videos

So I'm finally getting around to uploading some of the videos off my phone, yay! Ethan has become quite the chatterbox lately. He copies everything we say, and narrates everything we do. I caught a little of his chattering on video before his cousin Saige arrived the other day. He was watching out the window for her, wanting to share his cookie monster doll with her, although you wouldn't know that he was excited to share with her once she did arrive :)

Another cute video of us chatting.

And I have been trying to get videos of all the cute things that Ethan's been doing or saying, he's just too on the go for me to catch everything. He loves this game, though I don't know how I feel about the game where the funny line is to yell "NOOOO SLEEPING!" haha.

And his all-time favorite Bible story right now is David and Goliath. He actually has a couple of his storybook Bible pages memorized and will say the words right along with us! He even acts out the story and gets super excited about falling down. I caught a little of him doing it today, although it doesn't even catch a glimpse of how excited he usually gets when he falls down :)

Pictures from the last month or so... in no particular order

Entertaining himself with my phone at the dock

Wen to the greenville airport, took a nap on the floor, found out our flight was canceled so we went back to my parents house and tried again the next morning at 3:45am :(

Ethan LOVED heading down to the water while we were at my parents house for Thanksgiving

Aunt Laura and Saige came over with a gingerbread house! The kids actually really liked doing it! It didn't hurt that Ethan LOVES candy :)

At the Mpls airport looking at all the planes on Thanksgiving day. Getting ready to head to B's house!

Quality time with Uncle Joe and Elmo

More gingerbread house

Down at the water with daddy

singing

Along with Ethan's developing vocabulary has come a new love for singing! He now sings along with several songs, and I sometimes catch him singing ones on his own. He loves to sing several sesame street songs, Jesus Loves Me, Deep and Wide, Itsy Bitsy Sipder, Wheels on the Bus, and Our God is so BIG, to name a few. He sways as he sings them and definitely drags out the words that he actually can say :) I'm trying hard to capture it on video.

Also, today he asked his first full question "where'd it go?" after a garbage truck rounded a corner out of our sight. He usually just holds up his hands and says "go?" I answered him by saying "don't worry" and explained that it'd be back on its way out of the neighborhood and he repeated "don't worry" probably more than 20 times as he heard it traveling around our subdivision. He seriously cracked me up with that one.

prayers

Ethan's vocabulary is continuing to grow and amaze me. Yesterday he said the word "everywhere" and it was so clear it freaked me out a bit. And his sentences are becoming more and more clear as well. His longest one so far was this prayer - "Jesus Ethan boo-boo all better, amen". So sweet, as he was closing his eyes super tight and holding his little hand over his boo boo.

I'm definitely lagging in taking pictures lately, because he throws a fit every time he sees the camera and I don't let him play with it. This is getting very old, so I have usually just let special moments go because I don't want to have the same issue again. We started to set up our Christmas tree the other night and I tried to catch a few memories but Ethan ended up in tears instead. Very frustrating, so you'll just have to trust that our tree is now up and decorated :)

Happy Halloween

Can you believe that last year's costume is the same costume as Ethan wore this year?! So grown up now.

Visit with saige

Pics and video from a recent afternoon with our favorite little girl :)

When daddy's away

When Steve has to spend Saturday nights at church while on worship team, Ethan and I usually head put on the town. One of our favorite places to spend the evening is at Barnes and Noble. Eman loves the train table and brand new Lego table!