mmmm....French Onion Soup

So, I (Anya) really like French Onion Soup! Yum! I had no idea Evan liked it so much too. He stole my bowl when we were eating at Jason's Deli with my parents.

Little Gardener

Evan helped Grandma and Grandpa in the their garden this summer. He helped dig potatoes.

just some pics from the summer

I've had "blog" on my to-do list for 3 weeks! But, I've been exhausted and nauseous for 3 weeks (just a little side effect of the pregnancy :)

So, I'm just gonna post a few pics from the summer. I've been terrible about even taking pics this summer. We spent most of our days at the pool and I never took a picture!!!

Evan and I made a trip to Salina, KS in July to visit my grandparents. I was thrilled to get this picture of four generations.

My sister and her family were here for the July 4h weekend and Evan and Elsie had a blast playing together. We let them get into a sticky mess enjoying watermelon on the deck. Lots of fun!

Howdy!

cute things Evan said today

I was getting Evan buckled into his car seat and he asked, "Mommy, what are you doing?"

"I'm getting you buckled up."

"Mommy, get in the car, turn it on, it's hot!"

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As I was cleaning the toilets this afternoon Evan says, "Mommy, what are you doing?"

"I'm cleaning the toilets. They are yucky."

"Good job mommy"

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Oh, he also thanked me for washing his hair today.

just reading the menu

We were out for dinner tonight and Evan insisted that he "read" the menu. I wish I would have caught him when he was flipping each page and looking intently at the pictures.

Is it just me or did he grow up overnight? (sigh...)

coming back...I promise

ok friends, I will get back to posting. I promise. The end of June was busy with our vacation to Mexico (without Evan). Then it's been nothing but VBS the past few weeks. VBS ends tomorrow! I've had a blast being on the worship team this week, but I am exhausted. Being pregnant doesn't help the exhaustion either. That's right, I am pregnant!

I'll post new pics of Evan this weekend. The camera is downstairs and I'm not.

just kidding...gonna post a pic from the phone :) Evan was so proud of himself for lining up the cars. LOVE HIM!

CHEESE!

Evan is in the lovely stage of making a "cheese" face whenever the camera is pointed at him...soooo missing that sweet smile in pics lately. Or, he's just not looking. :)

Evan finally met his great-grandpa this week. (My mom's dad) He lives in Mississippi, but was in Kansas for a funeral. I'm pretty sure this will be a cherished pic for years to come.

Evan has spent too much time with Ben Long and is eating lemons...seriously.

One last cheesy pic of Evan at lunch with Micah on Father's day.

looking way too grown up

well, except for the blanket.

Mommy is 30!

I (Anya) celebrated my 30th birthday all week! (thanks to Micah :)

Yesterday we went to my brother's house for a cookout with their family and my parents. Eric and Elizabeth kept Evan for us on Saturday and Sunday so Micah could take me to the Plaza for a surprise party. I had a great birthday week!

Evan is loving the pool this summer. Every day he wakes up and asks me if we are going swimming.

breakfast

One morning last week we asked Evan if he was ready to eat breakfast. He said he wanted "dinner". Ok, Evan what do you want for "dinner"? I want breakfast. Kids really do say the funniest things.

"I ride train with grandpa"

Evan and I headed to Topeka on Saturday to ride the BNSF train with my mom and dad. My Dad works for the railroad and this was a "family special".

Evan just kept saying, "I ride train with grandpa".

Thanks for letting me ride the train with you grandpa.

"Do I get to ride the train?"

We had a hard time getting pictures of Evan actually looking at the camera. There were too many trains to see.

"I ride the train with grandpa"

"train!" I think grandpa was just as excited!

video

I'm having trouble loading a video of Evan. If you are reading this then we are probably friends on Facebook, so head over to my profile to see a video of Evan singing and dancing to Bohemian Rhapsody. Love that boy...he's so funny!

daddy's blackberry pics as promised

Poor kid doesn't even look good, huh?

Evan helping daddy water the flowers.

Evan sitting on the new patio furniture.

cruddy croup :(

Warning...no pics for this post. I know, I know.

It's been an unusually hectic week for me, so I haven't posted anything. Unfortunately it's mostly because I've been home with a sick kiddo. Evan started having fever on Thursday night and just ran fever most of the weekend...even while mamaw and papaw Ansley were here. Poor kid was just not himself.

Then Saturday night he woke up with a terrible cough. He sounded like a seal...so sad. He kind of bounced back a little on Sunday...probably because he spent the whole day with daddy. :) (I was on praise team for church and then I led worship for an all-campus youth event.) Whew...I was exhausted Sunday night.

Early Monday morning the fever was back, and the cough just kept getting worse. So, I took him to the dr. first thing in the morning. Diagnosis: croup. Treatment: tlc and steroids.

Once the steroids kicked in...he was much more comfortable and started acting more like my sweet Evan.

Pics coming soon....thanks to daddy's blackberry.

daddy's caddy

So, potty training went out the window when daddy came home. I was so frustrated because he had done so well for 3 days and them he just stopped. I wasn't mad at him, it was just weird that he completely stopped. So, I decided not to push it and we will just wait and try again later.

