Archive for July, 2008

splash park

July 31, 2008

I had Wednesday off, so my friend Pam and her son, Devontae, went to this splash park called Richmond Park.

It is nice because the water just gradually gets deeper so the littler kiddos can play in the shallow part.

Ethan’s first words as we walked outside to the park was “OH MY GOSH” as loud and as excited as he could be. It was sooo funny. He has never seen anything like it so he was just amazed by this picture.

Ethan didn’t really care for the water. I think he was too overwhelmed by it all to really know what the pool was. This was his first time in a pool like this. He has only been in out baby/inflatable pool at home. So this was a huge difference for him.

He had the death grip on me the whole time. He loved to watch the older kids jump or dive off the diving board. He thought that was hilarious when they would splash in the water.

I used Arbonne sunscreen on him….I believe it is SPF 45. This sunscreen is FANTASTIC. I love it. We were out for about 2 1/2 hours and he didn’t not get burnt at all. I on the other hand have a burn on my back…..what a dummy. I put the sunscreen all over except there….well I thought i got it good enough. Apparently not because it is scorched. LOL Anyways we had a great time…and I will definately be going again. I want Ethan to get used to being in a pool. And to not be afraid of the water.

News….

July 28, 2008
I have some exciting news that I am still putting together. I hope to reveal it soon. I at least think it is exciting and a big step for me….Anyone guess what it is?

Weekend In Review….

July 27, 2008

This weekend was nice. We didn’t have a whole lot to do. We lounged around on Saturday morning for a while. I had to run to Target to get a baby gift. (I’ll explain that in a minute). Ethan loves to chill in just a diaper. Actually if it was up to him it would be nothing…but haha I just don’t trust him. We did that one day and all of a sudden is peeing on the front of the couch…..LOL it was actually funny.
Here is a little peek at my main level living room, dining room and kitchen. I just am in love with our new house. We have been in it for about 7 months now and I just love how cozy it warm it is. I haven’t shown pictures of it with all of our furniture in it…so here is one shot. I will have to do a video of it. That would be more fun!


I went to a baby shower on Saturday for Josh’s cousin’s wife. Her name is Yuko and she is from Japan. The sweetest girl. And she was so darn cute pregnant. She is 35 wks. She looks great for 35 wks and small.
As I said before, I had to go to Target to get a gift. Yes I am a procrastinator. On the invite it said “It’s a girl!”.
So off to Target I go. I always have a hard time picking out stuff…So I ended up getting everything pink…Pink polka dotted blanket, Pink Babylegs (yes they sell them at Target now, how cool is that?), a little hat and booties set, and a cool little organizer things that holders diapers and wipes. I also bought a bag to put it all in. I got to the shower and saw that everything was BLUE….I was freaking out….someone forgot to tell me that the baby was a boy not a girl. I kind of felt dumb. Because I was the only one that didn’t know. Oh well. I still gave her the gift and said I got it all at target you can go and exchange it all. She loved it and thought she might keep it and still put it on the boy….LOL His name is going to be Kai Michael. I wished they lived closer so i could to pictures. But they just moved to Ohio from Oklahoma, her husband is in the military.
This is a cute lil girl, name Madilyn that was at the shower…she was adorable.
Saturday night we went over to Josh’s sisters, Erin. She just got engaged a couple weeks ago to Rob (I’ll do another post on that later.) But they just bought a house and they invited us over to see it and have dinner. That was alot of fun. Ethan got to play with her son Ayden. They played so well together. Ayden is 2 will be 3 in November. And Ethan is 20 months. At one point in the night, we wondered what they were doing….erin went to find them and they were in the bathroom, playing with shampoo and in the toilet…YUCK. There was shampoo everywhere…On yeah they also had the plunger out sticking it in and out of the toilet like it was plugged…hahaha. But that was making suds and bubbles everywhere. Well by the time I got there she was cleaning them up….so wish I would have gotten a picture of that….OH BOYS!!!
Sunday, today, we did alot of cleaning. Ugh this house was a disaster. I hate it when it gets like that….but both of us working full time, it is going to happen.
Josh went grocery shopping this morning…THANK YOU SO MUCH HUN!! While ethan and I took a nap. That was nice to take a nap….We were really tired.
I then cleaned the main floor, vaccumed, mopped/steamed the floors, dishes, all that good stuff, while Ethan and Josh watched baseball. Ethan LOVES baseball. Might be his theme for his 2nd birthday this year too.
Josh made a fabulous dinner tonight. We don’t usually eat steak, but he loves it and so he bought it at the store today and thought we would try and grill it. It turned out great. We also had fresh corn on the cob….it was a fabulous dinner. Thanks hun….I LOVE when you make dinner. I really appreciate it. It was very YUMMY!
We then went upstairs and relaxed in our bed with Ethan…..Ethan loves to do that. He thinks it is fun to play in our king size bed.
Well that’s about it…I have to get ready for a week of work.

ProPhoto

July 25, 2008

I found this company online that has these themes/templates you can purchase for your blog.These templates are for professional photographers but I think they would also be fantastic for anyone that loves to show off there pictures. ProPhoto is offering a $10 coupon off one of these themes/templates. Coupon Code: SIMPLE725 Let me know if you order one of these.

UNDER A BLOG MAKEOVER!!!

July 22, 2008
I am trying to do something different with my blog….feel free to add any suggestions…I really want to make my photos bigger so everyone can see them better.
I hope it won’t take me too long to do….Thanks for your patience.

Our 5th Anniversary…..

