Dancing With "Man"

Here's Evan and Spider Man dancing to the amazingly talented Elmo.

Man!

Evan's Uncle Craig gave him this cool Spider Man figure, who is almost as tall as Evan is! Evan calls him "Man" and hauled him all around the house all afternoon. He even wanted Man to eat lunch with him. He was wearing his Marvel Comics t-shirt yesterday and pointed to the Spider Man on his shirt, and then to his action figure, and said "Two Man!"

Excuse Me!

Sometimes the most random things will totally crack Evan up. Yesterday, it was me saying "Excuse me." I love his laugh here, as well as his own unique pronunciation of the word "excuse." So cute!

Too Big for Public Changing Tables

Evan and I went to the mall today and I took him into the restroom at the BabyGap to change his diaper, like I've done for the last two years. But something wasn't quite right today...



I guess it's time to start thinking about Potty Training. Ugh...

Stomping and Sword-Wielding

Fruit Basket

I bought Evan this set of fake fruit last Saturday and he's been playing with them everyday since. He's also learned some new words in the process. He can name the apple ("abble,") the banana ("manna"), the orange ("ownge") and the peach ("putch") and can tell you that the pear is green ("geen") and the plum is "purple" ("poople"). As for the strawberries, he likes to hold both of them up and tell you that there are "Two!" As for the lemon, he calls it a "football" and said "No, no Da-Da, football!" when Tom tried to tell him it was called a lemon.

Evan's Toy Collection

The other night, Evan emptied out one of his little toy baskets and then brought each of the toys to me, one by one. Each time he'd hand me one, he'd say "Here go, Mama!" I lined each of the toys up in neat rows on the floor, and when he'd finished bringing me toys, he inspected what I'd done and said "No, no Mama" and knocked them all down and then scattered them around. Apparently he prefers chaos.