Ethan's Christmas Sing Along

Gingerbread Song

Merry Fake Christmas!

Saturday we did our Christmas here & gave Ethan all of the presents from us. I think for the first time this year, all of the presents will fit under the tree Christmas morning! Splitting them up was good, b/c we cannot carry anything else in the car LOL His favorite thing was Mario Party for the DS - even though he already has the same game for the WII & GameCube. He played it for like 8 hours this weekend!

Mario Party!

Batman Nunchucks!

Mickey Mouse Magic Choo Choo

We're super excited to come home next week! Can't wait to see everyone!

the Christmas Parade

This weekend we went down to my parent's house to check out Sedalia's Christmas Parade. It was cold and about an hour and a half into it, E was ready to go. We still saw at least 2 blocks worth of people lined up to march after we left, so it must have been one long parade. Way too long for a December parade in 20 - 30* weather! They did give out a lot of candy, Bill even got a Tshirt, and my dad got a CD. Kenosha parades don't give out anything as far as I can remember.

All bundled up and ready to roll.

Drinking cocoa & watching the parade.

Highlights included a decorated cement truck....

We also stopped to see Santa at Hallmark. When asked what he wanted for Christmas, E couldnt' remember what was on his list. Silly boy.

this was what he looked like at the end of the weekend

HO HO HO

It is cold here!!! I thought we moved farther South to get warmer weather, what the heck. Last night we went to Walmart and it was SNOWING out. Not cool!! I know it's December but it was in the 60s last week...this morning it was 20*!! On the plus side, E looks so cute in his hat & gloves all bundled up :)


Bill's battalion had it's Christmas party tonight. There wasn't much there, we waited in line for food for probably 30 minutes, then Ethan played in the bouncy house with his friend Lily until Santa got there. Santa came, the kids did pictures & got a bag full of candy from him. That was cute...they also took pictures and printed them up for us. Just have to say, I'm glad that I told him ahead of time that it wasn't the REAL Santa because he wanted to know why he had brown eyebrows when his hair & beard is white. I'm telling you, this kid is too observant!!

O Christmas Tree

We hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving yesterday. We stayed home all day in our jammies & played games & watched movies. We had all the traditional foods but with chicken instead of turkey :) We game our turkey away to one of Bill's friends.

We put our tree up on Wednesday night - Ethan was soooo excited. Most of the ornaments are on the bottom of the tree - all on one side LOL I moved a few after he went to bed b/c I was afraid the tree was going to tip over. His favorite ornament this year so far is Tom & Jerry & the Little Einsteins rocket (that sings - super annoying!).


He was also totally thrilled to put up the Mickey train. Amazing how he can sit there and watch a train go around in a circle for a half hour.


Here he is dancing to Christmas music while he was waiting for Daddy to finish eating. Disregard all of the wetness on his shirt - he had an incident with ketchup at supper time. He kept wanting me to dance with him like "married" - apparently holding hands and dancing around is how married people do it.

And the finished product - 3 hours later!

Momo is still getting into mischief - yesterday Ethan hit him with a pillow and knocked him off his spot - so last night he toilet papered his room. Well, Ethan thinks it's cool and looks like snow so I don't think he gets that Momo was being naughty LOL Wednesday night, Momo left us candy canes to hang on the tree.

Momo, the Mischievous Elf

Our little elf has been getting into lots of trouble this year. So far he's drawn snowmen on our milk cartons...

wrapped Ethan's pictures on his walls like presents....

gotten out the Christmas movies and got popcorn all over the living room...

and this morning we woke up to Ethan's underwear thrown all over his room, even up on the ceiling fan!
He's done some nice things too of course, brought E some new books, and a Charlie Brown Christmas board game. We're waiting to see what else he will do as he's pretty crazy this year!

Happy Fake Thanksgiving!

