Seeing Santa!

Evan got over his chest cold pretty well, thankfully. I think his ear is bothering him though, I did notice him tugging on it and pressing on his head above his ear tonight. I gave him some Tylenol so hopefully that will help. Dr. Coyne said that he had some fluid in his ear when I brought him in last week.

Tomorrow morning we're going to go see Santa. I'm so excited. I met the PERFECT Santa at work a few weeks back. It's going to be a bit of a drive to see him but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I'm still debating on what I'm going to have him wear but I'm thinking it'll be his green plaid shirt and either overalls or jeans. I'll probably have to see him in both to decide.

Next week is Thanksgiving, my cousin Shane and his family are coming up from Texas. His youngest son's baptism is on the Saturday following Thanksgiving so that'll be fun. I haven't seen Shane since before my wedding I don't think. I'm really looking forward to seeing them. There will be lots of pictures of Evan and his cousins, that's for sure.

Evan is super close to crawling now. He was trying to reach his box of toys earlier today and I saw him scoot his body closer to get it. It'll be any day now. He's pretty mobile though, he can move around on the floor just fine without actually crawling. He will roll himself to where he wants to be which is pretty dang cute. Okay okay, so I think everything that kid does is pretty dang cute. But I'm his mommy, I'm supposed to think that.

He's been chowing down a lot of food lately which is really fun. He'll eat basically anything you put in his mouth. The only things he doesn't like are the rice and oatmeal cereals. I gave him the jarred rice cereal and peaches and he yummed that up just fine. I think it must be that it's so bland. But I tried mixing the cereals with fruits and that didn't even cut it. So I guess I'll just stick with the jarred stuff.

I'm so excited about tomorrow. I know it's silly but it's going to be so neat to see my boy sitting with Santa. I remember last Christmas season when Chris and I were at Cabela's and I saw the kids sitting with Santa and I cried  because this year my baby'd be sitting there with him. It's unreal.

I was watching him earlier and he was just playing with his toys and it just hit me that that's my baby. That's the little guy that would kick me in the ribs and have hiccups non-stop and would snuggle up so sweet when he was just a newborn. I can't believe how much he's grown and changed in such a short period of time. He's so big and happy and active.

I'm so grateful that I'm his mommy. I couldn't have been more blessed.
I love my Bear.

Sweet dreams!