Snow Boy

It snowed some this morning and Evan came in and said he wanted to go outside.  I told him he needed to get out of his pjs and get dressed before he could go out.  He came back a few minutes later and said he was ready to go out.  I looked at him and he had taken off his pjs...but all he had on were his undies and crocs.  I guess putting on your crocs is "getting dressed".  :)

Yesterday when I got Evan up to show him it snowed, he said, ooooo yummy snow, I'll put my shoes on and walk in it. Not sure what yummy has to do with walking, but I'm glad he was excited.  Maybe that's why today he thought he only needed shoes. 

4 Year Old Studio Photos

Evan and I went to Spokane today and had his 4 year old pictures taken at Tot Shots Photo Studio http://www.totshotsphoto.com/.  We had SO MUCH FUN!!!  It was just the photographer and us and she took LOTS of time to get Evan to warm up to her.  She got some great pictures and I'm really glad we went.  These are my favorite 9 photos.  I love all kinds of candid shots, but I really do love studio shots too.  We even did some photos with the orange background, since that is Evan's favorite color.  Probably won't print any of those to frame, but they will make awesome scrapbook pages. 

Volcano Cake Videos...Pictures to Follow

Virtual Party Video

Evan's 4th Birthday Virtual Party

Tonight we had a virtual birthday party with Grandma and Grandpa Thompson.  Evan got some books, clothes and some toys too.  I'm so grateful for the technology of webcams.  It makes it so much easier to include family that lives far from us. 

That's Right, Evan is Turning 4!!!

Not Sure

I'm not sure what to do with the blog!  I'm not sure exactly why I thought it was a good idea to have a "text" blog and a "photo/video" blog...Now I'm really wishing it was just one blog.  I get tired of writing on one and posting photos on the other!!! But, I'm not sure what to do about that. I guess I could just start posting the pictures here on this blog and let the other one be an archive.  I wish there was some way to combine them, but I'm pretty sure that isn't possible.  Well, I guess I'll have to think about tit.  For now, just keep checking both!  :)

2 Dougs...

Tonight when we had prayer Evan said we are grateful Grandma, Sherry and Doug came over.  Then after prayer he said, there are two Dougs...Doug Sherry and Doug Marks!  :) 

Preschool!

How can it possibly be that Evan is old enough to go to preschool?  He has been excited about going, so hopefully when I pick him up later, he'll still be excited.  It was pretty hard to just drop him off with someone I've only met a few times, but I guess this is the beginning of a lot of drop offs.  :)

Evan wanted to wear orange this morning of course!  His classroom door is orange too, so he was excited about that.

Evan picked out his own backpack.  I think it's so funny how huge it is on him!

Cookies

A month or so ago at nap time, Evan told me he wanted his cookies.  I told him he can't have cookies in bed and that maybe he could have one when he woke up.  He got pretty upset and kept saying, I want my cookies, I want my cookies.  I finally just left the room with him screaming.  A few minutes later I realized it was really quiet, so I went to check on him.  He had gotten out of bed and put ALL his stuffed animals in bed with him.  I started putting some of them back and he again started in on the I want my cookies.  For some reason, he was calling the stuffed animals cookies...Who knows why!  The this last weekend, we went to the Bird Aviation and Invention Museum and Gary bought Evan a little plastic bi-plane.  He is now calling that his cookie.  We still can't figure out why he is doing this, but it sure is funny. 

The fact is, Evan likes to call all kinds of things by different names.  Like today, all cars and trucks are fire trucks.  Yesterday all cars and trucks were tractors.  :)