Happy Birthday Evan!!

It is hard for me to believe that one year has gone by since Evan was born and I was doing  this http://thecrunchyapples.blogspot.com/2011/08/birth-of-baby-anderson.html . For the first few months after he was born I would think about pushing him out (the hardest part for me) and think....youch! Now all I can remember was the beauty and joy I felt when he arrived. Evan's birth was an amazing experience for us all....I can't wait to do it again! (hopefully no time soon though :)

This year has just FLOWN by! It is so sad how fast time goes especially when I feel like I'm not enjoying every second like I should be. I feel like he should just barely be rolling over!

Some cute things Evan does: He started walking the first week of August. He took steps for about 7 weeks and finally just took the leap. And he goes non stop. Like the energizer bunny. It's fun, but exhausting! He says Nigh Nigh for nursing (which I call night nights...ok he said it one time but that counts right?) he says dada, ba and can I please have some more. Well not so much the last one, for that he just screams like a banshee** and as a banshee expert, let me tell you they scream LOUD! And since he has a hollow leg and eats non stop we hear this screaming a lot! To help him stop the screams I started tapping his mouth lightly, and he fake cries...ha! I say that he has a hollow leg because I don't know where else the food could possible go, he is SO skinny! He weighs about 20lbs but he is just so petite...I love it! The bonus of this is that he has been wearing all of the same clothes for months which is great :) He is quite the little babbler. I can usually pick out some real words in his babbling so we always joke that he is a genius baby ;)

**Side note: What is a Banshee? Is it actually something? Or is it a mythical creature that my lovely older sister (who shall remain nameless. But since I only have one older sister it shouldn't be too hard to guess who it is) made up to compare me to?

Notice how I did not put that he says Ma.....so so sad :(  He loves raw milk and raw goats milk (if I make it like egg nog because if you've ever had goats milk you know how....goaty it is) He loves to go out and if the door gets left open he will high tail it to the elevator! He is obsessed with the bathroom and will do anything to get in there and splash in the toilet. If we accidentally leave the door open he will pause at the door and wait for us to see him then he squeals and bolts in. He loves to dance and will start to bounce with any music and even a beat. The other day he was doing squats to the beat....that's our boy!! He loves Levi, I mean LOVES him! And Levi loves Evan. If Levi is freaking out and he accidentally bumps him he'll stop his screaming and say "oh sorry buddy" or if he sees Evan doing something cute he'll stop his crying and laugh and say "oh Evan that's so cute" If you even mention Dada he starts to get all frantic and excited...he loves his dad! He doesn't really play with toys at all because he is just too busy checking everything else out.

Evan has made me so excited to have more kids. I don't know if it's because I'm older and more mature or what but I just appreciate every little thing about this kid. He is just so sweet and cute and lovely. Happy Birthday my sweet little boy!

Day 1


Month 1

Month 2

Month 3

Month 4

5 months. Crawling NBD (no big deal) and 6 teeth all in one month....super fun!

Chillaxin at Mia's pool

 

7 months standing!

 

9 months look at his teensy hips!Wish mine were that small...sigh.

 

10 months
This might be a face that only a mother could love, but we just think he is SOO cute! Sometimes we just laugh at how cute he is! Seriously I could just gobble him up!!