I haven’t posted here in so long! Didn’t even do a post on New York (except for captioning photos posted on facebook… does that count?). But guess what?! Yesterday was my birthday and Mike got me one of those teeney internet notebooks with our reward points from our credit card!! Sweet! Free laptop! I can no longer say that reward points don’t count, I guess you really can get good stuff with them! Anyway, now that I have one, I can utilize some of Evan’s independent playtime to write! Which is great because I really need Evan’s naptime for doing household stuff and want evening down time to hang out with Mike or work on my projects! We have one small room in our house that is really babyproofed so I can watch Evan easily and write at the same time. Woo hoo! Right now he is eating cheerios and clobbering his wobbly penguin toy. We’ll see how long it takes before he wonders what I’m up to and comes to check this thing out. I know I’ll have to be careful not to let him see the screen. Lol. I also know that this is probably a short-lived treat since it won’t be long before he starts climbing up on the couch. For now though it’ll be great!
So what has Evan been up to? Evan is 10 1/2 months, 21 some odd pounds, has four teeth with two more on the way and is a total comedian. He is such a little social butterfly taking such delight in other people and kids. Whenever we go anywhere, the more people the better, he’s in heaven. And if there’s music to boot, watch out! Do we have a superstar in the making? Cool. He can support us when we’re older! 
My most recent amazement is with his new mimicking skills… show him how to put the man in the car, and he’s on it. Show him how to roll the ball down the slide, put the shape in the box, whatever he always tries to do it. He’s starting to copy faces and sounds we make too. He can say “Dad” with a heavy emphasis on the last “d” so it sounds like “Da-DUH.” He has lots of conversations with himself using only variations of this word. We think he knows it also means Dad. He says “Muh-muh-muh” too on occasion, usually when he’s upset. His favorite toy is his laugh and learn kitchen which he plays with everyday…especially changing the channels on the radio. Other favorites are a 99cent pinwheel and balls of all shapes and sizes (anything that rolls really). He dribbles rolling objects around the room many times a day (soccer star p’haps?).
So what have I been up to? My latest project, which has really been about 6 years in the making, has finally been started! As a birthday present to myself, I opened an etsy.com store to sell my artwork and homemade crafts! YAY!! I am so excited about this… it has been a dream forever, and I’m hoping I can build it up slowly so that by the time Evan starts school, I can work from home. Right now I only have one item for sale, but it’s a start right! More to come soon. Here’s the store website: Maker of the House Creations. I also started another blog to match the store for moms… mainly geared for stay-at-home-moms, but other moms may find it useful as well. I started it as a place to keep track of what I’ve learned about being a SAHM, housekeeping, crafting and raising kiddos. Mostly stuff that Home Ec taught our moms, but that we are having to learn on the fly! I’m keeping it a little more businessy and this one more personal, for friends and family. Let me know what you think! Here is that site: Maker of the House.
What has Mike been up to? How about being a great husband to start with. I’ll take this opp to publicly thank him for helping me get my business blog and store up and running and backing me up with “you can do its!” He is just great. I am so lucky. I’m also so in love with the fact that he loves to cook! Lately, he’s gotten re-interested in trying out new recipes on the weekend and usually ends up making two or three things that last us through several lunches and dinners during the week. Gina gave him a cookbook that he loves and I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes through it cover to cover eventually. He’s also asked for COOKING CLASSES for Xmas!! Ok, so how AWESOME is that for ME??! Yes, I don’t know how I got so lucky. He’s also a great Dad, and I’m sick of Evan going around saying “Da-duh, Da-DUH, DA-duh” ALL day. sigh.
That about sums it up for us right now. I’ll try to write shorter posts, more often now. We’ll see how it goes. Thanks for reading!
All very amusing!
Luckily, mine comes and goes and is more upsetting at certain times than others.
he says “yeah it’s pretty cool main.” 
lol. YAY!! so now we have another ne
