Car Lineup

Evan is always very interested in Alex when he's eating, sometimes too much so. To keep things in check we don't let Evan play with his cars on the nursing pillows during a feeding, but he then goes a little nuts afterwards:

Big Grin

Alex was in the mood for some big grinning today:

He really likes this "garage door" game Steph plays with him sometimes.  In fact, I got there a little too late to capture it on video but she claims he may have even made his first real laugh playing it.  I may have missed the laughing, but I did get plenty of big smiling:

Thomas Hat

At his second day at preschool the kids' craft project was decorating Thomas the Train conductor's visors, which Evan thought was a pretty great project:

I don't know how well you can see it, but Evan's big addition to the visor was adding a few puffy foam letters, namely E for Evan.

And of course, the synergy of Evan playing with his trains wearing his Thomas the Train conductor's visor required more pictures be taken:

Fort

Evan likes playing in forts:

and Alex likes watching Evan play:

It works out pretty well, don't you think?

Watching Sports

Steph always likes these "Father and Son Watching Sports" shots:

Preschool

The moms in Steph's book club have banded together to start a once-a-week co-op preschool. They hold it at one of their houses, and 3 or 4 parents (pretty much all Moms, although there is one Dad who's pretty involved too) are scheduled each week to teach different lessons. The subjects at first are things like "Who are the members of your family" and "Shapes and colors", although I think they get into particle physics and such pretty soon.


So every Friday now Evan goes to one of the mom's houses for the morning, plays with other kids and learns stuff. Here he is with his backpack and lunch on his first day of school:

Bumbo Seat

Alex is getting closer and closer to being able to sit up on his own. If you don't hold him in place he can stay upright for 5 or 10 seconds pretty consistently, but with the help of the Bumbo seat he can sit on his own all day:

 Seeing Alex in his old Bumbo seat makes Evan a bit jealous, so we let him take a turn in the seat too:

Amazingly, Evan still kinda fits in the Bumbo, despite the fact that he's a little more than twice as big as Alex.

A Home-Cooked Meal

Steph and Evan made pizzas from scratch today, and then Evan got to eat a mini-pizza that he made pretty much all by himself:

You can't really tell from this mid-chew picture, but he was pretty excited about this:

Just Because

I'm not sure if there was anything more going on here than "Evan wrapped himself in a blanket on our bed and he looked cute so we took a picture", but Evan wrapped himself in a blanket on our bed and he looked cute, so we took a picture:

Dog Training

One of Evan's favorite pastimes is giving Peekay treats, which we mostly indulge figuring it can only help improve  their relationship. Presumably just by imitating our interactions with her in similar circumstances he's become a passable dog trainer along the way: