Lil' Dean Fam

Evan has been doing some of the cutest little things lately. He is learning how to speak in longer sentences. He's putting together the cutest phrases. During Christmas time he was saying, "Santa Clause is coming to town". It sounded a lot like "San-a coming now". He also learned to say "Shake your booty". Sounds a lot like "shaka bootee". He is becoming a real couch potato with all of the cold weather and yucky air. He'd watch movies all day long if I let him. He's constantly asking for "Dragon Movie On". The kids got this movie that came with Ryan's castle, some Imaginext thing with a dragon, we've seen it about a hundred times. Or, "Watcha Beast" (Beauty and the Beast). Tonya says he's always the first one to say "thank you" and that it's then very contagious. He'll tell everyone to dance, "buddy dance". Today in the car we were stopped at a red light and he said, everybod...

So last weekend, on Martin Luther King Jr. day, we were all home and planning on heading over to the Auto Show, when our plans changed... Ryan and Evan were playing in my bedroom and there were some Lego's that had fallen behind the TV. Ryan was trying to get them out and decided to give the TV a big shove. It fell right on top of Evan. I was in the next room, heard the crash, and then the screaming and ran in to see what had happened. I yelled for Colin's help and pulled the TV off of him. He was crying so hard and my very first thought was that his ribs were broken. Once we got him calmed down a little we realized that he was really favoring his leg. So we decided to watch him for a couple of hours. I had a doctor appointment in Provo so I went to that and called Colin on my way home. He said Evan was still favoring his leg. I decided to make an appointment to see his pediatrician. After about 30 minutes I realized that they probably didn't have an x-ray machine there so...

I'm not sure how the transition to toddler bed has gone for the rest of my mommy friends out there, but for us, it's been hard. Both times. When I was expecting Evan, Santa brought Ryan his "Cars Bed". I had no idea what I was in for. Finally one day in frustration, I got out my screw-driver and reversed the lock on his bedroom door so that I could lock him in there at nap-time. It worked. He went back to bed and don't worry, I always went back in to check on him. So Evan started climbing out of his crib a few months ago and that crib has seen better days, it's not exactly super-safe. So, I took down the drop-side and have "converted" it in to a toddler bed for him. At least when he climbs out he's not dropping down four feet. He won't stay in his bed. He's been out of his bed as many as eight times in one night. While Colin was away at school last week, I really had my hands full with the bedtime routine. I finally figured o...

Here's the Best of 2009 from the Lil' Dean Fam ! January : Dinosaur Museum to Washington D.C. for Ocean's blessing February: Valentine's Day Valentine's Day March: Moving into a house! Evan turning One! April : Easter Grandparents Ed & Veva Clegg celebrating their 60 th Wedding Anniversary! May: Mother's day Ryan finishing his first year of Preschool Colin turning 29 Colin teaching me how to shoot a hand gun June: Goldman BBQ Raining, Raining and more rain When the sun came out we tried out the new Water Park Cowabunga Bay July: Clegg Family Reunion at Cherry Hill Swimming Lessons for Ryan 4 th of July August: Visit from Nana Ryan starting his second year of Preschool Riding the Zipline at Utah Olympic Park Ryan turning 4 7 Peaks Water Park September Camping with Grandma & Grandpa October: Colin & Jen taking a get-away to Vegas! Halloween November : Thanksgiving with Great Grandma & Grandpa Ryan's first bowling...