Heidi and Cali's visit

Last night Heidi and Cali had supper and spent the night with us. Jacob, Kim and Evan came over too. We had lasgna and fruit pizza for supper then went over to Jacob and Kim's for the children to see the baby chicks and ducks.

Cali and Evan took turns swinging in the big kid swing, they feed the baby chicks and ducks and then had a ball sliding down the slide. Cali went down the slide like a little lady. Evan decided that going down backwards was more fun!

Billy took them riding in the mule. Cali had to have mama ride too but she had fun even with Evan driving!

Cali loved my little church music box. She sat in Billy's lap for quite a while watching the little preacher man come out the door then go back in . She would wave at him each time the doors opened and closed.

Front Porch

Last night Evan spent the night with us while his mama and daddy had a date night. After supper he and Billy picked blueberries.

After Evan got tired of picking blueberries I took Evan in for a bath. Billy came in a while later and tracked in blueberries from his shoes. While I was cleaning up the blueberry tracks Billy watched Evan in the tub. They heard the train coming so Billy grabbed Evan out of the tub and took him on the front porch to see the train. Unfortunately, he didn't put any clothes on Evan!


Evan just had a fine old time running around on the porch in his birthday suit!

Birthday Party - 2years old!

Today we had Evan's birthday party.... so this morning Billy and I took Evan off Kim's hand for a while so she could get ready for it. We took him to the Farmer's Market in Baxley. In the picture above he is lifting weights while he waits for Grandaddy to get his clothes changed.

It rained a good bit today but it cleared up enough for Evan and his friend to get outside and play.

Here Evan is blowing out the candles on his cake. He is in love with "choo choo's" right now so Kim made him a really cute "choo choo" cake.

Everyone who came to the party seemed to know of Evan's infatuation with "choo choos" so he got lots of train things. He was fascinated by this little battery powered train he received from Baby Daniel.



Aunt K K gave Evan one of his favorite gifts....a big ride on choo choo train. You can tell from his face that he loved it!
Aunt Coo Coo gave him his other favorite gift...a dozen baby ducks!
In the last video where he is riding his train, just after I cut off the video he turned around and said "I sorry" because he had bumped into Grandma Karales footstool. It was a slightly delayed apology but it was totally unprompted from the other adults present.

Evan and Easter

Evan, along with all the rest of the family, really had a great time at our family Easter gathering Saturday. Cousin John was there so he had a fun playmate and lots of adoring older cousins, aunts, parents and grandparents. While we were waiting for everyone to arrive he had to spend some time on his favorite activity...coloring. Aunt Karen and Cousin Mikella enjoyed coloring with him for a while. Of course, he hogged the table by sitting on it to color!

Mr. Nosey had to see what Mikella was doing on her phone!

And he's off on the hunt......
Finding eggs has gotten old...he's found something more interesting....ants!
The hunt is over...now its time for play.

Our New Yard Man!

Billy and I have discovered a new use for grandchildren! Short little grand babies are great for picking up sticks. They are low to the ground so they don't have to bend so far to get the sticks and they get really excited when they find another stick!!! Much cheaper than hiring a yard man! And ... much more entertaining!

Hair cut

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I took Evan to get his 2nd haircut yesterday after school. I asked him did he want to get a haircut and he said "yes". He climbed up in the chair just fine but he started looking more and more upset as the haircut progressed. He was crying by the time Glenda got finished but he sat really still and let her cut it. Of course, he immediately stopped when she gave him a lollipop! He looks cute with his little boy haircut!
And ... yes!... I did get Kim's permission before I took him for his haircut!
Evan had a blast at our house yesterday afternoon. Billy and I took him outside and I thought he would just drop from exhaustion because he ran so much. First, he ran back and to from the drive way to the pond and threw rocks into the pond. The child has an arm! Then he had to go down the slide about a million times. After that he just wanted to run and us chase him til he fell. He would laugh and then get up and go again. We finally got him in the house to take a bath and we thought he would just conk out after that. But no... he had to read every book we have and still was not asleep when Kim came to get him at 9. Could it have been the lollipop and the ice cream that someone gave him????

Airplane Swing

Billy hung a chain for my hammock swing chair yesterday and we discovered that it also works great for the airplane swing we got Evan at the arts and crafts fair in Soperton before he was ever born. He's finally big enough to swing on it so he got to try it out for the first time today!