What Does Evan Like To Do These Days?!?

Evan is enjoying doing many new things. Here are a few...He likes to dress himself?!?

Climb up his little brother's crib to see if he is there yet....not yet!
Play on the slide....
Make block towers...

He likes to climb up in drawers and eat strawberries off the counter....

undress himself and hang out in his diaper or sometimes naked.....

play with friends....
climb in his toy box.....
and Talk on the phone....and Nathan and I....
were are enjoying watching him learning to do new things.

My Birthday: 21 Again

It happened that on my birthday Glen Burnie had a free day. So we walked over and enjoyed the gardens and the museum for free which was great.

This is the private entrance gate. Every time I drive by I think what a great spot for pictures so on our walk I made sure we stopped to take some.

I love how they turned out.

Wrestling with my monkey. One of the many things I'm good at.

The vegetable gardens were amazing. It put our little patch to shame.

Evan just chilling as Dad pushes him around. :) What a life!I love this picture!These are pleached trees (last winter when Nathan brought me here for our Anniversary our docent told us that it grows little pleaches.) Ever since I saw them I have wanted to take Evan's picture just running in it, so we waited until no one was coming and let him loose. It was a lot of fun.

There were tons of beautiful flowers.

and statues...

Evan mostly hung out with Nathan. Enjoying the view from his shoulders.

Dad I want down!!!

So we let him run around for awhile. He looked so cute toddling across this Asian bridge.

More Statues

Our house is just up the street from one of the downtown fire stations and whenever Evan hears a fire truck going by, he will run to the window to see it. The museum had one of the fire trucks there that day. Apparently the Rouss Fire company downtown had an appraiser come to assess the value of the building and discovered that the weather vane alone was worth several million dollars. Subsequently, they tried to sell it to finance a new building, but no one offered enough.

They then decided to put it in the local museum and had a fire truck from the company there that day to celebrate. Evan was happy to crawl up and explore.

It was a great birthday. I loved spending it with my two men!

July 4th Camping Trip

So over July 4th weekend we decided that we would go camping. We drove to a place a coworker of Nathan had recommended, but we didn't really like it so we drove on into the unknown.

A couple hours later we ended up in Maryland and the Green Ridge State Park. They had the best campsites! Each being a least a mile from any other campsite so it was like we were all by ourselves. The one we decided to stay at was up a little canyon off the main road and had a pond about 100 yards away. It was perfect!
We had a good time together as a family making hobo dinners and roasting smores, albeit it was a little more challenging with a toddler. We might wait untill Evan is at least 30 before we attempt it again, but I'm glad we went.Evan eating his first Smore. He was loving it!

Yum!

Our Campsite and our little camper.

Dad saying, "Evan, stay here."

You can see how effective that was.

Evan helping Dad with the fire or should I say Nathan trying to keep Evan from jumping in the fire.

He liked playing with his trucks on the park bench. He's all boy!