Father's Day Pictures

Father's Day is tomorrow but we did some celebrating today with Matt and his Dad. Laura is home from Virginia so she was able to join us. We're glad to have her back home. We had dinner together and afterwards we gave them their presents. Part of Matt's present I got Evan's pictures taken by Janea Lee. She's done a few photo sessions for us in the past. I love her work and she got us some great shots of Evan. Since it was a Father's Day gift I made it personal for Matt. Matt's favorite Major League Baseball team is the Oakland A's. I bought Evan an A's outfit off of Amazon.com along with a shirt for Matt. I took Evan to the Spanish Fork baseball field where his High School plays. Evan had a lot of fun running around, so most of them are all action shots. I also got a few shots of Evan dressed in his Daddy's white shirt and tie. I've kept this a secret for a couple weeks and I was so anxious for Matt to see them and he loves them! Now that he's seen them, I can now show you guys!

Here are some pictures of Matt and Evan together that we took today. Evan was so hyper at this point so he was being a little goof ball.

And here's a cute one of Evan

Hide and Seek

I'm sure most parents can relate to this. I think it's funny but frustrating at the same time. Evan loves to clean when we ask him too. There are times when he picks things up on his own and most of the time I'm not watching him do it. I think he's a great help but there have been occasions when he's thrown valuable things away! So far it's just our TV remote. Not quit sure if that's where it ended up but most likely because we turned our home upside down and it's been 6 months. Maybe even longer. We just came to the conclusion that he did toss it in the trash because we saw him throw things out. He thinks it's funny. We salvaged a number of things because of it. I always make a point to look in the trash every time I'm throwing something out. We have a lid on it and do a good job in keeping it shut but we're not perfect at it. Recently I borrowed a DVD from my sister and one day I wanted to watch it one more time before I had to take it back to her. I went to go get it and it was no where. Matt helped me look for it and everything. After two days of searching everywhere in the house I thought it was time to go dig outside in the trash can before we had to take the can out to the street. Unfortunately it wasn't there. I can't believe how disgusting a garbage can, can get. I hoped I wouldn't have to do that again. A few days later Matt couldn't find one of his sandals. Evan loves going into our closet to play with our shoes so we thought the worst. I did go looking in the trash for it again. Since Matt has the one pair I wanted to go out and buy him another pair but I couldn't find the time to go do it. Luckily I didn't because last weekend we were getting ready for two youth in our Stake to stay at our house for two days during a Missionary activity. We were getting our air mattress out of our basement and we ended up finding the sandal in our cooler. Yesterday I wanted to watch a movie that I haven't seen since I was a little girl. It's one of the few movies we have that's still in VHS format so we hardly ever use our VHS player. There was a tape already in there so I had to take it out but it wouldn't. After a few attempts to get it out by my fingers, I lifted the door up and I saw a disk in there. It happened to be the DVD I was looking for! The tape came out after that so I put in the tape I wanted to watch but it wouldn't go in. I looked in there once again and there were two more DVDs that Evan hid from us. He had the right idea but too bad they were in the wrong part! I'm hoping our TV remote will show up one day but it's been 6 months so I don't think that's going to happen.

18 Months

Evan turned 19 Months yesterday but Evan just got his 18 Month appointment last Thursday. I love his doctor('s) but if you don't set an appointment right away, you will wait forever for an appointment. We see Dr. Later and his team of doctors in Provo. This appointment I couldn't wait for because not only could I not wait to see how much he's grown but also because he had a sore on his big toe. I didn't see it happen so it's like it just appeared. I almost took him in a few times before the scheduled appointment because it looked so bad. I just tried to keep it clean and told myself he should be fine. It was a week and 3 days since his sore showed up on the day of his appointment. Well we first weighed him. I'm excited to say that our little boy actually gained weight! The last two appointments he only gained a few grams but this time he gained almost 2 pounds! He now weighs 21.47. That puts him in the 4.22 percentile. Last appointment he was 19.62. I was sure he didn't gain much or anything because we've been having a hard time getting him to eat anything. I was so happy when I heard how much he gained. He also grew in length. He's now 33 inches. That puts him in the 71.93 percentile. He was 31 inches.
When the doctor asked if I had any concerns I told her about his toe. I can't remember the name of what the sore could be but she wasn't concerned because it was healing great but it was some type of bacteria infection. She looked over the rest of his body to make sure he was healthy. She noticed that his tonsils were swollen but not red. She didn't think it could be strep but she got them tested anyways. After Evan got his last shot till Kindergarten (yay!), the doctor came back in to tell us that his strep test came back positive! How crazy is that? I think it's crazy because he hasn't acted out of the norm at all! It just took us all by surprise. She got us a prescription to take of it but it would also take care of his toe. I can't believe a sore could tell us that something else is wrong in the body.
Since it's been almost a week his toe is looking a lot better. I still can't believe he has strep because he's been an angel like always.