Today he's modeling a new shirt...it says "daddy's caddy"

potty training

So, I've been off the grid for a few days because we've been potty training. So much fun :/

Evan and I stayed home for 3 days completely focusing all of our energy on potty training, and it has been pretty successful. Until daddy came home from a business trip and suddenly we are back to square one...well, it feels like it anyway. So, I'm praying for patience and persistence. He did so good for the first few days, so I know he can do it. Plus, he just looks so darn cute in his big boy underwear.

On Saturday before the potty training boot camp started we went the Deanna Rose farmstead with our church. Evan didn't want to have anything to do with feeding the goats, so Micah did it.

I still haven't deleted pics from the camera, so the memory card keeps filling up...meaning I have only a few pics from the farm. However, I did capture a pic of all the adults trying to take pics of the kiddos...made me think about what they see when we are trying to take a pic.

Goodnight

I just kissed my sweet Evan goodnight and sent him to his room with Daddy. Daddy's putting him to bed tonight. Evan ran to his room and said "I read Bible, I read Bible"! (We read from his children's Bible every night before bed.)

Love this kid!

dr. appt for the burn

***Read previous post for story about the burn***

One of the blisters had opened yesterday and Evan pulled the skin away with his teeth...so boy!

So this morning I was concerned about this big blister opening...I called the dr. hoping to just talk to a nurse and she would tell me I was doing everything right. Well, they said they wanted to see him. Evan was perfect for the Dr. He just sat there and let him look at his finger. I was so proud of him.

The Dr. wanted to open the big blister and cut the skin away so that we could "dress" the wound and keep infection away. Evan did great for the nurse, he watched her cut the skin away and only started crying at the very end. He didn't throw a fit, he was just a little scared. It was a proud mommy moment because he was so good.

The nurse put a vaseline bandage on him and wrapped it up...he took it right off. Again, so boy! So, she did it again and he was great. The bandage makes it look way worse than it is, but he looks like a tough boy. Again, I just have to say I am so proud of how he behaved at the Dr.'s office!

Hot chicken 1- Evan 0

Evan learned the hard way that the chicken in the hot pan, directly out of the oven, is indeed HOT! Poor guy burned his fingers pretty bad. He cried for an hour after it happened, but since then he's been a trooper. I'm just hoping it heals ok (and without infection)

We decided he could basically do anything he wanted just to get him to calm down, so Daddy took him for a walk. Yep, he's wearing his pj's!

Evan has been showing interest in using the potty, so I'm going with it when it happens. Today he asked to "go" while we were in the Costco bathroom, and I was so proud of him. They have the auto-flush toilets, and he wasn't freaked out. Woo hoo! Then, he sat on the potty at home and I captured this pic with my phone. Like father, like son :)

funny things Evan has said while praying

• When praying on Monday night he repeated, "Dear God" and then he said "Thank you my cycle, my wagon, my trains. Amen"
• We had lunch with our friends Ryan and Courtney Hill on Easter. So, that night I asked Evan to thank God for them . He repeated Courtney's name fine, but when I said "Ryan" he roared like a Lion. I said no, it's "Ryan"...he roared again. So, thank you God for Courtney and Lion. :)
• We've been praying for our friends Ben and Nicole quite a bit lately so one day last week Evan was persistent. He said, "Thank you mommy, daddy, and Ben" "Nico and Ben and Ben" I said in Jesus' name...."and Ben"

Easter egg hunt in Silver Lake

We went to Silver Lake on Saturday to celebrate Easter with the Goodman's. We had the whole family together including my Grandparents from Salina. All of the kids had a great time playing outside together. Here are a few pics from the Easter Egg hunt...

Neal, Elsie, Evan, and Andrew. It appears as though Elsie and Evan are more interesting in the contents of their eggs.

I was chasing after him trying to get pictures. He was having so much fun!

Nice try uncle Mark...I found it :)

Grandpa was there to help me too...

Evan on his 'nycle

Evan has been enjoying his new tricycle now that the weather has warmed up. He calls it his 'nycle. Today he wanted to try "downhill 'nycle". So, he used the neighbor's steep driveway to go fast and he loved it. This is a video from Micah's phone...sorry if you get motion-sick watching it.

winner winner chicken dinner

I promise that this will not be a constant recap of the days events. However, I am trying to get back into this whole blogging thing...you know, exercise my brain a little. The real challenge would be for me to not use spell check :)

That being said, Evan had chicken for dinner. Not noteworthy in and of itself, but you should have seen how much he ate. He also had a whole banana, some cheerios, a mixed fruit cup.....oh and some cheese. Yeah, he's pretty much a bottomless pit these days. I took a pic with my phone (the memory card from the camera is full) because he just looks so big to me lately. He especially looks big here sitting back with his belly full...so Ansley.

So, it's only been a year

Ok, so I understand that there is probably no one out there reading this anymore. Gee, maybe it's because we haven't posted anything in over a year. Hello! However, I now have this handy-dandy laptop that "should" make it even more convenient for me to keep y'all up-to-date with the Ansley 3 in KC.

Having said this...let's see if I can figure out how to post pics with this thing. Hmmm...

If this works, there should be a new pic of Evan and I (Anya).

In the words of Evan, "i di it"

Mommy is now the author of this blog. Evan has way more important things to be doing...like running, playing with cars, singing with mommy in the car, riding his tricycle...you know, all the cool stuff he can do now that he's 2!

If you are still reading....let me know. It's just nice to know you're out there.