Ethan's birthday is in two weeks. He will be two on March 13 and I can hardly believe it. He is growing so fast and honestly I don't want him too. I have enjoyed this stage so much and I love him so much. He has changed my life in so many ways and I am thankful for that. I never knew the love that a parent can have for a child but Ethan has brought so many wonderful things out of me. I am still working on my patience but he is good with that because if I start to raise my voice at him he will look at me and say stop mommy! And that just melts my heart. He has a very tender heart and I am thankful that he teaches me how to be tender. I also love how is very aware of peoples feelings. If he can see that I am sad or hurt he will immediately come to me and give me a great big hug and kiss and I instantly feel better. He is so wonderful!
His favorite words that he loves to say are Mommy, Daddy, ball, dance, hoop, football, movie, blue (for Blues Clues), thank you, please, papa, mee mee, book, Jesus book, all the animal names, he loves singing songs, and there are more I can't think of everything now.
He loves to dance, sing, his favorite songs are head shoulders knees and toes, snowman, wheels on the bus, popcorn popping, and a duck song that I sing to him.
He loves to read books. It is fun because we are trying to do better with family scripture study and he will grab his little scripture book that we got for him and sit there while Ryan and I read and just flip the pages looking at the pictures of Jesus and he will always point to him and say mommy Jesus. I love hearing him say those things and that he can point out Jesus. It just shows me how pure and innocent their little hearts are.
There are many other things that Ethan does that I will have to post in another post because this will be a novel if I keep going and going. There is one thing that I do want to write about is how Ethan loves working out with me. Whenever I do push ups he will be right there beside me doing them with me. And whenever I go running on the treadmill he will come down there and point at the treadmill and say mommy run.
It is so fun to see him starting to imitate everything that we say and he does repeat everything that we say so I do have to be very careful to what I am saying. I can't believe how fast children learn.
One night I was feeding him some spaghetti and I kept spilling it and I finally said Oh my gosh! Ethan looked up at me and repeated it. I started laughing because he sounded so cute saying it, and of course since I laughed he thought oh this makes mommy laugh so he kept saying it. I finally had to put a stop to it. But he did sound pretty cute.
The other things that he says that are pretty funny is when he will toot, he will smile and say poop! It is pretty funny and anytime he hears someone toot he will laugh and say Daddy poop! Or whoever does it. Probably too much information but it is funny and these are things that I want to remember about my little guy!
His favorite foods are spaghetti, lasagna, mac and cheese, string cheese, fruit snacks, anything that has sugar, crackers, cookies, PIZZA (his favorite), grapes, oatmeal, toast, apple juice, milk, corn dogs, bananas, apples, carrots, marshmallows, anything chocolate he is like his mommy! He is a picky eater! But if he is eating something he really likes he will eat a lot of it and just scarf it down!
I love being a mommy and I know that Ryan loves being a Daddy! Being a parent is scary and hard but it is so rewarding at the same time. Whenever you have that little one smile up at you and say mommy you know how wonderful being a parent is. I love Ethan more and more each day. He is the best thing that has happened in our lives! What a blessing it is to have him in our home. I am grateful that he has come to us. These last two years have been full of so much, tiredness, frustrations, happiness, love, tender moments, that I wouldn't take them back for anything. I can't wait to keep seeing him grow and see what he is going to become and the amazing things that he will do in his life.
Things are going good for us. We are experiencing trials but I am glad that we have the Saviour and the church in our lives. I know that we would be lost without those things. No matter how hard life can be you have to strive to live your life so that you can have the blessings of the spirit in your home. It makes all the difference!
As for a little update on Ryan and me we are doing the same old same old. Ryan is still working in the evenings. Which is hard but I am not the only wife that doesn't have a husband home that much! So I really can't complain. He hurt his back in October when we were running and he keeps re-injuring it so right now it is bothering him hopefully we can get it figured out because he hasn't been able to do much exercising which I know is bothering him because he is such an active guy. He has been doing basketball a couple mornings but he has to be really careful. I am grateful that I have a very patient and loving husband. I'm not that easy to live with!:)
As far as I go I haven't has much change in my life. I am still working only a couple hours a day which is just fine for me. I enjoy being a stay at home mom! It is hard and can be really challenging but I don't want to be anywhere else than in the home with my little boy! I am still planning on running a half marathon again this summer. My training is lacking a little bit the most I have run in one run is 7 miles. I need to do better. It is just hard because I hate running in the cold so I have just been on the treadmill which is boring! Hopefully soon I can go outside and run! I love my calling in Young Women. The youth are amazing and I am so grateful to see how strong they are in the church it gives me so much comfort to see that! And my little beehives love Ethan. It is nice because I have free babysitters all of the time. They are wonderful young women!
That is a little update on us it is a little bit long but I want to remember things for me!
