Times are changing!

So I have two updates for everyone. The first is that Kevin is now 20 months old. In the last month I can see so many ways he has changed. He is beginning to listen when we say NO, he is also really getting good at ignoring us. :-) I think we are probably beginning to see the terrible two's. He really does not like getting into his carseat. We let him run up to the car and climb in, but he wants to drive or sit in the passenger seat. When "try" to put him in his seat he screams, arches his back, or tries to climb over the back of his seat. It is really a production. He is also seeing a lot more of timeout. Which right now is him being put in his crib. I can't get him to sit in a corner or stay put for a regular time out. But today he successfully climbed out of his crib during timeout. Over the baby monitor I heard some of his noisy toys in his room go off and realized for them to go off he had to have crawled out of his crib.

He does have his sweet moments though. He is learning to hug by wrapping his arms around your neck. And if you go to put him down and he doesn't want to, he will wrap his legs around your waist really tightly. He loves to give high fives, fist bumps and blow kisses. He also really likes to pat people and say their name, or at least try to identify them correctly. So for me he would pat my chest and say Mommy, for Steve he would say Daddy. He often likes to call himself Daddy or Mommy though. I am trying to get him to say his own name, but he can't quite wrap his tongue around it yet. He also likes to look at pictures around the house and identify Mommy and Daddy. But everytime I show him a picture of himself he says Daddy. Pretty funny. :-)A cute photo of Kevin. He has figured out how to open our drawers. So he opened my sock drawer and put on socks and then he found one of my bathing suits and decided to "put" it on.




Our second update is that we have decided to give the inside of the house a bit of a makeover. As many of you know the paint colors in our kitchen, breakfast area, and living room are green and purple. Well we decided to turn the green into a different shade of green. So over the last two days after Kevin has gone to bed, Steve and I have painted like crazy. For the most part it is done. I do have some touch ups here and there, and eventually we may turn some purple into green. I thought it would be neat to show you some pictures of before and after. I don't have the valances back up or things hung on the wall, but you get the idea. :-)



This photo was taken this past year at our Memorial Day BBQ.

A shot of the living room.


This was taken after day one of painting. You can see the difference between the colors.



And how the dining room looks now.

The living room now.