Christmas!!! (in reverse order)

BIG news from December 27th. Evan took 4 steps on his own!!! He was holding onto the coffee table, and then he just turned and walked 4 steps right into my arms. He was a bit wobbly, but he didn't fall down. He also hasn't made an attempt to walk since then, but he will walk with you if you just hold one or both of his hands. I can't believe how much he has changed in the last 9 months!! In other news, it was also the week of Christmas this week ; )

I started uploading these and realized that I was doing it in reverse, so the beginning of the Christmas Celebrations are at the bottom and continue to the top....

Hanging out with Daddy and Grandma G's new puppy, Oscar. Good thing Oscar was a laid back puppy because E really enjoyed smacking his face and pulling on his ears...

he actually opened this one on his own!!!

Evan LOVED the grinch! this one sang and danced which are evan's two favorite things!

just hanging out with grandpa jeff!

using the toothbrush make take some work, but he seems to be mastering the sippy cup!

and, daddy ended up doing most of the unwrapping...this is evan just crawling over a gift as bret was trying to unwrap it

yeah....he's a bit spoiled. and this is just round 2 of 5 christmas celebrations

good thing we are starting early on the toothbrush...looks like e could use a bit of practice on the technique

he ended up enjoying the yogurt melt packaging a bit more than the actual yogurt melts. i enjoy them though ; )

christmas morning!!!

in standard evan style....he quickly moved away from the toys to play with things like cabinet. check out his xmas eve pjs : )

trying to get the toys out of the box

grandma pam's nephew jake read evan a christmas book that was a gift from his great-grandma dee (pam's mom)

bath time just got upgraded!!! (he took a bath tonight and LOVED the boat and toys...just as much as we loved playing with them outside the tub!

grandma pam got a gift in the mail, and she let evan destroy the house with all the packing peanuts. he loved crawling through them, sitting in the box with them and just throwing them....we stopped him short of eating them : )

uh oh.....probably should put up some gates now. he seems to have mastered the stairs