Ethan's new trick

Ethan has learned a new trick. He's discovered ... the fridge.

If he leaves the living room he will run straight to the fridge and yank the door wide open.


He will then grab the gallon of milk and bring it to me.


With it in his hand, he will look at me and say "Juice?" telling me that he wants something to drink.


What a stinker. I'm trying to come up with a way to keep him out of the fridge. No luck so far, hopefully we'll come up with something soon.

"Love You"

Our nightly routine consists of getting Ethan dressed in his pajamas and heading upstairs to his room. He'll sit in his crib while Mart and I kneel to say our prayers. Ethan thinks that prayer time is really funny. He can't get over the fact that Mart and I kneel down and close our eyes. He used to giggle and play with our eyelids every time and now he will come to me and climb into my arms so I'm hugging him through the whole thing. After that's over, I look at him and say "Love you!", give him a kiss and tell him to lay down so I can tuck him in.

The other night, we went through the whole routine and as soon as I looked him the eye and said "Love you!" he looked back at me and said "Love you" back! It was so cute and I loved every second of it. Mart was a little jealous that he said it to me first and has been trying to get him to say it again ever since. One of these days he'll keep saying it.

I love that little man and I'm so glad he's mine.

Birthday's

We have so many birthday's in our family in November. To start the month off we have Kacean's on the 1st and Mart's on the 6th. I had Ethan help me make a present for both of them from him for their birthday. I bought some simple unpainted frames and gave him a paintbrush and some paint and showed him what to do.





He had so much fun painting and he did both of the frames all by himself. If he had left a spot without paint, all I had to do was point and he would paint it.



When they were both finished, we glued a giraffe to Mart's and a flamingo to Kacean's and put a picture of the two of them inside.


Happy Birthday Kace! We love you and appreciate all you do for us.



Happy Birthday Mart! Ethan and I love you so much and are so luck to have you in our lives! I can't believe you're 25!

This post is just a few pictures of Ethan and what he's been up to lately.


Whenever we try and wipe off Ethan's face he goes crazy. Big surprise, I know. All kids are like that. He doesn't mind getting his face wiped off though, if he can wipe off yours in return. So here is Mart wiping off Ethan's face, and Ethan wiping off Mart's face.



Ethan was snuggling up in a blanket and watching a movie on the couch while recovering from getting a little cold at the park. In the middle of his movie I went to sit by him and snuggle with him, and I reached my hand up the blanket and started tickling his toes. He's crazy ticklish on his feet and he couldn't help but laugh.


After church we usually just watch movies together as a family or take a nap and I went into the living room and saw Ethan just laying on the couch. I think he was ready for both a movie and a nap!


I know I've said it before, but Ethan loves the dogs. Here is a picture of Ethan playing with Stella. He will run across the room, grab something she wanted to play with, and run to the other side of the room and hide in a corner while she chases him, once he gets there he giggles and gives her whatever it is they are playing with, she'll bring it back and it'll start all over again.


Happy boy playing with his dogs.


And I know I've said this before, but Ethan loves the park! Now that it's starting to get dark a lot earlier we don't get as much park time in as we used to. We take him as often as we can still and just let him run around.


He's such a big boy now that he can climb to the top of the jungle gym and go down the slide by himself. Sometimes on the tube slides he twists while inside and comes out on his belly instead, but this time he came out all full of smiles. He loves the slides, they are by far his favorite thing at the park.


And when he's stuck at my house instead of at the park, he treats my living room like a jungle gym. He climbs up the couches, climbs up on the window seals or the end table and dives off them onto the couch again. Sometimes while he's on the window seal he'll just get behind the blinds and stare outside for probably an hour. He's definitely an outside boy.

Workshop

Mart has made our garage into a wood workshop and every Friday Traves will come over and they will work on projects. A month or so ago Traves made both of them new aprons. Here are the boys working out the the workshop.

Playing in the leaves

I love the fall and this year our fall was definitely not long enough. Ethan loves to play in dirt, water, with sticks, rocks, etc. Pretty much anything he can find outside. We thought he would love to play with the leaves as well. The first time we took him outside he was so grumpy he hated playing in the leaves. We would throw leaves on each other and it drove him crazy if anybody had any leaves stuck on them so he would spend 5 minutes picking them off of us. The second time we took him out to play, he liked the leaves a whole lot more. He actually played in them. The fact that they stuck to clothes did bother him again, but it didn't take all of his attention this time. What a funny boy.


