Oh the things we do for our children!

Ethan has had a pretty good weekend. Friday he was SUPPOSED to be sleeping by the time Grandpa Jim came over to "house sit" for us while we went out with some friends. When we got home we were informed that 10 minutes after we had left Mr. Ethan was sitting on the bottom step and he ended up not going to bed until about midnight. Since he hadn't been the best behaved this week we were intent on making sure he went to bed on time as part of his "punishment" for bad behavior. He had fun playing with his Grandpa though.

Saturday Ethan went to the mall with us to shop for some new jammies for him. Some of his jammies are getting tight or too short for him so it was time to move to the next size. After that he took a trip to visit his great-grandparents where of course he showed just how active he is. Sad part was that was him being only mildly active. Most days he is much more wild LOL. So after we left there we went home and he was digging through his clothes looking for his Spiderman jammies. I was going to let him wear them but as I was getting ready to pull the tags off I noticed that the top was 3T and the bottoms were 4T. Ethan was so upset that he couldn't wear his jammies. He was crying, screaming, very heartbroken. So after dinner (and some not so great behavior from Mr. Ethan) we decided that (against better judgment) to go back to the store and exchange his jammies so that he can wear them. Needless to say he was one happy camper.

Today he does not want to take those jammies off. He is all about wearing his Spiderman jammies. He has gone outside a few times to play with his daddy (mommy hates the cold!!) and we had to just put other clothes on top of the jammies b/c he does not want to take them off. He's having a fairly quiet Sunday today. He's played outside, played in the house, took a nap, and became desensitized to violence watching the tail end of the CSI episode we had been watching. Someday we won't be able to do that but for now he doesn't really pay much attention to it unless there are explosions.

In other news on the Ethan front (lol) he has been doing very well with wearing underwear. We are finally (YES!!) able to take him places in underwear AND he keeps them dry. He is yet to poop on the potty but at least we aren't having accidents in his underwear. He is no where near being ready to be night trained so he is still having to wear Pull-Ups at night and nap time. He wakes up in the middle of most nights needing to be changed b/c the Pull-Up is full. We figure that he will just stop wetting his pants at night when he's ready then we will put undies on him. He's becoming such a big boy now. It's hard to believe that he is going to be 3 in just 4 months.

Pictures!!

As promised here are the pictures I've taken of Ethan playing in the snow

Feb 3, 2011

Well Ethan survived the big snowfall. He was out playing in the snow yesterday (I have pictures but they are not yet loaded on the computer) and I had him out today playing in the snow. I got him all excited today because I told him we were going to build a snowman but when we got outside the snow was just too frozen to make a snowball. It was just pretty much ice. So here was poor Ethan standing there with his little Snowman making kit all ready to make a snowman and I couldn't get the snow to ball up. Boy was he disappointed. I felt bad. Hopefully we will get a little bit better snow conditions soon to make a snowman. He has not forgotten the snowman we built in the front lawn with the first snow of the season. He is always reminding me "No-man boken, fix it MomMom." It's very cute and pathetic LOL.

Ethan has been a busy little boy this winter. He is talking up a storm now saying sentences. Every day when we sit down for lunch he tells me "MomMom home." "Yep, buddy MomMom is home." "Moose is home." "Yep Moose is home." "Dada home?" "Sorry buddy dada is working." "Dada working? Dada be home soon." "Yea Dada will be home soon. As soon as he is done working." "Gramma home." "I don't know buddy she might be." "Uncle Bubba home" "Uncle Bubba is working buddy." "Go see Uncle Bubba." "Sorry buddy we can't go right now because he is working. Maybe this weekend." "Dada working, dada home soon." On and on the conversation will go. It is very cute. He also likes to sit and read to Moose. He will sit with Moose on his lap and point thing out in his little books to him. He is such a cutie when he does that.

Of course Ethan gets his procrastination habits from his daddy. We now have him trained to go to the potty by himself. So when he has to go potty he will tell me "Go potty." "OK go on go potty I'll be here if you need me." Then he heads up the stairs only to come back a second later "Got to have Moose." Then he heads back up the stairs and stops at the 4th or 5th step to look over the banister and call out "Hi MomMom, Hi Dada. I potty and take Moose." "OK Ethan go to the potty before you pee yourself." "I go potty." Then he finally goes to the potty. He does fairly well as long as he doesn't try to stand his aim is pretty bad LOL.

Bed time is always interesting too with Ethan. We start getting him ready for bed about 8:30 because it can take an hour to get him down. I tell him good night then he goes with Dada to brush his teeth and read a story. Then it's lights out. He will come down 5 minutes later with a stinky diaper. We change it and tuck him back in. Again 5 mins later he is sitting on the stairs or he comes straight to us and says "I watch this" referring to whatever we are watching on the t.v. We send him back to bed only to have to put him back another 3 or 4 times usually. Sometimes we only have to go a couple rounds. He does not like to have to go to bed he thinks that he is going to miss something big. He is something.

