Anyway, I can't believe it's almost been two months since either Linda or I have updated this poor neglected blog. Dunno if we still have any readers left! Lots and lots of things to share, I just dunno where to begin.
Let's see here, over the past two months - Evan got his first haircut; we transitioned him into a big boy bed and back again; we are house hunting; planning our cruise; and just working, working, working!
Life with Evan
It is crazy/fun - especially now that he's practically running and into everything! He is incredibly ornery. He's got a serious attachment to his toy ambulance that he got from his babysitter, Michelle & family. Most children have an attachment to a stuffed animal or blanket...but not Evan... If he knows his ambulance is nearby, he has to have it. He refused to take a nap the other day unless it was in his crib. He also screamed for it just the other day when I was trying to feed him lunch - I had to put it up on his tray so he would eat. It seriously rivals mine & Linda's addictions to our iPhones and iPads. (And you read that correctly, we now have "his & her's" iPads. I got Linda an iPad when they first came out for her 1st Mother's Day...she got me the iPad 2 for Father's Day this year!) He is definitely going to be a gadget geek, just like us. I dunno how he does it, but he has gotten his hands on my iPad on more than one occasion (when I thought it was out of reach) - and somehow looks at the pictures or starts iTunes on it. I dunno how he does it...it's got a passcode on it that you have to type in before you can look at anything! But his favorite iPad app is the Interactive ABC Flash Cards...he gets so excited and knows how to work the app. It's very cool!
1st Haircut
Evan got his first haircut last June. He was getting pretty shaggy, and was developing a baby-mullet. No child of ours will have a mullet. End of discussion. At the recommendation of a few friends, we took him to Sheer Madness in Olathe. They cut only kids' hair. They have cool barber seats made out of toy race cars, airplanes, etc. Evan did great, except when the stylist brought out the clippers to buzz around his neck line. It was amazing how much older he looked when he was done!
Big Boy Bed
Around mid-June, Evan somehow managed to climb out of his crib, and took a nose-dive to the floor. I had just gotten up and was fixing coffee...when it heard a loud "THUD!" and immediate screams from Evan. I ran in there and found him on the floor, luckily his large stuffed dog broke his fall and he wasn't injured. After some thought, we decided to see how he would do in a big boy bed. His crib is a lifetime crib that will convert from crib to day bed to a full sized bed, so I made the adjustments, bought him some "Toy Story" bedding and went from there. The first week he did great. The next week he was a monster. Refused to go to and stay in bed... He liked the freedom of just hopping out of bed and coming into the living room. We tried in vain almost every night for 2+ hours to get him to go to sleep. Once we did, he'd wake up in the middle of the night and roam out into the hallway. The next week, we put the crib back together, but had the mattress lowered to the day bed setting (all the way to the floor). He's gotten back on track with sleeping now. Thank God!
House Hunting
Linda & I have gotten the house hunting bug again. We are desperate to get out of the city, and get into a real house. We both have grown wary of city life. While our condo was great when it was just us and the dog - for a family, not so much. We've looked at several houses around the metro and in good school districts... A house that we can stay in for the next 15-20 years or more. Last week, we looked at three, a few nights ago we looked at four, last night we looked at four more, and tonight we are supposed to look at 5 or 6, possibly. It's exciting and depressing at the same time!
The Cruise
Dunno if I shared it or not, but I won a cruise last March through work... Linda & I have never been on a cruise before, and my luck finally paid off in a raffle they were holding at work. We booked a 7-day, 5-port western Caribbean cruise on Royal Caribbean. We have ports in Labadee, Haiti; Falmouth, Jamaica; George Town, Caymen Islands; and Cozumel, Mexico. We leave next month! I'm counting down the days. This will also be the longest that I've ever been away from Evan since the day he was born. I dunno what I'm gonna do... Thankfully we have Skype and will be in touch to see how he is doing. But, we are gonna relax and enjoy ourselves. Linda has been working some long hours lately, and we both need a break to relax. We haven't explore too much on excursions, but I did talk Linda into going on the largest zipline while we are in Haiti. We are just gonna take things as they come... Another must see for us, at least that I really want to do, is the Mayan Ruins while we port in Cozumel.
I had to get my passport renewed since it expired in 2009. I procrastinated too long on it, and had to send it off with a rush to get it back to me in time. Linda's passport is still in her maiden name though...and I keep bugging her to get it changed.
Seems between both our work schedules, taking care of Evan, and all the other things that life throws at us, we keep steaming along! Hopefully it won't be another 2 months before we update again! At least I'll try and make a conscious effort to update more regularly!
