Funny man

Steve hurt his neck this morning. When he was talking about it and rubbing it later this evening Ethan got pretty concerned. He decided to take care of daddy by rubbing daddy's neck, kissing it, praying for God to make it all better, wiping daddy's face with a wet wipe, and then dancing and singing a few songs. When steve tried to join in on the singing ethan walked over, shut Steve's mouth and said "no I'm singing for YOU". Such a good nurse :)

We are enjoying some amazing weather here this weekend. Many picnics and trips to the park going on at our house! This Saturday Steve was busy so Ethan and I took our lunch to the lake. He loved it!

another post about his toddler bed

To prove my point about how much Ethan is in love with his new bed set-up, today after dinner Steve was doing some work around the house and Ethan ran up to him totally out of the blue and said "fank you for making my new tower bed, daddy!"  He really loves his new bed.

Tower bed

We took one of the sides off of Ethan's crib (it's a convertible crib) to make it a day bed. We told him now that he's not a baby anymore he can sleep in a bed for toddlers so he calls it his new toddler bed. Or "tower bed" if you can't quite pronounce toddler :). He is so in love with it. He wants to play in his room all the time now. He'll randomly ask "shall we go see my tower bed?" and then yell "oh, there it is!" when we walk into the room. He's definitely not a fan of nap and bedtimes so it hasn't made anything easier in putting him down but it hasn't been any more difficult than it already was really. And he hasn't fallen out yet so that's good too!

First night in the "new" bed

And yes, I put a pillow on the floor in case he decided that's where he wanted to sleep.  Looks like I was right tonight.  

little chatter-bug

One other funny thing he is saying lately.

We found a roly poly on the driveway and Ethan picks it up and stammers to remember what it's called "Oh, I found a.. a... a holy moly!"

He was scratching my back and points to my neck "Mommy, what's this on your neck?  Oh, it's a holy moly."

I must say that one often or something :)

zoo trip

This one is getting so hard to take a picture of!  He doesn't sit still for two seconds :)

Brave boy petting the bunnies!

The bears were so active and so close!

My play group had a fun day at the zoo today!  It's been a busy week for us.  More fun to come later this week, my mom gets in tomorrow afternoon for the weekend!

the circus!

Ethan was so thrilled to see the elephant.  Don't let his serious face fool you!  When Steve started walking toward the elephant Ethan started to get very worried.  Once daddy confirmed that we were only going to go close, that Ethan didn't have to ride on the elephant, he was ok and didn't want to leave.  He told us several times after that though, "we're only going to go close, don't ride on it".  During pretty much every act Ethan asked "where'd the elephant go, mommy?"  He enjoyed most of the other acts as well, just the elephant topped them all by far :)  

One other highlight, during one of the acrobat acts, Ethan repeated many times, "She's gonna fall!"  After I told him that she wasn't gonna fall, that she practiced a lot and she wouldn't fall he started saying "She's doing a pretty good job".  Such a funny kid.  

He has talked a lot about it since Monday night, and when I ask him if he liked a certain act he gets super serious and says "oh, I did", nodding his head.  I love how engaging he is about everything, he loves to talk!  

more funny stuff he said

He keeps cracking me up! Today he hugged my legs, looked up at me, and then said "you're a big boy, mommy!"

This morning on our way to church we were singing the song My God is So Big, and Ethan tells me, "that's too loud mommy, turn it down".