Blast off!

On Thursday, March 8th we met up with some friend for our first ever hockey game.  Landen stayed with a sitter but we took Ethan with us to enjoy the game.  We watched the Nashville Predators play the Colorado Avalanche.  Ethan said after the game that it was "boring".  I found it anything but boring!  Fans were screaming "you s*ck" at the opposing team and the players were fighting left and right.  Josh loved it!  I wouldn't mind to go back but I don't think it teaches kids very good sportsmanship, so I don't think we'd take Ethan again.  A few days later Ethan couldn't stop talking about how "awesome" it was.  I guess once he had time to think about it he was impressed by the head bashing and rude chants, lol!

Bath time is always fun with the boys... Landen loves to put every toy that he owns in the bath with him and Ethan loves bubbles.  Ethan never wants Landen to take a bath with him and any time Landen knows that Ethan is taking a bath all he wants is to get in with him.  It usually ends in one of them crying.  But they happily took separate baths over the weekend.  Well, Ethan wasn't very happy with our reaction once we saw the mess he had made... 

Yeah, that took a while to clean up!

This past Saturday we launched Ethan's rocket that we had gotten at Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago. He has been obsessed with launching it but we had forgotten to buy the "wadding" that you need and so we had to wait until we went back to buy it.  Anyway, both boys all three boys really enjoyed building and launching the "rock-rock" as Landen calls it.

 It's been pretty calm around here.  We've had to fight some nasty sicknesses....Ethan had an ear infection and still currently has a bad cough.  And over the weekend, Landen had a mean stomach virus.  Today is the first day that he has been completely back to his normal self.  On Monday morning, I went to wake E up for school and found him like this...

Asleep in his playroom!  His cough must have woke him up in the middle of the night and this is where he ended up, ha!

Ethan's team has began baseball practice, so we've been doing that a couple of times a week.  I really enjoy watching him play....but mostly I am chasing Landen around the ball park trying to keep him away from the road and off of the field.  He wants to do everything that his big brother does!

The two of them played outside for a while on Saturday....

Ethan is going through a cowboy stage.

"Slide Mom, please?"

Don't you just love the cowboy hat with the athletic wear? 

Sweet face.

"Say Cheese!"

"Whee!"

Aww...brotherly love, so sweet.

Sunny Days

The weather was in the 70's for several days here last week!  So, Landen and I got outside and enjoyed the sunshine during the day.  That kid LOVES to be outside.  He throws a fit every time you bring him back inside, no matter how long you have been out.  His walks around saying "ow-side" with his pouty lip pooched out for an hour after we come in, ha!

We went for a walk/car ride...

We wore our cool shades...

We slid on the slide...

We climbed...

We played baseball...

 

Sliding is one of his favorite outdoor activities...

We smiled....A LOT....

We swung...

We found interesting things on the trees...

We rolled the ball back and forth...

Please excuse the non-matching play shoes :)

Josh was out of town from Wednesday to Friday of last week.  So, both boys slept with me and we woke up early to watch cartoons before we had to get Ethan ready for school. (Landen was more into the cartoons than Ethan...he is a video game junkie these days!)

Once Ethan was dressed for school, Landen realized that he was wearing a ball cap (it was a special dress up day), so he ran to Ethan's room selected a ball cap for himself and ran back into my bedroom with it on saying "hat".  It was too cute!  He looks up to his big brother so much.

 Last Friday night after the storms had passed, we went ahead to a birthday party that Ethan was excited to attend.  It was for his buddy and he ended up having a blast!  It was at the bowling alley but since we waited out the storms we missed the bowling part.  I was afraid Ethan would be very upset by this but he wasn't at all.  They boys had fun eating and playing arcade games!

Busy Bees

                                                Recent Events:
          (Warning, there have been many, lol!)

The past couple of weeks have been pretty busy for us, but it has been a good kind of busy.  Lots of fun and exciting things...

On 2/7, Landen sat on the potty for 3 minutes without screaming or pouting!

Ethan chose a rubber band gun as his toy to purchase.  He worked hard on his A.R tests all week to earn it!

