Sea World!

Last week we were so lucky to be able to take a trip to San Diego. It was soooo much fun. Evan loved every minute of it. He is still talking about how his favorite part of Sea World was feeding the dolphins and seeing the sharks! We were able to go to Sea World for 2 days and the beach twice, the weather was totally beautiful! Evan absolutely loved the beach. He could have stayed there all day jumping over waves and digging in the sand! Here's just a few pictures, my camera died so Chaundra has the rest of the pictures including an awesome one with Shamu! This one isn't the best but it's all I had :) I'll post the rest when I get them!

Such A Good Drawer!

Evan is such a good drawer for his age! He MUST get that from his dad! He started by drawing snowmen during winter, and now he's moved on to people. If you're wondering what the red things are in the first one, he says they're ears. The first one is a picture of me, Evan, and his friend Wyatt. The second one is a picture of Jarom, me, and Evan. The day after he drew the second one he was looking at it and said, "Hey! That guy's not supposed to have any hair! Where's my eraser?!" So absolutely hysterical!

Boys!

I overheard a conversation the other day between Evan and his cousin Grayson. It was so hysterical I have to write it down. They are typical boys! A girl conversation would not go like this :)

G: Hey, what's your name?

E: Evan.

G: Oh, cool. How do you spell that?

E: E-V-A-N

G: Cool, do you know how to spell my name?

E: Yeah

G: How?

E: I don't know.

G: G-R-A-Y-S-O-N

E: Oh, cool

Awkward silence......

G: Do you want to play motorcycles?

E: Yeah!

And off they go!

Easter Eggs!

We colored Easter eggs the other day with Evan's friend Evelyn. They did such a great job and turned out so cute, and it kept them entertained for a long time! Easter egg dye kits are so cute and creative now days (not like when I was a kid and all we had was our own food coloring and a wax crayon!) We found a cute kit that had little mini paint rollers that they could use which worked out perfectly! I think I'm going to have to secretly throw these eggs away in a few days because he doesn't realize that this is NOT an art project that we can keep forever! :)

Happy Birthday To My Old Man!

We celebrated Jarom's birthday last week. Evan picked out a present for daddy all by himself and he helped me make the cake and he practiced the Happy Birthday song all day long to have it just right for daddy :) Here's a few pictures of Jarom and his mini me. I swear when they're together like this, I can't help but pick up the camera and just keep taking pictures! P.S. I swear I take the red eye out of every picture but for some reason when I upload to blog the eyes are red again! So annoying!

School Shows!

Last week we had two school shows to attend! Haleigh's 2nd grade class put on a show called Character Counts! It was AWESOME! Their music teacher is AWESOME! Everybody sang, everybody did the moves, they had speaking parts, the songs were fantastic! Chaundra and I were so impressed. Here's just a little snippet. Evan's preschool also did a little show of the songs that they've been working on. It was so adorable! His teacher says he's doing awesome! The school is for 3 years and up but I begged her to give Evan a chance and she says he's the best listener in the whole class! Here's a little of one of the songs.

Bye Bye Binky :(

So, the sad day has come. We said bye bye to the binkys! I've been waiting for just the right time and just the right bribery technique :) I haven't really cared because Evan only uses his binky to fall asleep and then I take it for the rest of the night but I figured we have to take them some time. He's been asking for these two trains, Toby and Diesel, to complete his collection forever. I told him as soon as we bought those two trains he was going to have to trade me for the binkys. He said ok! So Auntie Chaundra bought the trains for him, thank you auntie Chaundra! He went around the house collecting, we taped them up in the box and then we mailed them to all the "babies who need binkys" He named off all of his baby friends and we wrote them on the box and then he put them in daddy's car so they could be mailed! He's done pretty good so far. It's taking him a lot longer to fall asleep (a couple hours!) but I'm hoping that will pass as he gets used to it. He came in my room at 6:30 this morning (which is way earlier than normal!) and said in his sweetest morning voice with puffy eyes, "Mom I slept all night like a big boy!" All the anger I was feeling for him waking up at 6:30 in the morning went away cause he was so proud of himself!