Gammy and Pappy Meet Evan

Last week, Gammy, Pappy and Savannah drove out from Indiana for a few days and got to meet Evan for the first time! Since Brynn hadn't seen them since August, I showed her pictures of Gammy a lot before they came - it seemed to work well as Brynn warmed up to Gammy immediately and loved hanging out with her. Thankfully, Brynn was also a lot nicer to Savannah this visit and they had a fun time playing in the bath together. Most of the weekend we ended up looking at houses - the kids were so well-behaved while we looked at 7 houses - on Monday we found one we loved and if all goes well we'll be moving in next month!

January/February Randoms

Evan - Four Months Old

Dwayne took Evan for his four month appointment a couple days after the picture and they got his measurements at 14 lbs, 11 oz and 24 in. - according to the internet his weight is only between the 25th and 50th percentile now, but everyone still comments on what a big boy he is! He wears mostly 3-6 month clothes, but still fits in a lot of his 0-3 month stuff too. At Evan's doctor visit, they noticed he had an ear infection! Poor guy - he wasn't really acting any different other than not eating that well the day before.

Evan loves being held up so he can put weight on his legs. We just got out the jumperoo and he seems to enjoy standing in it, although his feet don't quite reach the ground yet. He is a big smiler, but it is still hard to make him laugh - real laughs are few and far between! He started rolling both ways fairly consistently in the past week.

Evan sleeps every night in his crib now but his bedtime is still later than we'd like at around 11 or 11:30 most nights. It seems like if we put him down any earlier, he still wakes up hungry at 5 am!

Snowman

Brynn loves snowmen, so we thought she'd enjoy seeing a real one during the first big snowstorm of the winter. We got her all bundled up, but this is what we got as soon as we made it outside:


I think she was a little scared of the snowman at first, but it was a little better looking at him with Daddy. After we went back inside, she loved looking out the front window and saying "Hi, snowman!" until he finally melted a couple of weeks later.

Josh's birthday party

Josh's birthday is just a couple of weeks after Jay's, and he had a party at the Catonsville Y. I didn't know how much Brynn would enjoy it since she didn't like the pool last summer, but she had a blast! She was a little timid in the water at first, but after a few minutes she was splashing and laughing at "the bath" as she called it - then she ran all around with the bigger kids and stuffed her face with cupcakes!

Corduroy Bear

The latest obsession in our house is Corduroy the bear - Aunt Erin and Uncle Tim gave Brynn a Corduroy book and toy for Christmas, and we also have a video of the story - she quickly learned to say Corduroy and asks for him constantly.

JJ's birthday party

For Jay's fourth birthday, we visited Erin and Tim's house in Allentown for the first time. Brynn loves her cousin JJ and is always talking about him - she enjoyed following him around happily all weekend, but poor Liam didn't fare so well since Brynn got upset any time he came near her!