Once I get the pictures from yesterday loaded on my computer I will get the posted.

Exciting week for Ethan

Boy the last 9 days have been pretty exciting for Ethan. Last Tues we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters. Ethan really enjoyed that. Every time they took one of their comic breaks Ethan would get upset and scream "BASKETBALL!" because he wanted to continue to watch them play. He was fascinated with  Globie their mascot and Big G another of their mascots. After the game we went and bought him a shirt as a little souvenir.

Friday (New Years Eve) Ethan attended his first wedding since his infant days. He did OK but daddy ended up having to leave the room because Ethan was getting a little bored. It was my cousin Amanda who was getting married and the ceremony was beautiful. Later Ethan partied with us at the reception. He had fun playing with Grandpa & Pam, chasing his cousin Colin around, and goofing a bit with Uncle "Bubba" Brian. Ethan was quite the dancer with us out on the dance floor too LOL. He did not want to let us put him down because there were so many people on the floor it made him a little nervous. He left the party about 10:30 and was in bed by 11. Late for him but he had fun and that's what mattered.

Saturday (New Years Day) he just spent the day watching football with us and Survivor Africa. It was a fairly quiet day for all of us which was nice. We got to just hang out and enjoy the day.

Sunday Ethan was up about 8:30 and we headed to Cleveland for the Browns/Steelers game. That was Ethan's and my first game and it was a lot of fun. Ethan had fun high fiving the guys in front of us (even though there wasn't much for Browns fans to celebrate). He was looking cute wearing daddy's Browns hat (although I feel it was the wrong colors). Ethan will learn who the better team is. He would much rather be on the winning side than the side that doesn't really know what the endzone looks like LOL. Right now he doesn't have a choice because of his daddy. So we left the game with the Steelers winning 41-9. Ethan was asleep in the backseat before we even got out of the parking garage. About 45 minutes into the drive home Ethan woke up suddenly saying that his pee pee hurt. We ended up pulling off at the next exit to check him. It took time to calm him down but he made it home OK. We got back in town about 7ish and had dinner at Papa Pauls.

Monday Ethan started to come down with a bit of a cold, but never mentioned all day about anymore pain. But later in the evening he made one mention of it when he woke up at midnight with congestion. I called the Dr Tues and they were booked for the day so I got him in yesterday and they took a sample we'll know by tomorrow if he has an infection. The Dr said it's not normal for boys to get bladder infections so if he does have one they will have to do some more tests b/c it could be indicative so kidney problems. I'm not very concerned about it because he is going to the bathroom just fine, he doesn't complain when he pees, there is no fever, and his complaints are extremely intermittent. Yesterday he made one mention and that was it and today he hasn't said anything. I doubt that there is anything going on. The Dr recommended that we have him drink CranApple juice which is no issue since he loves it and we always have some at home.

So yep it's been a fun year already for Ethan and I'm sure that there is much more fun to come for him. If you're asking "Where are all the pictures?" I am posting them at the end of this post.

Harlem Globetrotters

Waiting for the game to start

Sitting with daddy

Enjoying a drink

Globie

Watching the game

Scooter hanging around

Scooter Posing for pictures

Watching more of the game

Big G

Big G head bounce

 Amanda's Wedding/New Years Eve

Sticking his hand in his water

The beautiful bride Amanda and new husband Joe

Ethan and Colin

Attention parents of the child rolling on the floor. Would you please collect you kid

Just being cute

Browns/Steelers Game

Daddy & Ethan

Coin Toss

Daddy

Hines Ward with the ball

Ready, Set, Hike!

One very tired Ethan

Looking out over the field

Ethan meets Santa

We took Ethan to Bass Pro Shop today to meet Santa Clause. We got there and they said that we would be in the 4:30 group. So we had 2.5 hrs to kill, we did that by walking around and looking at things. We ended up having to grab a sandwich in the sandwich shop while we waited. Ethan had a blast looking at all the dead animals (yuck!) and was fascinated with the huge fish tank they have there. Once we got in line to see Santa he kept pointing and saying "Santa Clause" but then when it was his turn he did not want to go LMAO, I figured he'd do that. So they told me I could sit with him and Santa could stand next to us. That worked. Once the picture was taken Santa asked Ethan to give him five. Ethan raised his hand but had that look like "Should I?" so I told him to go ahead and he did. It was super cute. Then of course Ethan didn't want to walk away from Santa right away. LOL. The pic is really cute I will have to figure out how to download it or scan it to my computer to share. After that we got his coat on to leave. He kept telling us "See Santa!" all excited that he got to see Santa. It's like one of those stories people tell when they go fishing "You should have seen it. It was THIS big (gesture a 2 ft long fish here)" when in reality the fish was about 6" long.  Except in this version he says he saw Santa when in reality he wouldn't go w/o mommy. LOL he's too cute.

