Happy Valentines Day!

Ethan had fun making his Valentines for daycare. We had pails and shovels (on the shovels , we wrote "I Dig You") We put little treat bags inside each one.
Can you feel the LOVE??!! Ethan was reading his card to his brother...................Valentine's Day was spent just hanging out at home as a family. Later on we just went out to dinner.

Winter Time Fun

Oh, the joy of winter!! All the bundling up and preparation for the 30 minutes they spend outside. Ethan really does not like the cold, he will go out but for a short time when he asks to come in because he is cold. He does have fun while out there though.



Ethan loves to go sledding. He likes to pull Dave around too, well at least try!

Big Boy Room Part 2

Ethan is now FULLY in his big boy room/bed!!! Yay!! He reached this milestone using a sticker chart. He really loves his room now. He will go up there and play or just sit on the floor or in his bed and look at books. We are so proud of him!!

Christmas 08'

This Christmas was so special for us now being a family of 4!! We of course, had a lot of running to do to see family and friends. But we made it through and it was all worth it. This year Ethan was so much more excited. He wanted to help wrap presents, put them under the tree and even pick out presents for others. He then became obsessed with the whole present thing. Well, what kid wouldn't when you have like 4-5 Xmas's!! He had to help everyone open their presents like they were his. He would then throw it down and continue on to the next. On Xmas Eve he left cookies and egg nog for Santa.









Ethan got a lot of TOYS!! He loves all his trucks and tractor though................

so busy lately

so. so sorry ..I will be updating these 2 blogs very soon. I know I am so behind, it is just hard to keep up with the 2 of them now. Keep looking, I will try to get them done in the next week or so.

Preparing for Xmas

Ethan loves to help now. He was helping Dave get the tree ready...he helped with both trees.



Ethan even decorated his very own Xmas tree is his room. Complete with colored lights!

"Big Boy" Room

We have been working on Ethan's "Big Boy" room for a while now. It is not quite finished yet. I just need to add the finishing touches now, all the decorating. And, of course, it is the truck theme!







Ethan is even napping in there now. We are still working on the whole night time thing.

Thanksgiving 08

We had Thanksgiving at our house like we have for the past few years. We like to get a lot of the cutting out of the way the night before. Ethan was the big helper this year. He helped with the potatoes, squash, and the beans.















I think they were both amazed at the turkey!! lol...................everything came out so good and it was a very nice day. We had our whole
family(mostly) here.


PHOTO SHOOT

Just before Thanksgiving we had gone on a nature walk and had a mini shoot. Here are some of the shots that we got.

Halloween Festivities

This Halloween We had some fun things we did for the holiday. Ethan and Mommy made a fun Halloween project. Ethan made a Frankenstein puppet and Mommy made a Bat headband for trick or treating.
We also, painted some of our smaller pumpkins.....................

Then for the day before he dressed up as an Old Navy Sales Associate! And we carved a Jack-O-Lantern .

Then for the big night he was all dressed up as the cutest little Frankenstein ever! We went trick-or -treating and Ethan thought he was supposed to go into the house. He just wanted to go in everyones house. We had a fun night seeing all the other kids running around and Ethan was so excited this year. He was not the biggest fan of having to put the costume on like 4 times.

More Autumn Fun!

Petting the goats at Stowe Orchards, they were a bit on the crazy side.










Some of the horse were a little feisty!

2nd Place!!

On Friday..October 17, 2008, Ethan was in a cute kid contest. He came in 2nd!! He really was so cute. He was a bit shy but that was to be expected. We had waited for like 1.5 hrs until it was his turn so he was getting tired. Then when we went onto stage he just wanted to look at the trophies. He was waving to Daddy and his brother from up on stage. He now moves onto the States which is in April.

Pumpkin Patch

On Sunday we all went to a farm to get pumpkins. Ethan seemed to love all the pumpkins. We went on a tractor ride to the corn field. They had a huge corn maze. Ethan was the leader in the maze and kept taking us off trail. We pretty much went in a big circle and only found 1 checkpoint. He still had fun and wanted to stay in there until he realized we could go back on the tractor. It was such a nice day for walking the fields.

DPW Day

On Saturday, we took Ethan to Worcester's Department of Public Works day. It was so up his alley! Every truck and tractor and other machinery imaginable was there. Kids were allowed to go up inside and explore them all. They could sit and touch all the buttons and blow the horns. He was a bit reluctant at first but after the first one he was just fine and wanted to keep going in them.

Woodstock Fair

Every year we go to the Woodstock fair..Ethan is now at the age where he can enjoy everything. We went on a Friday that way it wasn't so busy. It was nice and warm out and actually it was our 1st outing as a family of FOUR!! We got to see a lot of animals....some tractors....Ethan explored the hay maze....watched the go karts, and a crash!

Checking out the chickens, turkeys, rabbits...etc. It was rather noisy in there with the roosters crowing!
















Went on an elephant ride and was telling it go UP!!

For the love of DIRT!

After having some dirt delivered to our house, Ethan just had to get his hands on it. He grabbed his shovel and wheel barrow and went to work. He was moving the dirt little by little to the back of the driveway. He was the big helper with Daddy!