new tooth!

Evan is getting another tooth! At first I thought it was a molar and I got all excited, but no, it's a lower lateral incisor. At least this explains why he's been sticking his fingers into his mouth nonstop for weeks! SO CUTE!!! I love teeth!

tears and screaming (Evan, not me)

OMG so sad....since last night went so well without the binky, I tried it again tonight, with very VERY bad results. Finally after like 45 minutes of it I finally had to send Kyle into Evan's room (I couldn't do it, I was sitting on the couch with ear plugs in past my emotional breaking point) to calm him down, give him his binky, read a few books, and put him back into his crib. 5 minutes later, Evan's asleep, and I can finally breath normally again. OK, so we're addicted to the binky again.

my own little experiment

I am not a spontaneous person by nature, well at least not for most important things. I do usually say YES to most things that I am invited to because I value and love new experiences. Well last night I was brushing Evan's teeth, and while he hates the actual act of me brushing them, he does love chewing on his toothbrush and holding it himself. So after we were done washing his face and putting on lotion, I let him hold his toothbrush (2 actually, one in each death grib) while we read books. This is my favorite part of the day. OMG he actually knows some words! I'm always totally astonished at how many words he knows. When asked, "Where is the _____?" he can point to: balloon, shoes, ball, and sometimes sun, flower, puppy. It's straight up incredible to me! Anyway, back to my experiment. So then we're done reading and instead of inserting the binky into his mouth I just let him keep his toothbrushes. No binky, that's right! There were a little crying, but mostly I think he did not notice, and then he fell asleep. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! Have I broken him of his long time habit?

I've been meaning to make a list of the foods that Evan loves and hates, just for posterity, and because it's funny.

Foods that Evan LOVES, and will eat with reckless abandon even when not hungry:

cheese

cheerios

ice cream

crackers

chocolate - go figure

Other things that Evan loves:

all things bread

chicken

all kinds of fish, LOVES salmon

brocolli

tofu

bananas

yogurt

applesauce

watermelon

corn on the cob

Foods that Evan wants nothing to do with, that even if you get them into his mouth, they will most surely come right back out:

peaches - unless they are extremely soft and sweet and juicy, like the one from Pike Place the other day.

tomatoes

mashed potatoes - weird huh?

home sweet home

I thought it might be fun to sleep with Evan, I mean like in our bed, turns out, not so much. This weekend for Father's Day we went to Leavenworth with Kyle's family. Evan had a pretty hard time sleeping in his pack n'play, plus he didn't know where he was, etc., so we brought him into our bed. BAD MISTAKE. Well, at least it was a mistake for me, Evan and Kyle slept great. I can't believe how much this kid moves in his sleep! I was hoping it would be a sweet night of snuggling and holding, uh yeah, not so much. At one point he was completely sideways with his feet kicking me over and over, and another time he was sleeping on top of my arm with his stinky diaper in my face, though I must admit that the stink doesn't bother me at all, it's kind of endearing, yup that's mommy love.

Anyway, we're home now, yipee, good sleep for everybody!

night owl

I have become a night owl.  Me?  How could this be?  I was the girl in college who'd have to take a nap before clubbing, and half the time be too tired and back out anyway!  Kyle is away on business and I've stayed up way past my bedtime the last few nights.  It's 10:20pm and I'm thinking about starting a movie, crazy.

Evan went to bed tonight holding is new toy keys.  There are buttons that he can push to make sounds, and a little light too.  I just went into his room to check on him and he's still clutching the keys in his death grib.  It was hilarious!

My mommy gave me corn on the cob...

and I loved it!

still hard

The thing about motherhood is that just when you thought you had things under control, it all slips out from under your feet, and I feel like I'm treading water just to keep my head above water.  Ok, no it's not that bad, I'm just being uberdramatic.  For the last few days, maybe weeks, Evan has been having a super hard time falling asleep for naps if we're at home.  In the car, it's no problem, he just konks out.  In the past I used to read him a couple books, close the blinds, rock him for 10 seconds and he'd be out like a light.  Then I'd put him down in his crib, no problems.  But NOW, he struggles and cries during the books, and struggles out of my arms when I'm trying to rock him to sleep.  He fights it every step of the way.  Maybe it's time to just put him in his crib and let him cry it out to sleep for naps?  Tried that, he just screams for however long I let him, once it was a whole hour! gasp!  Uh, what do I do?!