Random Pictures...

Here are a few recent pictures...mama and papa have been pretty busy lately and haven't been able to keep up with things!! There's a picture of me and papa drinking milkshakes together, my trip to the zoo with nana and day-day, me riding a horse with my cousin Alisha and then feeding him an apple, me taking over papa's trailer with my toys while he was mowing, me getting ready to race papa in the backyard, and finally me getting ready for a dip in my "swimmin' cool."

Big Weekend for Little Man!

Well, well, well. I have to say that this was quite a weekend for me. It all started yesterday when I got to wear my shiny Illinois outfit for the first time. I helped papa wash his truck and vacuum it out, and while I was rinsing it off I sprayed him with the hose - more than once! The first time it was an accident. The second, third, and fourth times it wasn't. Papa told me that we would wash mama's van for her when she got back from the store, so I was all ready for that. However, papa didn't tell me that I shouldn't pick up the hose and spray mama as she was getting out of the van in her good clothes. I thought that was REAL funny, but mama didn't. Anyway, once she changed her clothes, we cleaned her van too. I ate some lunch at my Diego table, then took a nap. Papa woke me up from my nap at about 3:49 and got me ready for one of my favorite things - a party! My friend Brodie across the road and two houses down was having a birthday party and papa took me there (mama went to a wedding...I asked papa what that was and he tried to explain it to me, but I still don't quite get it). After the party, papa brought me home and grandma visited with me for a while while mama and papa went to a wedding inception (or something like that). I sure was tired when I went to bed!

Today, I woke up and went to church and marched into Bible class AND Bible hour with no problems whatsoever. Then, we picked up some Culver's on the way home (mama and papa both got a kid's meal just like me), and after we ate papa went to mow and I got to go to another party -a graduation party for my friend Miss Carly. After that, I came home and took a nap. Then, tonight, I got to ride on papa's tractor after my nap, play with Max, and swing on my swingset. After all that, it was time to go inside for some dinner. As I was finishing my mac n' cheese, I was looking out the window and you'll never believe what I saw. It was a firetruck! I yelled to mama and papa and told them "IT'S A FIRE TRUCK!" and then I said "IT'S COMING TO MY HOUSE!!" Our neighbor, Mr. Rob, is a volunteer fireman, and when he found out a couple of weeks ago that I like firetrucks, he said he'd drive one to my house sometime. I thought he was just trickin' me, but I guess he was serious! I got to climb on it and sit in it and all kinds of neat stuff. Mr. Rob even turned on the lights for me as he was leaving. That was cool. Mama and papa decided that I should wear my fire truck pajamas to bed tonight, so I put them on and now I'm going to bed...

Children of the King

My friends and I in "Children of the King" performed before church services last night. I told my mama that my heart was beating really fast when we were getting out of the van to go in. I did really well until a few seconds into the third song, then I had a little meltdown and had to go sit with my mama and papa. Mama and papa were very proud of me for making it through at least a couple of songs, though. I'll try to sing more songs next time.

Just Another Day at the Zoo...

Mama and Papa took me to the zoo today. It was my 3rd time there in 8 days. I really like Bonzo the monkey. Mama pushed papa around in a wheelchair part of the time, and almost dumped him out on more than one occasion (she claims it was always an "accident," but I'm not so sure...one time, after getting stuck on a bump that she could not get over, mama backed up and went real fast and still didn't make it over the bump...the front wheels stopped, but the rest of the wheelchair didn't...). Anyway, I got to ride the train and the carousel and play on the playground before we left. Then we went to Culver's and got to eat outside. It was a real fun day.

The Good Humor Man

Hello, this is Kyle here on Ethan's blog. Ethan heard the ice cream truck coming down the street the other day, and wanted to know what it was all about. We walked (I hobbled, he walked) down to the corner to stop the truck and make a frozen treat selection. Ethan finally pointed to what he wanted, which was a bomb pop popsicle. I told the guy , who asked "uh, which one?" I thought to myself, "What do you mean, 'which one?' What kind of good humor guy are you? Is this your first day on the job or what? A bomb pop is a bomb pop." So I pointed to the picture, he stuck his head out the window and looked at it, and then returned a few seconds later with some huge, Sears Tower sized popsicle about the same time that I realized I had ordered the ginormous $2.00 bomb pop instead of the $1.00 "bargain" model. Oh, well. We enjoyed it...

Happy Mothers Day, Mama!!

Papa's Leg Is Broken!

Well, as many of you know, my papa broke his leg playing basketball about a month ago, and now he's got a surgery in his leg. He always sits around in his chair with his pillow under it. I'm really good about carrying his pillow for him when he needs me to, even though it is bigger than me! Well, today papa went to eat in the kitchen but didn't need his pillow. A couple of minutes later I yelled to him and told him that I had broken my leg. When he came out to check on me, he saw that I was using his pillow just like he does!! He thought that was real silly, so he got the camera and took my picture.

Ethan finds out about his little bro

My newest cousin....

Well, mama and I just got back from Georgia a few days ago. We had gone down to see my newest cousin, Beth. I got to do all kinds of other fun stuff while we were down there, too. I got to swing, feed the ducks, ride on the golf cart, help granddad put a cover on the golf cart, do some baking, etc. When we got home, papa surprised me by having my big boy furniture for me. I have slept in my big boy bed every night since I got home, and I even take my naps in it too. Mama and papa pull out the trundle bed just in case I roll off, but I'm good at not doing that. Papa even took my picture while I was napping today, but didn't get too close 'cause he was afraid he'd wake me up!

Playing with milk...

Well, I am usually a pretty tidy kid, but the other night I was loading Smarties in my dumptruck and decided that there was just something missing. That something, I decided, was milk. So, I poured some out of my sippy cup into my dumptruck (which you can see just to the left of my cup). Unfortunately, it ran out all over, so I poured some more in it. It ran out again...and again...and again. I finally decided to just play in the milk and Smarties. Eventually, mama and papa realized that I had been awfully quiet for a few minutes, so they came to check on me and realized what I had been doing...