Ethan & his messes

Ethan is my little mess maker. He loves to make messes. I think it's his favorite thing to do. Thursday morning he was playing in his room while I was getting up & around. I went into get him dressed & changed when all of a sudden he started screaming. I went to pick him up but my hands slipped over him. He found a bottle of baby shampoo that had accidentally been placed in his dresser cubby in place of lotion. He managed to get it opened & get the foil ripped off. He spilled half the bottle on the carpet & had his face & hands covered in it. Good thing it was just the Johnson & Johnsons no tears kind. I got him all cleaned up & then had to tackle the carpet. Boy was that a pain to clean up. I had to use our Bissell Little Green to suck it all up. Instead of filling the vac with soap & water I just used water to help dilute the shampoo. It still took quite a while to clean it up. Of course Ethan stood & watched & kept proudly telling me "My mess". Yea it was a mess that's for sure.

Friday afternoon I was fixing him some lunch & he would not stop climbing the kitchen drawers. He kept squeezing himself between me & the counter. So I pulled him off 3 times & told him that we don't climb the counters. On the 4th time I picked him up to pull him away & right as I did he reached out & grabbed his Frog-O-Sphere. Ethan went with me & the frogs crashed to the floor. I had no chance of being able to even try to catch it. Sadly it did break. Water & rocks all over & the frogs hopped away. One hopped into the dining room & the other hopped under the fridge. I managed to catch the one frog in the dining room. I made the attempt to rescue the one that went under the fridge. I had to call my dad over to help me pull the fridge out. We never found the frog unfortunately. I did check the cabinet later but it was a futile look. I did call Brookstone (the store who sold it) & asked to see what we could do to replace the enclosure. I explained that I was able to rescue the one frog & that I had plenty of food. I was hoping that if they weren't able to exchange the enclosure that maybe I could just purchase the enclosure for less since I didn't have to buy the food, frogs, or tool to change the water. The store told me that the only thing that they guaranteed was the frogs but they decided to help me out & they said they would replace what I brought in & the one frog since I couldn't find it. What they did was just damage out one of theirs & switched the broken one with a new one & they gave me a new frog. The sales guy I talked to had told his manager that he really felt bad for my little boy & that I was so nice that he really wanted to do something to help a frazzled mother out. The manager felt the same way. So to repay them for their generosity to a curious 2 year old & a frustrated mommy I will mention the store here in the blog. Brookstone is the store & it's definitely one of our favorite places to roam when we go to the mall. They have all kinds of cool gadgets. Even if there wasn't much they could do I would still like them b/c I understand how all that stuff works. So if anyone has never heard of them they do have a web site www.brookstone.com check it out they really are a neat store. Sorry I felt I had to do something nice for the store since they did something so nice for me.

I hope everyone had a chance to watch the little video I posted. I put a lot of thought into the music. It only took me a few days to put together. I would have had it done sooner but my computer was in for repairs & I didn't get it back till a few days after Ethan's party. Then I had to load all my pictures from Ethan's birthday & his party, then edit them. I plan to do these little videos of him each year just to show how much he grows through out the year. I hope everyone enjoyed it. It's so hard to put a years worth of pictures into under a half hour video. There are so many cute ones it's hard to decide which ones to use.