Wednesday, May 6, 2009

At the beach - days 2-4

The beach makes Ever tired.Brian was proud of this baby tent:
Check out these homemade "babylegs!" They're very nice for going into air conditioned stores.The pool here is bath temperature. Ev enjoyed it (not as much as he enjoys baths though)
Brian playing in the waves:
Conehead baby!!


Sunday, May 3, 2009

Friday, May 1, 2009

Leaving for vacation!

In about one hour, we will be heading out on our long, long, long, long car ride to SC.  We're planning to go about 8 hours today and stop for the night somewhere in TN.  Then we're going to meet up with an old buddy on the far west side of SC and drive across the state to our condo.  Here's hoping that Everett is happy, the roads are clear, and the radio is good.  We'll have internet, so you know I'll be putting up some beach baby pictures!

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Picture-palooza!

In honor of the end of April (ummm....yeah...), I am posting a bunch of pictures!  And for the fun of it, you will receive witty/meaningful captions/explanations (or just regular ones because I'm tired)!
Sitting with his "Daddy Pat" while we were up in the northwoods looking at houses.  My infamous laptop steals the scene...that and Ever's very messy face....can you tell he's enjoying his food now?

Ev also enjoyed visiting with Doby:
And his super great grandpa (great-great-grandpa):
The other night, we left the windows open because it was hot.  Well, overnight it got much cooler.  Ev woke up very very cold and Brian felt bad for him, so after I left him in the bed in the morning, I happened upon this scene:  

A bouncer chair is meant to hold a baby like this (well, not really because he's now huuuge, but you get the point):

Not like this: 
Just because we shelled out a bit of green for a jumperoo doesn't mean our kid plays with fancy toys.  No sirree, an empty water bottle is the ideal chewing and rolling toy.  (That and your cool new Purdue basketball from daddy's professor.)


"So. Thirsty.  So. Close.  Not. Going. To. Make....iiiit..."

And in my attempt to be cute last night while Everett was not at all interested in going to bed, I thought I'd take a 5 month picture with his blocks.  I had them all lined up and he just would NOT look at the camera.  Finally, we ended up with this shot:

(Somehow, we have enough E's, but no R....)


Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Ikea is exciting

At least, that seems to be Everett's opinion. Since there were some thesis issues on Monday, we found ourselves with a little extra time to stop at the behemoth blue box of beauty in Chicago and stroll through the displays. Ever was in the bjorn with Bri and was doing all right for a while, but really was just exhausted from so much traveling and really wanted to go back to sleep after lunch. To show us how all the bright colors were overwhelming to his little senses, Everett decided to yell. Loudly. At everyone in the store. I really think he scared some people. A couple of times, I tried to muffle the sound a little, but I decided a yelling baby with mama's hand over his mouth probably looked worse than just a plain ol' yelling baby. So he yelled. And people would sort of jump and turn, see that he wasn't upset, just yelling, and then they would smile. As we were walking through the restaurant area, we also got a cute baby comment from two older women enjoying lunch. I was holding Everett and walking by them and as we passed, one said to the other, "Well that's a Gerber baby if I've ever seen one!" Another comment from yesterday - a friend came over and was playing with Everett and said, "you look exactly like your daddy now!" Yeah yeah yeah, I know....not a piece of my genetic material went to that kid....oh well! He's the happiest, funniest, cuddliest baby ever and I wouldn't change him one bit. He is going to love the giant circle in our new house and I'm sure will be crawling, toddling, then running in circles though the living room, dining room, kitchen, and foyer all day long. :)