Brynn's first field trip

The two-year-old preschool class goes on one field trip this year, to the pumpkin patch!  I worked from home to watch Evan, and Dwayne took Brynn on the field trip.  Unfortunately it was freezing, but Brynn was super cute bringing home two pumpkins she picked out - one for her and one for Evan.  

Evan - 11 months old

Evan now has 4 teeth at various stages, but none of of them are all the way in.

He loves to clap. If you say "say Da da da da" he usually will!


He's getting a ton of hair - I had to snip some off the other day because it was growing over his ears and neck; I think it might be time for a real haircut fairly soon.


Evan cruises a little bit but doesn't seem close to standing on his own or taking any steps yet - I guess he takes after his sister!


He is a good eater and a good sleeper. He loves graham crackers and yogurt and he's better about eating vegetable baby foods than he used to be. He's on the exact same sleep schedule as Brynn! They take one nap anywhere from 1.5-3 hours in the early afternoon and go to bed at 9.


Evan is definitely mischievous - he loves splashing in the dog water, trying to eat dog food, banging on the fireplace glass and pulling things out of cabinets. He is going to be a handful once he can walk, I imagine...


He's still fairly laid back, but hates when people leave a room or go upstairs without him - he'll scream bloody murder until you come back and get him!

Evan - 10 months old

Ok, I am a bad mommy and am just uploading his 10 month picture with his 11 month one so I don't really have any milestones for this month. I just noticed that he weighed more in this picture than last month - I guess my method of holding him on the scale and then weighing myself is not very accurate!

First day of preschool

This year Brynn is starting a 2-year-old preschool class at a local church school. She will go on Thursday and Friday mornings for 2 1/2 hours - for the 2's class they start them gradually so the first week she only went for one hour each morning.

Brynn is pretty timid about trying new things, so I was a little worried about how she'd like school. She did great! Dwayne dropped her off, and said she walked into the building smiling and holding the teacher's hand, and was still smiling when he picked her up. An even better sign was that she wanted to go back the next day. Ican't believe she's growing up so fast...before we know it we'll be sending her off to college!

Evan - 9 months old

The picture is actually a week late for this post since Evan just had his 9 month appointment today. He was such a good boy at his appointment, laughing and babbling at the doctor! When she was looking in his mouth, she pointed out that his first tooth on the bottom was barely starting to peek through!

In the past couple of days, he has learned a new trick of blowing raspberries constantly. He loves getting into things - his favorite toy is still the dog's water bowl. Bailey is the only thing that will pretty much always guarantee a laugh out of Evan, and the only time I've heard him crack up is when we get the dog all riled up and he is barking and running around!

Evan's eczema has been really bad lately - even worse than Brynn's was at this age. The lotions and creams we slather him with don't seem to help very much. Brynn grew out of hers though, so I'm hoping the same will happen with Evan. It doesn't seem to bother him, but it's all scabby and looks like it would be itchy.

Evan can pull up on anything and everything, but hasn't started cruising yet. He can hold on with only one hand once he pulls up. He can climb up the first step on the stairs! Definitely need to keep a close eye on this boy.

He takes only one nap for me, but it is usually 3-4 hours long. He likes to stay up later the past couple of weeks, and won't go down until 10 or 10:30 some nights, but then stays asleep all night long.

Fourth of July

Dwayne's family was in town the week of the fourth of July so we went to watch fireworks with Gammy, Pappy, Monica, Tyler, Savannah and Mommom and Daddad Pryor. At the new house we can't watch fireworks from right outside our back door anymore, so we went to the hospital. The hospital lets employees park there and sit on the hill to watch the fireworks at the farm museum. I had no idea how close they would be - they were setting the fireworks off only like 100 yards away from us! The view was amazing, but it was really loud, so Brynn spent the whole time in the car - Evan watched the first half with me, but then I started to worry about his ears, so he went in the car too! Ah well, there's always next year...

Evan - 8 months old

In the past week, Evan has started doing real crawling instead of just scootching on his stomach, and can sit up all the way from being in crawling position.

He also seems to like "real" food a lot more than Brynn did - this week he has tried salmon, crab cakes and canned green beans and liked them all. Hopefully he is not a picky eater like I thought and just doesn't like baby food! Lately he still seems hungry after a 6 oz. bottle, so some of the time we give him 8 oz. now.

The last week in June, Evan had some kind of virus where he had a fever for four days - it was getting higher every day, but he had no other symptoms and the doctor said it wasn't anything treatable. Thankfully he responded well to Motrin, but was pretty miserable for a couple of days.

Brynn spends half the time giving Evan ("Evie") hugs and kisses, and the other half saying "No Evie! Don't like it!" - with seemingly no rhyme or reason to which one it is!