Skiing Baby!

Please pardon the crappy cell phone quality pictures - a certain mama forgot her camera (of all things!). Everett went down the hill 5 or 6 times (in two outings...the rest of the time was in the lodge), despised his goggles, refused to stand up, but giggled when he was going fast. Auntie Christy is convinced he'll be racing by age 4 (or something like that). They also managed to get me down the hill a few times (never downhill skiied before), and of course, I got myself a nice little sprained wrist and can't do anything with my left hand. :(

You won't believe what Ev did

He peed in his potty. I am so serious! The past week or so, he has consistently been peeing on the bathroom floor as we run his bath. So the other day, I got his ikea potty down from the attic and tried sitting him on it before his bath. He cried until I let him off. And then peed on the floor. I think Brian got him to pee in it two days ago by putting it in a strategic location. Then last night, I took the advice of someone on thebump (message board I frequent too much) and set the potty IN the tub, held him on it there and started the tub. Aaaaaand he peed! (Running water is apparently an irresistible cue.) I did a lot of hooraying and cheering and clapping and Ev looked at me with a face that clearly said, "you are absolutely nuts, mother." Hey. Whatever. My 12 month old peed in a pot. We'll continue the bathtime routine and hopefully it will be a nice preparation for when we really try to do this in a few months. Yay Everett!

New Pictures

In case you hadn't heard, we had/are having a blizzard. So work was cancelled and I spent the day with the Ever monster. We managed to get out in the snow for a while too. See?

The other day, I thought Ev looked too cute while sleeping, so I snapped some pictures as he was waking up.

Also, we've been having those horrendous nights again where Ev wakes up around midnight and is inconsolable. Turns out he has two molars half-way in. EEK! Let the herbivoring begin!

My Uncle Chuck

Just had to share!

Ev's First Adventure in Snow

We have finally gotten some appreciable snow in Ashland, so we took Ev out in his new snow suit to celebrate. He looks like the Michelin man because it is rather large on him still, but he was very warm. He has trouble walking with all of his clothes, and espically his giant puffy boots on so he kinda just stood there in the snow, then fell over. The picture isin't great because it came from my cell phone, but you get the idea.

-Brian