Saturday, August 18, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
at the park
Remember I said I'd been working on Ethan saying "may I please have..."? Ethan and I were at the park the other day when a little boy about 6ish wanted to get by Ethan and use the slide. He came up to Ethan and said "can I do this?" and Ethan jumped up and said "yes, you may!" The older boy was a little shocked and said "whoa, how do you know how to talk?" I guess it is a little funny to hear a 2 year old use correct grammar :)
If you think of it, please pray for my family. My dad's dad is currently in the final stages of pancreatic cancer. Steve, Ethan and I were planning on a trip to South Carolina to visit my parents this weekend, but it appears that we may have to postpone that trip. My dad went up yesterday to be with him, and I got to video chat with him and say hi to my grandpa, and that I love him. Not sure if he heard me or knew what was going on, but very neat to have technology to be able to do that.
If you think of it, please pray for my family. My dad's dad is currently in the final stages of pancreatic cancer. Steve, Ethan and I were planning on a trip to South Carolina to visit my parents this weekend, but it appears that we may have to postpone that trip. My dad went up yesterday to be with him, and I got to video chat with him and say hi to my grandpa, and that I love him. Not sure if he heard me or knew what was going on, but very neat to have technology to be able to do that.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
cute stories
I was out of town for the weekend, and my little guy missed me a whole bunch. He's been stuck to my leg ever since I got home. When I got home I was showing Steve my sunburned legs and Ethan was pretty concerned. He looked at me and said, "is your bum not feeling very well, mommy?" I told him that it hurt a little because I got a sunburn. He asked me "did you forget to put scun scream on it?"
Today I was getting ready to feed him lunch of left-over bbq chicken and rice. Steve was telling me that he hadn't eaten very much of it last night and wasn't sure he'd eat it again today. I put it in front of Ethan and he yells "wow! Chicken and rice!" and then proceeded to devour the entire plate, all by himself, along with the rest of my corn on the cob, and then ask for more chicken and rice by saying "may I have some more chicken and rice?". Goes to show you never can predict anything.
We've been working on saying "may I have... please?". It had been going like this: Ethan - "SNACK! I need a SNACK! Get me a SNACK!" and then I'd say "how do you ask nicely?" and he'd respond quickly "please". I decided that I'd let it slide long enough, and now I make him start over with "may I..." and he'll change his tone quickly. I will probably be reminding him of it forever, but hopefully one of these days it will stick. And he's usually really good at saying "thank you". I'm going to be a big stickler for manners in my kids. I got it from my mom. I remember her constant reminders to say thank you :)
Tomorrow is Steve's birthday! Ethan and I went to the store this morning to pick out daddy's present. I knew what I wanted Ethan to give Steve, but I didn't want to get it too early because I also knew that surprises don't mean anything to Ethan. So when we got to the sporting goods section and I let Ethan pick out a children's tennis racquet to "give to daddy for his birthday" Ethan was over the moon. He carried that thing around the whole store and told the check-out girl "this is tennis for daddy's birthday, so we can play tennis together". He came right home and showed daddy, he was so excited. Then he got super frustrated because he couldn't hit the ball to save his life :) Hopefully he'll catch on a little as the years go by. We're celebrating Steve's birthday tonight as a family, heading out shortly for Davanni's pizza. Yum!
Today I was getting ready to feed him lunch of left-over bbq chicken and rice. Steve was telling me that he hadn't eaten very much of it last night and wasn't sure he'd eat it again today. I put it in front of Ethan and he yells "wow! Chicken and rice!" and then proceeded to devour the entire plate, all by himself, along with the rest of my corn on the cob, and then ask for more chicken and rice by saying "may I have some more chicken and rice?". Goes to show you never can predict anything.
We've been working on saying "may I have... please?". It had been going like this: Ethan - "SNACK! I need a SNACK! Get me a SNACK!" and then I'd say "how do you ask nicely?" and he'd respond quickly "please". I decided that I'd let it slide long enough, and now I make him start over with "may I..." and he'll change his tone quickly. I will probably be reminding him of it forever, but hopefully one of these days it will stick. And he's usually really good at saying "thank you". I'm going to be a big stickler for manners in my kids. I got it from my mom. I remember her constant reminders to say thank you :)
Tomorrow is Steve's birthday! Ethan and I went to the store this morning to pick out daddy's present. I knew what I wanted Ethan to give Steve, but I didn't want to get it too early because I also knew that surprises don't mean anything to Ethan. So when we got to the sporting goods section and I let Ethan pick out a children's tennis racquet to "give to daddy for his birthday" Ethan was over the moon. He carried that thing around the whole store and told the check-out girl "this is tennis for daddy's birthday, so we can play tennis together". He came right home and showed daddy, he was so excited. Then he got super frustrated because he couldn't hit the ball to save his life :) Hopefully he'll catch on a little as the years go by. We're celebrating Steve's birthday tonight as a family, heading out shortly for Davanni's pizza. Yum!
Monday, July 23, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
new sunday school class
Ethan moved up from the nursery to "beginners" class this month. This past Sunday was his first day there and throughout the day yesterday he kept telling me "the guy was behind the curtain". I had no idea what he was talking about and would just respond "oh, wow" and didn't think much of it. Then finally when he said it again as I was putting him to bed it jogged a memory that I had of his classroom - there is a little puppet theater in his new classroom and there's a curtain that the teacher can stand behind and do a puppet show that they incorporate into the lesson. So I asked him "was this at your new class at church?" Ethan said "Yeah, it was. Chris was behind the curtain. And Grace was behind the curtain. And Ethan was behind the curtain - nope." So I said "oh, you didn't go behind the curtain? Did you just sit quietly and listen to the teacher?" Big pause from Ethan and a very serious, "no, I talked". I'm not one bit surprised :)
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