Evan is 4

 

This kid has been so excited for his birthday (ever since Christmas).  He kept thinking of presents he wanted and plans for a party.  Of course we got him what he wanted - mom got him a recycler (and just to be different than his other recycler... a LEGO one), dad got him a train that plugs in to charge, and Colin got him a stuffed Elmo.  His favorite surprise was a Care Bear from Grandma and Grandpa Steeno.  He actually cuddled that the first night instead of Froggy!  He had all his good friends over for dinner and cupcakes.  He had got a little excited at the party store and had a hard time narrowing the plate selection down to three (Elmo, Curious George, and Tinker Bell).  The kids at the party loved running with the balloons and jumping off the couch into a "pool".

 

 

 Part of Evan's 4 year old world:

 

-loves "jumping on the dad" and wrestling and climbing and sitting on his dad's head as Tony tried to find him

- collects his dirty clothes in a bin in his room and brings them to the washer by dump truck or wheelbarrow

-starting chewing gum a couple weeks ago... a quick little story... the first day of gum chewing brought tears.  We were at a restaurant in GR when he started crying and said "don't look at me".  I knew that he must have swallowed his gum and was scared and embarassed because all he knew about gum was that you weren't supposed to swallow it.

- Berenstain Bears, Care Bears, Elmo, Clifford...

- PB&J and grapes for lunch

- snowplowing (shoveling)

- "did the dryer beep twice?", cause that means he stops what he is doing and goes to "let the clothes air out"

- wants to save everything... receipts, boxes, bags

- loves building things out of cushions - fire trucks, trains, mail trucks, ice cream trucks, UPS trucks, garbage trucks... and 2 level forts with dad's help

- coloring pages from the internet... the first day he discovered we could print coloring pages of anything he wanted was quite the exciting day... he kept running to the printer and getting the newest one he picked out, and once I happen to add an extra to his selection and he runs back and in his most excited voice, "There's a Harold (from Thomas) one too!"