My parents came down this weekend and we had our fake Thanksgiving meal. Mom made turkey (gross!!!) and I made pie (yum!!!) :P Ethan wanted chicken nuggets & french fries, but settled for corn, mashed potatoes, a bun & lots of olives. He definately gets his olive love from my side of the family, Bill thinks they're gross.


We went to see Disney's Christmas Carol in 3D. It was a long 90 minutes. E thought it was boring, and I have to agree. The old English they were speaking was hard for me to follow, so I'm sure he had no clue what they were saying. I wouldn't see it again, that's for sure. There are a bunch of movies coming out that we want to see . Area 51, Princess & the Frog & Chipmunks Squeakwell - I think for one of them I'm going to put tickets in his Christmas stocking.

Granny brought some sugar cookies for E to decorate. They turned out colorful & super yummy!


The Army is supposed to be giving us a Thanksgiving basket, so I might be making a turkey this year. I hope it's not a big one, since only Bill will eat it.

Dear Santa

Ethan wrote his first letter to Santa all by himself this week. It's so adorable! It took forever to write, so we left out the I've been good and went straight to what he wants LOL In case you cant' read it, it reads

Dear Santa
1. DS (he's so not getting this, he already has one)
2. Super Princess Peach (a DS game)
3. Catipiller (Scatterpillar Scramble game)
4. Zhu Zhu Pet
5. New Mario Game (a WII game)
Please
Love
Ethan

Only a month until we leave for Wisconsin, can't believe this year has gone by so fast since we moved!

Happy Birthday Heather!

Happy Birthday Heather! My sweet boy wanted to send her all the money in his piggy bank, but I wouldn't let him LOL

Happy Birthday Papa

Sorry it's dark, our house is just that way & I don't know how to turn on the light/flash when I'm videoing.

Bill is back from Indiana. Not sure what he accomplished there, he says he did nothing while everyone else trained. Seems pointless to me, but I guess he's just there in case a vehicle breaks.

Today is Elvis's birthday too - he's 3 years old. I made him some treats & he really likes them, so I think I'll make them from now on. Nothing gross in them & cheaper to bake them than buy them.

This was our family craft this weekend - I hung them up in our snowman themed bathroom. Can you guess who's is whose? LOL Ethan's has black snow, 4 arms, 4 legs & an orange cloud. I'm not sure what the white stuff on the sides is supposed to be.


And here is the craft E wanted to make this weekend - he apparently loves peacocks now - I'm pretty sure just to freak me out!!

The Return of Momo

Momo the elf showed up at our house this morning. For those that don't know or remember him, Santa sends him to watch Ethan and report back how he is behaving. He also hides in different spots everyday, and sometimes brings little presents, or makes messes, etc.

Well we already have a lot of questions lol. He wants to know why Momo doesn't blink, how does he fly, etc. He told me that Momo is just a decoration, so I had to read him the book (that came with the elf) again and he decided that Momo is a doll by day, then comes awake at night. I swear, he is too young to be questioning this stuff! He told my mom not too long ago that Santa isn't real, and that I bring the presents. Really?? At 4!!

We're very much getting into Christmas mode since we aren't really doing anything for Thanksgiving. Mom & Dad are coming down the weekend before to have "thanksgiving" dinner with us - Bill is excited b/c he loves turkey - nasty!!

They came down this weekend with Nate, E was so excited to see him. He can't wait to go visit him again at Christmastime :) He got to swim at the hotel which was the best thing ever apparently. He told his whole class that he got to go swimming this weekend.

Ei Yi Yi

The Army is seriously annoying. Yesterday at lunch, Bill was supposed to leave tomorrow morning for Indiana. When he got home from work, he wasn't leaving Wednesday, and had no clue when he was supposed to leave. Just now he got a call that he is leaving sometime tomorrow, but not in the morning. Seriously?? Shouldn't they have this stuff planned out by now?! UGH!!

Ethan is fully over his little sniffles. He has a new friend at school named Cadance - apparently he asked her to come sleep over at his house. I talked to her mom for a minute and she said that Ethan is all that Cadence talks about, I guess at least it's mutual.

