The Last Sunday of Summer

Another Day of Firsts

I had a long conversation with my friend Suzanne this morning about all of the things that could possibly be keeping Evan awake at night. I fed him a breakfast of cereal and sweet potatoes (we've only been giving him one "real" meal a day - dinner), thinking he might need more substance to make it through the day AND the night. While washing his face afterwards, I checked his gums, as I've been doing lately, and there was A TOOTH! That could explain things.

So on this day, September 15th, at 5 months and one day old, Evan pushed up his first tooth. And also on this day, he went to Costco and sat in the grocery cart like a big boy!

Baby You Can Drive My Car

Baby Einstein...

Evan seems to be just as into these DVDs as Sydney was. I cleaned up Syd's old "original" exersaucer (which actually was Ray and Emily's before that), so now we have one upstairs and one downstairs. I bet if I look around I could find a photo of Syd in the same position!

First Day Fun

Poor Syd. We failed to get her into her school-year bedtime routine before school started. The poor kid DID get into bed on time on Monday night, but still didn't want to get out of bed on Tuesday morning.

Not a completely smooth first morning - the outfit she bought for the first day was too warm for the weather, so we had to find something else. I was able to at least give her a different NWT (that's eBay lingo for "New With Tags") outfit out of her closet, and she wore her cool new Keens (thanks Grammy!), so she was just as happy.

Then she took so long eating breakfast that we didn't have enough time to do her hair very well...and to top it all off we missed the bus going up the road. Lucky for us, it's also got to come back DOWN the road and past our house, so it wasn't a total miss.

She came home happy and reported that 2nd grade is "fun." Guess the wacky morning didn't throw her off her game!

The First Day of Second Grade

'Nanners

Since he's been taking rice cereal for a week or so, we thought it was time to see how he liked banana baby food. I'll spare everyone the photos of it coming back OUT (apparently he's not a big fan of the 'nanners), but here are some adorable shots of Evan and the jar of bananas before we tried to get them into him...