Evan Blake Josselet has finally arrived! He was born today at 4:28 p.m.; weighing 8 lbs 3 oz; 22 1/4 inches long. I’m going to post TONS of pictures since mom and dad won’t be able to see him until Saturday. Get ready for cuteness overload!

Taylor was NOT sure about things when she and I first got there.

Look at all of that hair!

Don’t we all wish we could look as good as Elicia does right after giving birth?

I just love Blake’s expressions!

Taylor meeting Evan.

Isn’t he just so kissable!

First family picture!

Taylor talking to Bebe on the phone

He was NOT happy that he was unwrapped

At the nursery getting checked out!

(picture quality is not so good since I was taking them through the window)

Blake and his cheesy smile

Getting his first bath which he was NOT happy about.

So last week we went up to my parents house in Weatherford and stayed with them for 5 days. Peter has a model train convention in Addison the whole time so we took the opportunity to visit my parents! Thursday night we all went on a train ride from Grapevine to the Fort Worth stockyards and back which the kids both loved! Drew LOVED seeing the engine turn around on the turntable! Friday night we went to see the Fort Worth Cats play and then afterwards they got to see the fireworks. But I believe the highlight of the week was Drew and Ryan getting to see mom’s parrots that she is hand feeding. She is planning on selling them and Drew told mom that he would miss the birds after she sold them.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to take pictures like I was planning. My final project for my photography class was due on Saturday and I don’t have any pictures I wanted to submit. I was hoping to take shots of the kids by the train but it just didn’t work out that way. Oh well. Peter did take alot of pictures so I will have to get those from him to post to the blog!

I took the boys to the Waco Zoo today and they had a BLAST! It was hot and they were very tired by the time we left but it was a lot of fun!

Drew studying the map and planning where we were going to go. He carried the map around the whole time!

Ryan heard something loud and was walking up the path with his ears covered.

Gallapogos Turtle- this was the best picture I could get because he was too close to the fence to us.

The giraffes were my favorite!

Here are some pics of the boys playing in the sprinklers in the backyard today.

Ryan got squirted in the face with water and DID NOT like it.

And then got mad because Drew ran away from the sprinkler

Here are some pictures from Drew’s last day of preschool. They had a HUGE waterslide and then a "car wash" where the kids could wash various play cars, tricycles, etc. Drew had a lot of fun!

So I’ve started my new portraiture class and while we haven’t been instructed to start shooting- I decided to go outside and get pics of the boys playing.

Peter was mowing the lawn today and was wearing a mask so Drew got one and had fun wearing it!

We found a GREAT spot to take pictures on the railroad tracks. Unfortunately neither of the boys were very cooperative but I did manage to get some pretty decent shots.

We had a good time at Eric’s first birthday party!

Here are a few pics of the boys on the drive there.

Drew watching and listening to his DVD player

How adorable is this picture?

Then he wanted baby’s picture taken

And mickey

And Elmo

The weekend we went to Baton Rouge we stopped in Brenham and tried to get pictures of the boys in the bluebonnets. It was cloudy the whole way there and would have been PERFECT for taking pictures but when we got there it was completely sunny and neither of the boys wanted to take pictures. Here is what I got:

This past Saturday we went with Blake/Elicia/Taylor to Inner Space Caverns. Here are a few cute pictures of the boys- Drew was SOOOOOO excited to go!

We went to my mom and dad’s house for easter weekend. We went to the Josselet family reunion in Haskell on Saturday and then on Sunday we were in Weatherford at their house. Here are some cute pictures:

Saturday at the reunion

Easter morning:

His vocabulary is really starting to take off even more than it has been. He is now starting to put more and more 2+ phrases together. As I think of more of those I will update this entry.
chu-la-lay- Chick-Fil A

chokit- chocolate

come ooonn mama- come on mama

my turn

kissus- kisses

dedun- thank you

wecome- welcome

mmm good
TB- TV

stawbee- strawberry

Sheesha- Elicia

Taylor

Rondad

I sowwwy

right dere/in dere
San- Sam, the baby that my mom gave him that he just LOOOOVES.

i luh mama- I love you mama

We had Ryan’s birthday party on Saturday even though he won’t be 2 until the 7th. Ryan had a blast and loved all of his presents!

