Ethan has a loose tooth!

I'm not ready for this milestone. Ethan has a loose tooth. Its on the bottom and it is pretty loose.

I'm not ready for this yet. It actually makes me sad. Like really sad. Is that bad?

I know I will cry when it falls out. I don't want to scare him, I'm sure he will freak out with any blood. Where did my baby boy go?

Don't kids lose teeth in kindergarten & 1st grade? He isn't 5 yet! He will be in a month, though.

I catch him playing with it and can see it is pretty loose. He is worried about eating certain foods now. He noticed it was loose when he was eating an apple at my sister's on Friday. She checked it and thought it was loose & told me. A lost her first tooth when she was 5, but I think she was in kindergarten.I can't believe my baby is growing up. It's too fast!

We went bowling today with Swans. It was so fun! We played 2 games and remembered the coupons this time. It was Elliot's first time bowling and he did super! He is 2.5 yrs now.

We even went out to dinner together. The boys really like each other. Elliot's that age that he copies everything E does. So cute. We sat together at the game on Thursday, too. I got my 1 game in this year.

It is supposed to be a high of 4 degrees here tomorrow. I'm feeling it already. I'm not leaving the house tomorrow.

I ordered a tall bookcase for our livingroom. My mom has one similar. I like Sauder brand stuff.

It was so cheap at Walmart, too. I ordered online, so shipping directly to me. Even with shipping it is cheaper than Lowes, Menards or Kmart price of the same bookcase. It won't ship out for another week.

Need to get major cleaning/organizing done tomorrow. I hope T helps me.

Crazy weather here

Last night was so scary foggy. It was foggy during the day and the drive home got scary for me.
I was following people in rush hour so wasn't that bad, I couldn't see any buildings on the either side of the road.
When I turned off the main road to get E at Mrs. F it was a country road with no street lights for about 1/2 mile. It was so scary because I wasn't following anyone and no one was coming. It seemed like it was a white out blizzard. It was definitely the worst fog I have ever driven in.
I was so happy to make it home safely.
T even came home like 2 min after us. He went to play poker, but he said it got worse and couldn't see the lights until he was right on them.
WE are supposed to get 4-6 inches tonight. It hasn't started snowing yet though. It has been drizzling rain most of the day. I hope it isn't messy in the morning. Wed. are my busy day at work so I can't miss it with those deadlines. I hope it doesn't get too bad. We had about 6 inches on Friday and they called off school. I went in around 11am, after T snowblowed 4 driveways.
I watched Biggest Loser tonight. This is the first season I have pretty much watched every episode, oh I didn't see the first epis. I'm liking it.
American Idol-just watched the first 15 min, but it is tivoed.
Watched Days, which is getting kinda good. I predicted Colleen right and she being John's mother.
E has a pajama party at school tomorrow. He wants to wear his Spiderman pjs. I hope he is warm enough in them. He is excited he gets to bring slippers and his blanket & Edgar.
I'll need to take a pic of him.

Lesson Learned with a 4 yr old

Look what Ethan learned to do...

One day I added that Hi-5 cd set to my 'watch' list, when I was playing with Ethan. He wanted to see the Hi-5 stuff offered on Ebay. Well, that auction had ended a while ago. I had the window open and was buying something for my mom. I left it open, but he was playing a game on another window. Luckily I checked my email later that night and noticed I bid on this??

I think the max offer is funny and it would never have gotten that high. Obviously, he doesn't understand decimals and just entered the exact amount "1190". I have no idea how he knew to even enter anything. I was so relieved that I was able to retract it, though. The seller was from Malaysia, too!!

Christmas at my parent's house

Just made this photo collage from Christmas at my parent's house. They just moved this summer to a new house, so I wanted to take pics of the new rooms all decorated for Christmas.
I think my mom did I really nice job, didn't she?

Ethan said some funny things during Christmas. I love how he totally believes in Santa. At T's parents when he was opening up a gift from Uncle D, he was so surprised by it. He said, "How did you know I wanted this?" We just said he must have talked to Santa. HE said the same things to my mom and my sister, too! Just amazed that Santa must have been to their house for him!

I'll be missing using "Santa's watching" line when he starts acting up. He would get really upset when we would say you aren't being nice and Santa might not bring you what you asked for. I even told him the hall light was a Santa cam and he is watching your behavior.

Ethan had told us a week before Christmas that we have to sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus on Christmas. How sweet! I'm assuming he was told that at preschool. Well, we started opening stockings and realized we did not sing it yet. I can't remember if I remembered or Ethan. Well, I let him hold the baby Jesus from our nativity set and we sang Happy Birthday. He was so happy, which made me so happy. So nice that a 4 yr old would pause in the middle of opening gifts to sing to Jesus. Amazing. He is such a blessing to me.

Here he is opening stockings...

Christmas Eve at T's parents...

At my parent's house on Christmas, amazed that he got the LightSketcher...

Christmas Tour

I decided to be included in BooMama's Christmas Tour. It has been so fun to see everyone's decorations. Here is our holiday house...

Our Gold & Silver tree...I love it so much. I added 2 sets of twinkling lights this year, so just a few lights blink, at various speeds. T calls it a disco tree now.Some of my fav ornaments. I have the silver mirrored bell spinning on one of those rotating hangers. Love that!

My nativity set is Fontanini, a gift from my inlaws over a couple of years. I love it so much. It is the perfect size and I love the creche.

