The Schnittker Family

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Crazy Bed Head!

This is what Evan's hair looked like when he woke up in the morning. I think it might be time for a hair cut soon!

Happy Napper

This is the precious face that I get to see when Evan wakes up from his nap.

Last Thursday Nick, Evan and I took a short road trip to Maumee, Ohio. We went to visit my college friends, Tracy and Heather and see their precious, new baby girl, Scout. They live several hours away in Pennsylvania, but were visiting Heather's parents this past week. We hadn't seen Tracy or Heather since our wedding and we had never met little Scout. She was born very prematurely and spent a long time in the NICU, but now at 8 weeks old, Scout is about 6 pounds. I was blown away by how tiny she was and couldn't believe that now she weighs almost twice what she weighed when she was born. She is truly an absolutely beautiful blessing to Tracy and Heather and she is doing so very well! When Tracy held Evan up to Scout, she was amazed with how much bigger his hands were than hers.

Evan was meeting Scout for the first time.

Evan giving Aunt Tracy a big hug. This was before he spit-up his lunch all over her. She had fun bouncing him up and down several times, which resulted in her wearing his lunch.

Nick is ready for another baby.

Look at how tiny Scout is! She is so sweet!

Evan found the golfer boy to play with.

Tracy was helping Evan pet McKenzie and Maggie.

Evan didn't know what to think of Scout. He kept pushing her away.

He likes her!

Tracy with Scout, Me with Evan. Tracy thinks they are future "Muskies."

As we were leaving Heather's parent's house, our car decided not to work right. Something went wrong with the transmission and we had to call for a tow truck. Thankfully we hadn't made it out of their housing development, so Tracy, Heather, Heather's mom and Scout came to our rescue. They were getting ready to head to the grocery store when I called them, so they stopped and picked Evan and I up while Nick stayed with our car to wait for the tow truck. It was so cute to see Evan and Scout sitting next to each other in their car seats. After some shopping and some time spent waiting in the car dealership parking lot, we were able to get a rental car and we were on our way home. Although it was a pretty crazy afternoon, it was wonderful to get to spend some more time with the girls!

Evan and Scout shared the middle seat.

Our rental car.

Evan is ready to go home.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Ready For School?

On Monday and Tuesday of last week I took Evan with me to work in my classroom for a few hours. I have a new classroom this year so I have a lot of work to do to get my classroom ready for school. For the first time in 12 years I will have a regular sized classroom! Honestly, I don't know what I am going to do with all of the extra space. Evan loved the big classroom; He was everywhere! He crawled underneath, around and through the desks, bookshelves, chairs, and tables. It looked like my classroom was his little obstacle course. On Monday I had a slight scare. I was taking books off of a bookshelf so that I could move it and Evan was navigating his way around my classroom. He was pounding on the top of my mini refrigerator and when I looked over to check on him there was red all over the back of the fridge and all over his left hand! He had been running his hand up and down the back of the fridge where there is a grid covering the fan and he cut his finger. He didn't even cry! The blood was all over his hand and I had a hard time figuring out where he was cut because he wouldn't hold still. I wiped his hand off as best as I could with a burp cloth and with the help of Linda, the school secretary, I was able to get a bandaid somewhat loosely on his finger. Of course he kept playing with it and eventually pulled it off. The second bandaid stayed on long enough to get the bleeding stopped. The cut wasn't even that big, but boy did it bleed a lot!