Outside playing in the bird bath

Ashleigh and Jamiel

Drew- he looks so big.

Ashleigh, Jamiel, and Taylor chillin in the swing

Birthday boy!

Ryan, Drew, and Taylor chillin in the swing

Awwww…look at those eyes!

Aunt Jenny, Jamie, and Jamiel

Such a cute picture!

Chris playing Drew’s Leapster. He never even looked up from the game when I was taking the pictures.

The grillmaster

Ryan and Drew eating at the picnic table that Bebe and Rondad gave Ryan for his birthday

mmmmmm….Elmo cake! It was delish!

Blowing out the candles

First of many bites of cake

YAY presents!

Ryan’s gift from Leigh and company- he loved the golf clubs so much that he didnt want to play with anything else.

The aforementioned golf clubs that he would not part with. In fact, he didn’t open any more presents after this- Drew did it all for him.

LOOK- TWO golf sets! Grammie and Poppop got him another one! And its definitely not going back! He loves them both!

Pinata time

Getting the loot!

The best ending to a perfect day- a hand full of lup-a-lups! (lollipops)

I was trying to teach Ryan how to sing happy birthday to me and he just gets this big smile on his face and then says “Happy Me!”

And when we ask him when Pop-pop is coming (or sub Bebe) he says “Bur-bay!

Then I ask him what kind of cake he is going to have and he says “Elmo”. Its way too cute!

Other words he is saying:

raffe- giraffe

gim- game

minky or pinky- monkey

i no-no- I don’t know
(will be back with more- my brain is not working)

So I took this picture of my assembly line while I was making my Scentsy basket testers. I changed the focal point to the left side and also changed my white balance to tungsten light. No flash used here! WOOT! Im finally getting this stuff down!

This one was completely in manual!

Canon DRebel Xsi
Focal length: 55 mm
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter speed: 1/125
ISO 100

We went to the park today for a St. Patty’s day party. Here are some pics that I took:

(special note- these were taken completely on manual setting! WOOT!)

Drew just keeps coming up with the funniest stuff…

~ So I’ve been sick the past week and a half but the past 5 or 6 days have been really bad. Drew asked me the other day if I would come outside and do the chalk paint with him on the back porch and I told him no since I wasnt feeling well. To which he replied “suit yourself!”

~  We went to McD’s for lunch and after we left I went through the drive-thru to get something for Peter. Drew asks if he can have an ice cream cone and I told him no. He starts whining and I told him that it would be nap time when we got home anyhow so he didnt need ice cream plus we had other snacks at home. So Drew says “how about this, I can have some sherbert when we get home.”

Ryan vocabulary seems to have taken off this past week or so. Here are some new, new words:

seet- sheet

gerrge- Curious George

eintein- Little Einsteins

ningle- train signal

boke- broke

chuch- church

puple- purple

duck- stuck

yaaap- he is a true Texan. He says this instead of “yeah?” when answering a question

all done-  when he gets put in time out he sits down and immediately says “all done?”

boogey boo- Drew and I started saying “boogeity, boogeity, boo” to each other so Ryan trys to immitate it

~So yesterday my mom called and asked to speak with Drew Kazmir. I said “Drew you have a phone call” and repeated it another time to which he told me me “Mama, you are going to have to take a message”.

~ Today when we got home from picking Drew up from preschool he asked me if he could have the other poptart that he didn’t eat this morning. I asked him if he was ready to go take a nap because he had turned off the TV and he said no. I said told him that he had 10 minutes before he had to go take a nap and he said “thats why I want my poptart now!” So he got his poptart and told me that he was going to watch TV until he finished his poptart. 5 minutes later I told him that he had 5 more minutes until he had to go upstairs and he said “yes mama, I remember”. This kid cracks me up!

New Ryan words:

nungies- nuggies

up and down- he says that when he is climbing on something

sort- shorts

sooos- shoe

sirt- shirt

airpane- airplane

idol- American Idol

lup-a-lup - now it means fruit rollup AND lollipop