My loves

Ethan has been so great lately. I think--I hope--that he has mostly grown out of the terrible two's. He's so much fun and saying such funny things. He listens and watches us so closely. He learns things quickly and doesn't forget a thing. I am always telling him not to open packages while we are shopping at the store. The other day he saw me opening the eggs to check them and he promptly reminded me of my own rule! He is always saying things that just make me laugh. He told Ben the other day that he got "plenty" of mail. Ethan is definitely my clean son. He knows where things go and if he finds a toy that's in the wrong place, he puts it where it goes. He wants his hands washed if he gets anything on them. We are working with him on letters and numbers and he's doing great. He can recognize all his uppercase letters, about half of the lower case ones, and his numbers 1-20. He's also into bird watching. It's an odd skill for a 2 year old, but he can recognize robins, blue jays, cardinals, sparrows, black birds, and doves. He told me the other day while we were looking out the window, "I know my birds, Mom!" He really does. Crazy boy! We just finished doing parent-child swim lessons and he is doing so much better in the water. We didn't get to go swimming much at all last summer and he just wasn't very comfortable in the water. He has improved a lot in the past couple months. Ethan loves helping with anything--sweeping, cooking, cleaning, anything. He gets so proud of himself when you tell him how helpful he is being. It's super cute. He also wants to know where we are and what we are doing at all times. If he can't see me he calls out, "Mommy, where are you mommy?" He is always asking, "Where am I going?" My favorite thing that Ethan has started is telling us that he loves us. He often says, "I love you so much!" I never get tired of hearing that!


Wyatt is at such a cute age. We just want to squeeze him all the time. He's so fun, but Wyatt is definitely NOT my clean son. He seriously gets into everything! He hasn't started walking yet, but he crawls so fast and if you don't watch him he's playing in the toilet or crawling around in my shower. He will pull all of our books off the shelf and every toy out of it's box in no time. He's a little destroyer. I don't know how many times a day I pick up puzzle pieces or put the trucks away. Honestly, I don't think my sons could be more opposite in this trait. He also climbs on everything. He gets on top of tables, chairs, stools, whatever he can and then tries to stand up. Crazy kid is going to fall one of these days. He loves his stuffed giraffe. He sucks on it's tail all the time, so it's little butt is all brown....so gross! He loves it though, and it will make him happy when nothing else will. He is also starting to get quite the little attitude. He will now scream and kick his feet if you take something away from him or he doesn't get to do what he wants. Little turd! Good thing he's so cute!