camping night

scrunched face

Sometimes Colin does this smile where he scrunches his nose.  Cutest face ever!

little kid in a big window

About a year ago, Evan and I started waving and blowing kisses to each other as I drove away from his school.  This is always so sweet and innocent and I am reminded of how little he still is as I look up at him in the big windows on the second floor.  A few times I have even had a few tears.  During the average day, it can be hard to really LOOK at him.  We are always busy running around the house, or I am trying to get him to do wash his hands or brush his teeth, or I am trying to keep him safe from cars as we cruises in his jeep, or I am trying to convince him to eat some veggies for dinner.  Waving to him up there and seeing that sweet smile allows me to see the smallness of him and his life, and how special our time is together.

surprisingly brave

A few days ago Evan had 4 immunizations, 4 pokes!  We talked about it for about a month before.  And would sometimes remind how brave Sister Bear was.  I still expected this event to not go well.  So, I surprised when he sat on my child and let me know hold his legs in mine and give him a tight hug and he had the shots without a flinch or tear.  I even told him a minute or two after that it was ok to cry if he wanted to.  But, he didn't.  He did almost have a little meltdown when trying to chose between 3 stickers.  In order to avoid tears at this point, I told him to take them all and we left.  The rest of the weekend he was proud to tell everyone how brave he was!