Mommy had ANOTHER SNOW DAY!

Yes, I had another snow day! In fact, I only had two days of school this week. I had Monday off for Presidents' Day, had a snow day on Tuesday and another snow day on Friday. That makes a total of six snow days. As of right now I love getting the extra days to hang out with Evan and Nick. I am pretty sure that  I won't like all of the snow days quite as much come June. It's not going to be fun making up all of these snow days at the end of the school year.

Here are a few pictures that I took of Evan while we were hanging out on Friday. Nick was busy trying to clean off the driveway and we were nice and warm inside.   

Evan Rolled Over!

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling!

Evan was lying on his back on his little play mat today while Nick was sitting on the couch working on the computer. He looked up to check on Evan and noticed that he was on his tummy. He had rolled over! Nick rolled him back over onto his back, which didn't make Evan very happy. He grabbed the video camera and taped Evan as he proceeded to roll over again! Nick wanted to surprise me with the video so he kept it a secret from me all day long! I had a long day at school today because I had parent/teacher conferences and didn't get home until after 8:00. Grandma and Grandpa Schnittker were watching Evan tonight since Nick had to work. He even told his parents to keep the secret from me. I was so bummed out that I missed seeing him roll over for the first time, but I was very thankful that Nick video taped it for me. I put Evan on the floor tonight and after a few failed attempts, he was able to roll over for me. Now we're in trouble... He's one step closer to being mobile!

Slobbery Mess

Evan still spits up all the time! He also drools a lot! I know that he can't help it, but it gets so frustrating sometimes. We go through countless amounts of bibs and burp cloths. We have to change his clothes frequently because they either have spit-up on them or they are soaking wet from all of his slobber. Tonight I had to change his bib three times in less than a two hour period. I feel like I am always doing his laundry so that we have clean bibs to put on him and a clean burp cloth to wipe off his slobbery face. Even with us changing his bibs as often as we do, his poor little chin  and chubby cheeks still break out from all of the moisture. To add to the frustration, I can't tell you how many times we have changed his outfit because it has been spit-up on, and he proceeds to spit-up on the new outfit as we are putting it on him. Just the other day, Nick gave Evan a bath and handed him to me because I had his towel to dry him off. Of course, he spit-up and it rolled down his chin and all over his clean little belly. Again, this is SO FRUSTRATING! We put him back into the bath and washed him off again.

 We have been giving him medicine for Acid Reflux, but it doesn't seem to be helping the amount of spit-up. Evan prefers to gnaw on his hand instead of using a Binky. He always seems to have either his whole hand, a few fingers or even his thumb in his mouth. While he is gnawing on his hand, he tends to babble quite a bit as well. He has recently started playing with his tongue too. He sometimes "sucks" on his tongue. I know it sounds weird, but it really looks like he is sucking on his tongue some how. This too contributes to the massive amounts of slobber on his chin and bib. Hopefully he will outgrow this spit-up stage at some point. I know that this is just part his normal development, but I just feel so bad for him. I also know that the slobbering will only get worse once he starts teething. Yippee! 

Evan getting bath # 2

Daddy trying to clean off all of the spit-up under Evan's chin. 

Mommy's Model

A good friend of mine from college makes these super cute hats for little girls. She has started selling them on Etsy, so I wanted to support her business. Since I don't have a little girl to wear the cute hats, I bought two of the hats for my cousin Beryl who is having twin girls in June. I ordered the hats to fit a 3-6 month old baby. Since Evan is a 3 month old, I decided to have him try it on to see what it would look like. I think he looks pretty darn cute! Nick wasn't too thrilled that I was posting this picture of Evan, but he said it was alright as long as I explained why Evan was wearing a girl's hat. Beryl's little ones are going to look so cute in those hats. If you want information on where you can purchase a hat like the one Evan is modeling, let me know. 

Evan likes being a model.

Oreos

A couple of weeks ago we went over to visit Grandma and Grandpa Schnittker. Aunt Tara was also there. Grandpa Schnittker was eating some Oreos and let Evan try to lick one of them. As you can see, he did not really know what he was supposed to do with the Oreo! 

Aunt Tara with Evan after he tried to lick an Oreo!

Evan's Oreo face.

Future Boxer?

Evan likes to sit in his little rocking chair and hit the elephants.