Friday, December 17, 2010

Life Since Halloween

Since Halloween, things have been busy around here but we find time to relax when we can. The weather stayed pretty nice until mid-November, so we enjoyed the cool mornings with our doors and windows open. Tristan liked to sit out on the porch and eat breakfast on occasion. Ethan, well, he just mooched off his dad!


We introduced Ethan to crayons one afternoon and he really took to it! Here's dad teaching him how.
Coloring with Dad
What do you do when you can't decide on a color? Use them all!
Trying to get the hang of it...
We continue to meet up with friends almost weekly for playdates. One day we went to Lindsey's Bouncing Tigers Bounce house. They have a lot of really neat toys, but it took Ethan a while to warm up to it. I think he'll enjoy it more when he's a little older!
Going down the slide alone
What a smile!
Boys being boys!
He still love books, and especially loves to flip through the pages of his scriptures (let's hope he feels the same way later!).
One day he was eating spaghetti noodles and he literally had them hanging off the back of his head...I was cracking up!

My two silly boys
He sure keeps us busy!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Halloween (Finally!)

Yes, I know there are only 9 days until Christmas...but I have to post Halloween pictures! If for no other reason so our parents can see Ethan's costume. So here goes:

I was looking forward to Halloween all year with the hopes of an elephant costume for Ethan. My friend, Robin, made it a reality and I couldn't wait until Trunk-or-Treat at church to see him run around in it. This is how that morning started:

Ethan found my hot chocolate leftovers in the garbage and indulged a little...
How can you be mad at this face?
We headed over to the Trunk-or-Treat later that evening. For some reason he always has no expression in moments like these...but I promise you he was having a blast!
I loved how his little tail looked whenever he bent over...what a cute little man!
I finally caught him when he stopped moving!!!

We had to take a moment to get a picture with his good buddy, Drew. They are both sooo tired by this point!
His "I'm tired" face after a long night of trunk-or-treating
We had a pretty low-key evening on Halloween. We went to church in the morning and spent the afternoon with Becky at our apartment. We had painted pumpkins earlier in the month, but needed to put the finishing touches on Ethan's pumpkin still. So my brilliant idea was that we should put Ethan's handprint on his pumpkin this year...I would NOT recommend it. It was super messy and didn't work out that well, but we tried!
Becky joined us for the festivities (I'm pretty sure he's pointing to his pumpkin here).
Family pumpkins--2010
We decided to dress him up again and let him run around the apartment complex a little. He is so excited to be an elephant (or to be outside...but I'm guessing he's excited to be an elephant)!
By the time we tried to take a family photo Ethan was tired, hot (the joys of Fall in the south--random hot days) and didn't want to sit still. Oh well, maybe next year!
Feeding dad a mummy dog
Ethan loved carrying his pumpkin around
Ethan showing off his pumpkin
A busy day calls for a BIG drink of water! He loves drinking out of the straw on my water bottle.
Halloween was lots of fun and we look forward to many more celebrations as a family!