Horsing around on the 4th of July!

Some cute photos of Evan horsing around yesterday...no explanation necessary. It is worth mentioning, however, that when he put the red cubby on his head, he yelled, "Where Evan, Mommy?"...and then "There he is!" when he pulled it off. He's a comedian!

No fireworks...in fact I didn't even hear the neighbors shooting any off. I must have been tired! We did eat some brats and corn on the cob...and it was GOOD!

What summer tastes like...

I'm proud of my boy for many reasons. I'm proud of the fact that he's compassionate, loving, and darned cute. I'm proud of the fact that he can say his ABCs and give great hugs. And I'm proud of the fact that he loves fruits and vegetables...and LOVES going to the farmer's markets to pick them out. I don't take credit for any of it, mind you. I'm just happy that he does these things on his own.
Here we have peach face and blackberry face. I have not yet taken a photo of watermelon shirt...but I think you get the idea.

I'm glad he loves fruits and vegetables...even if he DOES end up wearing a good portion of them. Incidentally as we were driving to the farmer's market this morning, Evan kept saying "basketball, basketball, Mommy, basketball" when we got a few blocks away. I could not figure out for the life of me why he was so concerned with basketball all of a sudden. Then it hit me.

When a two-year old says "vegetable," it sounds an awful lot like "basketball." He was just ready to go grab the vegetables...

Love that kid...

Zero.

As in zip, nada, none, the big goose egg. I have ZERO pictures from our trip to Nebraska. Why, you ask? Why would I have ZERO pictures of Evan and his family to the north?

Because I forgot my battery charger. And my fancy-schmancy beautiful DSLR camera became a paperweight. No...as a matter of fact you CAN'T find one of those chargers in your local small-town megamart.

We did purchase a disposable camera to take pictures of Evan meeting his Grammie on Bryan's side for the first time. Once I can get my lazy rear to Walgreens to develop the film, I'll post those pics.

Sigh. It's always something.

We had a great time seeing everyone, despite the fact that we traveled more than 1600 miles by the time it was all said and done.

It's good to be home, though.

The leader of the pack...

Evan got his new tricycle yesterday...and as you can see from the photos, he was VERY excited by it. We have had to dub it his "outside bike," as he keeps wanting to bring it inside with his scooter bike. Since my toes have already been run over numerous times by said scooter bike, there is NO WAY that the big trike is coming inside.

He also calls it his "motorcycle." At least he dreams big.

Baby Loves Metal...

Here are my boys...enjoying a little Metallica...

Photos of Evan and his cool new tricycle are coming soon. Tomorrow if I'm not too tired from work...


Baby Loves Metal from Rena on Vimeo.

"Show-Me" the photos!

Okay, gang...to make up for my lack of recent blog entries...here are a whole BUNCH of photos from our recent trip to MO to see the fam. I think the captions say it all...

We had a great time and I think Evan has finally recovered from the car ride. Wait until he finds out we're traveling AGAIN soon...

Note: if you click on any photo in the slideshow, it should take you a larger slideshow where you can control the speed it plays at...

SORRY!

Okay...so I know I haven't updated this thing in a bit. I have TONS of pictures from our trip North...and I'll post them soon...I swear!