January 4th

My Mom saw this circus tent and thought it would be perfect for Evan. He does love it, but we don't keep it up all the time, because it is kind of big. Alex was having fun playing in it too. Eric brought it out while Evan was napping. He hoped it would keep Evan occupied during the Vikings game.
I was trying to get Evan to look at me from in the tent, but no luck! He's always moving, so he's blurry:-)

Saturday evening Papa Bob and Gamma Gay came to visit. Papa had a project to get rid of the creak in our bedroom floor. He used a couple packages of shims and pounded them into the wall under the trim. Evan had to get his little hammer and try his hand at the shim.

Now he tries the real hammer. A little heavy! Now we just notice a couple little creaks in the floor. Project was a success! Wish we didn't wait 4 years to try and fix the floor:-) The floor would go bang bang when you walked into our bedroom and you'd have to tip toe at night, so you wouldn't wake up Evan. This time of year when the garage is cold the noise would get especially annoying to us.

Sunday morning Evan tries to help out and feed Alex. He's such a good big brother:-)

Alex has his first waffle with us on Sunday morning. He looks pretty happy about it! He's good at taking little pieces and putting them in his mouth. He is just starting to get his top two teeth!Evan got this iron and ironing board for Christmas. I was showing him how to iron one of his shirts. Tonight he brought the iron to Eric and I and tried to iron our clothes while we were wearing them. You push a button and it makes the sound of steam coming out of an iron, but it isn't hot of course:-) With his vacuum, iron and dust buster he will learn to be a good housekeeper!