Evan pooped on the potty!
He did it! Jerry and I almost cried, we were so happy. Evan looked so proud of himself. He has been giggling all night. Yay Evan!

Evan's sweet side
Evan has been extremely, doubly-challenging lately, so I thought I would post his sweet side. He does have one. It comes out sometimes.

Me: Ow, I hurt my foot.
Evan (looking extremely concerned, tilting head to side, furrowed brow): Owwww, mommy, are you ok?
Me: Yes, I think so.
Evan: Ooooohhhhhh, can I kiss it? Here, let me kiss it. There go.

Evan (from the backseat): Mommy, yook! Yook! The moon is moving with us! See the moon?
Me: Yes, it looks like it is moving with us because it is so far away.
Evan (thinks about this for awhile): But I am getting even bigger, and then I can kiss it.

Evan (falls off chair): Owwww, mommy! I hurt myself!
Me: Are you OK?
Evan: No, can you kiss it?
Me: Where does it hurt?
Evan: On my butt, right here. Can you kiss it?

Later... I give Evan a random kiss and hug.
Evan: I love you too.

Other quotes
Evan (to the Safeway checker): Hi, my name is Evan. I am three. I use the potty. I have a baby brother named Isaac. I am getting bigger and bigger.

Me: Nana and papa are coming here for Thanksgiving in a few weeks.
Evan: Can they come right now?
Me: No, they will come in a few weeks.
Evan: Oh. They have get ready first?
Me: Yes, and they have to wait for their train to arrive.

Jerry: Evan, let's watch a movie.
Evan (seeing what Jerry is putting on the TV): Shrek?
Jerry: Actually, Shrek II.
Evan: How 'bout Donkey III?

Me: Are you going to sleep with nana's blanket tonight?
Evan: No, it's a quilt, mommy.

At our Halloween party last Saturday, Evan developed a major crush on the very pretty, very tall 6 year-old blonde who lives across the street. He expressed this love by chasing her all over the house and growling at her like a tiger (naturally). She locked herself in the bathroom to get away from him, so he growled loudly under the door. When I realized what was happening, I took him upstairs and had the "you really should not growl at girls" talk, followed by, "when girls run away from you, you should let them be" talk, followed by the "people really want to go potty in peace" talk. He was so upset, he fell onto the ground and sobbed. "I want see her."

Isaac's only side: sweet
Isaac is sweet all the time! Then again, he is only 7 months. This morning, Jerry had him on the floor and Jerry waved hi to him. Isaac took both his hands and slowly waved back, opening and closing his little fists, staring intently at his daddy.

We went to a restaurant today, and he was sitting next to me in the high chair. He wanted me to hold him, so he leaned in toward me, made little noises, and opened and closed his two fists. Aw.

He is more affectionate than ever before. He still gives open-mouthed kisses on our cheeks. When he looks at me, he says, "mum mum mum." I have never told him that I am mom, so I am not sure how he knows this.

He loves his light blue teddy bear, which is very soft. Right before I put him in his crib, I hold the bear next to his face. He gets a big smile when he sees it, and nuzzles his face in the bear's face.

He often forms his lips in a perfectly straight line. I'm not sure why he does it, but it is sooooo cute!

He still adores Evan. He practically goes crazy with happiness whenever he sees him. Sometimes Evan sorta acts like the cool kid, like he doesn't really notice him.

7 months

All healthy, and pulling himself up
Isaac is all better now. He had a cold for about a week, and then what I'm guessing was the flu for a few more days. It was the first time he really cried and was fussy and miserable. It was heartbreaking to see a little baby so sick.

But now he is great. His favorite things are pulling my glasses off my face, getting loud kisses on his cheeks, tickles under his ribs and on his feet, any attention paid to his feet, balloons (such joy!!!), watching Evan play or being in his presence at all, dropping items from his high chair and then leaning over to look at them on the ground, taking baths, when I say "dadada" and he sticks his fingers on the backs of my teeth (hilarious!), and crawling on top of me while I lie on the floor.

Yesterday he pulled himself up to a standing position. I was with him in his bedroom, and he saw a Thomas train on the toddler bed, and he pulled himself up to reach it. He didn't even realize he did it. His feet were positioned really weird and he was barely hanging on, so he is still pretty far from doing this regularly... though he did do it again today. I was lying on the floor, and he pulled himself to a standing position while holding onto me, with a big crooked grin on his face as if to say, "Ha! I am taller than you!"

Evan is doing great, but his threes are harder than his twos. He is very sassy. He says "no" to our requests in the naughtiest voices ever. Sometimes he makes annoying boy noises just to drive us crazy. The other day I asked him to stop, he said no, and I went to threaten him with a time-out, and then realized Isaac was leaning forward, smiling at Evan like those noises were the funniest thing ever, and Evan was looking at him as if to say, "I know! Isn't it great?"

A bad day for my baby boy

Isaac has had a cold for a week or so, and today his fever went up, he threw up a few times, and his ear was all red. I thought he might have an ear infection, so I took him into urgent care. They ruled out an ear infection, sinus infection, or chest cold. She said that since he had a high fever, she wanted to check for a bladder infection, and they had to do a catheter to diagnose that.

