Family Portrait

Here is Ethan's first drawing of our family. How cute!

Ethan's T-Ball Parade and 1st Game

Ethan 4 years old - Nolan 2 years old

Nolan's 2nd Birthday

Wow, my baby boy is 2 years old! We celebrated his birthday with a small party at our house. We made him a Doggie cake because doggies are his favorite animal and favorite word. Nolan received a Lil Quad for his birthday that he has been riding around the house non-stop. He loved his party and loved playing with the kids in the backyard. He thought it was great to have all the attention on him for a change.

NOLAN YEAR IN REVIEW

1. Nolan began this year with learning to walk (wow that seemed so long ago)

2. He started communicating and repeating all words. He leaves the first letter off of almost every word (doggie is oggie; book is ook; car is arr; etc)

3. Loves animals; favorite thing to do is go to the petting farm or the zoo

4. Loves the outdoors; we took him camping last summer and he was in him element

5. Likes to put on other people's shoes

6. Favorite foods are spaghetti or any kind of pasta; also loves corn on the Cobb

7. Follows Ethan around everywhere he goes and copies everything he does (this bothers Ethan at times, but other times he thinks it's cool and funny)

8. Likes music and dancing

9. He likes to antagonize Ethan and Ashley (or any kid that will allow it). He will purposely pull on your clothes or poke at you to see if you will react.

10. Gets frustrated when mom or dad doesn't understand what he is trying to say and will throw himself down on the ground and have a little tantrum with his feet up in the air.

11. Loves his binky

12. Does not like Santa Claus or Easter Bunny or anyone dressed up in character

13. Learned how to open up doors all by himself

14. Loves to run after Tyra and play with her

15. He can climb up anything! Play structures, cribs, ladders. We had to move him to a toddler bed over a month ago because he was climbing out of his crib.

Easter 2009

Happy Easter!

Easter started with an Easter party at the Macomb Rec Center where Ethan and Nolan saw the Easter Bunny and a went to a farmyard show and played games.

The day before Easter, our neighbors held their annual Easter Egg Hunt and party. The Easter Bunny made another appearance and brought all of the kids a fishing pole to take home with them.

On Easter, Ethan and Nolan woke up at 7am and went downstairs to find where the Easter Bunny hid their baskets. Ethan found both his and Nolan's and now says that Easter is his favorite holiday of all time. After having jelly beans and pancakes for breakfast,we headed to church and came home for a relaxing Easter Sunday.

Visit to Grammy and Pop-Pop's

We flew to Florida April 1st to see Grammy and Pop-Pop. The boys were really excited to see them and wasted no time jumping in the pool and playing with Thomas the Train.

Grammy set up a cruise for us on a Pirate Boat called Pieces of Eight. The crew were all dressed as pirates and sang songs and acted the part. They had games for the kids and a treasure hunt and an actual canon. It was a great day and we would definitely go on the cruise again. Good time! Thanks Grammy and Pop-Pop.

We also went to the beach a few times and went to a new Splash Park in Naples. The splash park was great for the kids. Ethan especially liked the lazy river and could have spent the entire day on the lazy river alone. Nolan liked playing in the toddler area and going down the Alligator slide.

The last day of our trip, all of the boys went out for the day and left the girls to hang by the pool. The boys went to putt-putt golf and then went to Chuck E Cheese. It was a fun time for all of us.

February & March 2009

Well we made it through another two months with no colds or sickness. I think this is a record breaking cold season for us.

We kicked off February with Ethan's Valentine's Day party at school. The kids really had a good time and I was able to volunteer for the party and help the kids through their "stations". We also celebrated Kevin's birthday on the 20th. Our friends Alana and Eric had us all over for a birthday dinner for Kevin and Eric Kulongowski. The boys (young and old) had a great time with their best friends.

We finally got some warm weather in March. We headed to the Wolcott Mill Farm to see the new calf's that were born. Nolan loves animals more than anything and had so much fun. He calls all of the animals by the sound they make and not by their actual name. He was going up to the cows and saying "moo-moo", the sheep and saying "baa-baa", etc.

We also made it to the Butterfly House at the Oakland Mall. There were a lot of butterflies and the boys enjoyed watching them fly around and land on their clothes.