Now that Ethan is 3.....

Ethan had an appt today for his Hyperphe and they are bumping up his protein intake to 40g which is good. His last levels were 4.05 which is good they want to keep him between 2 and 6 so he is falling right in the middle. He is 31 lbs and about 34/35" inches tall so he is in the 50% for both height and weight. They want us to get his blood tested again in Sept since he is being bumped up and he doesn't have to go back to see the specialist until Dec.

Ethan enjoyed his party last weekend and he has been enjoying all his nice gifts. Tomorrow we are going to get his swing set put up. Daddy will be needing help so Papa Jim is coming over to help. He hasn't been able to use his pool since his party unfortunately. The filter got clogged and the water started to grow algae. We have all that taken care of now and of course the weather got cooler so the water is too cold to get into it. Gotta love the crazy Ohio weather.

This has not been a good week for Ethan apparently. His mischievousness has gotten him into quite a bit of trouble. He has this thing about getting into things. He has been getting into cabinets and pulling out whatever he can pull out. Yesterday he got into the bag of nail polish I had put up. He's resourceful. He uses chairs to get things that we have put up out of his reach and he waits until we have turned our back for a minute to get into things. He painted his feet and legs with nail polish and he also painted the carped and screen door. Then he climbed into my lap and got nail polish on my brand new pants. Oh joy and what a mess that was to clean up. I sat for almost 2 hrs using cotton balls and nail polish remover to get all the polish up. That stained the carpet so then I used peroxide to help pull the stains up. For the most part that worked but the bright orange he spilled did not come up as easy. The carpet is nice and crusty now even though I did go over it with the Bissell Little Green. Hopefully that will change after a few steam cleanings.

This morning Ethan and I got up and as I was heading to the kitchen to get his breakfast going he tells me that Carmel pooped. I look and yep, the stupid cat backed his butt to the wall and left me a fresh pile. So I groaned about and headed to the kitchen to get stuff to clean it up. The smell was so bad I about couldn't hold back my stomach. While I was fighting the urge to hurl Ethan is telling me "It's OK MomMom, that happens." I told him it's not OK that Carmel isn't using his litter box yet again (It's only been a week since he last pulled this stunt) so he then tells me "It'll be OK MomMom, don't get upset." He was also just waving his hands in front of himself in a way that sais "Calm down" LOL. It's so hard not to laugh when he does this. Of course I had to explain to him that what Carmel is doing is not OK. So of course when Dada got home he reported to Dada that Carmel had pooped and MomMom got upset. Nice.

Right now Ethan is running from window to window watching his dada mow the lawn (I hope Matt gets it done before it rains b/c the sky is very dark right now). He wants to go outside but I am chosing to keep him in so he is out of the way and dada can just get done quickly. Ethan has also been learning about Mayflies. I plucked one off the back door and we tried to put it on his arm but he freaked out about it. He thinks they will hurt him LOL. We keep explaining that Mayflies don't have mouths or butts so they can't hurt him but he is still freaked by them. I personally don't mind them when there are a few it's when they are in hoards that it's just freaking disgusting. You drive the car down the street and you can literally hear them crunching under the car. They crunch under your feet when walking down the sidewalk. Let's not forget the dead fish smell they leave behind. Until they are done for the season we are going to have to make sure that the pool cover is on so they don't get in the water and stink it up or the filter and clog it up. Gotta love Mayfly season!!

That's all I really have to report on the Ethan front. I'm sorry I have not gotten pictures of the March for Babies posted or from his b-day. I have just been lazy and haven't even gotten them loaded on the computer yet. I promise I will try to get it done soon though.