Mother's Day

I had a WONDERFUL Mother's Day today! This morning I woke to the sweet sounds of Ethan talking, talking, talking! These days he talks about whatever he sees, we say or do, or what he wants to do! Honestly, I love listening to him put things together, lately he's been putting 2 and 3 words together and it's so fun! I usually hear all about what he's looking at in his room before I even walk in there! After breakfast, he played in the bathroom while I took a shower, or "mommy tubby" as he calls it. I had a really nice card from Ethan and Daddy waiting for me when I got out of the shower too! Then, we had a wonderful brunch with Derek's parents, brother and sister in law at Macatawa Legend's. We got Gana Twinkle a new bird feeder with 2 gift certs inside (one for Younker's, her fav and one for a mani/pedi). Ethan made her a stepping stone a few days ago with his foot print in it, she loved that too! After we had full bellies, we were off to get my mom some hanging baskets (my Mother's Day tradition)! I go to the same place every year, they have a great selection, great prices and are sooooo friendly and helpful! I even got 2 for myself! Yay, now my porch isn't naked anymore! We dropped them off, along with her cards and stepping stone too! Ethan loves to play with those ugly plastic flowers that spin. My mom has a bunch of them and now he runs around collecting them all and spins them. We've even inhereted a few at our house to avoid melt-downs from leaving his flowers! Derek's less then thrilled that his SON is obsessed with flowers lately, but there could be worse things right! He even wakes up talking about "go see flower, go outside". It's so hard to get him in the house now!

Anyway, after we left my mom's, Derek headed out fishing for the afternoon, I had every intention of taking a huge nap since it had turned cold and rainy, but instead I got a bug and decided to go through my closet! I recently inherited some summer maternity clothes from some friends of mine (since I was pregnant in the winter with Ethan!), and had this huge pile on my dresser for the past 2wks. I couldn't take looking at one more day! So I brought a bunch of winter stuff down stairs, but before I hung it up, I pulled out what I thought I wouldn't wear again....or that stuff I've been holding onto thinking I was going to loose enough weight to fit into again! So now I have more then enough room for all my fun, cute maternity clothes! The best part is that I can see my dresser and the floor around it now!!!! After that I had to do a little Facebooking of course. I actually got to lay down for about 20mins, which was perfect really.

Ethan woke as happy as ever and best of all he was quite snuggly. Ethan really hasn't been a very affectionate child, so when he's snuggly or clingy (which is really rare, even if he's sick) I eat it up! Daddy was still fishing "bishin" as Ethan says, so we decided to order pizza. It's my day and I'm NOT cooking! So, we had a little late dinner just the 2 of us, while he was finishing up, I was reading the paper. After he got done, he wanted to sit on my lap (again, very rare!), so we looked at the paper and flyers together. It was really quite fun! I decided it was a little late for a bath, so I just put his jammies on. This is something he normally fights me for and tonight, was just as content as ever, talk, talk, talking away about things as I changed him. He was being such a honey that I really didn't want to put him to bed so I just played in his room with him for a while. I got lots and lots of hugs and kisses. It was the ABSOLUTE BEST ending to my Mother's Day! It must be my hormones, but as he's sitting on my lap giving me butterfly kisses, Eskimo kisses and regular kisses, tears just ran like water! He even said "mommy water eyes" and touched them. I know this is really long and probably super boring, but I'm writing more for me then you. I just don't want to forget what a wonderful day I had with my wonderful little boy.


On that note, here's a few pictures. The 1st couple are from the Tulip Time parade on Thur. Ethan had a great time with his friends Max, baby Leah and baby Ben!

As promised here's some belly pics. These are actually from today, so here's me at 20weeks! Half way there! We had our official ultrasound on Friday and so far everything looked good, I haven't heard the report yet (prob not until Mon), but I think the tech would have said something if she caught something unusual....I hope. Anyway, we didn't find out the sex. Even if we wanted to, I think we would have been disappointed b/c the baby was cooperating! Any guesses????