Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Welcome Alex Dewey Schmidt

At 10:09 AM this morning we welcomed our second child, Alex Dewey Schmidt. He weighs 9 lbs 5 oz and is 22" long. Everybody is doing well. Evan will be coming to visit tomorrow before going to swimming lessons. He's definitely in for a big surprise!

Alex's middle name may not be very common. However, it has significant importance as Eric's maternal grandfather's name is Dewey, Denise's father's name is Dewey, and Denise's paternal grandfather's name is Dewey.

Please call Eric on his mobile phone if you'd like to visit.



Sunday, March 1, 2009

Sledding Fun?

We have an awesome sledding hill just down the road from our house. All winter we've been saying that we should take Evan over to the hill to go sledding. Friday I borrowed a sled from day-care and today we decided to venture out in the snow with Evan.



Eric carried Evan up the hill and they went down the hill. Evan didn't really like sledding very much!


They did one more attempt, but he still really didn't like it.
So Evan watches Daddy go up by himself

Here comes Daddy! Maybe next year Evan will be more excited about sledding:-)
We let him try out the slide and that was a little more his style!

Saturday, February 28, 2009

More Evan

Today we took Evan to the play land at Ridgedale. He had fun looking at Daddy through the Tic Tac Toe board.
He had fun going down the slide. The slide is pretty short, so I couldn't get a good picture of him coming down the slide. This is the 2nd time we've brought him to the play land and he has finally figured out that he needs to go climb up the stairs after he goes down the slide. He was always trying to climb up the slide right after going down.


You can't see through the windshield on this car, so you have to stand up on the seat. We really have to watch Evan when we are at the play land, because there are some pretty big kids that are a few inches above what they should be to enter the play land. I think they need to have the play land police come through once an hour and kick out the kids that are 9+ and running up the slides almost stepping on our baby. If you can run up the slide you are too big to be in the play land(get out)!
Grandma Gay got Evan another Elmo balloon. Everyday we have to get it down for him so he can walk around with it.

You can't see the balloon in this pic, but he is running with it.

YUMMY! Breakfast:-) Banana, Crispix and juice

"Mommy..put down the camera and pick me up"

Evan always wants us to pick him up so he can look out the window. We have lots of beautiful Cardinals in the bushes next to the house that visit our bird feeder.



Last weekend we visited Great Grandma and Evan was fascinated by this grabber tool used to pick stuff up off the ground. He couldn't pull the handle to grab anything, but he had fun walking around with it. I told her I need one of these to pick up all his toys, because it is difficult with my pregnant belly to bend over all the time:-)

Evan playing with some of his toys
More balloon!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Cute hair Evan!

Tonight Evan decided to try using his peach juice as hair gel!
Peach juice in hair made tonight bath night:-)
Evan shows off his Valentine Card! Thanks for the card Tom and Joyce:-) He carried it all around the house.

A rare glimpse at Evan sitting and playing with his Lego's. He is a very busy boy, so this doesn't usually last for more than a minute or two.
Sleepy Baby Boy!

We got word this week that Evan will be transitioning to the Toddler room at his day-care. He has spent a little time over there already and enjoys spending time with his old friends from the infant room. We got a booklet with all the activities he will be participating in and he is going to to have a great time this summer!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

More from Evan!

This is a rare moment when Evan falls asleep on our lap! I had to give him a nebulizer treatment for his cough and he fell asleep like he used to when he was little. When he woke up he had the strangest lost look on his face like he didn't know where he was or if it was day or night. Too bad Eric couldn't capture his expression when he woke up. Sweet Baby!
Evan has a new trick where he walks between by legs like he is going under a bridge. He is just the right height!

Tonight when I was trying to make dinner Evan was being what I call a "Cling-on". I distracted him with this mixing bowl and spoon. It kept him busy for awhile!! Eric found him a quieter spoon when he got home:-)

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A visit to Grandpa Dewey and Grandma Shirleys

This past weekend we went to visit my parents. They live about an hour away so we planned to spend the night. We talked my Dad into making his lasagna(which is very delicious)! Thanks Dad! Evan loves lasagna too! Sausage is one his favorite foods. If you have ever been to my parents house you know they have a lot of collections. Evan got a chance to check them all out! I'm happy to report that nothing got broken. Evan was a busy boy and hardly stopped moving. Here are some pictures from our visit. Evan learned how to play fetch with Rex. Check out the video at the end of the post. He thought it was pretty funny that he could throw Rex's toy and he'd bring it right back to him excited for him to throw it once again. Rex was exhausted after we left! I'm pretty sure Mom, Dad, Rex and Toby(the cat) all napped after we left!



This is what Mom calls the bunny room. There are so many breakables and Evan was very good to just look at them. She let him touch the stuffed ones!


Mom also has a collection of Swedish Dala horses. Evan saw them and wanted to sit on them. You had to be right by him because they are just painted and don't have a raised seat, so he would just slide right off the back.

This was my rocking horse when I was Little. He just got some new handles(the original ones broke off). Evan had fun riding my old horse too!

Evan got to sit in the police pedal car again this year. I posted the picture from last January below. Last year Eric had to hold him up from tipping over. Evan had no problem sitting up in the car but he found that it went backwards easier than forward, because he can't yet reach the pedals.

This was Evan last January in the same car. You can see Eric's arm holding him up. He has changed so much in the past year. He has become a little boy!
Grandpa Dewey got some trains running for Evan. I think they had 5 different trains running at the same time. Evan just stared in amazement as they zoomed by him. When he starts talking I think he will not stop talking about these trains!

Evan is throwing Rex's elephant we've named Eleanor. If you ask Rex to go get Eleanor he will go get the elephant:-)
Evan is laughing, because he is having so much fun throwing Eleanor for Rex! He could do this all day! I was waiting for him to get the hiccups, because he was laughing so hard!
Evan gets in some throwing practice. The funny thing is now he thinks he should throw toys for Eddie too! Eddie was once a retriever, but he is a couch/lap cat now!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Evan tries out his new horse!

Evan got this horse from his Grandma Gay and Grandpa Bob for Christmas. We've had it down in the family room downstairs and today we brought it up for him to ride. He got on it a lot easier now than last month. I'll have to get a video if it later this week, because it is really cute. He can ride the horse and bounces up and down and it spins around. It also works with the TV to help him learn to count, but he is not quite ready for that yet. It plays "Old McDonald had a farm" and I think I can still hear that song in my head:-)