Ethan's 2nd Birthday!

Well, if there's anyone out there that hasn't given up on me, here's a new blog post.....finally!! Ethan's birthday party was pretty similar to last year, just family mostly! We weren't sure he'd get the whole party thing and didn't want to overwhelm him anyway! We had everyone over around noon for pizza, then opened presents, and then had Elmo cake!! MMMM was it good!

Ethan surprised us all by not being interested in opening presents yet!! I thought by now he'd really be into tearing into them, but he really didn't want anything to with it! Brian and Sara's gift was in a bag with lots of tissue paper and he did get into taking all the paper of the bag though! But once all the paper was out, he didn't really care to see what was in it!! Silly kid! Anyway, here's a bunch of pictures from the day thanks to Dad Eade!!

Here's the Birthday Boy!

Here he is getting into Sara's gift right away!!

Who me? (Notice Sara putting all the paper back)

Ga-Na Sue Whispering to Ethan while he's eating his pizza

Animated talking!

Ethan's Elmo cake (sorry suzie homemakers, I didn't make it)

Showing Ethan his cake

Singing Happy Birthday!

Ethan loved his 1st present opened. A remote control car from Uncle Brian and Aunt Sara. He wasn't interested in opening anything else after that!

All the gifts!

Ethan, Daddy, Papa Len, Aunt Sara, Aunt Kiki (Karen) and Jen

Ethan LOVED his balloons and was carrying them all over the house!

Mommy and Daddy got Ethan some of his own garden tools (time to put that boy to work!!) He really loved helping me rake, well pushing the leaves out the pile I had just made, this year!

Opening presents!

All eyes on Ethan

Ethan loves to get into Daddy's tools so Daddy bought him his very own tools. Here he is with screwdriver. I have to try to record how he says screwdriver, it's sooooooo cute!

Ga-Na Sue pinned him down for a second to open another one!

Papa Rich recording the action

Big smiles from Uncle Bri, Ga-Na Bonnie (or Ga-Na Twinkle-Twinkle as Ethan calls her) and Papa Len

Well, I'll really try not leave you hanging forever again! We just really haven't been doing a whole lot lately to report about. Just waiting and waiting for the weather to get nice and STAY there! Derek and I have started doing some rearranging in the basement in order to move everything from the spare bedroom down there so we can move Ethan into the spare bedroom! Everything is sneaking up on us so fast! I feel like we're running out of time already! I have to get Derek crackin' on it now b/c once fishing starts up I'm in trouble!

Okay, I really must admit that most of the reason I haven't posted in the past several weeks is that I usually do it when Ethan's napping and I've been SO stinkin tired lately, that I've been napping too! I really don't remember being this tired with Ethan, but then again wasn't chasing and entertaining a 2 yr old either! At least the nausea has GREATLY improved in the past couple weeks! I can deal with the tired a lot better then the nausea!

Derek is doing FABULOUS in his new job and absolutely loving it! I love that he's so happy- FINALLY!!! He's finally being treated like he deserves and they love him and praise him all the time too! It's just such a wonderful blessing that he has been given this opportunity. We are so thankful and blessed!

Well, that's our story for now! Hope you enjoyed the pics!!