Starting down at the bottom of this post, we went out to visit some friends of ours, the Zelharts, who live on a farm. Ethan got to ride on a big tractor with Mr. James, as well as a combine with Mr. Dave, and he got to drive both of them (be sure to check out the combine-driving footage at the bottom).
The next morning, I stayed home with Jack while Ethan got to go to the Mount Zion homecoming parade with his mama, followed by a trip to the Mount Zion fire station open house. Our friend Mr. Rob was there, so he showed Ethan around the firehouse, then Ethan got to play on a big inflatable thing, and even slide down the firepole before he left.
A couple of days later, we headed out to the Zelhart's farm again for a Children of the King (the kids' singing group that Ethan is in at church) wiener roast. Ethan once again had a great time, and he even discovered a tree with literally thousands of red ladybugs swarming all over it. He kept trying to get them to climb on his stick, until Morgan, the big dog, came over and swiped it.
Finally, today Ethan got to come to my school for the homecoming parade. He was especially excited about the firetrucks and Bonnie the horse, but this year there was something new - a drum line. Ethan "directed" them as they approached and passed us, and got so worked up I thought he was going to fly off my shoulders. Afterwards, we took him up to the band room and the band teacher let him drum a beat or two on the drum (he didn't play much, though, because there were a lot of students watching him, which made him a little nervous). He also got to check out my room, draw on the dry erase board, and play around a little with my SMARTboard. Ethan got to meet some of my students (current and former), and got a few of them with his "Break the pickle...tickle, tickle!" trick. Oh, yeah, one more thing...he picked up so much candy from the parade that I thought we were going to have to start throwing it back. All in all, he had a pretty good day.
