I Love You

Yesterday we were sitting in church and Evan leaned over and said, can I give you a kiss? Well what's a mom to say but of course! So he gave me a kiss on the cheek and then said, I love you. He did this twice. Oh, what a precious boy! I'm so grateful to be his mom!!!

I'm grateful to his biological mom and for the choice she made to place him with us. I always think of her on Mother's day, but even more so yesterday because a young man gave a talk in church that brought her to my mind. He was talking about mother's hands and how they are there right from the start. He said he was grateful for the hands that signed the paper that allowed him to be placed in the hands of another mother. What a wonderful way to look at adoption! I wish more people understood what really goes into the adoption process and how spiritual it really is. In my mind, there really isn't a greater gift someone could give or receive. So, I will keep praying that Evan's biological mom will know how grateful we are and how much she means to us, even though we never got to tell her so in person.

Scared Boogers

Tonight when we knelt down for prayer, Evan had a runny nose. Here is the conversation that ensued.

Evan - I need a kleenex.
Gary - We'll get one after prayer.
Evan, after sniffing really loud - I scared the booger away.
All - laughing hysterically, thus encouraging more statements like the above.

Fun, Fun, Fun!!!

Mobile Blog

So, I figured out you can send posts to your blog from a cell phone. :) I'm excited about this because it seems like quite often Evan comes up with his funniest things when we are in the car or at the store. I always forget what it was when I go to write it later! Now I can just use my phone to post. Of course I can only use 160 characters, but that's okay. So, I'll probably be posting more now. :)

pbskids dot Oregon

"Mom there are great dancing songs on pbskids dot oregon." Pretty sure he meant pbskids.org! :)

Some Funnies

Last night Gary and I were watching TV and Evan said, "you better turn of the TV or else you won't be able to watch TV." I could just hear myself, you better pick up those toys or you won't be able to watch Dinosaur Train. Then when we didn't turn it off, he said, "uh oh", which is exactly what we say when he isn't listening to us. :)

This morning his response to every request I have made is, "that's not the way we talk."

Just now he came up to me and said, "Mom, you're not bossy." I said, "are you bossy?" His reply, "yes, I'm bossy." I think he was trying to tell me, you're not the boss of me, but just combined it into bossy, because then he told me I wasn't the boss of Garrett, his friend. :)

What a funny, funny boy!

Large Chocolate Milk Please

The other day Evan and I were out running errands. Our first stop was the bank. When we pulled up to the window he said, "I'll have a large chocolate milk please." Quickly followed by, "I mean a sucker." :) Sorry to say this is an indication of how much we use the drive-thru!

So Grown Up

Evan was assigned to give the scripture in primary today. I ended up reading most of it, but he did help with the last couple sentences and the reference. I think he thought it was pretty cool to talk through the microphone. He's just getting so grown up!

Yesterday Evan went in the bathroom and went to the potty by himself twice! It was fun to see how excited he was as we celebrated his success with him. It's kind of funny because he won't tell us when he needs to go, so we were very surprised that he just went in there himself. We still have a way to go though, because no luck today. :)

Evan's Latest Funnies

Happy New Year - Hal Lee Noon Nyear.

For some reason Evan has latched on to the word buttocks and just won't let it go! We try to not laugh or respond to it, but he still keeps at it. Sunday morning he crawled into bed with us and started singing, Jingle buttocks, jingle buttocks.... Later at church when he started singing Jingle Bells, I was preparing myself to be mortified at him singing jingle buttocks again. Luckily he didn't!

Last night Evan was at the dining room table and we heard him talking to everything that was there, hi chex, how are you, hi lightening, how ya doing... What a funny boy!

Evan is still calling me honey every now and again. Do you want this car honey? What's wrong honey? It's okay honey. :)

If you ask Evan to do something again, he'll say, I just really did, I just really did. I guess already sounds like really.

A New Year!!!

Well, here it is 2010 and I keep thinking about all the pictures I never posted from Evan's birthday through Christmas, so I'm going to do that today. Also, I've been checking out all our friends blogs and I'm inspired by them being on the ball! It seems like once you get behind, it's harder and harder to sit down and catch up. I probably won't post as many pictures as I would have if I was caught up, but I'll at least give a sampling.

New Photos

Okay, I'm a bit behind, but I did get some photos up on the photo blog. Still to come...Halloween and Birthday. :)