A Toddler's Discovery

Much about childhood revolves around discovery. From their hands, feet, parents, toys, and whatever is at their reach. It's fun to watch Ethan grow in his toddler years; especially now he knows how to puts words to objects. However, he discovered something yesterday, May 27th, 2008, that Nanette and I wish he never had...climbing out of his crib. We knew it was going to happen sometime soon and were a little surprised it hadn't happend beforehand. Yet even in the middle of the night he managed to come in our room and keep Nanette up for about 4 hours and I for 1.5 hours. Not fun! BTW, thanks Nanette for all you do for these boys at night; I know it's a big sacrifice for you.

Needless to say, we were laughing at times because of how funny it is. We are definetly making changes today. Nanette and I know we cannot live like last night for the rest of our lives. Any suggestions? I told Nanette that she should keep him up all day today as way to "punish" (I would never hurt my kids) him for keeping us up all night but really more for him to be tired enough to go to bed when he needs to.

Discovery is great. Nanette and I love our boys, are excited to see them grow up, and find great joy in them.

-Chris

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-Chris


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Odds and Ends

Nothing too exciting has been happening lately, just hanging out with the boys (which is always fun and interesting). Logan still hasn't gotten his first tooth, but he is getting better at sitting. On Sunday he was able to sit up by himself for about 15 seconds. I was so proud! He is getting so old. The other day we were at Chris' sister's house and he was being really cranky. His mouth was hurting and we didn't have any orajel with us. Chris gave him an ice cube and that really seemed to calm him down. Within a few minutes he was asleep and this picture shows how he fell asleep. It was so funny. I had to take a picture.

I also have to add a cute picture of Ethan. The other day I was hanging out in my room and Ethan wasn't dressed yet. He started bringing me clothes from a pile in the other room. He wanted me to put them on him. Well, they didn't really match... tan socks, brown shirt, blue striped shorts, and a blue jacket, but I let him wear it... even when we went to Chris' sister's house. I just thought that it was so cute that he picked his clothes out!

I just want to add a little comment about the book "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer. If you haven't read it, you should. I was a little hesitant to read it at first, because I love the Twilight Series that she wrote and I didn't think that anything could be as good as Edward and Bella and vampires... but I am glad that I read it, because it was so good. I lost a lot of sleep at night, because I couldn't put this book down until I was finished. Well, there is my two cents... for whatever it is worth.