The cuteness of Ethan

I just had to share with you the funniest and cutest things from the life of my 3 year old! Ethan has been doing and saying the darndest things. He is so smart, like his Daddy, and he puts things together so easily.

RED LIGHT

. We were at Kohl's the other day shopping for some new clothes for Daddy. Daddy was in the dressing room and the rest of us were sitting on the floor outside the entrance when Ethan runs up to a guy getting ready to go in and says "Stop light!" and throws out his hands like a traffic cop! The poor guy was totally surprised and didn't know what to do, he looked so confused! Ethan put his hands down and said "Green light!" and the guy just kind of dazidly walked into the dressing rooms. As if that wasn't funny enough, when the guy finished trying on his clothes he came out and stood in the doorway and said "What color is the light, now?" with a big smile on his face. Ethan just turned red and said "Green light!". What a cutie!

JIGGIDY JIG.

I always grew up with my mom saying "home again, home again..." Then when Dan and I got married his mom told me the rest of the rhyme one day and we started saying it at home. " To market, to market to buy a fat pig, home again, home again jiggidy jig" The other day we were pulling into the parking lot when we hear from the back "Home again, giggidy gig." I looked at Dan and we burst out laughing! Ethan thought that was his cue to laugh too and we were all pretty entertained by that one.

PEE PEE IN THE GRASS

. So we went on a walk with the neighbors the other day. I had told Ethan to go to the bathroom before we left, but you know how easily toddlers get distracted. So when we got to the park he was swinging and sliding and running around... so not long after we got there he started dancing. You know the one that little boys do. So came our first lesson in potty emergencies because this was not a public park with restrooms. So we found a tree and hid from the other people and let him go potty. But I told him we only do that when there isn't any other way and only if Mommy is says its okay. Yesterday, he was outside playing and I heard him yell, "I need to go potty in the grass..." I, of course yelled out the door and told him to come in and go potty. Two seconds later, he hadn't come in so I walked out to the porch and what did I see? A bear butt , pants down to his knees, little boy peeing in the grass. Now if we had a private home and a fence it would be one thing, but our apartment is on the first floor and our back porch looks out on the courtyard and about 20 other apartments back porches as well! I sure hope no one was outside for that show!

JESUS IS MY TEACHER

. I have saved the best for last! I was giving Andrew a bath one evening and Ethan came running in with a For the Strength of Youth pamphlet . He said " Look Mommy, it's Jesus! Jesus is coming to our house today!" (I thought, this is a great teaching opportunity...we shall see who gets taught in this one.) So I said how Jesus wasn't actually coming but that we could think about Jesus everyday. He looked pleased with himself and then he said "Yes and Jesus is my teacher at church, too." I said "Really? What does Jesus teach you?" "How to be a good boy!" Oh, yeah, that one brought tears to my eyes! What a great kid!

There are so many cute things that these kids do! I am so happy to be their mom and to see them grow. Andrew just got his first tooth and is a little fussy, but I am so glad that it is finally here and he can start feeling better. The first is always the hardest I think.

I have so much more to tell you all, but I want to wait for the pictures to go with it! We bought a house! I will give you more details in June when we close, but right now it is a huge stress! Here is a picture of the outside! It is in Davenport Iowa and we love it! We also got it for a great price so that makes me very happy! More to come!