- Clothes – size 9mo and up – she likes Old Navy a lot too!
- Shoes – size 12mo and up – she likes Robeez or any other comfy, won’t come off too easily shoe. (You can find Robeez at a lot of baby stores and other cheaper online locations like Amazon or Ebay)
- Baby Food Mill – for example, this one
- Books – big chuncky ones that she can’t tear the pages out and can chew on
I think I’m making this fairly easy this year . . .
- Amazon Gift Card: I’m saving for a Roomba
- Old Navy Gift Card
- Trader Joe’s Gift Card
- The new ipod Shuffle: P.S. Jon gets an educators discount as does any student/teacher type person.
- Kitchen Shears
- Cast Iron Skillet
- A good tubberware set
Here it is, Evan’s wish list for Christmas.
- Trampoline
- Outdoor Toy Box
Hockey Stick- Thomas the Tank Engine Stuff
- Dominos
- 2007 Calendar
- Cars movie toys
- Curious George DVD
- A Pony
- Soccer Ball
- A Farm for animals
- Lincoln Logs
- Clothes – size 5 pants (NOT 5T), xs or small shirts/sweatshirts, size 1 shoes
- Lowe’s Gift Cards
- Barnes and Nobel Gift Cards
Here it is in all it’s glory, feel free to browse and buy, you can send orders directly to my house! Michelle and the Kids lists are coming soon.
I am a particularly proud Mama right now.
Evan has now learned how to ride his bike without training wheels. Well, to be honest, with one training wheel. But he doesn’t even actually ride on it, it is more of a mental thing for him right now, he doesn’t want to take it off yet. To me this is a big milestone and makes him so much more grown up.
Emma is now walking, and when I say walking I mean actually across rooms walking. She took her first steps during her 8th month and has progressed to this walking thing faster than I had planned. It is so cute, but more work as along with her confidance in walking, her confidance in climbing has increased. We can’t keep her off the couch, and she hasn’t quite figured out the climing down thing yet.
Hopefully, Jon will peel himself away from his new laptop (I’m sure he’ll have something glowing to say about that experience) to put up pictures of both these things and maybe even some video. So everybody ask really nicely . . Pretty Please Jon?
While taking Evan to school the other day, someone cut me off, only to immediatly start braking to get over to the next lane. Now, I don’t have much of an issue with being cut off as long as you go on your merry way and don’t bother me anymore. As this driver was slowing down, I get a good look at him and notice he is a teenager. So I do the very adult thing and shout something about needing to learn to drive better and punctuated it with a “KID!” Yes, I called someone “kid” who was not actually my child. As this reality slowly sunk in, I started laughing at myself and thinking, “How stupid that I called him kid, I’m not that much older than him, probably only . . . about . . . oh crap . . . 10 years . . . 10 YEARS?!?!” When did this happen? Am I actually now allowed to call teenagers kids?
This one was too good to pass up, I had to write it down here before I forgot. We were at my mom’s for dinner and i was telling her about Evan’s latest Words of Wisdom:
Me: “Evan said ‘Let’s Jizz-O’”
Na Na: What’s that mean?”
Me: “You know, Fo Shizzle My Nizzle, it’s Off the Hizzy for Shizzy my Nizzy?”
Na Na: “Oh… is that Dr. Seuss?”
Jen: “NO! It’s Snoop Dog!”
Me: “What do you think about Texas?”
Michelle: “Why would you want to move to Texas?”
Me: “Cheap housing, we could get a new big house.”
Evan: “PO! We can’t get a new house in Texas, it would be too far away from my school!”
Do NOT nurse Emma when she is frustrated.
She has teeth now.
OUCH
Here are some pics of the kids from Halloween. This is becoming an increasingly difficult holiday to plan for now that Evan is getting older and we have a house in a good neighborhood where a lot of kids come to trick or treat. This is the first year Evan has cared a little bit about what he wants to dress up as. They had a party at school but it was a Farm Party, not a Halloween Party, so certain costume restrictions were applied. When given the choices he decided he wanted to be a cow. When I couldn’t find any cow costumes, he decided he could be a pumpkin. Being the great mother I am, he made a great cowboy! Emma’s costume was an Evan recycle, but who cares, she is too darn cute!
