Friday, March 14, 2008

Ethan's 5th Birthday Party

T's parents came over Tues. night with part of his gifts since they couldn't make it to his party on Wed. His dad had a trade show out of town.

His fav color is YELLOW, so they got him a cute yellow polo shirt


A package of Krabby patties, to share with his cousins.


(I had already bought some for his party, though)


and Pet Pals game for his Leapster


She is planning on a little party on Sunday when they watch him and he'll get another gift he hinted at them....Diego game for his Smart Cycle.



T & I took him out to lunch at Red Robin on Wed. for his birthday


He chose a corn dog, choc. milk


Then the waiters come out clapping and sing to him. They gave him 3 balloons...


and


an ice cream sundae! He only ate 1 bite of it!Fun birthday lunch at Red Robin

We had his birthday party on Wed. night, his actual birthday.



I bought the cake and found a little bendable Spongebob character and stuck him in there.We just had cake, Krabby Patties, Goldfish & Stars, cookie suckers & 2 leftover cupcake cones for the 2 cousins.

I Spy book from Uncle D & Meredith. Thanks for all the peanuts!

Great reaction video when he opened up the Littlest Petshop VIP turtle he has been begging for! No, it is not E.T. We were informed that we were supposed to get him this.





Webkins - tree frog from Grandma OB


Then he didn't want any cake, said he wasn't hungry! He just wanted to get on computer to do the Webkins & Littlest Petshop VIP (what we got him)



Smiling as we sing "Happy Birthday" to him!


Eating cake with his cousins...

with Grandma & Grandpa OB

Cousins got him Ben 10 Alien Voice Changer...too cool




Typing test

How fast can you type? I saw this on a blog and was curious how I would score.
I took it 3 times scored 67, 68, 67



67 words

Speedtest

I need to upload the pics from Ethan's birthday.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

5 Years Ago, I became a mom

My beautiful baby boy was born 5 years ago today. I can't believe it has been 5 years already! Really? Where did my baby boy go?

Back in 2003...

At just 5 minutes old...







then at 1 yr 2004...





2nd birthday....



3rd birthday...






4th birthday, 2007...





I stayed up until 2am decorating dining room with the Spongebob theme and his bedroom door, wrapping presents, baking cookies...so tired right now.

I made these cone cupcakes for daycare kids at Mrs. F, they had a little party Tues for him... We made these Monday night and Ethan helped by putting on all the sprinkles. First time making these, I filled about half of them with too much batter and they overflowed in the oven! E picked out the funfetti cake with white frosting.


I made up these star cookie suckers to take to his preschool class today. I only have one pan of 6 stars, so took 4 batches...part of the reason why I had a late night. I bought the sucker bags & sticks at Michaels, had to tie with yellow ribbon-E's fav color.




Here is Ethan this morning smiling as his Ga T sings Happy Birthday to him on the phone. T's parents came over last night with part of his gift since they are out of town tonight.


I hope he has a fun day today! After preschool, T & I are going to take him to Red Robin for lunch.

Monday, March 10, 2008

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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Nice weekend

Had a good weekend, but only left the house once.



Friday night was kids Easter party at church. I took Ethan & got there before 5:30pm so we didn't miss the big egg hunt. There were a lot less kids there this year. They said there were 550 eggs and maybe about 25 kids. So, luckily E had no problems getting a bunch. No tears this year because another kid grabbed his egg either. We sat with Brendan's family, who is in his preschool class. Nice time, plus hot dogs for dinner, which is E's fav.


Wed. was wacky clothes day at his preschool. E wore this ensemble...


Funny Ethan quotes for this week, that I can't forget:



Wed. 3/5 at my mom's house:

They were discussing dogs and he brought up that Mrs. F has a new dog, Brinkley.

My mom asked, "What kind of dog is it?"

Ethan: "A wrestler"

Brinkley is a boxer! So funny, at least he knew they were similar.



