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| Delivery Day - September 10, 2012 39 weeks, 4 days pregnant |
Here's Baby Evans at 12 weeks! We are expecting this beautiful surprise sometime in September. I'm actually due September 13th, but my pregnancy history says there is no way I will make it that long. As of today I am 17 weeks, 6 days pregnant and we find out the gender next Thursday!
This little gem we refer to as, "Sissy", "Sister", "Gracie", "Hurricane" or "Hurricane Grace". Let me just tell you, she is something. She is SO sweet one moment and crazy as, well, a hurricane the next. She is absolutely into EVERYTHING! She climbs on furniture, ladders, boxes, really anything an inch or more off the ground. She definitely keeps me on my toes. I didn't plan to put locks on on the cabinets at our new house, but she literally had the contents of two cabinets pulled out before I could clean up one after her. I waived my white flag and began installing child locks.
Riley is so tiny. After big boy Benjamin I never figured I would have a tiny kiddo, but Riley has sure proved me wrong. She is 90% for height, but usually 20-25% for weight, every girl's dream, right? She certainly didn't get it from me because I was a chunk when I was a baby, I guess she has her Daddy to thank for some height!
This girl talks up a storm, so much so we can carry on simple conversations. It's really comical. You wouldn't expect someone so little to pick up so many words and understand so much, but she does. I guess between being the second child and being a girl, the words just flow! Behind Dada and Mama, SHOE was her first word. Shoe, are you kidding me?!? She is OBSESSED with shoes and wants to put hers on and put ours on for us. When I get ready in the mornings, she picks a pair from my closet and brings them to me (and won't stop until I put them on). She's funny, SO GIRLY, yet a total tomboy all at the same time.
I wouldn't change a thing about this sweet, little monster! She's a keeper!
This character turned four in March. In some ways it's impossible to believe he is already four, in others it seems he should at least be ten by now. Our blog has been pretty quiet for a while, but that's simply because life has just been so busy.
Ben goes to school three days a week and loves every minute of it. He is so happy at school, loves his teachers and friends. On one of his progress reports the teachers said he is a class favorite. This really took me by surprise, simply because he can be so shy around others. I started to take note and noticed all the kids in his class are so excited when he arrives in the mornings and always hugging him and telling him, "goodbye" in the afternoons. Ben has such a gentle spirit (when he chooses to), but can be such a maniac at home. The contrast in him at school and home is huge. It just funny to me.
Right now Ben loves playing t-ball with Daddy, running, playing soccer with Daddy, driving his John Deere Gator, playing with PlayDoh, baking cookies, building, reading and playing. He is so full of life. Some days I wish I could plug his power source directly into me... Lord knows I need it!
Ben says some of the funniest things. The one that is freshest on my mind is from this past weekend when my cousin visited from San Diego. He was asking me who was coming to visit and I told him, "Tara, my cousin." His response, "Is she four like me?" Me, "No, she's my age just like your cousins are your age." Ben, "Does she have a little boy?" Me, "No, she doesn't have any kids." Ben, "Well, she needs to buy some then." This child cracks me up! You tell he really thinks things through and has legitimate questions about almost everything. It's fun!
That's what the big man is up to these days. There is never a dull moment at our house!