On 2/10, we took the boys to the Lonestar rodeo and they loved it! We have been going since I was a kid and we've taken Ethan for many years.  Last year was Landen's first year and I don't think he was old enough to really enjoy it but this year he was in heaven!  Ethan was a lot more into it than he's ever been too.

This wasn't really an event...I just thought it was too cute not to share!



The super sweet lady who has been my hairstylist  for the past 6+ years and has also cut Ethan's
 hair since he was 1.5 years old is also very good friends with Ethan's first grade teacher.  His class has been having "mystery readers"come in and read to them.  Last week (2/16), the mystery reader was our hairstylist!  Ethan was so excited to see her and to make it even better, she wrote a book about Ethan getting a haircut to read to the class.  The book doesn't say that it's about Ethan until the end and as she was finishing up, Ethan stood up and said to his class..."Okay, I'll tell y'all the truth, it's about me!"  It was too cute and we'll be keeping the book as a keepsake for Ethan to look back on when he gets older.  Thank you, Ms. Janet!

The front of the book.

Isn't the drawing cute?

SO sweet!

On Friday (2/17), school was out due to PT conferences.  Ethan had been invited to a birthday breakfast play date at Chic-fil-a by one of his good buddies.  Of course, he was super excited to go and join in the fun!  So we made a day of it...

After, the play date Ethan snuck in a little nap and then we went to see the movie that he has been dying to see....

Landen decided to take his nap during the movie, which I expected and was perfectly fine with me.  But what I didn't expect was for the baby whale to die and Ethan to cry for an entire 30 minutes!  Bless his heart, I was trying to console him but I only had one arm (his brother was asleep on the other arm) and he was sobbing so loud the guy in front of us turned around and stared.  Anyway, we had a really nice day together, in spite of the tears. 

I had mentioned in a prior post that Ethan was attending Super Saturdays at WKU.  The final class was this past Saturday (2/18) and they had a really neat balloon ceremony to celebrate gifted and talented students.  Each student, as they let their balloon go, was to make a wish for what they wanted to be when they grow up.  

We are so glad that Ethan was able to be a part of this opportunity and hope that he can take part  in it again in the future!

And, just because I can't resist sharing Landen's adorable pout face with you.... this is him sitting on the stairs this weekend, unhappy.  The pout never last long, he's too happy of a boy for it to.  But it's sure cute when it does happen...xoxo!

Valentine's Day '12

So, we had a pretty low key but nice Valentine's Day.  Ethan's teacher, a couple of other parent volunteer's, and I organized the class party for Ethan's first grade classroom and I ended up being the only parent there to help his teacher with the party (unfortunately, the other two moms who volunteered had sick family members) so it was a little crazy but a WHOLE lot of fun!  We were so busy helping the students that I didn't take any pictures of the party.  I am hoping maybe Ethan's teacher will e-mail me her pics, thankfully she is always so good about doing that!  Ethan and I made him a cool robot box for his classmates to put his valentine cards in.

   
     And we made his sweet teacher a crayon wreath for Ethan to give to her.  We were walking to lunch one day at his school and he spotted a similar wreath on one of the other teacher's doors. He said "Mom, we have to make my teacher one of these!". I knew that I had seen the idea on Pinterest so I came home and pinned it, gathered my supplies from Hobby Lobby, and ended up with this...

   Anyway, Ethan was very excited to end the school day with being called to the office for his Valentine's delivery.  We sent him a Mario stuffed animal with a Mario balloon and a heart-shaped basket full of his favorite candy.  After Josh got home from work, we gave both boys their Valentine gifts from us.  Ethan was thrilled to find more Mario loot.  He loves to play Monopoly right now, so he got the Nintendo Monopoly board game, Mario/Luigi house shoes, and Mario band-aids (We can't ever find any band-aids in the store that have characters that he likes).

     Landen had just woke up from a very short nap and was NOT in a good mood (as you can tell from the pictures).  His V-day gift was everything Max & Ruby themed.  His favorites were the lift-a-flap book and the coloring book.  He will love the movies too as soon as he gets to watch them.

I made taco chicken and potatoes for dinner and Josh and I exchanged small gifts.  We are so blessed to have our two sweet (usually, lol) Valentine's!