I haven’t blogged in 6 months. Ethan has now been 3 for almost 8 months, and
we all know that age 3, and age 3 and a half can be very different! He has been talking much clearer and more
intelligently than any 3 year old I know, but the past few months I’ve been
noticing how even more complex his comments and questions are! He’s really starting to think for himself!
(so often he just says what he hears his big sister says). It’s just incredible to see how his mind is so
inquisitive, and he’s such an interesting individual!
So I’ll have to start back when I first started making note
of the funny things he’s done over the past 6 months. His questions always crack me up. They are always so very random! One was, “Mom, can I buy a whale?” then
followed by, “can I have one when I’m 3?” (which, of course, he already was 3
when he asked).
One time daddy called Ethan a turd. Ethan replied, “no YOU’re a turd!” and after
they went back and forth a few times, Ethan finally said, “ok I’m a turd.”
I remember this being a long time ago, but I once asked
Ethan if he had gone potty yet. He said
yes, so I asked, “when?” His reply was,
“um, in two years.”
When we were talking about possible names for Silas before
he was born, Ethan’s suggestion if we were to have a boy, was Roman. And if it was to be a girl, he said either
Sally or Maria.
Once I said, “that was absurd.” I think we were in the car and I was
driving. Ethan chimed in, “that was
absurd.” And then he also added, “that was ridiculous.” As though he understood
the context of my comment! Neat!
One of his favorite and most frequent sayings has been, “are
you sure about that?” but I must make a point to always try to remember the
inflection he uses when he says it! Cuz
THAT is the best part! He is SO animated
with his facial expressions, and he is beyond enthusiastic when he speaks. So entertaining!
One day Ethan was singing, “Oh, I just cant wait to be king”
from The Lion King. So I asked him,
“Ethan, you’re going to be KING!?” and he replied, “no, I’m just WAITING to be
king.”
One thing that he says is hilarious. Even though it’s really just a line from a movie
that he’s reciting, again, it’s the cuteness of his voice, and his
enthusiasm! It’s from Robots. He exclaims, “not until you gimmie back my
foot, you mugger!”
Ethan has been very attentive to which direction we’re going
when we’re in the car. Most times when I
make a certain turn, he’ll guess where we’re going. “are we going to Ahna’s house?” or Grammie’s
too, he knows that direction. Also on
our way to church too. Oh, and if I tell
him we’re going to such and such a place, and if we go a route other than usual, he often says, “this
isn’t the way to ____!” I think it’s a
boy thing.
A few times, quite a while ago, when I would check on Ethan
while he was going potty, I would find him in the funniest position on the
potty! I think because he still cant
stand to pee, because he cant reach it, he would seriously have both hands and
both feet on the toilet seat, so that he could aim into the toilet! HAHHAA!!!
No joke, Ethan once said to me, out of nowhere… “you know
what part of my body I like? …. My weiner.”
HAHAH! Ooooh my!
It must have been a Saturday or something, cuz I just
remember that it was lunch time, and Jake was home. I came downstairs, gasped, and said,
“Jake! You made the kids lunches for
me! Thank you!” and then Ethan loudly added, “Genius!!!”
One day he asked me, “what are those gray animals at the
zoo?” I said, “elephants?” He said no.
I said, “rhinos?” He said
no. “Hippos?” No. Then he said, “I think they’re on Lion
King.” And I STILL couldn’t think of
what he meant. Then he said, “they’re
right past the tiger.” (he was referencing to their actual location at the
zoo), and I said, “Oh! The
warthogs!” cool!!! He knew to give me the Lion King clue, AND
their specific spot at the zoo to help me figure it out! Awesome.
Ahna was over this one night, and she was on the phone with
Aria. When she got off the phone, Ethan
said, “you KNOW her???”
Ok, so I was very pregnant with Silas, and it was the
weekend that Jake went on the canoe trip with Chi Alpha. He decided to take Ethan along! They had a great time! I was so happy Ethan was able to do that with
his daddy! They stayed in a tent, they
fished, they went on the canoe, they ate by the fire, and all kinds of fun
camping stuff! Well before they left for
the trip, everything was just about all packed up, and Jake was loading the
car. I was upstairs with the two girls,
and when I came down, I saw that the front door was still open from Jake
loading the car. So I looked around a
bit, and didn’t see Ethan. I asked Jake
where he was, and he didn’t know. So
then my pace got faster as I looked around the house, calling Ethan’s name,
with no reply. Then Jake joined me in
the search, and I bolted outside,
shuffling up and down our side of the block, calling out his name, becoming
more & more panicked. Jake was on
the front porch, after he continued to search the house with no luck, and we
gave each other this horrified look as we both shrugged our shoulders. There was shear terror in my voice as I
continued to call his name, and I swore I faintly heard him reply. But as I kept running & looking, and
listening, I had no clue from where the voice came, or if it was even his voice
that I heard! I was at the end of the
block, and as I came back toward the house, I saw Jake wrapped up so tightly in
Jake’s arms as he took him inside. I
followed them in, closed the door behind me, sat down and bawled for a few
minutes, both because of the emotion of the situation, but also because I was
in quite a bit of physical pain from running around like that. It turns out, Ethan was in the car, “ready to
go.” He was so excited to leave, he just
went ahead and boarded the car, anxious for the trip. We, of course, had a talk with him about
going out the front door without a grown up, and all of that (and it wasn’t the
first time we’ve told the kids this). I
think the 4 of us (not Sayda so much) will probably never forget this.
