Favorites:

Cereal - Life
Vegetable - pickles
Fruit - apple
Drink - almond milk
Toy - Dinosaur Train
Show - Dinosaur Train
Game - puzzles
Book - Cars
Restaurant - McDonalds
Holiday - Halloween
Animal - flamingo
Way to spend time - with people
Friend - Quetzal Sol


If you could change your name, what would you choose?
whiney pants


What do you love about each person in our family?
Daddy - He tickles me
Mommy - She tickles me
Noelle - tickling me (can you tell he was being silly?)
Mason - gets on me and tickles me


Where would you like to go on vacation this year?
Nana and Papa's


What was your favorite thing we did last year?
Played in the backyard


Evan turned 3 in October, and has validated my feeling that 3 is harder than 2. He is extremely energetic, has a hard time focusing and listening, loves to be a daredevil, and changes his mind constantly when you ask him a question. I try to find anything he can help me do that won't drive me totally nuts, because he needs to be active or I'm in trouble. He is slowly starting to reject his nap, and I am really not looking forward to that. I got a whole year more out of him than I did Noelle, though!

Evan goes to school 2 days a week and has a great time there. He really is a smart and sweet little boy. It's hard to get too upset with him when he's being mischievous, because he is just so cute about it most of the time. He isn't trying to be defiant or "bad" usually, he is just all over the place having fun. He is learning to be a good big brother. He often gives Mason toys when he is sad or sings him a song. That is, when he isn't tackling him.

Favorites:

Cereal - corn chex
Vegetable - red pepper
Fruit - apple
Drink - Evan's milk (almond)
Toy - Lucy
Show - Phineas & Ferb
Game - Sorry
Book - books I can read myself
Restaurant - Subway
Holiday - Christmas!
Animal - baby giraffe (fourth year in a row!)
Way to spend time - playing games
Friend - Declan


If you could change your name, what would you choose?
Evan


What do you love about each person in our family?
Daddy - He's so cute
Mommy - Her hair is pretty
Evan - We have lots of fun
Mason - He plays with me


Where would you like to go on vacation this year?
Grammy and Papaw's


What was your favorite thing we did last year?
went to the beach


Noelle turned 6 this year, and started Kindergarten which she is loving. She is learning so much, and reading incredibly well. She picked it up and ran with it, and it's fun seeing her discover the world through reading. Often she'll tell me something she learned at school, and be surprised that I knew it, too. I tell her that I went to Kindergarten also! She thinks she knows everything, and gets upset when she finds out she doesn't. As a perfectionist myself, I know all about wishing I just knew everything and had all skills necessary in life without even trying. We have a big job teaching her that not knowing, and therefore learning, is actually a fun part of life.

Noelle still likes her little things, she often has at least a dozen random objects in her school bag that she has found on the playground. She does a good job keeping them away from her brothers, but I have finally realized after washing chapstick twice that I need to start checking her pockets before I do her laundry. Almost every time I open the dryer I find at least one little thing.