Evidently Evan...

Evan has been growing by leaps and bounds, even though I've been behind in blogging. Last week Mark and I weighed him on our scale at home, and he was 1/5th of a pound shy of 22 pounds! Yes, our 7-month old bouncing bundle of boy is nearly 22 pounds! He's making very good progress on crawling too. He lunges forward and reaches far with his hands, often resting on his hands and knees for a few seconds. When on his tummy, he pushes with his hands, which causes him to go backwards. These things, in combination with rolling, can usually get him where he wants to go (and quite far from the starting point). I'm scratching my head, wondering how our house can be baby proof when we're trying to move! Argh!

Here are a few exerpts of Evan's adventures...

Here is Evan wearing an outfit from his Grandma and Grandpa Baxter. The tag says "12 months" on it. Most of Evan's clothing now is 12-18 months, with the odd 9-months here and there.

The hat his cousin Jenna made for him still fits (barely)!

He likes clacking blocks together, but even more, he likes playing with the container!

A new winter coat

So cute in his overalls!

Superman pajamas!!

Evan was born on the exact same day as this beautiful baby girl (about 8 hours later, in fact). I am friends with her mother, and we would have never predicted that we would have our babies on the same day. Evan met her for the first time yesterday, and as soon as he was in close proximity to her, he immediately started trying to take off her socks (something he does multiple times a day with his own socks).

Evan looks like Santa Claus with his white "beard" (only dressed in blue).

Photo taken just today with our friend Xavier. The last time Xavier saw Evan can be seen if you click here. Xavier was impressed with how much Evan had grown since the last time they saw each other!

In other news, we bought our plane tickets back to the USA recently. We fly out of France on January 10th. That will be exactly 2 years and 1 day since the day we landed here.

Up next, Michelle and Dan's adventures in Lyon!!