Firehouse

Wearing Tony's hat

Checking out the engine

Looking at the hoses

Playing (fake) video games with Tony

Sitting in the TV room

Hanging out in the kitchen

Chillin in the garage

Looking in the EMS

Practicing his boxing moves

We went to see Evan's new BFF at work on Friday. Our friend, Tony, is a firefighter. Evan loved Tony before this, but now Tony IS the best guy ever.

Splash Park

We took Evan to the splash park the other day. He thinks he's about eight years old, and can keep up with big kids. (He was the smallest one there.)

Heckraiser

Evan looks like a candidate for a motorcycle gang. He even has some swim goggles to protect his eyes.

Sunglasses

I took this picture after I had uploaded the pics from the last post. I then saw that Evan's cousin, Ryder, had a similar picture on his most recent blog post. Too bad these little boys live about 1,000 miles away from each other. I think they'd get into some trouble together. :-)

24 month doctor visit

I took Evan to the doctor for his 2 year check up today. No shots today (thank goodness)! Evan is 36 inches tall, which is the 90th percentile for boys his age. He weighs 31 pounds, which is the 85th percentile for boys his age. The doctor said he is a good, healthy size and she has no worries because he's met all of his developmental milestones for his age. Hooray!

The pictures of Evan are from today. (I hate posting without a picture.) He's wearing his "Life is Good" shirt that Mimi (my mom) got him for his birthday.

Dad- Happy Father's Day

Evan rearranged the two stacks of plastic cups just for you.

Cook-outs

Evan and Mike on Father's Day #2. :-)

Evan and the ladies doing some fine dining pool-side.

Evan offering a water balloon to a friend.

Evan handed a water balloon to me; thank goodness sometimes he doesn't always want to throw.

Evan and I working through a water balloon. :-)

The best part of summer is cook-outs with friends. Even better than that is cook-outs with friends that have two-year-olds. No offense whatsoever to our friends that are not thinking about kids, thinking about kids, have babies or have older kids, but the two year old is where we are. Their houses are toddler-proofed, their toys are awesome, and there's a built-in buddy for Evan to play with. We went to a "Father's Day" cook-out today and had a great time. Evan got his mack on with a couple of ladies that are a tad older than he is. A great day!

Party Pics

Evan's 2!

Singing "Happy Birthday"

Mommy blowing out the candles

Still singing

Mowing the lawn

Hittin' the water table

Evan turned 2 on Saturday, so we had a party for him. Almost all of his cousins came as well as a few of his buddies. He was exhausted, but he had a great time!

Cakes

Here are Evan's birthday cakes. I did Elmo cupcakes (that seemed to melt), and Grandma Mary and Auntie Judy made Mickey Mouse cupcakes and a cake. (The Mickey Mouse picture was taken upside down - so it may look a tad weird.) Evan loved it all!

I'm on a very important call.

We were waiting for Daddy to meet us at Costco on Friday. Evan spoke with Daddy on the phone while we waited. Evan jabbers a lot with actual words mixed in here and there. Mike and I can translate, but not a whole lot of others can (unless they speak "two-year-old").

Touch a Truck

In front of the Indy car.

The sidekick in the mail truck.

The sidekick in the police car.

Evan's buddy figured out how to turn on the siren lights!

In the fire engine.

The parks department put on this great program where kids can explore all kinds of vehicles (dump trucks, recycling trucks, cement trucks, taxi cabs, race cars, fire engines, etc.,). Evan and I met some friends there and had a great time. It was a super-hot day though. The air wasn't moving, so we got pretty toasty.

Mom, did you know these unroll?

So I was in the living room cleaning up blocks and it got VERY quiet in the family room (not too far away). I got up and looked for Evan. He was in the kitchen. He had opened the pantry doors and found the paper towels. So, we fought over them, I tore them up sheet by sheet, and I placed them where our towel roll goes. Evan thought we should've torn them to shreds and left them on the kitchen floor.

Dad, your book's kinda boring.

Evan was flipping through the pages of Mike's book looking for pictures today.

Cars

Cars are the new, cool thing at our house. Evan was running a car in our pantry the other day because he liked the sound. It's so funny where we find his items these days.