Lucy

We went to look at some puppies with Evan today. One of his classmates at pre-school had some beagle/rat terrier puppies ready for new homes. Evan wasn't too sure he wanted one of the puppies at first.
When his daddy asked if he wanted one of the puppies he said that the puppies needed to stay where they were.

While he was trying to decide if he liked the puppies he and his friend had fun playing with their donkeys. He was totally unafraid of the donkeys but wasn't too sure of the puppies! He even let one of the donkeys eat out of his hand.
Evan finally decided he did like the puppies...or at least this puppy. Jacob asked what her name should be and Evan promptly said "Lucy, like that black dog." So here's Lucy!


So, here he is with Lucy in a basket on the way home. Lucy was tired from playing and slept all the way home.

Making Movies

Here Evan stars in a movie about making a snake with a head, body and tail!


And here he is in another movie about a snake with no head, no body, no tail and no eyes!!

A Perfect Day

We had the perfect day at Jekyll with Evan today. It was a cool cloudy day with a great breeze blowing in off the ocean and lots of big waves due to a storm out to sea. We played kick ball in the water, ran races from the rocks to the waves, jumped waves and played in the sand. We sat out one quick shower under the umbrella but were finally driven off the beach a little after one when we saw a line of squalls out to sea. As we were grabbing up our belonging the rain began pelleting us with icy drops and the wind began blowing with a vengence. Billy grabbed up Evan and we ran for the car. We picked up Jacob from the tennis match since it was rained out and went to the "pizza yard" for some lunch. On the way Evan's little head just flopped over. We had to talk to him to keep him awake long enough to eat. After lunch we road around the island and one minute Evan was talking and the next he was sound asleep. He slept all the way home!


Yes this is the same day. He escaped and started running on the beach before we found his swim suit!





This is one exhausted little boy!

Going to California

"Let's go play, Mimi!" "OK", I say. "What are we going to play." "We can have a race", says Evan. Evan gets the wooden cars and train out of the toy box and lines them up on the living room floor. He draws some lines in the carpet with his finger. He says, " These are woads. This one is a bumpy woad, this one is a curvy woad, this one is a smooth woad and this one is straight. " He drives the train over one of the roads until it ends then says, " There's no more woad". "Get a bulldozer and make the road longer", I say. He gets a triangular piece of wood out of the toy box and starts dragging it around on the carpet. "It's not working", he says. "We've got to take the cars to California". I said, "Why do we have to go to California". He says, "That's where they race." "How are we going to get them to California?", I say. "In this car (the wooden ferry). We need a ramp", he says. He gets the ramps and carefully lines them up and tells me to load the cars and be sure to load the train first. He says, "I'll play my song while you load the cars." So, while Evan plays the piano I dutifully drive each car across the living room floor, up the ramp and onto the ferry. As soon as the cars are loaded I announce to Evan that they are ready to go to California. He runs ahead to lead the way to California. I follow, pushing the ferry loaded with cars and calling out the names of states as we head west (into the den). Finally Evan says, "Here's California (the couch)" I deposit the cars in California and Evan unloads them, lines them up on the floor and proceeds to race and wreck each car! Not a single car won a race. We went all the way to California just to wreck all the cars!