Hilarious

Ethan did such a (what I think would be) a "ten-year-old boy thing" the other day. We were outside, he came my way, with his lips puckered, came in for a kiss, and when he got close enough, he wiped his runny nose on my face, and then ran away laughing!!! HAAAHAA! Gross, but hilarious!

Speaking of hilarious, Ethan says that word, Hilarious! … its…. yes…. Hilarious!!!

Every night before I got to bed, I look in on each of the kids sleeping. There's just something about it that I love! Well, for about a week or so, I found Ethan laying with his head at the opposite end of the bed, and had the pillow laid over him as though it were his blanket. Why didn't I take a picture of this!?!?!

Ethan's hair has gotten SO curly! And its positively adorable! He gets complimented on it Constantly! but the thing is, he's also been called a girl. Like probably 5 times. So now I cant decide whether to cut it or not. Hmmm.

I love when kids grow out of that stage where when you ask them something with a choice of answers, they just pick the last one. Well of course Ethan is long out of that stage, but he always seems to answer yes or no questions so fast, that he really didn't take the time to decide what his real answer is. He'll often quickly reply with, "Yes. No. Yes." heeeheeehee

Oh he also answers lots of questions with an answer that incorporates the question. Like…. "Ethan, are you cute?" and he says, "yes, I cute." or "Ethan, did you take a bath?" - "Yes, I take a bath." I LOVE THAT HE DOES THIS!!!!

Its one thing that Diella often treats Ethan as though she's his mother, but it kind of makes me sad when he treats HER as though she is, as well. Like he'll ask her for permission for things! I've got complete mixed feelings about this! Lots of times too, she'll boss him around. He often does what she says, but I really like it when he makes his own decisions lately, instead of just being her little shadow, hehehe.

The other day the whole family was over at Gma & Gpa's house for lunch. Ethan was the center of attention, as he was showing us all how he says his name, and his animal sounds, etc. Well during all of this, he suddenly let out a little toot! We all giggled a little bit, and I said, "Ethan, what do you say?" and he replied, "I tooted!" LOL!!!!

So I've finally decided to enforce potty training much more aggressively with Ethan than we have thusfar. I've noticed that he usually goes "number two" shortly after breakfast each morning. So last week I put him on the potty, gave him a book, and told him that I would be back in a few minutes, and that he needs to sit ON the potty & not get up, and to try to go. Well, I came back up to check on him, and he was standing up, pointing into the potty, saying, "Uh oh!!!!" … but when I looked inside, he had gone number two!!!! We jumped and cheered and praised him! He was so proud! So then the next morning, I tried it again. After breakfast, with a book, gave him a few minutes of privacy. Same result!!! Again, more cheering, etc! The third day, we tried again. Nothing. Tried the next day. Nothing. In fact, once or twice he's even done that thing where we'll try…. and then when the diaper goes on, he'll poop! UGH! But it's alright, its a start, and he's on the right track! No easing up now, we're goin at this full force now!