We had a great time at Ethan’s birthday party on Saturday. There was lots of family and friends there to celebrate with us. It is late so I am not going to say much. The pictures will have to tell the story for now.

Okay I am back now….LOL
Ethan loves all his presents and Thanks everyone.

The lovely cake was made by Sweet Cakes Design LLC. She did a fantastic job. Totally will use her again! How adorable is this cake. I LOVE it!! I was soo excited when my mom brought it over…(the cake place is right down the road from my mom and on her way here she jsut stopped for me and got it.) I just love how it turned out. It was perfect…not to mention that it tasted fabulous!! Thanks so much Barb!! I appreciate it. You will definately get all my referrals!!

I can’t believe my baby is 2 yrs old now. 2 Yrs ago today I becme a Mother. Something I have always wanted. ANd now I have this precious little boy to love. He is so special I can’t even put it into words. I just love him so much. Never thought you could love someone so much.
That day was a tough day. The birth and leading up to his birth did not go as I had planned. None of it. Which is okay…because I had a healthy child.

This picture was just minutes after having him. I know I look horrible…but what do you expect, I just had a baby…LOL
I was so tired because I had not slept at all the night before. I had ethan at 5:05pm. And then labored the whole night before and that day…I was tired.

I love this picture of Ethan and Josh….such a special memory for me to see Josh holding him and so happy!

My sweet precious boy….so innocent.
What happened? hahaha he grew up!
But I am glad to be able to remember these moments.

I totally love this picture of him at 11 days old. I know his eyes look a little cross-eyed but I still think it is precious. The blanket he is on is one that my mom made out of that minky and has Pooh on the other side. It is soooo soft..I love it.

Another sweet picture of him. I love looking back at all his baby pictures just to remember how small and sweet he was. I am glad that I have so many pictures to remember these precious days. (over 10,000 in his first year, rediculous I know)

This is Ethan at 2 months old. I totally love his smile. Just makes your heart melt.

He was always so bald. I loved it.

I love when he would grab his toes…just adorable.

He truely didn’t like to sit in the grass at all…that’s why he has that look. He was not happy…a second after this picture he was screaming. hehehe…Am I mean? He is 6 months old in this picture…=)

Then jumping to 12 months old….he looks like such a little man…crazy what 6 months can do!!

16 months old….growing so fast into a little man…by this time he had such a little personality…oh boy!!
I can’t believe he is 2
years old. I had to throw in this silly picture because that is how he is most of the time…silly. He has grown leaps and bounds….talking so much…and clear as day…he amazes me everyday.

Like today…he gets up to the kitchen table…we have a pub style table…so I helped him….we put his Bumbo seat on the chair so he can reach….he says..”I’m hungry!” I said “Okay, What would you like to eat?” Clear as day he says, “I want some cereal.” I was like…okay I will get your cereal…it was sooo cute. I will have to show you the picture of him at the table…it is cute..I am thinking the high chair is out now.

He is sooo darn cute. LOL…I know I always say that…but I am his mom I am allowed to.

I will post pictures from his party. It is on Saturday! Oh here is the invite…I thought it turned out cute!!

Saturday we woke up and headed to my parents house. We then headed off to Klackle’s Orchard in Greenville with my parents.
This is Ethan on the way to my parents house. He was reading his train book. He loves trains.

There were so many things to do at the Orchard, I think Ethan was overwhelmed….I know I was…LOL

Ethan has never been on one of these play bounce things…so we thought it would be fun to try it. Josh had to go with him because it was like an obstacale course…He seemed to like it…Actually I know he did bcause we were walking away from it and he started throwing a fit. LOL

Then it was off to pick out a pumpkin. We had a really great day. It was hot and all of us got sunburned…lol

On our way home…this was ethan…He was so dead tired…well with no nap until 3pm, when he usually goes down at 10 or 11am.

We had decided that were going to make Apple Crisp with these wonderful apples we picked. They were so yummy. Plus we love Apple Crisp and what a great Fall dessert. The recipe is below:

We went to my parents house on Sunday for Josh’s birthday. We had a good time. I really wanted to get some good shots of my parents with Ethan. For some reason I don’t have very many. So here is what I got. Ethan was being very stubborn and didn’t want to sit still to get a picture. So this will have to do.

Ethan’s favorite new toy at nana’s and papa’s house. It is a really fun activity center. He loves it.

Ethan eating organic carrot cake that my mom made for Josh’s birthday. He loved it.

Also trying to a big boy and eat with a big fork. It was so cute.