After we got back he helped Matt get started on making Buckeyes calling them "Bucketeyes" he was having a ball rolling the peanut butter and licking the spoon. He is daddy's little helper when he wants to be.

Friday I think I will pull up the Santa tracker on the internet and have Ethan track where Santa is until he goes to bed (if we have time after church). He might find that fun to do and we'll of course read The Night Before Christmas as well since we have made that a tradition since he was born.

Ethan's eventful week

Ethan has had a very eventful week it seems. First last week (Sat) he was in the ER getting a cut taken care of from his collision with a desk. Then Weds he was up stairs with his daddy and wanted to come downstairs to get Moose (b/c we all know Moose needs to be part of the action) so the next thing we know he fell down the stairs and crashed into the gate that was closed at the bottom of the stairs. I was sitting in the living room trying to get Christmas cards done and Matt was putting up plastic on the windows in Ethan's bedroom b/c it's been getting super cold in there. Ethan is OK but he ended up with some brusing on his back and his right leg. Apparently he was looking backward as he took the first step and that's when he fell. I had been on him all week about paying attention to where he is going when he is on the stairs. He has been trying to go up/down the stairs backwards, always looking behind him, just plain being reckless all of a sudden. I have had to walk ahead of him and hold his hand to prevent him from falling. Well needless to say he is now taking caution on the stairs. He is insisting that we either carry him or hold his hand and he grips the railing too. At least he is starting to remember what happens when he isn't careful. He tells me "Stairs, fall" and points to the stairwell. It's good to see that he is learning his lessons but I so wish he would just listen to us so he doesn't have to learn his lesson the hard way. That way we don't end up in the ER or with bruises.

This evening Matt told him that his bandage should be falling off soon as tomorrow is day 7 since he had the Dermabond done. Ethan got upset b/c he doesn't want his bandage to come off. Apparently he thinks that the chicks are digging his bad boy look LOL. It should fall off soon (I hope) it's starting to look a bit dirty. We haven't been allowed to get it wet so we have just been cleaning his face with wet wipes and avoiding that area.

Tomorrow we are taking him to see Santa. He is now talking a little bit about Santa Clause. We showed him the movie "Santa Clause is coming to town" and I've been talking to him about how Santa will be coming soon to bring him goodies from his work shop. This morning he was telling me that his garbage truck is broke so I told him he needs to tell Santa so he can bring him a new garbage truck. I think he is starting to realize that something is going on. He is going to have a nice Cristmas this year. So far Santa is bringing him a guitar, bookcase for his room, Play Doh, & a little car. If he asks for that garbage truck he might just get one.

Boys will be boys

I think the title speaks for itself. Yesterday Matt took Ethan out in the morning to get his blood drawn for another phe level. While he was registering Ethan at the desk, Ethan stood on a chair and reached for a bottle of sanitizer. He fell off the chair and hit his head on the desk giving him a nice little gash. So after getting his blood dawn they headed to the ER to get it checked out. It was deep enough to need some kind of medical attention. Since the cut was so close to Ethan's eye they decided to use skin glue and seal it up that way. So Ethan now has 3 little strips on his face. He's fine and it doesn't seem to bother him one bit. I have a feeling this is going to be the first of many visits to the ER just for Ethan.

This afternoon we took him outside for a bit to play in the snow. He had a lot of fun throwing himself in the snow and running around. We spent some time building a snowman as well. Ethan was not interested in getting it started with me he wanted to be with his daddy who was shoveling the snow off the driveway. Once Daddy was involved Ethan was all about building a snowman. I look forward to the day where we have enough snow to build a giant snowman. The one we built today is small and lopsided LOL but it was fun to make.

Ethan hasn't really been up to too much lately. It's been pretty cold outside so we've just been hanging out in the house playing. Yesterday he spent the day with his daddy while mommy went out Christmas shopping to get presents for Ethan. He is going to have a nice Christmas. Santa will be leaving him nice gifts. We haven't gotten him in to see Santa yet that's something we will have to get done next weekend. I think we will probably go over to Bass Pro shop to get it done as I have been told that pictures with Santa are free there.

He's got a few new things that he is saying now. Earlier today Matt asked him if he poo'd his pants he said "No I farted". It was very hard not to laugh at that. Now when we tell him "I love you" he will come back with "I loooooovvveeee choooooooooo". A few days ago I was getting him ready for a nap and he reached up and grabs me around the neck and said "I hold cho MomMom".  My heart melted. He is growing up so fast and talking so much now. It's hard to believe that he is 2.5 yrs old already. Hopefully he slows down just a little bit I'm not ready for him to turn into a little man yet.