Christmas 2010

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree; how lovely are your branches!

Ethan woke up to Santa having brought him a bunch of Rescue Heroes, Planet heroes and some gear. As if this weren't good enough, there were presents to open!!
Even Milo got in on the action


After so many presents, he started getting a little overwhelmed (I don't blame him) there were so many new things to play with. He'd get a little distracted and start playing. The bad part about this was that we still had to hustle and get over to my parents' house for more celebrations. So we pushed on through runny nose and exhaustion and made it, only about an hour later then planned.
But it was worth it! Look at that excitement!
So many new things! We are so blessed to have friends and family that spoil us (always) but especially through the holidays. Good thing Ethan's only 3, he can't get too used to being spoiled, next year he will have to share.
We spent the rest of the day and evening at my parents' house. We played and relaxed and napped a little and ate, a lot.





That was our Christmas (well, a brief summary of it) hope yours was just as wonderful as ours.

Patience Please

I am so far behind! We have had a little computer trouble lately, as in we can't connect to the internet. As a Christmas present to ourselves, we just (this morning) invested in a new laptop computer! I'm so excited, we've talked about it a lot over the past year but it always felt unrealistic. Then, I found out the computer we were using is almost 8 years old and it just seems to be pooping out on us. With the help of my father we picked one out of the after Christmas ads and went and picked it up this morning. Let me figure out how to upload pictures on here and I'll get Christmas post up.
Speaking of Christmas, it was a fabulous day! I am so so happy that I get to look forward to having another 3 year old at Christmas, Ethan's attitude and perspective about everything Christmas just makes it so much more magical for us. Even my sister (yes, my sister) put up Christmas lights on her new townhouse!! She does love her nephew.
Until next time, please be patient with me.

3 years old is a blur

For some reason, my camera is taking blurry pictures (it could be because my 3 year old will not stand still for more the 1/2 a second)
We had a small, but wonderful birthday party for Ethan on Sunday.
He loved every minute! He is so appreciative of everything these days, and observant. He notices every Christmas light we pass in the car and thanks me for every decoration I put up.

He (and Daddy) wrote his first letter to Santa this year. He asked for Planet Heroes (a Fischer Price action figure line). Hopefully Santa's elves have a good contract with Fischer Price and can deliver.
He had his 3 year old check up on Monday. At 3 years old he is 3 feet, 3 inches and 32 pounds (one more pound and it would've all been 3's). He's still in the 90th % for height and is up to the 50th % for weight.
Otherwise, we're just keeping busy. He's asks every day if it's Christmas Eve, he has an advent calendar from Aunt Linda that he loves, but doesn't understand that while there's still doors, it's not Christmas. So, Daddy had to make an extra countdown of paper links so he has more of a visual. He still asks every day though.

Little Nugget seems to be doing well (about 5" long, the size of an orange). I have been feeling it squirming around for a few days now so I'm getting excited. We have a doctor's appointment on Monday, hopefully the one after that will be an ultrasound, but we (I) still don't want to find out the sex of the baby, we'll see if that changes once the information is actually available.

Happy 3rd Birthday Ethan!

3 years ago today...

We had suspicions that my water broke (yes suspicions, no, there was no "gush")
My husband took me in his work van to the doctor
The nurse confirmed that my water broke, time to go to the hospital
*Wait! He's not supposed to be here till January! We don't even have a bag packed!
Go home, get a bag
Call work (first time calling in during that pregnancy)-guess I was taking Christmas off
Drop off the work van at La Z Boy
Get some Taco Bell
Arrive at the hospital, get checked in, start all the weird drippy things
10:10pm we get the best, early Christmas present ever!!
Weighing in at only 5 pounds, 12 ounces, 19 1/2 inches long. He spent his first 2 days in the NICU and the next 1,093 with us!

Happy birthday Baby