Sat. 3/8 walking into the kitchen and complaining his foot hurts. I asked if he stepped on something since he was barefoot.

Ethan:"No, it is on the inside. This happened one other time"

Me: "oh, is your foot asleep? Does it feel like pins & needles? Try shaking it. Does it feel better now?"

Ethan: "No, it still is fizzy"

He amuses me so.




On Saturday, T had boys game. Unfortunately, they lost so they are done for the season. HE had told E that if they win he would come home and get us to go to the 2nd game at night. So Ethan didn't get why we couldn't go back and watch the game. When T got home I left to do some quick errands. I just went to CVS, got gas, went to Jewel for a couple things for Sun. dinner, then back home. E & I painted another 'E' for his room. This one matches his comforter. I finally hung the last 2 E's, so he has 6 up on his wall. E had fun painting on the newspaper, then grabbed the tape I used to mask off areas for the stripes.


I did laundry today, got through 2 loads of Ethans, towels, and 1 load for me.


I need to set up some Ebay auctions, just need to get the energy to take the pics and upload it all. I need to put up Ethan's summer clothes he has grown out of. I think April/may is more the time when ppl buy those clothes. I have ton of winter stuff I needed to get up there and haven't. I think I will pull some dressy church stuff for Easter clothes buyers.





We tivoed the finale of "Gone Country" on Friday.
I waited to see the reveal of winner when T was home and watching it. I really thought it would be anyone but Julio or Sisco. T & I both agreed, definitely Julio had to be in last place. I was thinking Bobby Brown, T thought Maureen. Spoiler here...


Julio wins!? WTF?? Still surprised by that one. No way! Total letdown of that show. We were watching some of the marathon last week and I think got caught up with it today. Such crap that he won. His accent is so distracting and his song was way too Latin sounding.

Enjoying American Idol, though.

Boys I'm still rooting for the 3 Davids, dreads guy, Inxs guy.


Girls I like- Ramiele, Carly, Brooke-ok....now I can't think of any other girls


I really thought that Danny was gonna be there until top ten. I bet that is all he was expecting to a point, too. He would have loved to gone on tour with everyone. I really saw him as this year's Sanjaya. Doesn't he look like a mixture of Shannon Elizabeth & Jessica Alba?


I wasn't a fan of Asia'h, or however you spell her name. I hate how she sang from that back of her throat.


It was kind of neat that there were 3 people from Indiana this year. Only 1 left, the rocker Amanda. Not sure if she can hang on to the top 10.


Watching Big Brother on the free Showtime now. I can't explain why that show sucks me every season. Not sure who to root for this time. I was rooting for James or Chelsia, but doesn't look good for them.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Quick post

Just wanted to plug in some pics from the weekend.


I had T take our pic at Northwoods on Friday. I told him he didn't have to have the flash on...I didn't want to attract attention either. I could just lighten it up some in photoshop.
Here is the pic he took....yeah a bit dark, huh?
After playing around in Photoshop I got 2 decent enough pics. I made duplicate layer of the pic, then changed the duplicate layer to screen from normal. Then I added 2 more layers repeating this process. I think I did an auto levels on one of them, too. It is still really grainy, unsharp mask didn't do anything to correct that.

Isn't the fire so cozy? There are 'stuffed' animals up in the rafters that E noticed after a while.

Here is E's new grin with 2 missing bottom teeth now.


I found my little heart pillow from when I was a little girl. Now my little guy can use it for his lost teeth.


You put the tooth in that little front pocket for the tooth fairy. He seems to like it. It doesn't look that girly since it is green.



I made these Hamburger Cupcakes that Kelly's Korner blogged about.











I took the time to make them last night. E took one bite & spit it out. Oh well.
I made his with out any ketchup in the meat, too. He is such a picky eater, my fault for it, I know. I thought it I called them cupcakes it would intrigue him a bit. When he saw me making them, he said he didn't like that kind of cupcake.
Not too bad, and super easy to make. T just had 2 when he came home that he had to reheat.