Don't let that cute smile fool you, Scott is in a lot of pain right now. We spent over 3 hours at the ER tonight, and all they did was prescribe a bunch of pain killers, anti-inflammatory and that sort of thing, which haven't done much to help yet. He's got some serious back pain going on.
Long term strategies include heading back to the gym, back exercises and some professional chiropractic help.

The Day's Events

Today Evan, grandma Terry and I went to the Whoop-up Days fair. (Scott's in Edmonton doing a wedding for a friend of ours.) It was a great time. Evan's fun times include the ponies (he saw them, didn't ride them), the bumble bee ride and his first taste of cotton candy. He won a few little prizes and I bought him a blow up toy called the "Martian masher" which he used to hit himself repeatedly in the head and, occasionally, attack me as well.
Then all three of us rolled around in the couch cushions on the floor, ate pizza, generally had a great day together. The weather here is still great, very warm. Last night Evan slept with me in the big bed - thanks to that I got to sleep in until the very late hour of 9am (it would have been 7am otherwise.) It was a pretty great day.

Missing Thailand

Evan in one of his 'tropical' shirts. I've got a collection of summer clothes in various bigger sizes from Thailand. No winter clothes for him though... there's not a lot of winter in the tropics. We'll have to do some shopping soon.
Every time another batch of my family goes back to Thailand I get a little homesick. I miss the food, the weather, the people, all of it. Canada's a great country, but there's no place like home.

Couch Time

Evan and Auntie Esther enjoy some couch time. It's one of his current favourites, rolling around on couches, throwing pillows, et... He's pretty easy to please.




There's always time for a little tickle!











Evan loves to read to himself, in his own language...

Our Sunday

Evan is getting so big. He looks more and more like a little boy and not like a baby anymore. This Saturday he learned to spin in circles. We didn't show him, I don't know where he got the idea. I only wish I could upload the video because it's so cute! He also knows to say "two" after Scott says "one." Scott taught him that while we enjoyed fudge Sundaes at DQ (during our bike ride this afternoon.)
Evan builds himself a nest of pillows to rest in while he watches some Treehouse. We had such a fun evening today. Evan is such a little tease. I asked him not to touch the lamp. He would walk over and touch it (it was off) and then run towards me giggling. He's really learning to interact with us on so many levels! (And my living room will never be tidy again.)
Evan gets comfy to watch a little Lion King on the iMac.

Surviving the Separation

Evan's getting really good at drinking from a juice box. Except for tonight when he thought it would be fun to squeeze the juice all over the carpet... there are inevitably those moments where something great he learned turns into doing one more thing he's not allowed to do. Fun times!
Evan passed out during nap time. Sometimes he sleeps so deep a volcano wouldn't wake him and other times the tiniest noise will wake him up. This is one of those deep sleeps where not even camera flashes penetrate.

Evan enjoys a little mint chocolate chip ice cream with daddy. Cute! Those two share a lot of food, lots of hugs, and lots of replays of "The Lion King" on a regular basis.




Evan's first big boo boo, or ouchie, or ouch - have mostly been using ouch but everyone says something different. He fell down a few stairs which wouldn't really have hurt him except he landed on a toy. The area around his eye looks a little painful. He can go up and down stairs now without any help, but, true to form so far, sometimes he just falls down. It's so great whenever I go to get him at mom's house after work he claps his hands when he sees me than proceeds to show me all the "cool" things around him... lights, fans, computers, ipods, etc...

Evan rules the roost from his lofty position. He's really beginning to enjoy climbing things. And he continues to enjoy 'drumming' and constantly beats some solid thing (pens, remote controls, video tapes) on any wooden furniture. He's relentless in his mission to create a good beat to bob his head to.








Evan gets physical as he dives after his basketball, in his little basketball outfit from Uncle Robin. That boy gets bigger everyday, he's into 18 month sizes now...



Evan enjoying a birthday present from Uncle Chris, a playpen full of balls. It's the first time we've been able to put him in his playpen with no resistance. He loves balls... it's one of his favourite words too.

More teeth!

Evan's top two teeth have come in! It's pretty cute, although they're too short to get a picture of. I'm going back to work Tuesday, this past week we spent getting Evan used to long periods of time at Grandma Terry's house. It's going to be tougher on me, most likely, than it will be on Evan. He really enjoys grandma's house. Evan's vocabulary is expanding on a daily basis. He says "truck", "trator" for cracker, "ball", "daw" for dog, "cat", "cup" and "doe" which I think means no. He also thinks lights are "that" because he used to point and we'd say, "look at that" - whoops! He's such a little sponge!
We spent this weekend shingling our roof... it was lots of work, but we had a great deal of help from guys at the Gate. Of course Grampa Al was a big help too, only one more load to the dump with his trailer to go... Evan and I made food and prepared drinks for everyone. Our car decided to cause more problems, so we're carless until Thursday - when we can take it in to get fixed. Several hundreds of dollars from now we will once again be driving. We rode our bikes to church this morning, Scott had bought Evan a little bike seat that attaches to the back of his bike so he rode in style! I'll be getting rides to work with a friend for now.
It feels good to have the roof done and out of the way. We are so blessed to have so many great friends here in Lethbridge that'll spend two evenings and an entire Saturday doing hard labor, just to help us out!