A lesson learned about death

So yesterday the inevitable finally happened to Ethan's lone betta, he died. The poor thing has been sick for a while but I could never figure out what was wrong with it. About a week ago I noticed it wasn't hardly coming to the surface for food and a few days ago I noticed that most of it's tail has disintegrated. So I knew it was eventually going to die and that happened yesterday. So Ethan saw me trying to get the betta out of the tank and asked "What happen to my fishy?" I explained that he has been sick and just couldn't fight it so unfortunately he died. Ethan watched curiously as I got the fish out then tells me "Oh, that happens. Fishy died" and then runs off to go catch up to his daddy to play outside. I thought it was so cute. It's amazing how he just accepted the answer and went off to do his own thing with daddy. I am purdy glad I didn't have to explain what death means. I know that day is coming but for now I'm happy I didn't have to try to explain it to him b/c he is not the best at paying attention to when things get explained to him yet LOL.

Ethan has been having a blast playing outside the last few days. Yesterday I plunked him in some swim shorts and let him run around outside like that. He's discovered bugs and is obsessed with them. There are bumblebees that hover around the corner of our garage right by the carport and he is freaked by them. That is where he sets up his little basket ball hoop and likes to play basketball. Now he won't go near that area b/c he doesn't want the bees to play with him. We have been trying to find the hive but we can't seem to find it. I just try to tell him that if he leaves the bees alone they will leave him alone. He is intrigued by ants. He likes to get down on the ground and watch them and he doesn't like it when Matt sprays them with bug spray. I had a couple that were on my toes yesterday and he went ballistic about it. I tried to tell him they aren't going to hurt me but he freaks out about them anyways. So I have been finding it hard to get him to go play b/c he is freaked by the bugs. He doesn't want them to play with him. It's funny, cute, and a little annoying at the same time. I hope he gets over it soon b/c bugs are part of nature and being outside.

I have started a blog for Ethan's little brother/sister so people can follow the baby through the pregnancy. I wish I had done that from the beginning with Ethan but I honestly never thought about doing a blog until it was reccommended to us while he was in the NICU to help us be able to keep people updated on how he was doing. It kept us from having to make a ton of phone calls a day. So if you want to follow the baby's blog you can do so at the following link:
www.ourlilturkey.blogspot.com
It will only be updated at times when I have been to see the OB and then once the baby is here of course.

Ethan's b-day is coming up soon! I can't believe he is going to be 3 already. He is getting to be such a big boy. We are not going to have much of a party this year. We are just going to do something small with grandparents and aunts/uncles, and Ethan's one friend Killian. Ethan is into Spiderman and loves basketball. So I think his cake will be Spiderman. I asked him yesterday if there was anything special he wanted for his birthday and he told me "Cakes with Spiderman" LOL I figured that is what he would say. He is such a little ham.

Ethan's Big News

It's been a while since I last updated. Ethan has been busy being his usual busy self. He is all about Spiderman right now. He has really gotten into watching the Spiderman movies and of course he is not happy unless he is wearing Spiderman. So guess he will be having a Spiderman b-day LOL. At the beginning of the month Ethan took part again in the March for Babies walk which was held on May 1 at 5/3 Field. Our team raised $475 for the March of Dimes and we did brunch afterwards at Spaghetti Warehouse. I do have a few pictures from the walk I just haven't gotten around to getting them loaded onto my computer. I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted b/c it was drizzling outside and once the camera started to get wet I tossed it into Ethan's wagon which we had his canopy up to help keep him and all our stuff dry. Soon I will get the pictures loaded and posted.

Ethan however does have some big news of his own to share though. Even though everybody knows it by now Ethan is going to be a big brother in November. He of course is going to be an awesome big brother. Just think of all the things he will get to teach his little brother or sister. How to get under mom and dad's skin, the best spots to color on the walls so mom and dad don't find it right away, and when you do something that's a no-no give mom and dad a kiss, say you love them, and look as cute as possible so their hearts melt. He has been with us to the ultrasounds and has heard the heartbeat. He thinks it's cool for about 5 seconds then he wants to look out the windows or leave LOL. That's my Ethan.

Really Ethan hasn't been up to anything much lately. Hence why his blog hasn't been updated recently. He's just been mostly about getting into as much trouble as he can. I don't know when it happened but my sweet little preemie turned into a monkey. I always though I gave birth to a human but apparently it was a monkey in disguise. If he can't reach it he will climb to it. He stands on chairs to get into the cupboards in the kitchen or reach things on the mantle. We have had to put a lot of things into the cupboard up stairs by the bathroom but he has figured out how to get in there too. He goes in our room and empties the tall laundry basket and flips it over and stands on it to reach the latch. He has also figured out how to pop off the door knob covers and he won't stay out of the spare room that will be converted into a nursery. His other new favorite thing to climb is the window sills. I feel like a broken record telling him to get down off the windows. He doesn't think he will fall and get hurt and he has fallen from them. But apparently he hasn't learned his lesson yet. He is a whole lot of something that is for sure. I call him wild man. If there was a horse running the Kentucky Derby named Wild Man I would have had to pick that horse for the win just b/c it would have reminded me of Ethan.

Of course Ethan is also the biggest goof ball. A few days ago I was going through a bunch of my winter clothes to get them ready to pack away and he smooshed himself in the bottom of a tall basket. He kept popping up and laughing hysterically so I went to give him a kiss and he would smoosh himself in the bottom of the basket then pop up again. On the 3rd time I pretended to be be offended and hurt and got him begging me to give him a kiss and wouldn't you know it as soon as I leaned in to kiss him he smooshed himself in the bottom of the basket laughing at how he outwitted his Mama. What a little stinker. I still managed to steal a kiss from him though. Last week I tried to capture a picture of him running around with his shorts on his head but he took them off before I could get the pic taken. Today he was running around outside with a bucket on his head. I called him "Bucket head"

His potty training is coming along pretty well again. We had this period of time where he would not stop peeing on the carpet. We have no idea what started it but we tried everything to get him to stop and nothing was working. Then someone Matt knows at work suggested that we just ignore it. Clean up the mess and say nothing to him. So we figured well nothing else has worked why not. Low and behold it worked it took like 3 days and he stopped. The first day he peed on the floor and we just cleaned it up, the second day he peed in a shoe box (empty) and we just pitched it, the next day he peed in the cat's water dish so we just changed the water and that was the last of it and he went right back to going on the potty. We had put his little potty away b/c he was doing so well at going up to use the big potty but when this issue arose we brought out the little potty. Now we are just keeping it in the living room for now b/c he can not be trusted to go to the bathroom alone. He tends to get into things and well no one wants to spend their day going up and down stairs every 45 minutes just so he can pee on the potty. This way he can potty when ever he needs to and we just dump it about once a day. Makes things much easier. He is still wearing a Pull Up at night only though b/c he just doesn't stay dry at night. We tried night training by waking him at night but it just wasn't getting anywhere so we gave up and figured we'd try again after he turned 3. At least we don't have many accidents during the day. He has an issue with telling us he has to potty when he is with his little friend Killian or his cousins. At least if he is outside he knows to go up against the fence LOL (I did not teach him that talk to Matt).

I always tell Matt that he and Ethan are 2 peas in a pod. I swear Ethan is like a miniature version of his daddy. He is built like his daddy and he has his daddy's personality. Although I think Ethan might just be a bit more wild that his daddy was at this age. Ethan even likes all the same things as his daddy and they pretty much have the same sense of humor. Who would have though we'd manage to create another Matt. Let's hope this next one is more like me (sweet, innocent, and pure) LOL. I don't think I can handle a house full of Matt's lmao.