Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Marian's 11th Birthday

Marian's party this year was where she takes cooking classes. They made gnocchi and cupcakes--delicious!
In honor of her reading all 7 "Harry Potter" books (in less than 2 weeks), Marian had a Hogwarts birthday (and is dressing as Hermione for Halloween at school). Her only requests this year were a Harry Potter game for the Xbox and a pottery wheel.
Marian designed a "Pin the Glasses on Harry" game, with the boys here trying out the glasses (drawn on the paper).

Sunday, October 24, 2010

10 months

At 10 months, Evan has mastered the commando crawl, so I really need to get these stairs gated. Of course, none of the ones from the old house are wide enough for these stairs. BabiesRUs must have teamed up with the homebuilders on that one...

He's still not thrilled with most foods, but will eat most fruits and cereal. The only finger foods he eats without gagging are cheerios and the Gerber puffs. Hopefully we can expand that list quickly.
He's a big babbler, and I think he says "mah-mah-mah" usually when he sees me. But I'm usually around him, so it's hard for me to say. His sleeping has greatly improved! Now he only gets up about once a week (please don't let this jinx it!!) and I can set him back in the crib after nursing (if he's still awake) and he'll eventually fall back asleep on his own. Yay!!

Just because




Like I said, Brennan trying to get in the picture



Brotherly love, although Evan isn't appreciating it

Thursday, October 21, 2010

First tooth

Evan's first tooth finally showed up on Oct 9th, only one week before turning 10 months old!

Getting the picture was difficult between his continual crawling towards me (making the picture blurry) and Brennan trying to stick his head in the picture also.