Ethan's Visit to the ER

Well we had an eventful night last night. Around 10:30pm we heard Ethan in his room. Daddy went to see what he wanted. After a few minutes I decided to go see what was going on because I heard Ethan crying. I asked him what was the matter, and he said "I put one of those eyes in my nose" I knew what he was talking about because I put them away in his desk before bed (they are the hard plastic googly eyes you can get in the crafts section) They are fairly good size ones too. When Sean and I asked him why he did it he gave us a few different answers, but here are a few "I wanted my eyes to be brown like Littlefoot's (he is really into the Land before time at the moment)" "Littlefoot told me to do it, Bruce (his shark) told me not too" "I don't know." He is a kid, that is why he did it! Well I took him into the bathroom and looked up his nose, and sure enough I could see the edge of one stuck way up his nostril. We got a flash light and I tried getting it out with the tweezers, but it was way up there, too slimy and I couldn't get it. We decided we needed to take him to the ER to get it out of there. Luckily Grandma was over because she was going to be watching the kids today so she stayed with Julia while we took Ethan to the ER. Long story short, they got it out. It even took two doctors and about 5 minutes for them to get it out. He tried with the tweezers and this tool at first, he couldn't get it so he needed to use a suction tool and it still took him a few tries. Ethan was so excited. He said "Mommy am I going to the same hospital where you had Julia!!" "I need to teach the new baby not to put those eyes in it's mouth" He brought in his Littlefoot toy and was in a good mood the whole time. You wouldn't think he needed to be there by the way he was acting, but I couldn't leave that thing stuck up his nose!! He did great, and they even put the eye in a little cup for us to take home (Ethan really wanted it). Of course I didn't give it back to Ethan, we are going to put it in his baby book. What a story!! I did the same thing when I was around his age, except I stuck a sunflower up there, and my parents had to take me to the ER too.

Here is a pic of me at 25 weeks. I am now 26 weeks! Wow the time goes by fast.

Fall Fun at Gallagher's Farm!

It has been a while since I have updated. I told my bosses that I am not coming back after my maternity leave (I wouldn't be bringing anything home by the time we paid for child care!). I told them I plan on leaving around Christmas time. Hopefully they start figuring out what they want to do, cause it would be good if I could help train the new person. I just wanted to share something really cute that Ethan says. He will say "You are beautiful and made of wishes." How cute! Things have been very busy, I can't believe it is almost the end of October! We finally went and got some pumpkins today.

We went to Gallagher's Farm on 72, which isn't far from our house. The kids had a lot of fun picking out pumpkins. Then when we were inside paying for them, the farmer brought in a little 10 day old kitten from the barn and Ethan got to pet it. It was so tiny. Then we went to the "petting zoo." They had a cage of rabbits, some pigs, and goats. We asked Ethan if he wanted to take a picture by them and he said "No they stink too much!" Haha how funny. Then we went and did the corn maze that they have there, it was a ton of fun! The kids loved it. It actually took us a while to find our way out, but we managed. Then the kids got to pick out a little pumpkin that was growing in the pumpkin patch. When we got back to the main area we bought some pumpkin donuts and apple cider, yumm!! We were so happy the weather was beautiful, when I looked at the forecast yesturday it said rain. God blessed us with a wondeful day as a family! We took a ton of great pictures and I will share once I get them developed.

Ethan is really looking forward to Halloween, he loves it! He is going to be a shark and Julia is going to be a duck. I plan on painting my belly like a pumpkin, we bought the paint tonight. Hope everyone is enjoying the fall weather while they can, there is snow in the forecast!

New Pictures!

I finally got another roll of film developed, enjoy:

These were the flowers Sean got me for our 4th anniversary.



Ethan & Julia on a tractor wheel at the fair.


Ethan riding a horse at the fair, he loved it!



Ethan went all the way up the stairs by himself, what a big boy!



Julia's little toes!





Ethan & Julia playing with shark stuff!


Julia sucking her thumb and playing with her ear (she does this or sucks her thumb and plays with her belly button!)


Ethan ready for pre-school!


"Cheese!"

This was our first coat of stain (we did 2 coats). We still have to stain the floor boards "sandstone" and then put up the lattice. I will post pics when it's done.


Ethan helping "finish" the Great Lakes Children's Museum" This was at the grand opening.

Ethan & Julia watching a "movie" at the GLCM.

Ethan Julia and Daddy looking through the porthole.



Ethan Julia and Mommy playing in the "kitchen"


More fun in the "kitchen"


Ethan swimming in the "waves"


Julia doing"Fish lips"!!!!


Ethan testing the cookies before we bake them.



This was at my company picnic on Saturday.



This was the pinata that the kids got to hit at the picnic. Julia used a stick and was growling at it. So funny!


Ethan won the "guess how many is in the jar game" and won the gum!