Booty Day and Baby #3

Yesterday--August 7th--we celebrated Evan's "Butt Day" (Booty day in our family since we're REALLY trying to eliminate butt & poop from our vocabulary. BTW, any tips on how to do that with a 2-year old who thinks those words are hilarious?)

Booty day is the anniversary of our fetal surgery, when the doctors got a sneak peak of Evan's back and booty before he was born. Not exactly a lovely day in my book, but it's a celebration of how awesome Evan is doing 6 years later. Today is my niece's 6th birthday. Her due date was a few days earlier but we always say she waited with Evan in heaven until after his surgery, and then she was ready to come to earth. We had frozen yogurt to celebrate.

Evan has started losing teeth the normal way. The first one he lost was during Primary at church. He didn't tell anyone it came out. He just held onto it and showed me after church was over. The second one was lost when we went to the movies one day. ($1 summer movies, yay!) Again, he didn't tell me until a few hours after we were home. He is in complete denial that he ate the tooth, but it would have been an easy mistake to make with all the popcorn chewing going on. I suggested he write a note to let the tooth fairy know what happened. He's convinced she found the tooth at the theater and that's why she left some money. Now we just need to work on growing teeth back.

"Tooth Fairy,
I lost a tooth"

"at the theater.
Thank you.
Evan"

This summer has been an adventure with the two brothers. Evan and Seth love each other one second and are screaming at each other the next. They share things and then they take things away. They hop into bed with each other and then one kicks the other out. They have been playing so hard all summer. Less TV, more trouble making. When Evan starts to whisper things to Seth I know trouble's a-brewin'. I can only imagine what it will be like when Boy #3 comes in November. Yes, baby #3 is a boy! We're super excited!

Blue for a boy!

Since Evan has been home all day, Seth has stopped going to his room for naps. Instead he falls asleep in every other place imaginable. They play hard and crash hard.