Well, it's been a long time since we updated so I apologize in advance if this post get's a little long.
There has been a lot of stuff going on around our household lately. Some things that have happened are:
I worked on the Gorny Brother's Pelican Lake Boat.
Looks pretty good after, but it did take a bit of effort, here are some before/in-progress pics.
I also had a fun time making a new boat cover for this boat.
Speaking of sewing I've been getting some more jobs to do, here's a picture of a tablecloth I made earlier this year.
On the Evan side of things we've been very entertained. His imagination seems to be quite wild. You should see what he's named things.
Here's Bucket - the bucket. He's a good friend.
Gorilla - the gorilla.
Teddies - the teddy bears (we actually have 3 of these)
Zack - well wait here, Becky and I actually named this one zack, more Becky than me, I was calling him a zax and she called him zack to Evan, I guess the name stuck.
So maybe that doesn't quite showcase the imaginative things very well, but this picture of Horton eating a bowl of cereal might.
The full reasoning behind this particular example of animal
care taking is as quoted by Evan, "I can't eat that elephant food!" All zookeepers please note that Captain Crunch is obviously
Pachyderm food.
On some other things he's quite imaginative. To the untrained eye what is pictured below may be construed as a piece of 1 inch foam that was used to pad a spool of thread for shipping.
To Evan this wondrous device looks like this.
I say this because just the other day I was sitting down in the living room for a minute and I happened to be in the perfect position to watch Evan at work. He came into the living room and grabbed the piece of foam. He wrapped it around his waist and proceeded to run full speed into the wall. I bet the impact was greatly reduced for his waist, but the head, arms and feet on the other hand took the full brunt. I'm anxiously awaiting the next revision of Evans body armor endeavor.
We've also been enjoying the wonderful things Evan comes up with for sayings. Listen closely about what a fireman can do in this video.
Honestly I've tried to remember some of the things that he says but they don't have the same appeal when I repeat them. Not too long ago he was sitting down reading a book to teddy and said, "D-O-N-T, that means Seven!" We're very proud of the letter recognition, reading will come a little later though.
This next picture deserves a bit of background to fully appreciate the genius. Every night for quite some time now we lay Evan down around 8:30PM. At around 10:00 Becky and I wind up going to bed. Usually at this time we find the little man lying on the floor really close to the door. I don't know why he does this but he climbs out of his bed and falls asleep on the floor. We have been hoping that he'll just decide that his warm and comfy bed is a great place to fall asleep, but alas he hasn't yet. Now depending on the night he may actually get pretty cold lying on the floor. To me that would dictate that I stay in bed with the covers. To Evan, well -
What kind of parents would we be if we didn't take pictures to show other people instead of picking up the child and placing him in his bed
immediately. (to clarify, he did get moved to his bed, just after this picture was taken)
Evan did spend a couple of days with Grandma and Grandpa Gorny recently and I'm fairly certain he may have been spoiled a wee bit. I was talking to him today and I mentioned Grandma and Grandpa Gorny and he immediately offered up a response of "Let's go swimming!!".
There has been a lot of other things happening lately but I think I'll try to cover those at a later date. It's been a great summer and I hope you guys are enjoying yours as much as we are enjoying ours.
