Well its February now, but since its been so long since I've blogged, here is a story from Halloween time. When October was approaching, each day when we took a walk, we would talk about what the kids might want to be for Halloween. Ethan had a few things in mind, and couldn't decide between a giant dinosaur, a giant gorilla, and a cow. Haha! Though I love to make their costumes, we found a little dinosaur costume at Once Upon A Child that worked well for him, and of course he was adorable in it! Then after Halloween, a few times he had asked me what something was, but before I could answer, he would answer before me, "its a giant dinosaur."
Then one day when I was digging through some of the Halloween candy, Ethan pointed to one and asked, "what are those?" I said, "Nerds." and he said, "Turds?!?!?!" HAHA! I really don't even think he knows the word turd, but when he thought thats what I said, and asked that, it was just rolling laughing!
There's no way I'm going to be able to describe this well enough, but one day I had told the kids that we were going for a walk. Keep in mind, we go for a walk basically every single day the weather permits. But for whatever reason, this day, Ethan was so excited, that when I said, 'its time to go for a walk,' he took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and let out this LONG shreek, with his chin up in the air, and his smile so wide you could see every tooth in this mouth, and this note that he held just seemed to last forever! As I watched, with this continuous shreek still resounding, I was trying not to laugh so that I wouldnt distract him from holding this note... I was also amazed, but I found it hilarious! Then when it finally stopped, Ethan, Diella and I all started cracking up! It was a wonderful moment!
The kids and I were all playing together, Diella was on her tummy, and I said, "This looks like a yummy hamburger!" So I pretended to take a bite of her and said, "Mmm! Tasty hamburger! Like a cheeky burger, Mmm!" And Ethan, turned around, walked toward me with his butt to me, wanting me to bite him too, looked over his shoulder and said, "and this is bread!!!"
I think it was one day when Diella and I were playing Riddles, I tried to give an easy one to Ethan, and asked him, "Ethan, who is outside, and is a dog, and is a girl?" (trying to get him to say our dog's name, Blue), … and his reply was, "cows eat grass." HAHAHA! I think this kid got my 'random' gene!
Ethan LOVES to watch Diego. He is constantly spitting out animal facts to me, I love it! Well another thing they do on Diego, is simply have you repeat things, like Diego will say, "when you see the tapir, say, "Tapir!" … well one Thursday, the kids were anxiously waiting for my mom to arrive (to babysit them), and they were perched at the windows in the sun room, and I heard Ethan exclaim, "when you see a car, say "CAR!" Haha!
I'm not sure if I ever blogged about this, but Ethan dealt with a stutter for quite a few months, a while ago. I did ask the doctor about it, and she explained how he talks so well for a 2 year old, its just that his mouth cant keep up with his brain. Right now, he's almost 3, and the stutter has been gone for a while now! Sometimes it was almost painful to hear him struggle through it, and we would gently work with him… but one day, it was just Too adorable!… Ethan walked up to me, and stuttered, ""Yyyyyyou, yyyyou, yyyyoooou're my best friend." Melted my heart!!!
I love when kids come up with things that you're not really sure where they got it from. But it strikes me as too cute when Ethan says things like this… when he's tired, he'll say, "soooomebody's tiiiired." about himself! Haha! … he'll also give himself away when he toots…. "somebody toooooted!" haha!
I think this started from the movie Despicable Me, the line, "and I will NEVER let you go again." And the kids and I may have had a conversation about it or something, but every once in a while Ethan will remind me (usually out of nowhere), "Mom, I will never leave you. You would be sad." Its really sweet.
A few months ago, when all the family was in town for Thanksgiving, Ethan kept saying things that were cracking us up, especially Uncle Chris & Aunt Emily. Chris told me the other day, he often repeats this one thing he heard Ethan say, "it's a PUMA!" … haha. I remember that week, we were asking him, "Ethan, what does ETHAN start with?" (as in what letter), and Ethan would reply…. "It starts with….. an octopus." HAHAHA!!!!
Even though I love that Ethan pronounces the word marshmallow, like marshyellow… the other day I tried to help him say it correctly, and said, "Ethan say marshmallow." He casually replied, "marshyellow." I said, "No, say, marsh Mmmmmmellow." and he loudly, but happily exclaimed, "MARSHYELLOW!!!" haha!
Ethan has been able to sing the alphabet song for a long time now, and we were working with him for some time with each letter, and recognizing them by sight. Well a few months ago, as I was again going through them with him using our ABC books, the last I knew, he could recognize about 3 of them. Well suddenly, this time, he knew 16 of them! And then a few days later, he knew 20! and it wasn't long until he could do them ALL! That was a very exciting time!!!
Another cute thing that Ethan says is when I tuck him into bed at night. Occasionally, if one foot didn't make it UNDER the blanket, he says, "can you put my second feet in?" hehehe, cuteness.
Ethan's 3rd birthday is coming up in about a month, and he has already had 6 or 7 haircuts! It grows so fast! Each time I consider letting it grow a little, cuz the curls are SO awesome! But its happened way too often that when it gets a little long, people (even if only at first glance, as they say) mistake him for a girl, haha, Ah! So each time that happens is just about the time I get out the scissors. I think when he's a few years older we'll let it grow out a bit to see how it looks. I think it'd be cute!
This is also a while back, but when we take our walks, there is one way that we go, where we pass a house that has hydrangeas in their yard. Well I thought I'd teach the kids that word, and i wasn't real surprised when Diella pronounced it perfectly, but then when Ethan tried, he nailed it perfectly too! That was neat! And he blows people away when I ask him, "Ethan, whats the flower we see when we take a walk?" and he answers, Hydrangea. Hehe!
So now I'll finish up with the journey of Ethan's potty training. During the training, he had a few seasons where he would go a few days in a row, but then not anymore. We tried just undies for a while, and it would work for a few days, then he'd give up and have accidents. We even tried letting him go naked once in a while… same result. We tried having him sit on the potty pretty much any time he was AWAKE!… sometimes he would go, other times he would hold it all day. We were just beside ourselves as to WHEN he would decide to do it! It wasn't that he didn't understand either, because we'd see him do all the typical steps where he would hide to go in his pull-up, or the phase where he would TELL us when he pooped, etc. We tried the peeing on Cheerios in the potty thing. We constantly would encourage him by using the "big boy" concept, how baby's wear diapers, and big boys wear undies. We constantly would tell him how Colton goes potty, and Chanson goes potty (and then would name every other boy he knows, haha!). He also went through a little stage where he would be in undies all day, but we'd give him a pull-up just for nap & bedtime, and he would go ONLY then…. which wasn't the best method, but it was a start in the right direction, we thought. We got him new undies, which I think he was excited about. Then there was this lesson we learned in another aspect of life, about TRYING. It was learning to climb out of Sayda's crib one day, since he never actually climbed out of his own crib. And also with things like dressing himself… he could do undies and pants on his own, but never TRIED with the shirt, cuz he just said "I cant do it!" … he used to do this with climbing down the stairs… he COULD, but would rather just ask mommy to carry him. So with the crib that day, and also with putting on his own socks and shirt, we were diligent in teaching him, "just TRY!" … and both of them worked after a little while! So we implemented this same concept into potty training. And just like everyone told me it would happen, one day it just happened. He just decided he would go now! He was peeing & pooping on the potty every day! Oh, and he still is! He only wears a pull-up at night now, and just like we did with Diella, we hope to break him of that starting on his 3rd birthday! It's such freedom that he is finally potty trained!!!!
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