Evan

Our Evan is three months old now!  He continues to be a big boy.  At his two month appointment he was 14 lbs 6 oz (91%) and 25 1/4 in (97%).  He is really a pretty good baby (except that some nights he wakes up more than I would like.)

 

When he was born my Grammy (GG) got to come visit us and help out.  She broke her elbow the second day she was here so we got to keep her for extra time.  We loved having GG here.  She was great playing with Claire and helping out even with a broken elbow.

 

We blessed Evan over Labor Day weekend down in Clinton, Utah.  Mark’s sister had a baby three weeks after Evan so we blessed them together.  It was nice to have family there.
 

Claire wanted to lay down for her picture too.  Silly girl.

Evan and cousin Ashlyn.

 

Here is Evan during our family picture session.

Here is Evan’s birth announcement.

I liked this one too, but Mark pointed out that it is 95% fabric.

One day Claire wanted to be “burritoed” like Evan.  It didn’t last long.

He has become a finger sucker.

Claire likes to have “tummy time” with Evan.

Halloween

Here is Claire’s pumpkin that we carved yesterday morning.  We carved butterflies in it (she likes to identify them as “fies”).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claire was a fairy for Halloween.  I made the costume for her last year, but it was too big then so she got to wear it two years.  She loved the wings.  She thought they were butterfly wings (I don’t think she knows what fairies are.)

 

Evan was a giraffe.  Fitting since he is our tall boy (97%)!  And of course he is sucking his fingers.

We went trick-or-treating at Mark’s work in the afternoon and then to a few houses in the neighborhood in the evening.  Claire got the hang of things (at least grabbing a candy) before too long.  She understands what candy is this year.

We borrowed a few costumes from a friend too.  We didn’t wear them out anywhere, just put them on for a few pictures.

A duck:

Piglet and a sad Tigger:

Piglet and Pooh:

Evan in his ghost shirt:

Claire’s 2nd Birthday

Claire turned two a week ago.  We went to the Boise Temple open house in the morning.  (We are excited that it will be open again soon!  It has been closed for more than a year.)

Claire was looking up at Angel Moroni.

We had a party at home that evening.  She got one of her favorites, chicken nuggets, for dinner and then we opened presents and had cake.

She got a Minnie Mouse doll.  She is rather fond of Minnie Mouse since Mark bought her some Minnie Mouse puzzles when Evan was born.  We do them each multiple times every day. (They are 24 piece puzzles and she has gotten pretty good at them.  Pretty impressive for a two year old I think.)

Her cake was a blue butterfly since she likes both of those things.  If she doesn’t know what color something is her default answer is “boo.”  I don’t think that she ever ate any of the actual cake, she just wanted the marshmallows that were on top.

Our Miss Claire is a smart cookie.  She loves her puzzles, is learning her colors, likes to try and count things (usually two, tree (no one)), loves reading books, likes building with the blocks (especially towers to sit on) and is getting better at talking all the time (Evan=Eh-n, loves, sit down, help=helk, please, come, book=bik, home=hone, walk, stairs, milk=nelk, apple, mouse (for minnie mouse), blanket, pictures, etc.)

Fall

We took the kids out to a farm/corn maze last week.

They had a big slide made out of a pipe.  Claire went down once and that was enough for her (she came out going pretty fast.)

Claire and Mom driving the tractor.

Evan all snuggled in.

They had a big corn box (like a sand box).  Claire enjoyed it.

And she even got partially buried by her dad.  We ended up unintentionally taking some of the corn home with us.

 

Here are some cute pictures of Claire playing in the leaves in our backyard.

Family Pictures

We had Maddie take some family pictures for us when we were down in Utah at the beginning of September.  Here are my favorites.