August 7, 2006

Yesterday Steven was baptised. I was so happy to be able to use the family baptismal gown. Evie was too big by the time she was baptised though we did get her a very special dress to wear. It seems baptismal gowns are becoming a thing of the past. At the last baptism I was at I think there were four or five babies being baptised and I don't remember any of them in a gown. It gave me a wonderful feeling to participate in such a specail family tradition. To know he was wearing something I wore, my sisters wore, and my mom. So much history in one very delicate article of clothing. It was not too hot though I kept the back of the gown as open as possible to keep him cool. Pastor Rich commented on what a big boy he is. He is growing up so fast. Yesterday I gave him his first tast of rice cereal. Very diluted of course but he ate from the spoon very well. So far his stomach seems to have handled it well.
Evie will be three very soon. She is getting so big herself, tall really. She tells me she's a big girl now and not a baby. We are working on potty training and yesterday she did wear her Dora underwear for a while. She even asked to sit on the potty today though I think she's having some trouble sensing when she needs to go in time. It will come though.
She's having her wonder pets party at my moms house this year. If anyone doesn't know, Wonder Pets is a new preschoolers TV show on Nick Jr. It's about three classroom pets that work together to save baby animlas. There is always a special lesson to be learned whether it's how to share, or how not to be afraid to be yourself. And it's all done in an operetta style. Evie loves it and it is very cute. She also likes SpongeBob and LazyTown. I will get on at nickjr.com and play their "radio" with the songs from the TV shows and she loves the LAzy Town music. We get up and dance and Steven loves it to since I dance with him in my arms. It's something the three of us can do together. She likes Blues Clues a lot too. I love how she can have fun and learn so much at the same time. We put up a ring pool (or as Evie calls it a houl) in the back yard and she loves to swim. She has my part fish genes in her aparently as I never wanted to get out of the pool when I was young. On Saturday we went to Ken's company picnic and had fun. They had a bounce house and even got a game of kick ball going with the adults and their kids. Evie kicked the ball and stole second! All of the people Ken works with seem very nice and there were a lot of kids there. Evie wasn't shy and played all day. Steven was a dream as usual and never even fussed. There were two other babies there. One three months and one two months. Both girls, perhaps future girlfriends of Steven LOL!