Madeline 18 mos stats

 

This girl is 18 months now. She's still a tiny little thing but she has a big personality. She LOVES reading. I think she would sit if someone would read to her all day. She loves her brothers. She wants and tries to do everything they do. She loves her babies. She will wrap her baby in a blanket then hop in the rocker and rock. She loves doing anything outside.

 

Madeline has been slower than the boys in language development. I'm okay with that though. She has lots of single words but doesn't always use them...and I don't make her. She will copy almost anything the boys tell her to say. She looks at me and Brian like we are crazy if we try to get her to say something. She is beginning to combine words to make short phrases. Her favorite thing to say is "all done mama" (then she laughs). One evening she was finished eating so she said "all done". Brian got up to get her. She shook her head and said "all done...MAMA". Everyone at the table laughed. Now every time she's done she says it, looks straight at Brian, and laughs.

 

So here are Madeline's stats and all the kids comparisons at 18 months:

25 lbs (50th percentile)

31.5 inches (30th percentile)

don't remember how big her head was but it was 97th %

 

Luc at 18 mos.:

25 lb 7 oz (45th)

34 inches (90th)

head 50.5 cm (97th)

 

Evan:

25 lb 2 oz (35th)

33 inches (55th)

head 49 3/4 cm (90th)

 

On another note, Evan helped me pick out the boys Easter outfits. The compromise for the "fancy" shirt that I strongly encouraged was that he get to buy the shirt below. So the fancy shirt is for Easter and Evan's shirt choice is for any day he wants to wear it. You may see him wearing it every day. Then he wanted a picture in his new outfit.  

Evan's 6 month pictures...I just found this drafted blog post

haha this is 3 years too late

 

Evan is growing growing.

Evan's 3rd birthday party

 I feel kind of bad for Evan. May is always such a busy month for us. It's Mother's day, our wedding anniversary, Evan's birthday, Brian's birthday, end of preschool fesitivites, and usually we are in Alabama...this year we have family in town a lot of the month. I just didn't have the energy to have a big birthday party. He chose two of his friends, Anderson and Caleb, to invite. It was so perfect. The three of them played a lot, the older siblings played together, and the babies played a little bit.

 

I really hate character themed things...parties, clothes, toys, etc. As much as I tried to talk him out of this, he insisted on a Batman cake. It was not as much fun to make but he loved it. 

 

 

Cole really enjoyed his cake

 

Mr Freeze froze Batman and Robin. They had to shoot them free with their water guns.

Madeline and Papa John

 

Balloon pinatas

Baby conversation

 

This expression cracks me up

Caleb loves babies

 

Decorating superhero masks

 

I think we're safe with these superheros

 

Oh these two...

 

Happy birthday sweet boy!

Evan's 3rd birthday present

For Luc's 5th birthday he begged to do the indoor skydiving. Since he did it for his birthday, Evan started counting down until his borthday so that he could do it too. He was so excited. Once he got in there he wasn't so sure about it though. He walked right in like a big kid. He looked terrified. Afterwards, we asked if he was scared and he absolutely will not admit that he was. He did say that he is not doing that again though. HA

 

 

He flew with Waz 

 

And we all flew with him 

3 years ago...

....the best little miracle entered our lives. After a long and very scary pregnancy, a loud energetic little baby was born. I cannot believe Evan is 3 years old.

 

 

 

Evan (a.k.a. Batman), you are full of energy and personality at 3 years old. You love to make people laugh...and you really do have me rolling in the floor laughing sometimes. You adore your baby sister and constantly kiss and hug her. You love to annoy Luc but he is also your best friend. You are the cutest little thing with your huge brown eyes and your mischievous little grins. I can't imagine my life without you and I am so proud to be your mommy. I love you!

Evan's getting ready

Our friends, Caren and Jason came over the other night. They just had their third baby, baby Zadie. Evan loved her. Every time we've seen them he watches the baby and wants to hold her. He got to hold her this time and he loved it. He kept saying "Wook at hers tiny finguhs. Wook at hers tiny feets. Wook at hers tiny nose." One time he said "She so wiggly". He was so sweet with her. I think he's going to be a great big brother. I may have to keep our baby strapped down though.

Look who turned 2...over a month ago

Obviously, I'm WAY behind on the blog. I don't have much time for blogging these days. Anyway...

Evan turned 2 while we were in Alabama. He got to have two birthday parties. We had a party in Madison with MiMi, Granddaddy, Memaw, Aunt Allison, and Uncle Jason.

 Granddaddy loves a good reason to get a ice cream cake. Evan loved the tractor cake.

 Evan had help openning presents.

 Then we had another party in Fort Deposit with GiGi, Pap John, Aunt Heff, Uncle Daniel, Crystal, Granny, Baboo, Shannon, Rory, Holden, Bec, and Adrianne. We had been talking a lot about birthday cakes. Evan wanted a "jeep and motorcycle" cake. This was the best I could do in such a short amount of time.

THANK YOU so much to everyone who helped us celebrate this big boy's 2nd birthday.

I love these silly faced boys...