Happy New Year!!

Last year at this time we were anxiously awaiting Evan's arrival.
Where did that year go???

Merry Christmas

Ha! I finally get to open a present!

Christmas Program 2008

What a difference a year makes!
Last year Owen would not sing at all. He picked his nose, pulled his shirt up and stuck his hands in his pockets in protest!
This year he was front and center and participated!!
He knew the words to the songs and the sign language as well.
Way to make mom proud!!!

Mesmerized

Evan's first Christmas tree experience has been fun to watch! He loves the lights and will just sit and look at them and "ooh and aah". Every once in a while he gets brave enough to touch the branch and then quickly retracts and crawls away....only to return seconds later and start the process all over again!

Another Dodger Fan!!

Happy Thanksgiving....

from my 3 turkeys!!!

Mommy's caretakers!

I think I could have gotten better care from my 3 boys post-surgery than I did from the nurses in the hospital!!

Gymnastics

Andrew had his first gymnastics mini-meet.
Unfortunately, I had to miss it since I was stuck in the hospital. Papa took lots of pictures for me though.
They said he did a fantastic job! He had to get up in front of the whole audience and perform by himself at each station.

Here are a few pictures from the event:

Dodger Boys

Future Free Agents???

Sock Monkey

We thought it was only appropriate that Evan be a sock monkey this year for Halloween since his whole room theme is sock monkeys!!

Happy Halloween

Who's the scary goat???

Neighborhood kids!

1st Grade Halloween

Andrew decided to be Darth Vader for Halloween this year but was unable to wear masked costumes for his school party today. So at the last minute we decided to dress him up as a L.A. Dodger!! Uncle Korey helped out in his classroom and also dressed the part!!

Pumpkin Carving

Evan LOVES pumpkins!
He gets so excited when he sees them. He tries to roll them around, pound on them, kick them and eat them. And he gets really, really mad when we take them away from him!

Owen wanted a really scary pumpkin this year. Papa helped him carve.
Andrew drew his face and carved the whole thing by himself.
Mommy carved the middle pumpkin!

Sleep Happens

Owen begged me for no nap on this day. He was so busy playing and being such a good boy that I agreed he could skip his nap.
An hour later I was rocking Evan for his nap and Owen was happily playing with his little flashlight on the couch.
He was asleep before Evan!

Cars

Evan thought that playing cars with his brothers looked like lots of fun.
They had the cars all lined up nicely and were so busy playing and then along came baby brother!!
Owen was mortified!!!

Old Man Winter

We had our first blast of cold winter snow last week.
I was prepared for the older boys but not so much for Evan.
His head grew a bit since last January!!

Evan liked this hat but it just wasn't keeping his ears warm!
(We went out and bought him a new one!)

This was the first day of snowfall.
By the end of the weekend we had almost 20 inches of snow!

The slide is still fun when it is snowing.
(Fast-forward one week and it is now 70+ degrees outside!)

Pumpkin Patch

This year it was Owen's turn to go to the Pumpkin Patch!
Nana went along on the bus for some (noisy) fun!!
They came home with 2 BIG pumpkins.

MMMMM GOOD!!!

Evan's first cookie!!!

Happy 4th Birthday!

Here's a few pictures from Owen's big day...
We took some of the neighborhood kids to the ceramic painting place.
They had a great time and created some very "artistic" figures!!

Busy painting!

Owen chose lots of nice colors for his race car.... in the end he painted over all the colors with black. So we have a very nice BLACK race car on the dresser!

Pizza party!

These 3 together are TROUBLE!!!

The older gang!

Mr. Evan

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted! Evan has become so busy. I have a hard time keeping him in the frame of the camera.
This is his latest look! He gives me this face whenever I call his name.