The Skarin Family Blog

We have a Christmas tradition that started a few years ago of making cookies and giving away tins to family members.  This is something Bruce used to do as a child and it has been fun for us to continue the tradition.  Some years get quite out of hand…making six or seven different kinds and multiple dozens of each.  This...

We decided to decorate a little earlier this year than normal.  It’s a good thing we did because it took us an entire week to be completely decorated!  We had lots of help from our best little pal and so far he has been really good about looking but not touching too many of the decorations.  Thankfully!  With all the...

As a special treat this morning, Bruce bought a few donuts when he went to Dunkin’ Donuts for coffee.  Evan was very excited and stuffed his face.  What kid doesn’t like donuts? Cheeks full of donut! A big fan of the chocolate ones...just like Danny!

This morning Evan got a hold of the keyboard that we use for the entertainment center.   I think he thought Santa came early this year. But he knew just what to do with it! Wonder where he learned that from?

We are having a holiday cocktail party with a few friends tomorrow and today Evan was helping me get ready for it. Helping mommy clean the floor Squirting mommy!                                      Hammin' it up for the camera  Laying down on the job!

Evan played play-doh with daddy for the first time tonight.  He loves it but we don’t do it too often yet.  Daddy was making some pretty advanced things (a fancy car, an airplane and an elephant).  Evan will quickly learn that Daddy is a much better play-doh-er than Mommy! Watching the car assembly and requesting an elephant at the same...

We had a play date with Em and Annalia today.  On the way there, with about ten minutes left in the drive, Evan started screaming, “Lia! Lia!” from the back seat.  I guess he was really excited to see her.  You would never know this from the way he “played” with her though, or rather the way he ran away...

You may remember the touchdown video from earlier in the Pats season. Embedded video from the original blog is no longer available. Well this week during the game, Evan was yelling for a touchdown when the Eagles had the ball.  We didn’t want him rooting for the wrong team (sorry, Chuck!) so we taught him to say “De-Fense!”

…We all scream for ice cream!  Who doesn’t love an ice cream sandwich?  Especially when it’s “free” with the purchase of a kids meal!

Who needs snow to go sledding?  Not this little guy!