It was horrible. I've never seen him cry so badly. In the end, she said his pee was clear so it is probably nothing. We won't know for sure for 3 days, so she is starting him on antibiotics just in case. He most likely has a bad cold or flu.

Now he is upstairs sleeping peacefully in bed. He will probably sleep all night after all that stress. I'm still a nervous wreck. I hated to see him like that.

On a positive note, here are some cute picts of my boy.










See the baby cleavage?

Isaac's 7-month checkup

Other than a bad cold, he is healthy. Here are his stats:

Weight: 20 lbs, 2 oz (75th %)
Height: 28 inches (80th %)
Head: 18 inches (80th %)

He had to have some shots and cried a bit, but only for 10 seconds.

jerry test 2

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My sweet boy

7 months
Isaac is becomming very affectionate. First he was just discovering his world, passively lying around and staring at things. Then he learned how to grab and was solely occupied with getting his hands on everything around him (still true), but now he seems to be realizing that I exist and that I am actually sorta cool. He is so sweet.
Today he was sitting in the chair that attaches to the table with all the big kids. He was watching them mix blueberry muffin mix, and then I realized he was looking at me from across the room. I went and sat down next to him. He immediately put his arms out, cupped my face, and brought his open mouth to my cheek to plant a wet one on me. I was touched. I then picked him up and carried him around for about an hour. I thought it was sweet that he didn't cry for me, but he did wait patiently and then let me know in his own way that he loved me and wanted to be held.

Evanisms

Evan (playing with trains): Diesel is pretending to be a freight car.
Me: Isn't Diesel already a freight car?
Evan: No... Diesel is an engine.

Evan: E-V-A-N, Evan. (He can spell his name now).

Me: You need to start going poop on the potty.
Evan: Next time.
Me: No, how about this time?
Evan: Next week.

Isaac
My very laid-back, reluctant-to-cry baby who can bump his head, feel great hunger, and hear kids scream without shedding a tear, has found something to cry about. Keys. Whenever he gets a hold of my car keys and then I have to take them away, he cries so hard that his lower lip quivers and I can actually still hear his newborn cry in his voice -- the kind of cry where he is so upset, he can barely catch his breath. I'm trying very hard to not let him see the keys so that we don't have to go through that whole thing.

Learning letters... and saying MUM

Evan has just started recognizing letters. Today we passed a sign that said WAFFLE HOUSE and he said, "Yook, yook! E for Evan on dat sign. Two E's for Evan on dat sign!" Then we passed a car that said SENIORS on the back window, and he said, "Yook! Yook at back of dat car, on dat window, it says E for Evan!!"

He also points out "A for Austin" (his best friend), and knows B, C, S, and U. Sometimes he says things like, "S for snake... ta ta snake." So he doesn't quite get the phonics thing yet. It is funny.

This morning he told me, "Planet goes... planets go around the sun in a circle, yike dis [one hand is a fist and a finger from other hand goes around it]." Then he added, "The sun is very very hot." I asked, "Who told you that?" "Daddy, when we were upstairs in my room, yesterday." (Yesterday could mean any time not in the present.)

Aw, he's learning stuff.

Today we had this discussion:
Me: "Who is your best friend?"
Evan: "Austin."
Me: "Who is your second best friend?"
Evan: "Mommy."
Me: "Ok. Who is your third best friend?
Evan: "Cars."

Isaac is doing great. He is still scooting around, semi-crawling with his tummy rubbing the ground. Although it looks nice in a baby book to say the baby crawled at this extremely early age and isn't he a genius, I really hope he is a late crawler and a late walker. It will make my life so much easier. :)

When Isaac eats in his high chair, he makes his lips form a perfectly straight horizontal line, and while looking at me, says, "mum mum mum." It is terribly cute.

He goes down to sleep so easily. Every 2 1/2 hours I just carry him upstairs, give him his green stuffed hippo, sway back and forth for about 10 seconds, and stick him in his crib. I am so lucky/happy that he goes to sleep quickly on his own. I couldn't watch daycare kids if he needed to be rocked for 10 minutes. He has started waking up at night, though. At three months he started sleeping 11 hours at a time, but now, because he gets too distracted to breastfeed during the day, has started waking every 3-4 hours to breastfeed at night. It is tiring, but I know he'll only be little a little while longer, so I can deal with it. He's worth a little sleep deprivation.

Feedback

Evan just asked if I knew that seeds where inside of grapes and that seeds make flowers. I said, "Yes, I'm aware of such things, but who told you?"
"Mommy."

A new phase

Evan just asked me the first question that I had a hard time answering. I sat him down with a glass of milk and some red grapes for a snack. He's eating the grapes and twiddlefarting around like usual then out of the blue he says, "Daddy, what's inside grapes?"
"Grapes are inside grapes"
He bites one in half, "ooooh. Boogers."
"No, those aren't boogers, those are seeds..." and I try to tell him how seeds are the start of a plants life and so on. At the end of my professing I ask if this made sense and he said, "uh-huh."

I'm not convinced. Tomorrow I'll be better prepared, only thing, he'll probably never ask what is insisde of a grape again.