Go away Allergies

Since the weather has been so crazy, both Jasen and Evan have been having really bad allergies. After a couple months of taking medication and getting better, Jasen came down with bronchitis. Then, Evan caught a cough and that turned into asthma like symptoms. Evan was prescribed his own breathing treatment machine and steroids and antibiotics, and no going outside. Of course this would happen when all the snow has gone and it has turned 80 degrees. I feel so bad, he stares out the back window and says "outside", but he can't go. He is a trooper and sits well with his little mask on and Jasen is letting him have all the juice and popsicles he wants. I'm just glad the snow is gone!

New Camera with Video!

My wonderful husband bought me a new camera and it takes pretty good video. Evan was eating some cantaloupe and I tried out the video and this is what happened.

Duck Pond

It was finally nice weather out, even though it was cloudy. We were running some errands which brought us to Downtown Fort Worth, so we took Evan to the Trinity Park duck pond. There were lots of ducks, but the birds would go swooping into the pond and the ducks would fly away. But Evan had fun shaking the chain fence and picking up leaves. Jasen got to take a lot of photos of Evan running around and playing in the leaves. So glad its almost Spring!

Finger Paints

After reading my 16 month old email, it told me that babies Evans age would know how to hold a crayon and use finger paints. The recipe was simple; 2 cups of flour, 2 cups of cold water, mix well, separate and add food coloring. I had red, green, blue and yellow and laid out some white paper and put out some newspaper for the excess mess. I set out the bowls of paints and showed Evan what to do.
Evan stuck his hand into the paints and it dripped on the paper and was off to a good start.

Then he got into more of the colors and just mushed his hand around and mixed colors, still nothing really painted on the white paper.

Evan likes to stack and pour things out so after he was done sticking his hand in the paint, he started to pour all the paints into the big bowl and then stacked the smaller bowls into the big bowl, over and over, and over.

Naturally after all the paint was in the big bowl and the project was coming to an end, Evan picked up the big bowl and dumped it over. We didn't end up with a masterpiece, but he got messy, and had a lot of fun.

I think the finger paint recipe needs a little tweaking to make it a bit thicker, but as a first try it was a success. Hopefully next time we can get something to hang on the fridge.

Welcome 2010

We actually had a white Christmas this year! We braved the icy/snowy roads to spend Christmas Eve in Dallas with Jasen's family and the usual 45 minute drive took us 2 and half hours! We really should have turned around after we slid on the ice after we turned the corner in our neighborhood, but we safely made it there. Evan was not feeling well but he put on a brave face to enjoy opening up all his Christmas goodies. Here is a picture of Evan enjoying some of the snow we had. He didn't like it much at first, but after a few minutes he picked some up and even ate a small snowball he made.

The week after Christmas, we got another round of snow, it didn't last as long, but the sun was out and Evan was feeling much better. This one photo is my favorite, plus he was in his little track suit my mom found at a garage sale, so 80's.

This last picture is Evan in his daddy's Halloween wig. We were getting ready to head over to my dad's for a tasty turkey New Years Eve dinner, when Evan found the wig laying in the closet. He also loves shaking the tic tacs.

Happy New Years!

Christmas Photos

Here are a couple of pictures Jasen took to send in our Christmas cards to family. He was very excited to be outside before the big Blizzard of 2009 came blowing our way.

Brrrr

Since it was cold today, Evan,who's 15 months now, got to try out his peacoat from his great-grandma. It only took 1 try to get a picture. I thought he looked really cute, but we had to come in because we were getting red noses!