We had to get new stockings this year due to the old ones smelling too musty from the leak in our downstairs.My snowmen collection display...

Nothing says Christmas like an animated Santa & Mrs. Claus...I love them. Mrs. Claus doesn't move as fluidly as Santa now though...Our small kitchen doesn't have a lot of decorations...basically the window areaLooking downstairs...

Downstairs bathroom with my collection of Santa mugs...odd place to display them, but I like it.

I added a 4 ft tree downstairs this year. I just made it really colorful and fun.

Our dog, Ashton by tree.

E has 2 Rudolph's now. This was the first one, he had to have. It doesn't play the song or light up anymore. His grandparents got him the one from Build A Bear, too. He named it Reindeer Reindeer.

I still have to take pics of upstairs bath that is purple/green/gold, plus E's room and our entertainment center area.

Thanks for all the awesome links to everyone's decorations, BooMama!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

Big snowfall Sunday, Dec. 16

I think we go about 10 inches at least. T plowed our driveway out early Sunday, then did 3 more driveways.
The snow was really coming down at 1am, when I was going to bed. It was really blowing alot. We even got snow on our covered front porch. Doesn't it look nice on my lit fake topiary tree?

Santa E

He did this on his own in the tub last week. He actually said "Who am I, Mommy?"
I added the hat & had to take a pic.
The more I look at it, it looks like a real beard and kind of creeps me out.

Snow Angels

We had our first real snowfall on Saturday. Ethan wanted to put on his boots and go outside immediately. I told him he didn't need his boots, it was just little flurries. I was going to help T with lights outside.
Well, E just spontaneously decides to make snow angels in our driveway. So cute and I'm glad I got it on video.


It got pretty icy out later, too. You can hear the snow/ice falling.
T put up the lights and it was snowing the whole time!
We tried to rake up leaves some on Sunday. Then it suddenly downpoured on us!

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!

None of my fam even knows about my blog, so I doubt I'll get any comments. My mom bookmarked my blog, though...will you leave me a comment?
I feel old for this birthday, too! I went out to lunch with the girls from work. We went to Fridays, and they sang to me. I got free ice cream, but only had a couple of bites. I got my fav Jack Daniel's chicken & shrimp and have leftovers for tomorrow.
We have cake & cards later, as usual, at work.

Starting to walk 3 yrs ago

Just uploaded another video. This one is from the week E started to walk on his own. Our dog makes an appearance, too! I forgot he used to jump up to look outside like that at our old house.

Apples & Cherries

I thought I would upload another video to YouTube. This one is of E as a baby, trying apples & cherries for the first time. T was feeding him while I was at work and thought it was hilarious so had to record him to show me.
It is pretty grainy, don't know how to fix that.

Funny comic

This comic strip reminds me of my dad, to a degree. I think he would have cut it out and put it up on his bulletin board...back in the day.
I wonder if he saw it in today's paper, I'll have to email it to him.

Ethan's first time bowling

We decided to go bowling today. It was Ethan's first time so he got a lane to himself with the bumpers. The bumpers really helped, too! T & I were in the next lane. It was a nice & casual Saturday afternoon. We all had a really fun time. It has been so long since we went bowling though. We each played 2 games and we spent $28! T forgot about a coupon and we could have saved like $9! Oh well, we will remember next time. Ethan really liked it once he got the hang of it all. He asked why there was a fan blowing by the ball return and Trent said it was to dry your hands off. So without fail, E made sure to put his hands there every time before grabbing his ball!

Happy Halloween!

From past Halloweens...

Most of my work is done

So I made the cookies for E's school party and for daycare..and for work.

Witch's hats....

and the super easy punch out orange pumpkins...

Ethan was helpful with unwrapping the kisses and keeping count on how many more I needed to make. It was hard to make the bows on all of them, my orange icing wasn't the right consistency.

I made up these little tags for the baggies for daycare...

I wrapped up Amanda's birthday presents, so we are all set for her party tomorrow. She is getting High School Musical themed stuff....the music cd, the actual movie (I taped it from the tv onto dvd), Gabrielle & Troy dollset from HSM2, then from Target clearance rack-a purple shirt, a cute pink striped sweater, red & black plaid jumper. I also found 5 books from Goodwill that look brand new for her. She loves to read and is really advanced for her age.

Trick or treating is 5-7pm here tomorrow. Kinda sucks that I have to leave early from work, though. I think I will be able to get my stuff done early. I made up our treat bowl so it ready to go. Hopefully dh will pass out candy so I can take E around neighborhood. This is what we are passing out at our house...

Fall Y'all Giveaways

I'm having so much fun checking out all of these giveaways! There are over 400 now! Wow, so much fun! People are so giving! Go check it out!

Tonight I have set the tivo for Charlie Brown's Halloween,

which E is so excited to see again! He saw the commercial for it last night and got so animated about it! He rewatched that show so many times last year. I even recorded it on to a dvd for him. So, yes, he could watch it whenever.

He knows how to find 'his' shows on the tivo list. Somehow now he even knows how to set it to 'green' so they don't get deleted! We had about 10 episodes of Hi-5 and we had to delete some of those for room for our shows! Hi-5 is his current fav show. He is such a singer & dancer.

Found this adorable little vintage postcard on Ebay. Thought I would post this cute Halloween greeting...