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Who is this cute little baby girl? Oh wait....it's Evan :) His face is always covered in hair so it was funny to see what his face looked like with it out of his face. 

Pics from June.

Err...June? Dude I am so behind. Oh well. Here is a cute one of my little Ev-ster and my sweet hub-ster.



The biggest news of all? Levi started doing the dishes....SCORE!!

 

Pennsylvania!

This post is only 3 months late!

We went to visit our Amish friend Abner and family for his annual customer appreciation day. It was lovely. Once again....I edited pics on my laptop and on my regular computer they look a little....well...edited. Oops. Oh well, I'm not a pro.


Cute little chickie....too bad we will be eating you soon. 

 

Love this feisty little girl. (her not me.)

The greenhouse....it is HUGE! I would love to have something like this someday!
Levi and Xan are officially BFF's...phew! It only took 3 years! But they've taken an oath. Xan said "Let's pinky promise to be best friends forever" Love it!

Muscles!!

Since Levi is older he is naturally teaching Xan all he knows about vegetables.

Yum!

 

Am I good or what? ;) (that's a winky face which means that I am kidding fyi...but I still think it's a pretty good pic)

 

 

 

We stumbled upon a demolition derby that started at 7 so to kill some time we rode go carts!

 

Oh my goodness, he is too cute!

Awesomeness. 

And so cool that my white trash baby fit right in with the event. 

Eggs

The top eggs are my free roaming, low grain fed (they eat mostly bugs), no soy eggs from the Amish. These are bright orange with clear whites.Below are organic eggs from the store. Paler yolks and cloudy whites. No contest for me. Plus mine are $1 cheaper!

A visit

Gramma "Dubbie" and Papa came to visit! The kids love their grandparents SO much and had lots of fun with them. We hardly took any pictures, but here is a good idea of why.


Squirmy baby

 

Perfect. Oh wait Elyse has satan eyes.


This is Levi's face for when he doesn't believe you like "Kass...c'mon"

We are 0 for 4. But at least their visit is documented!


Here are some sweet ones with Gramma and Evan.

 

 

 

Dance Parade

We stumbled upon this dance parade that went through the east village. I love that you can just stumble upon something so awesome! It was quite the spectacle!


When we saw this woman Elyse said that maybe we should say "excuse me ma'am, but did you realize that your underwear is showing" or "ma'am did you know that I can see your bum?" It is so fun having an older daughter to joke around with. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now this. This was my favorite part. Over the past couple of years I have seen this man randomly in the city and I have never been able to get a picture. I was thrilled that he was there today. And no, he is not dressed up for the dance parade. These are his everyday clothes. 

 

 

And he doesn't just walk....he sashays!

 

So I normally don't post porno pics but I couldn't resist this one. Oh what? You mean she's not naked? You could've fooled me. Her bottoms were so low.....

They had this cool "ice rink" that was made out of plastic, not a lot of room for the girls to skate so I feared a collision, but really cool. 

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!!