Celebrating Ethan

It's hard to beleve that Ethan is three! We had a very fun celebration at home with family on his birthday. He loves Cars so I made him a Cars birthday cake. He really liked it. Here are some of the pictures. Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate Ethan's special day.

McCall Fun

This weekend Jon and I decided to head up to McCall for some family fun. It was great weather and we had a wonderful time. Ethan is a very good car traveler. After our 35 hours in the car at Yellowstone a 2 hour trip is nothing. :)

Here is E enjoying some Elmo (you may notice the powder around his lips from his powered donut.)

Then we stopped for a good lunch at My Fathers Place. E had his first milkshake...which he enjoyed.

Then Ethan started making funny faces at Jon.

We played in the snow, looked at the ice sculptures (which were melted and not so good)...stopped at a kids carnival for a quick ride and took Ethan ice skating. With all of the commercials for the Olympics he has been asking to go ice skating and pretends to ice skate around the whole house.

Ice skating lasted about an hour. Ethan did very well considering he is 3 on Saturday. He was skating as good as kids there that were much older. I was afraid that he wouldn't have the strength in his ankles to even stand up. But we made him walk first before skating and it only took him a few times to get it. As I said we were only skating for about an hour....and in that hour we went 3 times around the rink. LOL LOL. But we never fell and Jon was impressed that I could skate well enough to keep me and E up. Ethan was a little frustrated that he wasn't able to skate by himself. He kept saying "okay...I do it by myself" and "I want to be big like those kids". Anyway, here are the pics from our adventure skating. He has already asked to go back...so maybe he will be a hockey player. :)

We are excited to go back next year!

Zoo Fun

Today I enjoyed the company of my two favorite two year olds. One is very soon to be three...but we will have to cry about that later. We had so much fun. I decided to take them to the zoo this morning. I was such a nice morning actually. The kids had hats and gloves on, but I didn't have either and I was fine.

They crack me up when they are together. There was a condor who had his wings expanded and they were huge. The sign said up to 10 feet width...and these were huge. The kids thought it was great. But he wasn't flying so I was trying to explain to them that his wings were broken and that is why he was in the zoo. Maddie thought for sure we needed to call the doctor and "get him some baby tylenol". Ethan said very matter of factly "We just need to go to the store and get him a new pair Maddie". LOL.

The pictures aren't the best quality...but they are pictures so don't complain. :)

Okay, the Lions were the best today. First they were roaring all of the time. I have never heard a lion roar so loud. I can only immagine what it's like in the wild. I didn't really like the fact that the lions loved Ethan and seemed to look at him like breakfast. This one just stood there like this for a while.

Ethan thought it was great. Maddie and I quote said "Crissy...that is a huge lion". LOL  yes, Maddie it was. But then this guy wanted to come over and check us out....

He walked back and forth forever. Then the other lion came back and sat down and apparently claimed ethan as his. I was a bit nervous because it is "only glass" so we left. LOL.

Maddie didn't not like the Lions after they roared very loud. Ethan said "that was awesome". Maddie covered her eyes and said...."I am not looking anymore auntie Crissy". LOL. Don't worry, after I took a picture quickly I held her while Ethan finished looking.

Maddie loved the penguins. They were her favorite. It's a bad picture...but again...it's a picture. :)

After the zoo we stopped by Jon's work (since you can see it from the zoo) and had lunch with him. Ethan was saying "cheese" but he had food in his mouth.

And that was our fun morning!

Blog is Alive

Don't worry...we are still alive. Well actually barely alive technically. I seem to have come down with the flu. So I thought I would take some time to let everyone know we are doing good. Ethan is growing so fast. He seriously was potty trained in two days. Just one day he was ready and he did it. All the advice to wait until they are ready was true. He still wears a pull-up at nights and naps but he is doing really well.


Christmas was so much fun this year. I will work on getting some pictures up soon. Sorry this is short, but I am really not feeling well.

Bapa's Leaves

Friday night we all had dinner at my parents house. Ethan helped Bapa rake/blow up the leaves into a pile. Of course when all the leaves were in a pile Ethan had to play. Just as Ethan was about to come inside he turned around and threw his shoe into the pile. LOL...me and my dad looked for a about half an hour and couldn't find it. Jon went out and looked for another 20 minutes in the rain and finally found it. He is so funny.

As you can see....Ethan had a great time!!

SPIDERMAN

Ethan was spiderman this year for Halloween. No, Ethan does not know who he is, or even watch the cartoon....but his scooter has spiderman on it and so he likes spiderman. :) Ethan ended up getting sick early Saturday morning (around 1:30). High fever, sore throat all weekend. I took him to the Doctor today and he has ulcers on his throat. YUCK!! Poor kid can hardly swallow. So E and I are spending a lot of time together relaxing. Anyway, so we didn't get to do anything fun on Halloween. But on Friday we visited daddy's work and had a great time.

They had pumpkin painting, games, cookies, cupcakes and juice for the kids. His work always does a good job with family things. Here are some pics:

And obviously daddy has a basketball hoop at his work, so he found that too and was impressing everything with his shot. :)

Harvest Party

We have been quite busy this fall enjoying all the fun festivities that come with the changing season. Our church had a harvest party a few weekends ago. Ethan loved all the activities they had for kids. He got his face painted. I actually didn't think he would do it, but he enjoyed it.

Of course his favorite activity was the jump house. He L.O.V.E.D. them....as you can see:

This is E and I on the hayride...Jon was driving so this is as good as a picture as I could get.

It was a good evening and I know Ethan had a lot of fun.