Dinner

When we eat dinner at home Evan has an amazing ability to wake up hungry just when we're sitting down, usually to a plate of delicious BBQ. Even if he just ate an hour prior he still senses dinner time for us. I guess it's a gift. Jeff or I will then give Evan a bottle (we keep one in the fridge for times like these) and we alternate who gets to eat their food while it's still hot. This makes for long, sometimes relaxing, dinners on the deck that have a way of consuming the evening.

But it's a different story when we go out to eat. At restaurants Evan quietly observes the goings-on with eyes wide with curiosity, or more commonly he just lays asleep in his car seat. He likes to order the pizza margherita, ha ha. (It's obvious this picture wasn't taken at Apizza Scholls. Not to worry Louise, we've taken him there too.)


On his first trip to McMenamins Rock Creek Evan decided he also wanted dinner. We deployed Jeff's finger first (it works better than the pacifier) then we graduated to the bottle.



We like this place because its woodsy setting makes you feel like you're at summer camp. They have live music in the evenings and a huge fire pit on the deck where they burn cedar logs that smell fantastic. They use a flame thrower contraption to light the logs. Cool. Sadly, no pictures of the flame thrower but here are some of Evan and me after we ate.