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.  :)

Sorry Though & Toy Story

Lately when we ask Evan to do something that he doesn't want to, he replies by saying he doesn't want to, followed by, "but sorry though."  I guess that makes it okay in his mind.

Evan is WAY into Toy Story these days.  It's pretty funny because he keeps insisting that his name is Woody.  This weekend he added that Gary is Buzz Lightyear and I am Mommy Buzz Lightyear.  Today he told me that his name is Woody Brian Thompson.  :)  LOL

Honey

Evan is still calling us honey, which I think is just funny since we have never called him that. However, the other day Gary or I called him honey back and he said he's not honey, he's hon. :)

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!