Waking up in the middle of the night is not uncommon for mom and dad these days. For mom, its feeding Max when he wakes up in the middle of the night. For me, its Tyler coming in to our room and standing by my head until I wake up and walk him back to his room. Sometimes, Evan will wake up because he lost his nook and he needs it back. For Evan, last night was a different story. Around 3am we started hearing some whining coming from his room. Packed with a nook I was ready to get him back to sleep. When I got to his room though I found out that it was not a missing nook that was bothering him. To give you a better idea of what I saw we reenacted last nights event.

So what do we have going on here? Well, we have rain boots; we have a wooden puzzle board and a book being used for a pillow; and what you dont see is all the sand that came out from the rain boots….

Who is who? Can you tell?

Tyler is starting to learn that his brother is no longer a pushover…

What? Its May already? Things have been busy here in the Chowanec household. Its been a while since ive posted pictures but ive finally gotten around to adding a few. Hopefully ill be able to add more soon. Kristin was happy in the first picture because she was making a cake. The last picture is after I told her I was joking about helping her clean up The pictures of Tyler were taken after I told him he had to go to bed…

Kristin told me the other week that I have not done anything “creative” for her in a while. It took a lot of thinking and finally someone at work gave me a great idea. The results are below. Kristin loves it!

So it’s been a rough week in the Chowanec household.  It started with me in the emergency room with Evan on Sunday night because of his wheezing.  We found out that he had come down with RSV, a respiratory virus, and a double ear infection!  Tyler wasn’t sounding great either so Aron stayed home and took the boys into the doctor on Monday to find out that Tyler had the same thing and an ear infection as well!  So we have been home all week trying to get better.  Evan was back at the doctor today and I’m told he is improving.  Now we have to hope that Aron and I don’t catch the virus.

So during the week at home Evan decided to learn a new ‘trick’.  I came home from work to find him happily sitting all by himself!  He is very happy about this new skill because he can now see everything going on around him.  He especially loves to watch his big brother play.  I thought I’d share a few pictures I took of him today sitting all by himself!

Enjoy,

Kristin

Happy New Year from The Chowanec Family!  We hope that 2009 brings many blessings for you and your family!

I thought I’d share a few pictures from the Christmas celebration at The Chowanec house. Tyler was a very good boy this year. Santa heard his plea for Whac-a-Mole, which besides Hungry Hungry Hippos, was his favorite gift!  Tyler asked on Christmas night if we put cookies and milk out again would Santa come back?  We had to explain to him that this only works one night a year.

Tyler has been talking about wack-a-mole for the past week non stop. We did not get him wack-a-mole for Christmas though. Looks like ill be going to the store today…

Tyler just wants to be in all the pictures