I just can't seem to keep my socks on!Ugh! I just burped! Not a very flattering photo, but it made mom laugh so hard she had to share it...

I love to try to type when I'm on mom's lap. In fact, mom let me type this: "b jklhjkn hk b bv vbh yvbn f bvb kgsr7a5fdx ezdsz fwx" (He actually did type that, by the way.) Evan's left eye looks swollen because it is swollen. His tear duct still hasn't unplugged from when he was born so it tears up a lot. Sometimes it gets red and swollen. We keep massaging it but the doctor says if it doesn't clear up by the time he's twelve months old they'll have to "open it " with a needle. Ouch. We haven't taken many sleeping baby pictures lately so I thought I would catch one of Evan napping on the couch.

So I neglected to mention that Jeremy had the flu first (last weekend - congratulations Anna and Seth! Sorry we missed the wedding.) and then he gave it to Evan and then Evan gave it to me. Somewhere one of us gave it back to Jeremy, so it has now come full circle and all three of us were sick this weekend. I hope nobody catches it from any of us - we're not sure where Jeremy caught it in the first place. Could have been a Wal-Mart shopping cart for all we know. Serves us right for shopping there, I guess! Either way, everybody take your vitamins!

Evan had the flue the past few days. It was horrible. I never thought a little baby could throw up so much. Luckily, it was just curdled milk. The poor guy threw-up the whole day on Thursday and had a fever for most of the day today. He's been really restless and uncomfortable. He is on the "up-swing" now, however, and is back to playing with his toys and giggling as usual, despite a temperature of 99.7 degrees. Let's cook those germs out of his system!

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I like to eat my socks...

And my feet...Surprise! They taste like feet...

Evan's pal Alejandro came over for a visit tonight with "Auntie" Becky. Auntie Becky was babysitting for our friend, Amber, and did a wonderful job. Ali is only 2 1/2 months old and boy, is he a cutie-pie! He was so well behaved and he and Evan liked each other a lot. They were giggling and cooing back and forth for a few minutes before Evan had a temper-tantrum because I wouldn't let him grab Ali's face. He probably wanted to see how he tasted. God knows everything else goes in his mouth nowadays. So, I managed to get a few cute picks of Becky and Ali, but none of Ali and Evan. Better luck next time.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It is amazing how much Evan has "grown up" the past two weeks. He is sitting up by himself (most of the time,) content to play by himself for 10 minutes or so, and his hand/eye coordination has improved by leaps and bounds. He finally realizes that he can make those five little pink sausages attached to his arm do things for him! And his favorite thing to grab? His toes! (And mommy's hair...I made the mistake of letting him "ride around" on my shoulders Saturday night and he hung on with two huge fist fulls of my hair - ouch!)

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His brain seems to have matured about three months in the last week. You can visually "see" him thinking and contemplating things, unlike before. It makes me a little bit sad, because he is definitely out of his "newborn" stage and into the "baby" phase now. He's growing up so fast! Every time I turn around he is doing something new. Its hard to keep up with it all. If I learned that fast I would be able to calculate parabolic and elliptic partial differential equations by midnight! (I don't even know what those are...I just know they are hard and would take lots of learnin' to figure out.)

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Here's Evan playing on the floor...he was sitting up, but was trying to look at me behind him and fell over.

He loves the teddy bear that his Great-Grandma Nelson gave him for Christmas!