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This year our annual trip back east went well. Our first stop was Penn State where the twins and their brother Evan were re-united. We all had a good time shopping, eating ice cream at the Creamery, and doing our usual Penn State traditions. Check out the photos section for all the Penn State pictures.
Evan has been enjoying his time with his Grandma and Grandpa Z in New York. As Evan has told my parents multiple times “It is so different here”. I assume he means lack of neighbors, forest environment, no siblings, etc… He has been enjoying all the fun “different” things he has been doing like sleeping on the top bunk, helping Grandpa Z, going to the annual Pow-wow in Salamanca, eating brunch, spending time with my friend’s kids who are also visiting their grandparents, going to the golf course, helping Grandma Z bake, playing on his new tire swing, and hanging out with his Grandparents.
A big thanks to my parents for spending some time with him over the past eight days.
Check out some more photos of Evan’s time away in the photos section.
This just in from my mother about Evan’s first day in New York with Grandma and Grandpa Z. We will re-unite with Evan next week!
Evan has had a busy day so far today. He woke up at 6 as Grandpa was making coffee, but he went back to bed and slept until 7:30. He was outside immediately in his jammies, calling turkeys and checking everything out. He and Grandpa then went outside after breakfast, but had to wear their bug hats because of all of the little gnats flying around as they were working. They then took a four wheeler ride up to Bill’s house to check things out there. Then he played in the “playground” and was quite proud of himself on how high he could swing this year. He also had to play in the sandbox, too. He came in for a while and did some “chores” for us – made his bed and vacuumed crumbs with the hand vacuum. He ate a good lunch and is now playing with the Fisher Price fire station. Next, he and Grandpa are going to go into town to get the tire for his tire swing and do some other errands.
Diane Hogan and her two grandsons are coming up at 5:30 to cook hotdogs and s’mores.
By the way, when we move to another house, he is going to come here to live!!!
We are all having a good time and thought you would like to see a couple pictures.
This summer has been super hot but Will has managed to keep cool by rocking out the slip n’ slide.
Evan loved t-ball and was a bit sad this past weekend meant his last t-ball game of the year. While he did not really know how to run the bases, throw a ball, or bit off a tee at the start of the year – by this past weekend he had three great hits (all went into the outfield), made some plays while he was in the outfield, and had a great time.
We are very proud of him for trying something new, listening to the coaches, and playing together with his other teammates. We look forward to it again next year! Thanks to the family members that made it out to see him play a game or two!
This past weekend Evan, Amy, and I worked hard to paint and get Cora’s room in order so she would have her own cute girl room. We went with a light yellow (see photos) and then added in some wall decals for some nice decorations. Cora seems to like her room but would still prefer to leave it after we put her down at night (we have to put up a baby gate to keep her in). She also loves having the fish tank in her room and looks forward to feeding them everyday.
Evan and Will have been rooming together now for a week and they seem to enjoy it. If Will wakes up crying – Evan tells him “I am right here Will – it is ok”. They enjoy hanging out in the room together – and last night Evan told us they decided to sleep in each other’s beds. Will work up this morning at 5am disoriented (being in Evan’s bed) and Evan helped him get back into his own bed and Evan then went back into his big boy car bed.
For the last year Evan continually differentiates kids and adults – but instead of calling us older people “adults” he calls us “humans”.
Example: Last night we had pizza for dinner. We did not get him a fork so after realizing he did not have a fork – he went into the drawer, picked out a fork, and proudly told us he decided to use a “human” fork instead of a kid fork.
While I generally correct him with any inaccurate differentiations – Amy and I find this pretty cute and so we do not say anything. So – next time you come over and Evan offers you a “human” something or other – rest assured it will not be something other than a non-kid item.
Upon Evan’s request – we spent the entire Sunday moving the boys into one room and Cora into her own room. The boys are enjoying their room together and we were pretty happy with the results.
Our babysitter knows the owner of the local carnival so we went out as a family and enjoyed the carnival with them while it was in town. Everyone enjoyed the rides and some cotton candy and Evan even enjoyed a few carnival games.