Friday, August 19, 2011

19 and 20

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in the midst of all the business of summer i managed to skip the last to months of Evan updates. lots of travel, lots of visitors
and less time at the computer are part of it, but honestly its just much easier to be out having fun than it is to sit back and type about it.

If the phrase "monkey see, monkey do" had a dictionary entry, evan's picture would be next to it. We are so lucky that for the most part Ryan is a well behaved kid b/c E watches him like a hawk and emulates his every move - climbing, jumping, dancing. That's not to say that he doesn't have a unique personality - he is so different from his brother in a ton of ways - he just uses everyone around him as a springboard for new ideas.

In the past two months we saw him take the ocean by storm for the first time, make his first run at parts of the Billy Goat Trail and help celebrate his brother's birthday...so here we go with the Best of Evan, Parts XIX and XX....

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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Ryan's Birthday Weekend

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Hard to believe that my little buddy is already 4. He had a pretty great weekend for a kid. His actual birthday was today and Lisa and I gave him his big kid bike. Even with the ridiculous humidity he insisted on multiple laps around the neighborhood.

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I have to tell you, it is scary watching your son peddle down the street for the first time - even with training wheels. Not to mention he can get away much quicker.

Yesterday was "preschool in the yard" with the Alphabet crew and assorted others over to celebrate. Lisa did it again this year with another great cake. This one was an homage to our recent beach trip...

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Thankfully, she was also able to talk the swing set folks into squeezing us into the installation schedule ahead the party...

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To cool the kids off we went with the inflatable water "thing" that ensured every one was soaked, and covered in grass ;)

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But the biggest hit of the day were definitely the water balloons that my mom so graciously filled up two batches of....

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(don't mind the "grass" - that's next year's project)

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I have no idea what the kid wished for, but i am pretty certain it came true....happy birthday, Ryan...

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