"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!