Another Ethan Mess

2 year olds are notorious for getting into stuff and Ethan is doing his best to be notorious! One of the challenges during the Amazing Race was to find safety pins in a bowl of rice while blindfolded. It doesn't sound too hard, but trust me, it ain't easy. Anyhoo, I had the bowls on my desk so I could get the pins out today and he came in and took the bowl that still had a lid on it. I was thinking, there's no way he can get it open... I was WRONG! He was only out of my sight for a minute... it's a good thing I checked on him when I did because this could have been MUCH WORSE. 

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Ethan has become a MAJOR copycat lately. He wants to do everything the big boys do as well as repeats everything everyone says like a parrot. He is at such a cute age!! Today, I found these 3 out on the trampoline laying in a row playing on ipods/iphone.

Amazing Race Party!!!

Whew!! This party took a lot more planning that I bargained for, but it was a BLAST!! We had 10 teams of 2 that traveled to 10 stops all around the neighborhood reading clues and completing challenges. They even had to catch a golf cart like catching a bus or a plane on the reality show. The winning team was Caleb (12) and Carter Jones (4). They were so cute running around together.

Happy 9th Birthday to the Twins!!!

I can't believe my tiny little babies are 9 YEARS OLD!!! Time goes way too fast!!! We are having their party tomorrow but we decided to go ahead and give them their gifts from us tonight since it is their actual birthday. They were super excited when they opened these iPod Touches!! They can do all kinds of things with them including texting, video chatting, the internet, video games, and music. And no more fighting over who gets to play with my phone on trips! :)

Sewing Mistake!

It took me several hours to embroider this blanket today... Melissa came over just after the lady I was doing it for left to take it to a shower as her gift. I showed Melissa this picture so she could see what took so long and the first thing she said was, this date hasn't happened yet. I can't believe I put the wrong date on it!!!! I've never goofed up so bad! I immediately called the lady that ordered it to tell her she would have to bring it back sometime for me to fix it... it's going to take some work to get a 1 in the right place!!

New (to us) Swing set!

I posted a week or 2 ago about us looking for a swing set for Ethan. We couldn't find one that we liked around the price that we wanted to spend. I decide to post on facebook that we were looking to buy a swing set and asked if anyone had one that they would like to sell. One of our friends from church, responded by saying, you can have ours, just bring a trailer and get it!! We weren't sure the condition it would be in because their son is 14 and they got it secondhand when they got it for him. But it is in fantastic shape!!! Jeremy pressured washed it and the wood looks brand-new again and we added some swings, a steering wheel, and binoculars. It's PERFECT! We got it with Ethan in mind, but all 4 boys (and Jeremy) have been playing on it like crazy!!!

Playing in the TOILET!!

 Ethan got a runny nose tonight while Jeremy and I were watching tv. I sent him to my bathroom to get some tissue. He was gone for a while, but I figured he just stopped to watch his tv show that was on in our bedroom. He eventually peaked at us around the corner, then disappeared again. He had the "I'm doing something that I'm not suppose to" look on his face so I got up to check things out and found him like this. He had obviously unrolled the toilet paper into the toilet, then got it out and put the wet wad on the floor before getting into the pack of panty liners that were on the toilet tank. He was unwrapping them, throwing the wrapper in the trash, then dunking them in the toilet. He didn't leave any in the toilet... he was stuffing them in the toilet paper/tissue holder! EWWW!!