Birthday

We have had a fun few days celebrating Ethan's birthday. It is so hard to believe how old our son is. Where does the time go?

birthday morning pancakes

after school special treat

birthday gifts from grandpa and grandma

birthday gift from papa and nana

birthday gift from uncle joe and aunt deborah. there were a lot of matchbox cars to unwrap.

birthday bike from dad and mom

giving the bike a try outside

36 weeks

All is going well and this Mommy is ready. Full term this next Saturday (37 weeks), due March 17th, and hoping baby decides to come a little early as he/she is the third. =) I know, wishful thinking. Now we need to find the baby clothes and the baby gear and get ready to welcome this little one. It is fun asking the boys about names for the baby. Ethan is pretty much stuck on Bob for a boy and Wendy for a girl, although the other day he did say Buzz Lightyear would be good for a boy.

Horsey rides

This morning the boys were having fun giving each other rides around the house. Micah does great riding on Ethan but Ethan had to help himself along while riding on Micah. It was so cute! I love seeing them get along and having brother bonding.

Helping

We got some new to us furniture and yesterday was the day to move around the old and bring in the new. Daddy and his two big helpers. It was quite cute and funny watching them.

Our little Valentines

We had fun making this heart banner to hang up for Valentine's Day. Ethan got the frog balloon at his Valentine party at school. We also had yummy cookies but the camera didn't make it out for those. We love our two little Valentines!

Igloo

We had an adventure filled weekend last week. Dave has been wanting to build an igloo for awhile now and we finally had a weekend that would work and finally found enough snow to do it. He dropped the boys and Mommy at Papa and Nana's house and headed to the Black Hills. He picked up a friend from college and out into nature they ventured to find the snow to build the igloo. It took longer then expected and near the end the snow wasn't really cooperating so tree branches helped finish it off, but....they accomplished their goal! They built and slept in an igloo.

The first round of blocks complete.

Getting closer.

Working on the door.
Entering their home for the night.

The two builders and their complete igloo!

swimming lessons

Ethan started swimming lesssons yesterday. We decided to do winter ones instead of summer ones. He was so excited about it and couldn't wait to get in the water. He was also able to go in without an adult this time and was pretty excited about that. He has new swimming trunks, he is the boy in blue, so that was an added extra fun. He did great and is so excited about going back again. It is hard to get a good picture with so much movement so I got the best I could.