Happy November

Ethan is feeling better today - he hasn't had any medicine since we got up - at 5:30 this morning - gotta love daylight savings messing up my kid's sleep schedule - and he hasn't been sneezing or snotty.

I ordered him these cute Max from Where the Wild Things Are jammies and they came today. He loves them & won't take them off. They are super soft & I imagine warm. And of course super cute. He plans to scare Daddy when he comes home from work.

Bill found out he is leaving on Wednesday - supposedly - for Indiana. Last I heard he would be home the 15th - not sure if that has changed or not. The way things have been going I'm sure it will. The Army is the most unorganized organization in the world!!

We are doing a contest on my mom's board from now until the end of the year our boys have to wear a different outfit every day. So I'm just going to post the pictures on here too so you all can enjoy the adorable outfits my boy wears =P

Trick or Treat

We had fun trick or treating. It wasn't too cold - and E did really good walking (ok being carryed most of the time) and not being scared. It was after dark, which I still think is odd because you've got little kids walking around in the dark and all kinds of cars driving their kids around - just trick or treat in your own neighborhood!! He went up to the houses by himself except for the ones that had fog - those he skipped. He got a ton of candy, 10 cents, and a fiber one bar LOL

We also went to trunk or treat at the high school which was kind of lame, but I think he liked it. All the girls complimented him on his converse.
All ready to go!

Trunk or treat - lost the face paint already.

Going trick or treating - with no horns

His haul

Now he is starting to get sick. Lots of sneezing & stuffy/runny nose. I loaded him up with chest rub & a fan tonight so hopefully he'll feel better in the morning. I hate to keep him out of school, but I guess we'll see how he feels tomorrow.

oooo spooky

We carved our pumpkins today, well Bill's & my own since Ethan's was already carved from 2 weeks ago (and is now in the trash b/c it was all moldy - ewww). I let E draw my face on, and he tried to help carve it, but it was too hard for him to do.


Our pumpkin seeds are soaking in water right now, I'm going to bake them tomorrow. E said he really really wanted to eat them, and then told me he tried them at school and they were gross...so I'm betting he isn't really going to eat them, typical.


Here are a few pictures from the park yesterday, and one of our pumpkin pizza we had for dinner last night - it was really cute but didn't taste that great way too much cheese!

Happy Birthday Sami (Yesterday)

Sorry Sami! We didn't forget, I was trying to get a good picture of Ethan, but have decided that is not going to happen because my camera is not cooperating, so happy birthday!

Bill is in shock that you are a teenager - and I gotta say it's making me feel really old too!

Here's to a wonderful year for you! We love you!

Look what Ethan found

Grandma Pat this is for you...we found this cute little tiny snake in our driveway today. At first we thought it was a worm, but it's just a teeny snake. It's so cute & also dead. Bill thinks maybe a bird dropped it out of it's mouth, and I'm hoping so because I don't want to think that mama snake is around our yard somewhere...ewww!


It was another nice day and we played chalk & bubbles. The ice cream man even came by today...zooming down the hill. I'm fairly certain he couldn't have stopped at our house if we wanted him to since he was going so fast down the hill. Ethan wrote some messages in the chalk, and I have to say his handwriting is already improving yay!

Happy Birthday Papa!

Today was a lovely day - probably mid 70s I'm guessing. We played outside most of the afternoon. Funny how all summer long all this kid wanted to do was play video games, and now he wants to play outside. He did all the things he didn't want to do this summer - played in his sand box, played with (in) his water table, even got out the sprinkler.

Happy Birthday to Papa! Hope you have a great day!! We didn't pick this outfit intentionally, but after we realized that I had dressed him in that today, Bill thought it was really funny.


Bill found out today that his leave days for Christmas will be December 20 - January 2 so we will mostly likely be in Wisconsin then. I have to find out when E's last day of school before Christmas is, don't want him to miss anything good (like a Christmas party!).