Even More Evan

When I said the boy could fall asleep anywhere, I meant it. Here he is sitting on a barstool eating an orange. Audrey found him like this and I didn't believe her when she relayed the situation, but she was telling the truth. He must have been really tired. A couple of days ago we were playing outside and I told Evan not to pick the flowers, but he did anyway. I then told him we needed to go inside and put the flowers he wasn't supposed to pick in water. He said okay and ran into the house. This is what I found a few minutes later (sorry for the potty picture). He did what I told him to do. I guess next time I will be more specific.

Everything Evan

Here are a few things you should know about Evan.
1. He loves baseball and soccer. Recently he turned 2 and we celebrated with a baseball cake. It was much easier to make than a soccer ball.
2. He can fall asleep anywhere including while eating and standing on his head.

3. He loves to help. Two jobs he likes to help with are husking the corn and setting the table. The first time I asked him to help husk the corn it did not occur to me that he would eat it before it had been cooked. He also just likes to put any condiments he can get out of the fridge onto the table.
4. He has the cutest face. This is one of my favorite looks he gives.
5. He LOVES his new baby sister.
6. He is rarely dressed normal. He likes to wear pajamas all day. Sometimes only his pajama pants. Sometimes he likes to wear my shower cap.
7. He likes stickers and he likes to put stickers all over his body.

My Side of the Story

Hello. I was born on June 8, 2010 and I weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces. My name is Alivia Delyn. It took my parents two days in the hospital to finally decide that this is what my name should be and already my mom is wondering if they made the right choice. I went to the doctor's office for the first time last week; here is how the conversation with the receptionist went down:
Receptionist: "What is her name?"
My Mom: "Alivia, A-L-I-V-I-A"
Receptionist: "Wait, what? The first letter is an A? Start over please."
My Mom: "A-L-I-V-I-A"
Receptionist: "Oh, okay. What is her middle name?"
My Mom: "Delyn."
Receptionist: "Um...I'll just put a D."
We finally got to see the doctor after waiting over an hour. He took a look at my name and said, "that's interesting, why did you spell it starting with an A?" I also had to get my heel pricked so they could check my jaundice level and the phlebotomist asked the same question. Apparently I cry funny too because at my next visit when they pricked my heel and I started to cry, the phlebotomist said, "well that is an interesting sound. Most newborns sound like cats when they cry, but hers is definitely unique. I can't really tell what she sounds like." For the first visit I was dressed in a pink onesie and three people asked my mother "how old is he?" I can't figure out why any parent would put their baby boy in pink clothes and if you don't know the gender of the child, you could simply say, "how old is your baby?" Problem solved.
I am growing. Apparently it just isn't fast enough as I have to go back to the doctor next week to get my weight checked. Hopefully by then I will weigh 8 pounds 5 ounces.
I have a fair amount of hair, most of it is on the back of my head.


Right now I do a lot of sleeping and eating. That pretty much takes up the entire day.

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All about Audrey.
I can't sleep. I have heartburn still after taking five tums and my feet are hurting because they are so swollen, but this post isn't about me. It is all about Audrey. Audrey has had quite a bit going on lately and I keep meaning to post about it all, so here it is. She went to the doctor for her five year check up and to get three more shots so she can start kindergarten in the fall. She did not cry when she got her shots, she screamed. She is tall and skinny; she was in the 76th percentile for height and the 16th percentile for her weight. This picture has nothing to do with her doctor visit, I just really like it.
Next she had her first birthday party with her friends. We had it two weeks before her birthday just in case her little sister made an early arrival. Apparently we didn't need to worry so much since her birthday is now past and still no sister. She had a lot of fun playing games, getting candy from the pinata, opening presents, and eating cake.


Next she had her preschool graduation. She didn't quite understand that graduation means you never go back. The following week she was upset she didn't get to go to preschool. Then she figured it out and really wanted to start kindergarten instead. She is now very upset that she has to wait so long to start kindergarten. It could be a long summer.

Finally Audrey had her second birthday party with the fam. It was really a party for Evan too, but hopefully I'll blog about him later. Again Audrey enjoyed opening presents and eating her big ding dong cake. It is hard to believe she is now five and will start going to the "big school" in the fall.

Rough Week

It all started two Saturdays ago, Evan and Audrey were watching a movie and Evan tripped over Audrey's legs and hit his face on the corner of the armoire. Well at least we are assuming this is what happened. The only eye witness is four and she doesn't like to get in trouble. Whatever happened, Evan cried for about an hour and this is what he had to show for it.
Two days later we were out delivering invitations for Audrey's birthday party and Evan was running on the cement and tripped and got a nice scrape on the other side of his face. As if that weren't enough, later that night he fell down three stairs and got a nice carpet burn down his nose as evidenced in this picture.
Also if you look very carefully in the first picture, he has a tiny scrape on his forehead. He got this by running into a corner in the hallway. Luckily that injury wasn't any worse. The wall definitely got the worst of that mishap (just a few days after I had finished all of my touch up painting). Now I shall have to get out the paint again one day. Oh well. You would probably like to know that Evan is healing nicely and there is little proof left of his rough week.

Little time to sleep in FL

Well we have been home from our vacation now for about a month, so it is probably about time I posted some pictures. Audrey is very glad that these two got married so close to DisneyWorld (those are her words, not mine). She (and the rest of us) all had a great time at the wedding and now Audrey would also like to get married in Florida one day.
We were able to spend a little bit of time on the beach. It didn't take long for Audrey to get soaked even though the water only came up to her ankles.

Colby's favorite part of the vacation was probably going to an Astro's spring training games against the Blue Jays. We had to leave early, but luckily we saw all of the scoring that took place. Of course while we were there, we went to Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Animal Kingdom. We really had a lot of fun and especially enjoyed spending time with family. Audrey had a lot of fun on the rides she was tall enough for and sometimes cried when she wasn't tall enough. She wants to go back in four years since she figures she will be able to go on every single ride then. Hopefully we will one day go back and hopefully I will get to join her on the rides; I will say it was a bit disappointing not being able to go on most of the rides since Sparkles is occupying my belly.

Audrey also enjoyed meeting the characters and getting their autographs in her book.


We also spent a short amount of time at Downtown Disney where we got some food and Audrey and Evan climbed on the statues. Not surprisingly Buzz was the clear favorite for Evan at least.

On the plane ride home, everybody slept but me. That is how it usually seems to go around here. Really I should say the plane ride to Denver. Once we got to Denver, we stayed there much longer than anticipated. Our flight was cancelled due to snow and we ended up sleeping (I use this word loosely) on the floor of the airport. Not fun.

Fifteen hours later than anticipated we finally made it back and I have no desire to get on an airplane anytime soon seeming as next time we will have three children to chase after.

Eas(y)ter

It is hard to believe I haven't posted anything about Easter yet. You might especially be surprised when you find out I only took one picture; it's pretty sad. I was too busy following Evan around to make sure that he found things and put them in his basket. After he found the first egg, he just wanted to open it and eat what was inside. He needed lots of encouragement to find more so that Audrey didn't get them all. We also did other Eastery stuff like dye eggs and make sugar cookies, but I of course didn't take pictures. Here is the one picture I did take.