The Skarin Family Blog

This was a cousins filled weekend! We hosted a Kavanagh cousins Appetizer Throw-Down on Saturday night and had a sleepover with Uncle Dan, Auntie Karin, Danny and Sean. The appetizer throw-down was full of fun, great company and wonderful food. Congratulations to Christi who took home the first place prize with her fancy deviled eggs, with a second place finish...

Yesterday, Evan attended his first super hero birthday party as we helped Danny celebrate his fourth birthday! We had planned to go to Uncle Dan and Aunt Karin’s for pizza and cake on Danny’s actual birthday, the 23rd, but we were sick and couldn’t make it. Luckily we were all feeling better in time for the party. All of the...

Evan got some bubbles in his favor bag from Danny’s fourth birthday party. He hasn’t yet figured out how they work but he sure likes them.

Before we left for Florida, Evan had just started crawling and wasn’t pulling himself up on furniture except for once or twice when he was highly motivated. That all changed quickly over the last few weeks. We knew that we needed to do some baby-proofing including dropping the mattress in his crib and were planning to do that once we...

Since Evan started crawling five weeks ago (five weeks?? really?? already??), he has become quite the little explorer. He has found places in our house that he didn’t knew existed and has found every electrical cord in the process. Evan has shown us all of the items that are within his reach that need to be moved if they aren’t...

Gramma and Evan often play this silly game of “Ah, ah, ah”. Gramma will put her hand up to Evan’s mouth and say “Wanna do it again?” Sometimes Evan does it all by himself, as he did the other night after dinner. I think it’s his way of telling us that he wants to go back to Florida!!

As I said to Bruce when we were on our way to the airport, I don’t think you should have to leave Florida on a beautiful day. I suppose then you would never leave though, right? Well today was our last day in the warm sunshine of Fort Myers. We had a mid-afternoon flight so we went to the pool...

Our last full day!! How can that be? This week has flown by so quickly! Today we took a ride out to Sanibel and Captiva Islands. It was the kind of day where the sky is that perfect, I-Want-To-Bottle-It-and-Paint-A-Room-That-Color shade of blue. We were planning to go to the Mucky Duck for lunch, a spot that Papa and Gramma really...

I guess I'm losing my cuteness factor...this is the only picture from today! (I guess as the week wore on, there were only so many pictures of Evan in the pool we thought we needed.) Today was actually a pretty busy and fun day, even though there are no pictures to prove it. Bruce played golf with Bill who was...

Well after one day of cool weather and rain, we are back to sunshine and blue skies today. It was still a bit cooler than it had been earlier in the week but nice enough to head back to the pool to test out Evan’s new boat and turtle. After spending the majority of yet another day in the sun,...