Getting silly during lunchtime, Ethan said, “mom, you’re a
pierogi.” Then Diella chimed in, and
this continued a while. Diella said,
“you’re a pierogi, Silas can be a hotdog, Ethan, daddy, and Sayda are French
fries, and Blue can be…. “ and Ethan interrupted loudly & excitedly, “a
cucumber!!!”
As I mentioned before, Ethan’s questions are random, hilarious,
and also interesting because I wonder WHAT is goin on inside his silly
head! There was one time when the
questions were just pouring out, and if I remember correctly, these three came
consecutively, one barely after I finished answering the previous one. “Are cows supposed to be cows?” “Do whales
have diapers?” “Why am I called Ethan?”
Also, the random things he sometimes says (rather than
inquires about), are equally hilarious.
Like once, out of nowhere he said, “kitties are kinda like dogs…. But they’re
not…. They’re just kitties.”
Halloween time is nearing, and when we first discussed
costumes, I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween. He said, “I want you to paint me a cow
mustache.” This kid cracks me up every single day!
We occasionally do a sticker or a small surprise when the
kids obey really well. One day I was
complimenting how well they obeyed, and Diella asked what prize they get for
obeying. I playfully described the
treasures in heaven concept, and Diella said, “that’s too long, I want it now.”
And Ethan replied (in reference to getting these things from heaven), “are we
going today or tomorrow?”
Jake took Ethan to Edinboro one night to join him for his
small group. Jake came home to tell me
the story of how the guys were all in the middle of a deep conversation when
Jake looked up, and in what felt like slow motion headed toward Ethan as his
little hand was on the fire alarm, and sure enough, he pulled it. As the entire facility was evacuating, Jake
was holding Ethan, just mortified, and Ethan wasn’t afraid, but he sure did
know he didn’t something wrong. Jake
described how so many of the college students were annoyed, and some of them
even swearing because they had to evacuate.
Jake was holding Ethan, saying, “my son pulled it. I am SO sorry!” and how most people looked as his face, sorta
melted, smiled, and could no longer be too upset about it. He also said that the campus police were
nearby, and when Jake apologized to them as well, they smiled, and looked down
at Ethan, and just shook a finger at him, and that was it. I wasn’t there, but Jake made it sound like
quite a night!
There is a crack in one of our walls in the living
room. Ethan must have never noticed it
before, because the other day he ran up to me and said, “Sayda threw something,
and it broke the house! It’s gonna fall
over!”
About a week or two ago, it was time to put the kids to
bed. Sayda goes to bed first. Jake and I were both sitting on the couch,
not arguing, but just both trying to get out of being the one to put Sayda
down. Back and forth, “you put her
down,” “no, you put her down.” Then
Ethan chimed in and said, “ok I’LL put her down.” …. I truly found it so profound
for him to say that. He was ending a
dispute between mommy and daddy, and also taking it upon himself to do
something that both of us were saying we didn’t want to do! It also made me realize that he was hearing
us say we didn’t want to put her down, and made me think that maybe instead we
should be fighting over who GETS to put the kids to bed! … wow.
The morning of my birthday, quite a few pretty neat things
happened within the first hour of me waking up.
I remember I opened my eyes right on my birthday minute, which I thought
was neat! And then when Ethan crawled
into my bed, he starting singing the song that was actually already my head at
that moment! And then as we laid there,
for some reason something came to my mind, and I thought I’d take advantage of
that moment that he and I were there alone to chat. I asked him if he wanted to invite Jesus into
his heart and try to live like Him.
Without confusion or hesitation, he said, “Yes.” So then I took him through the prayer, as he
asked Jesus into his heart… on my birthday!
It was so great!
A while ago, I just looked at Ethan one day and said to him,
“Ethan, you are reeeeeeaally cute.” He
looked up at me, he grinned, and he replied, “you too.”
There are instances where I love when kids call something by
it’s wrong name. Like Ethan called
quesadillas – cheesa dee-uhs. He also
referred to the movie, “Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs,” as “Spaghetti and
the Giant Meatballs.” Ha!
Aw, one night I was putting the cream on Ethan’s legs for
his seborrhea, and he was whimpering a bit, and said, “it feels thorny.”
Ethan likes to have his red, Lightening McQueen night light
on at night. Once in the middle of the
night, after feeding Silas, I turned it off and returned to bed. Later that night, Ethan came into my room,
concerned, and said, “I cant hear anything in my room.” I know he meant he couldn’t SEE anything, but
it was so cute. I don’t turn it off
anymore, hehe.
