Evan James Barker

January 28, 2011

6:24 pm

6 lb. 15 oz.

20.5 inches

Christmas Eve

I am still trying to play catch-up on all my posts so you will have to excuse the two last Christmas updates!

Here are my lovelies on Christmas Even in their sweet new pajamas and slippers. It was all extra fun this year because they both understood how things were going to happen with Santa and the presents.

Ethan, of course, had to show off his Toy Story slippers.

We left cookies out for Santa on our fireplace. When Ethan woke up in the morning he ran out there and saw the empty plate. The first thing he did was turn and look at me and say, "Hey! Who ate the cookies!!". So I asked him, "Well, who do you think!?". His reply: "Daddy!". We had to explain that Santa was the one who ate the cookies. It was funny.


Here was Ellie's spread.

I found this kitchen for $6 and cleaned it up and added the vinyl. I think it turned out pretty darn good!

Ethan's spread.

This train was a huge hit too. We had this to go around our tree and both kids thought that was the coolest thing they had ever seen.

Ethan's Workout

Jacob has been running on our treadmill at night and doing sit-ups, push-ups and just general stretches. Ethan feels as though this is "boy time" and must do everything Jacob does. Now, just to note, Jacob does not do any of this in his underwear like Ethan feels the need to. Jacob wears shorts!! But since Ethan was just wearing his underpants (Toy Story onces, of course) and a t-shirt, the shirt came off and this was the result!

Sit-ups are really hard when you are only four years old!

Push-ups are even harder. Especiall when it comes to keeping that cute little tush down.

And of course, touching your toes is easy when you have this wonderful posture going on!

And then he had to run on the treadmill too. Jacob stood by him and pushed all the buttons for him. He was going "super fast"! I think it was like 2 maybe 2 1/2 miles per hour. He had quite the workout.

and then these legs went straight to bed

because they were all tuckered out from their intense workout.

BOOTS!!

My Grandma and Papa Barrow (or Grandma and Papa Pow, as the kids call them) were here for a few weeks around Christmas time. They absolutely and totally spoiled my kids. Toys, attention, treats, and these boots.

These were by far the best thing they have gotten. As I mentioned in a previous post, they are really into Toy Story. So Ethan was thrilled to have Woody boots and Ellie to have Jesse boots.

It just so happened that the next day at Ethan's preschool was his pajama party and his turn for show and tell. So he wore his Woody pajamas, his cowboy boots and took the remote control car they bought him for show and tell. He said he had the "BESTEST outfit" of all the kids.

Temple Square

Of course every Christmas we visit Temple Square to see the lights. It is always so beautiful and the kids loved it this year.

I think this hat makes Ethan look like he has a "Brother Brigham" beard. But that's ok, it keeps him toasty warm!

I love Ellie's hat too. The Minnie ears are so her.


And every once in a while I can get a picture that shows that they actually do love each other.

I had to add this picture because if you look closely you will notice that Ethan is wearing MY gloves. We were at the Reflection Pool and we told him MANY MANY MANY times to not touch the water. Well, that went well. So his gloves were soaked and me and Jacob took turn sharing his gloves so our fingers didn't freeze either.

Christmas Clothes

These were the best pictures I could get of the kids in their Christmas Church Clothes.

I made Ellie's dress. It is a peasant dress and turned out super cute.

I know you can't really see it in the picture so you'll just have to take my word on it.

Ethan was good lookin in his suit. And no...we did not take Iron Man to church with us. Just on the car to church and the way home.

Arm Pillows

Ethan and Ellie have been watching Toy Story 2 lately. ALOT. We watch it everyday. And if I am feeling like a lazy pregnant lady - sometimes twice. Anyway, they pick up some of the weirdest things from movie. Phrases, actions, and then they turn them into their own little games and put their own spin on them. Well in the movie Woody climbs up on Bullseyes back and says "Upsa Daisy" while Bullseye pushes Woody up on to Al's stomach to stead his broken arm back.

One day I was in cooking dinner and they were in the fron room playing this new game. Except this time Ellie only made it half way up onto the back of the couch and Ethan went to help her over by yanking on her arm to hoist her over to the other side. Apparently he yanked way too hard and the next thing I heard was bloody screaming from Ellie. I thought she was fine so we waited, she was still crying, we waited some more, she was still crying. So finally I took her to the night clinic. They took X-rays and couldn't see anything but she was still very upset and wouldn't let anyone touch her arm.

So the Dr. put this half cast on her arm and sent us home with an appointment the next day to see a dr. who knew a little bit more about these kinds of things. We went back the next day and the dr.'s diagnosis: She is FINE!! Just a big weenie and really good at getting what she wants.

This is what really made her feel better during her time of distress. I have no clue what they were watching but as long as she was sitting with her Papa Pow she was happy. She called her cast her "arm pillow" and actually cried when we took it off after the second dr. appointment

Onions

My mom and I canned salsa this year. Ethan so desperately wanted to help that we let him help cut the onions. As much as his eyes watered he thought it was the funnest thing to help.

He did a good job.

He is an awesome helper.