July 19, 2008
Just saying Happy Anniversary to my hubby. We have had 5 wonderful years together. I can’t wait for the next 5 years. Just a few pictures of us over the years. I love you hun!!!






cheerios mess!!

July 16, 2008

Over the weekend Josh went out to mow the lawn…..now if you are a 19 month old and daddy doesn’t take you outside with him….you will have a very unhappy boy!!! Josh goes outside and I am sitting in the living room. Ethan knows how to open doors now. Well the panty door and doors to our bedroom, not the front door or the garage door. Anyways he always goes into the pantry and pulls out food he wants to eat. This is forever a game with him. Cuz he will take about 10 things out and we have to put it back and then he takes it out again….fun huh? He took out the box of Cheerios, opened it up and he likes to take the bag out…so he was trying to do that….when all of a sudden he dumped upside down because the bag wouldn’t come out…..Now let me tell you this is a 3/4 of a full box. I tell him to stop and he just looks at me as if I was crazy…as the whole box emptied on the floor…..I ran over and grabbed him so he wouldn’t step on them and crunch them…..Oh man…thought to myself, how the heck am I going to clean this up….LOL Stupid thought I know. We got a new Dyson a couple weeks ago….and that vacumm is awesome. I love it. I sucked all the Cheerios up with the Dyson and then emptied it. What a mess that was….

Pretending he has no clue what happened.



I know have been a bad blogger…..lots has been going on here. Where do I even start? I have been so busy lately - I had to go back to work full-time(Family Medicine Doctors Office). Not a decision I liked to make, because I LOVED staying home with Ethan 2 days a week. But for right now me going back to work is the best thing for our family. My mom watches Ethan 3 days and then I take him to daycare on Thursday and Friday. She lives just down the road from me and my friend Mindy takes her son Jacob there. (He has been going since he was 6 weeks old) I think he likes it there. Although I have the roughest time trying to drop him off in the mornings. He just hates when I leave him….tears my heart out to see him screaming and crying as I leave. It has made me cry on my way to work. I don’t know if it is just his age or what? But I do hope he will get past this the more he goes to her.
We then got notice at work 2 weeks ago that we have to flex our schedules and at any given time someone could go home if we are not busy. Well that’s just great…..We all are not very happy about this. We have a total of about 25-28 staff members in our office and we can only have like 17-18 people on. We need to see at least 135 patients a day for all 25 staff members to be at work. Well that just isn’t working out…so alot of us are being sent home. Of course they take volunteers first….but there will come a day when no one wants to volunteer…. So this is all kind of stressing me out. I can’t take it anymore really….
I have always had issues with my ankles. Weak ankles?!?!? Not sure….but they hurt. I have sprained my left ankle several times in the last 8 years, and even one fracture that they never knew about until later on. In 2005, I finally went and saw an Orthopedic doctor for my ankles. I have had Physical therapy and all that. The last time I was there she did an injection in my ankle. Oh my did that ever hurt. That was in 2005 as well. I have been there since that because the injection helped. But she told me while I was there that they only do 2 injections EVER and then the next step would be surgery. So I have an appt on August 5th because my ankle has been hurting so bad I can barely walk at times. I also have this other pain on the bottom of my foot. I believe it is a Morton’s Neuroma. It is basically a cyst on your nerve in your foot between the 3rd and 4th metacarpels. The pain is a really odd pain. It feels like when you hit your funny bone…..you know how that hurts…well I get that in my foot all day long. I am not sure what the treatments are for that either….well I know one is surgery….but I certainly do not want that. So please pray the doctor can fix this with out surgery.
So have you had enough of my crabbing???? I could go on about myself but I will save it for another day. I am sure you all are bored to death if you have even gotten this far.
Now for Ethan….boy is he a handful these days. Let me just tell you how a diaper change goes…..it is a nightmare let me tell you. He will not lay down, he screams, cries and kicks…..he hates getting his diaper changed. I am really not sure why he does. So it is always a chore when it needs to be done…..Josh helps me out though…well we help each other out. We take turns doing it. LOL
He has also started thowing temper tantrums. One day we were outside at the neighbors and they had to go in because it was getting toward bed time. Well ethan did not want to leave. I carried him across the street screaming and kicking. I am sure the whole neighborhood could hear him. But what do you do at this point? Do you stop and discipline? So we get inside and he carrys on for about 20 minutes. Throwing shoes and himself on the floor by the front door. Oh my gosh….My thought on this is…we ignore him. He usually stops…this time he didn’t. It was terrible. He hasn’t done one like that since…thank goodness. But he is really stubborn when he doesn’t get his way.
We have more good times then bad with Ethan. He is such a smart little boy. He amazes me everyday. His vocabulary is astounding. I can’t believe all the things he can say. Josh was eating and ice cream cone one day and Ethan comes up and says “I wanna bite” it was so cute. Josh and I just looked at each and laughed….it was so funny. He is doing really good with asking “Please” his version “Pease” along with the sign for it. It is the cutest darn thing you ever saw.
I do have some exciting news to share too…..I hope to share it very soon. It is about my photography. Yeah I know what you were thinking….hahahha Nope not pregnant. LOL
WOW this is the longest post I have written and what no pictures….how can I not have a picture. I will have to find one to share that’s for sure. Oh yes I have some bath ones…..they are funny because he has this mohawk from the front to the back of his head…
So I couldn’t get them in the other post so here they are….So funny. Another thing is the binkie….oh man he loves it…not sure how taking that away will go. I also saw the other day by accident that he got 2 more teeth…..he was upside down and I glanced in his mouth and there they were 2 on the top…molars I think….They are pretty far in too….so I totally missed that..LOL


Wordless Wednesday

July 16, 2008

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