Evan - 2.5 Years Old

Evan is officially two and a half!

- Swords are SO COOL. Any Bible story with a picture of someone holding a sword is his favorite. He recently fell in a broken-hearted heap on our stairs, sobbing a good 30 minutes, because he was not allowed to take the neighbors sword home.

- I don't know how he gets a good nights sleep. First of all he sleeps in all sorts of weird positions on his bed, but especially because he roosts on his lumpy, metal, Hot Wheels cars as if he was a mother hen... can't be comfortable!

- Of course he can't be too uncomfortable in bed because he obeys the rule of staying in bed beautifully... so obedient!

- He's learning his colors, or at least green, red, and blue because those are the colors represented in the Nutri-Grain Bar variety pack.

- He loves to sing along to the songs we listen to in the car.

- He gives his siblings (or anyone else for that matter) such warm greetings! "Hi Wayna, I miss you!" or in a super high pitch voice, "Hi Asser, Hi Asser!"

- He'll often call motorcycles, "scooters" because of his familiarity with Dad's scooter. I'm sure Harley-hogs would really appreciate him putting them in the same category. :)

- Oh, and on the subject of motorcycles. There is a model motorcycle in his classroom at Kids Day Out. He picks that thing up the moment he walks in the door and doesn't put it down till it's time to leave.

- With Evan, counting is fun. You never know what the numeric order will be that day.

- We pass so many trucks on our way to church, which is just thrilling. In between singing he's saying, "Woah! I see truck!", "Look mommy, der a truck!"

- "I hold you" is Evan speak for, "Will you hold me?"

- The kids have to ask to be excused before they get down from the table. It usually goes like this with Evan:

"Mommy, I be escused?"

"Yes Evan, you may be excused."

Pause.

"Mommy, I get down?"

"Yes Evan, you may get down."

- On our scale he is 32.5 lbs, which happens to be only 2lbs less than Elena!

- Whether it's swinging a bat or golf club; catching or throwing a ball, he's game.

- Grandaddy Mace says, "If he doesn't know the word, he says it louder."

He is uber enthusiastic about life and such a joy to raise. We love him to pieces!