Another beautiful day today. We dug out the watertable - he wanted to get out a pool, but that just wasn't happening. It was mid 70s today, and the hose water is COLD!! He played with his new "wacky flower" sprinkler too. And in case you ever wondered, I was informed that this....

is what the cool dudes do.

We had a long day today. We were up at 4:00 to drop off Bill to go to Kansas for some training, and never got back to sleep. It was nice out, so we went to the park after school. E had a bit of a playdate there, as one of his classmates happened to be there (the girl that likes to kiss him!). Then we came home because he was "starving" and he didn't eat his lunch...typical. We played outside for a bit, but Ethan was having a rough time. He fell down the stairs on the back deck, scraping up his arm & leg, the slid on the rocks in the road when we walked up to the mailbox and hurt his hand, and he got his first sliver. He's now resting in my bed watching the Super Mario movie. Hoping it's an early night tonight!

Happy Birthday Dodo!

Happy Birthday Dodo! We love you!

This morning Ethan & I ventured down to our city's egg hunt. The weather man said it was going to be in the mid 50s, and it was 38* and windy as heck. There were some kids that were in shorts, and little girls in dresses that were freezing!! Ethan had a coat & his winter hat in the car, so we put that on. I'm not sure if it was because of the weather, or just because our town is small, but they had 10,000 eggs and not that many kids. Ethan walked away with 47 eggs (and only stopped b/c his basket was full).

His loot - candy, rings, tatoos, stickers, tops, little animal toys, and a friendship bracelet.

Playing outside today, it was not that warm out, but E was determined to dress himself, which is obvious from his lack of matching. I especially love that he had to wear Halloween Snoopy socks. Crazy kid.

3 things

Whale crackers taste better than goldfish.

Ethan is a pretty good "thrower" - he says a pitcher is what you take with a camera.


And he's also a huge dork....

sunny days = love

We probably jumped the gun a little bit today, but we went ahead and planted a few flowers. We put them in pots, so we can bring them in if it gets too cold, but E was so excited to plant them. They are talking about Spring & flowers growing at school this week, so he was all into it. Hopefully they'll grow because we planted a ton of stuff last year and not one thing grew. We don't really have soil we found out - after planting - we have concrete about 6 inches down all around the house. Nice, no?? Also, please ignore all the garbage in the background of this picture - there is this small pile of crap that the owners left here and we aren't sure if we should throw it out since it isn't ours. It looks terrible, but it kind of fits in with the neighborhood :P


We also played hopscotch and made a chalk town for his cars to drive in. He made our house, and the mall, and his school, then waaaay at the bottom of the driveway he made Disney World, and everyone had to drive there.

This is what those grow a pet things turned into, they felt super gross! I think they were supposed to have faces, but they just sort of stretched out and look scary lol These are his cool Lego shoes that I got on sale at Amazon. He thinks they are neato - the bottoms have the little notches on them like legos. I had to take a picture while they were still clean, and sure enough not a half hour after this picture was taken, he stepped in dog doo.