Mart and Ethan blowing all the leaves to the center of the yard. We have a huge tree so we have a ton of leaves!


This is the second time we had him outside playing in them when he actually played.





After he finished playing with the leaves, he just sat under the tree playing with some dirt in a little hole that Sophie dug.

Halloween!

I have been so busy I'm finally getting around to updating my blog like crazy. Here are my Halloween pictures from this year. This year Ethan was Little Frankenstein and Mart was Mario. Ethan was so cute and so funny to take trick or treating. It was so much fun now that he was big enough to actually go out and do something.


Ethan all dressed up so I could take some pictures before we left.


Frankenstein and Mario



Can you tell how much he loves his daddy?




Ethan walking down the sidewalk holding his bucket. He wouldn't let anyone touch his candy bucket, he held it the entire time.




The first couple of houses we went to Ethan wasn't sure about what was going on or if he liked it. Once he figured out that if you knock on a door someone will open it and give you a treat he though it was awesome! He would barge up to the door and bang on it over and over again until someone opened the door and gave him a treat.

I love this picture because he's just so tiny and he was just banging away on the door before my niece and cousin even got to the door.


In my Grandma's neighborhood they have had a house that has a robot answer the door and they've had it since I was little. We took Ethan to it to see it again and it's pretty cool. He will roll up to the door and holds out a plate of treats, and then it talks to you and says "Happy Halloween!". It startled Ethan a little, but it didn't scare him.



Another one of Ethan's favorite parts, besides being given treats like crazy, was the fact that his bucket was full of treats and he could snack on them while he was walking.


It was a fun night and Ethan was so cute and so much fun to take trick or treating. Traves came with us too and we just hung out. In the end, Ethan had his whole bucket probably about 3/4 of the way full with treats, a huge pixy stick and a toothbrush. When we got home I weighed it to see how much weight he was carrying around the entire night and it weighed about 2 1/2 pounds! That's just under a 10th of his body weight! What a trooper.

First Dam

I completely forgot to blog about this and was reminded when I saw the pictures the other day on my computer. Mart works at Hot Topic as a side job and they had a small get together/party thing at first dam the end of September. We took a loaf of bread and Ethan to feed the ducks. Ethan LOVES ducks! We take him to the zoo and that's all he ever wants to look at and he talks about ducks all day long at home. He thought the ducks at first dam were awesome!
It was freezing and the water was so cold so we only stayed for about an hour, but while we were there we let Ethan feed the ducks some bread.


We started throwing small piece of bread into the water and the ducks slowly got closer to us. Ethan loved watching the ducks swim closer to us.



The more bread we threw, the closer they got.



Until they were about 2 feet away.





And then they got a little too close for comfort.



And took over our spot on the beach!



After they took over the beach the big ones in front came up on the lawn and toward our picnic table. I hate birds, they freak me out! I didn't like that they were coming that close to me so I kept running away. Everyone thought it was funny. Eventually one of the girls Mart works with chased them all away.

It was pretty funny to watch the ducks just swarm the bread. Ethan loved being that close to the ducks, he tried to hug them when they came on the beach. When it gets warm again, I am definitely going to take him back there.

Jabber Bug

Ethan thinks the phone is pretty awesome. He loves to just sit and jabber on it. The other day we had him hold Kacean's phone while Mart went in the other room and called him. He was so funny to just sit and watch, he was just chatting away.


And this picture is just me and Ethan. We don't have a lot of pictures together and this one turned out okay. My little baby is growing up! He's getting to be such a big boy.

"Hug!"

Today Ethan and I were hanging out in the living room, and I looked up at him and said "kiss?" and he finally ran over and gave me a big smooch. I lucked out and he did it 3 or 4 more times. He rarely gives kisses, but when he does he gives lots in a row then doesn't give anymore for a few more weeks. After he was finished with kisses he was standing by my tv and I looked at him, spread my arms out and said "hug?" and he ran into my arms and gave me a big hug. After he was done giving me a hug he ran back to the tv, spread out his arms and asked me "hug?" after I replied with "hug?" he would run forward and leap into my arms and give me a big hug.

I love days like this!