Company for breakfast and more artwork

One morning this past week, Evan had company for breakfast. Brown Bear decided to join Evan and helped eat his cereal. It was really cute seeing him prop Brown Bear up onto the chair. He wasn't satisfied until he was sitting just right.

Evan and Brown Bear...

Art and gym class! The theme was the Olympics and Evan really enjoyed playing with all of the sports equipment during gym class. He definitely loves sports! In art class the children made shoes on grass...

Evan showing us his artwork...

Evan really enjoys making artwork. It's fun to see the different art projects he creates!

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Fourth of July! The Mears family had a good day today. We ate Daddy's BBQ ribs, potato salad, and had strawberry & blueberry shortcakes for dessert. Our 4th of July celebration was complete with the fireworks show in Germantown. We were lucky in that they were shooting off the fireworks at the local soccer sportsplex near our house. We actually rode our bikes around the trails earlier that day and saw where they were set up. So we didn't have to fight with traffic! Love that!

Pretty!

Evan didn't want to get out of his stroller, so he watched them in there...

Once we figured out where the better seats were to see the fireworks, we had a great view...

Evan did really well for his first fireworks show. He wasn't scared and was intrigued by the colors and lights...

Boom!Evan said he was going to catch the fireworks. He sure tried!

He really liked them; however, Evan was pretty tired. He fell asleep...

Once they were over, Evan asked if he could see more fireworks. He's been talking about them ever since!

Gravelly Point

When Daddy flew back from New Hampshire this afternoon, Mommy thought it would be nice to have a picnic at Gravelly Point and see the planes take off from Reagan National Airport. Gravelly Point is right next to the airport and when the planes take off, they go right over this park. Lots of people have picnics there and enjoy the planes swooping into the sky.

Here was Evan waiting for Daddy in the cell phone waiting lot...

Eating lunch...

Here comes a plane...

I see it!

You can see the plane coming off the runway...

Just into the air...

There it goes...

And away it flies...

Sometimes this was Evan's reaction when the planes were just overhead (they were really close, big, and loud!)...

All in all Evan (and Mommy and Daddy) thought this was really neat. Evan kept asking to go back and see more planes!

Run, run, run with some artwork thrown in

Time seems to be flying by fast, just like Evan flies by when he's running around and around and around the kitchen island... These pictures were taken a few weeks ago. One night Evan had tons of energy and was running around the kitchen.Boy, running in circles can make a kid tired! What an adorable face! Having a blast!
What tends to happen when Evan is running around the island is that Daisy joins in the fun. She loves to chase Evan and barks in amusement... Daisy girl...Evan also loves to make faces at Daddy or Mommy. He'll bring his face down really low... And then his eyes, face, and eyebrows up really high... Besides running around and making faces, Evan has really been enjoying his art/gym class on Tuesday evenings. Last Tuesday, June 23, Evan made a rocket... He was so proud of the rocket, he put it on the refrigerator right away... This past week, June 30, Evan made fireworks (complete with stars!)... He loves art class and making projects! Of course, not all of the stars stayed on the artwork when we came home! Evan did put them back on eventually!
Proud little man...

Two for 2's

Evan has been going to his "gym", Romp n' Roll, for a while now. He loves it! For the summer session we had originally kept him in the same class he was doing before, Tumble Tunes. Basically it was a gym class with lots of music intermixed. Well, this session a lot of the children from his Tumble Tunes class moved to Two for 2's. It's a combo of art and gym. We decided to try it out and possibly switch him if Evan did well. The first class was last night and Evan had a blast! We were concerned with the "structure" of art class but he loved it! He was so thrilled to paint. Last night the children got to paint art smocks. They picked out their smock colors themselves and painted them with different brushes, sponges, and stamps. After art class they went into the gym and burned off some energy. A great class! We cannot wait to see what Evan will make next week!

Thomas the Tank Engine

This past weekend we headed to Lancaster County, PA, to visit the Strasburg Rail Road. Sounds like fun, huh? The true reason we went to Strasburg was because Thomas the Tank Engine was there! We kept telling Evan that he was going to see the "real" Thomas and he was definitely looking forward to it!

Here are Evan and Daddy by the trains...

Evan was saying, "There's Thomas!" There he is! Thomas... Evan could not take his eyes off of him! Next we saw Sir Topham Hat. Evan wasn't too thrilled to see him. There's Thomas again! Daddy and Evan watching Thomas pull away... Here is a big train engine that pulled into the station... Neat, huh?! Next we were able to take a train ride on Thomas! Here is an adorable picture of Daddy on the Thomas Train... Mommy trying to get Evan to look at the camera...Relaxing on the train... Hmmm...what's out here? Soooo cute! Mommy and Evan on the Thomas Train... Evan looking out the window... He really enjoyed the train ride! Looking out the window at a Lancaster Co. farm... "There's a school bus!" Watching an Amish farmer work the field with his horses... Here was another train we rode in Strasburg... It was really big! Ha!

Strawberry Time!

It's strawberry time here in Maryland! We have a local orchard (Butler's Orchard) that has pick-your-own fruit and the Mears family headed out last weekend to get some strawberries. It was fun! I had forgotten my camera then, so I made sure to bring it this past weekend when we picked some more.

Here is Evan picking strawberries... Such a great helper! Check out his bucket... Are these good? This one looks yummy...Evan was such a great helper! He loved picking the berries. You want me to pick how many more? Helping Daddy... No, Daddy, over there! Walking over the berry plants... Helping Mommy... Evan would take some berries that Mommy picked and dump them into the big container that Daddy was carrying. He had fun!