pics - mostly from our recent trip to Mt. Baker.
We are exhausted but totally in love with our smart, amazing, funny, loving, beautiful boy...

Friends, Big Boy Baths and Peaches

Nothing necessarily related here, nor much to post about. Evan has been meeting new friends and seeing old ones but he seems to be enjoying socializing more and more. He hugs friends and plays with them more - sharing, not sharing and crying when they take things from him. The sharing extends to inanimate objects - here is a photo of Evan sharing crackers with "Duck".



We saw friends from our birth class and Evan and Bo hugged and kissed. I'll update with last years picture of the two of them for comparison at another date.




He LOVES baths so much that we can't even mention it if we're not serious about giving him one. He requests it several times a day. He started taking baths in the regular tub all by himself and he thinks this is the greatest!



The peaches? We're enjoying boxes of produce each week from a local farm and Leslie caught this delicious peach one morning in such nice light. It's a little homage to our friend at Alki who take gorgeous photos.




And we'll end with a sleeping baby in the car ride home from seeing my dear friend Kelly with her kiddos in Olympia. I guess we wore Evan out! We wish they weren't moving back to KC!

Back to School

It's back to school time!
Although Evan doesn't have new shoes and won't be filing in to meet his teachers yet, his love of learning is evident. "M" is still a favorite, but it's clear now that he recognizes all the letters of the alphabet and numbers one to ten. His favorite number is nine and he says it clearly.

We bought an activity table with a paper roll and some crayons for his room. He's so happy to work on it everyday - all the time. But we try to strike a balance and find other things to do as well - this means hiding all writing instruments in the house. Sometimes this doesn't even cut it because then he wants us to write letters in the dirt at the playground, with water on the slate floor, with his fingers on whoever is holding him...

He's keeping us on our toes!



He is also stringing two or more words together when talking. "Apple butter" and "apple bar" are favorites. Mommy (Leslie) is "Monny" and I am "MumMum". He's quite fascinated by the moon and if it's not out then we have to find an image of it - "book, moon".

The smile that melts his mommies hearts

Who is the cutest of them all?

random pics from the past month or so.
evan is growing in leaps and bounds - sweet and smart, brave and adorable...
we love, love, love, love, love this boy!