Happy Anniversary Grandma & Grandpa!

58 years is pretty darn amazing! I've only been married 4 years and could kill him half the time :P Not sure how you made it to 58!!

Can't wait for you 60th party...start planning it people that still live in Kenosha!

Here's me & Grandpa at the 50th Anniversary...my how I've changed in the last 8 years. Ethan said that was Auntie Heather in the picture and didn't believe it was me LOL

Jokes - Ethan Style

Five Little Fishies

Ethan bites the dust

Today was E's first soccer game. Sadly, I do not have much to report. He was perfectly fine all the way up until we got to the field, and then as soon as he was by his team he started melting down. He didn't want to warm up with them or practice. He just sat on the field not listening. Finally we told him if he didn't do what the coach told him, he wouldn't have video games for a week - he didn't care. So then we decided to just leave, made him tell his coach he quit and went home.

I'm not sure what to do about it. I don't want him to think it's ok to quit, but I don't want him to do it if he hates it. It's just weird because he has been liking practice and kept saying he wanted to play a game instead of doing practice. Now game day comes and he wants nothing to do with it. I'm not going to fight and get mad at each other about it every week.

He said he's done forever, so I guess we're not going to push it. Maybe when he's older. Sigh.

Here are a few pictures of him in his cute uniform. The first one really sums up his attitude at the game today.

Little Sicky

It's a good thing we didn't venture to Kenosha this weekend - E is sick. He's had a fever & headache since Thursday night and now a tummy ache too. I just got him to eat some yogurt - but other than that he has not eaten much in the past 2 days - a sandwich yesterday - well ok, a bun with butter on it. If he still is sick tomorrow I'm going to take him to the DR Monday. Ever since he started school with these dirty army kids I tell ya. First ringworm, now this!

So Daddy moved the TV into his room so he can lay down and watch some movies. He wants to play gamecube, but I'm not sure if I'm going to let him, he gets too excited :P

Bill got home at 2 am. Thankfully one of his friends gave him a ride home, so I didn't have to get E up in the middle of the night. He graduated from his class thingy that he was gone for so that should help when he goes to the board for his promotion next month. Yay!!

I found an old memory card from my old old camera when cleaning yesterday, and popped it in the computer. Pictures of baby Ethan...he was so chubby :)

Hope everyone has a good Labor Day weekend! Pretty sure we're going to be at home.

No, E they aren't taking a nap....

When we moved down in June, Ethan had a fish tank for his new room. There wasn't any room in his bedroom, so we had to put it in the play/computer room. We got it all set up & he picked out two striped zebra fish. He named them Maya & Stripes.

He hasn't looked at them since -until this morning. I was in the kitchen loading the dishwasher and he came in and said "Mommy come look - my fish are playing dead. They are laying down taking a nap". Ut oh!

So obviously these two fish are dead, laying on the bottom of the tank. They do look like they are sleeping, but I told him they were dead. And asked him when he fed them last - we never remember too - sorry fish!

He wasn't really sad about it, but now we'll clean the tank out this weekend. Probably get rid of it too b/c we obviously don't remember to feed our fish!!

Bill's been gone a week...

and now we're bored :P Last week we kept pretty busy with school & soccer. I attempted to teach myself to sew, and ended up with a Halloween rag quilt & some bathroom curtains that don't look half bad woo hoo. Going to stick to sewing straight lines for a while though.

Saturday we went over to Springfield to the mall, but didn't find anything good. I'm still bitter that they don't have a GAP there, it's just wrong. What mall doesn't have a GAP?! We did stop at Hobby Lobby and pick up some fabric. Mom helped me recover the kitchen chairs so they don't look so disgusting. Now I have to find a way to keep them clean. I think I'm going to cover Ethan's in plastic - he seems to think that a chair is his napkin - even when his actual napkin is sitting in front of him.

Sunday we spent a few hours in the ER. E had this weird looking thing on his leg that I was afraid was a bug bite of some kind. It kept getting bigger, so we took him in. Turns out it is ringworm - gross!! Not sure where he picked it up - thinking either at school or at the fair from the dirty rides. But it's already looking much better - and should be cleared up by the weekend.

Soccer was terrible last night. E was being sooo naughty!! Sitting on the field, laying on the field, kicking the cones, picking up the cones and looking through them, putting grass in the cones, he was on the wrong field half the time, stuck in the net, not listening to his coaches....ugh. So he's not having video games today b/c he can't listen. It's sure to be a long day, but video games is the only thing he seems to care about these days, so hopefully he'll listen better tomorrow.

Bill is due back sometime Friday or Saturday as far as I know. He can't call us this week b/c they are out in the field doing something. We're still not sure if we'll come home this weekend with my parents. I would feel bad leaving the day he got home, so I guess it depends when he actually gets here. Hopefully I'll find out on Wednesday.