Last story time for the year

Ethan with his friend Kiran. Emma was in Dad's lap.

Ethan doing his best Gene Autrey imitation

Breakfast with Mommy

Emma in her "construction" hat

Leg fell off the chair so Emma got a hammer and hammered it back in, but not untill she got her "construction" hat.
Got to love the imagination!

Nanc and I have had company in bed every morning lately

We don't let them go to bed in our bed at night but lately one or both have been waking up when Nanc is getting ready for work and getting in our bed. 4 people in a queen size bed makes for poor sleeping for the adults.

Emma is going through a teenager stage

No wonder Emma acts the way she has lately. She thinks she's a teenager already. Sleeping in past 10! Wow what I could get done if only her in the a.m.

Ethan playing Garbage Man

Ethan playing garbage truck. Too cute. He fills front chair and then dumps contents over second chair onto the floor behind it since that's how the garbage truck does it. Even uses a snapple cap as his steering wheel and makes motor sounds the whole time.

Emma gets her "Kissing Machine" going

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Ethan and Emma visit Grandma in the hospital

Ethan and Emma visit Grandma after her knee replacement surgery. She is doing great.

Emma dancing Wiggle Jiggle Jiggle

Emma definitely marches to her own beat :-)

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Emma,Ethan and Mommy do the pogo dance

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Ethan helps change Mommy's tire

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Oh my you blink and they are grown up

So in the past two days. Ethan has aged about 3 years. He started preschool full time, got POTTY TRAINED and cleaned up his own spill off the floor today without being ask while I was dressing Emma.

I was changing Emma and getting her dressed downstairs as Ethan started eating his yogurt for breakfast. I didn't hear a thing, but saw he wasn't in his chair. I looked over and he had knocked his yogurt cup on the floor, got a kleenex and was wiping it all up.

We started potty training this weekend thinking Emma would get it right away since she has dabbled with it longer than Ethan, but she did not do well and Ethan took to it right away. He went all day yesterday including preschool with only one little squirt at dinner in his training pants and woke up almost dry today and went in the potty right away upon wakening. He decided yesterday at school that he would start standing to pee-pee and has been doing it since.

Second day of preschool and we were a little afraid Emma would not want to go as she said she didn't like it as much as their old once or twice a week Parents Day Out program, but she put on her backpack and both went right on the bus.

Holy cow, guess I won't be needed for much longer!

Ethan and Emma's First Day Of Preschool

Well we knew it had to happen, but we didn't think it would come so soon. Today Ethan and Emma started full time preschool. Both go four days every week and Ethan goes five days every other week. Ethan was quite excited to ride the bus and went right on and got in his seat. Emma went right on and got in her seat, but as you can see from the picture she was a little stressed when it was time for daddy and mommy to get off. The bus driver and her helper could not have been nicer. Well the adventure begins ...

Our recycling can puts itself away - or at least it looks like it at first.

Our neighbor Priya came over for a visit

Ethan and Emma love to play with Priya when she comes over to visit them. Today they played hide and seek, rode the big wheels and played the keyboard together.

 

Ethan and Emma help mail out their birthday party invitations

Mommy gets a time-out

Nanc is bathing Ethan and Emma and try's to start washing Ethan. He says "not now , I'm making spaghetti." She then attempts to wash Emma who mimics Ethan saying "no mommy not now I'm making spaghetti. "

Nanc asks " Well what am I supposed to do then.?" to which Emma replies "You just sit there and have a time-out Mommy".

Out of the mouths of babes.

Ethan plays the "Tuba" on daddy's hoodie

Ethan likes to play the tuba part from the Veggie Tales theme song. Oomp, ah, oomp, ah...

Lately he likes to pretend the string on my hoodie is the tuba's mouthpiece. Here he is playing his "Tuba"

Ethan and Emma reading on their potty chairs

They both wanted books like Daddy.

Out for a bike ride with my new club members

Not the usual club members I rode with, but these two are stylin'. Check out those shades and aggressive riding stances.

"Press enter Daddy"

Too funny, they are always listening.
Nanc and the kids are taking me to the airport and we let the kids watch a movie. All of a sudden we hear Ethan say "Press enter Daddy" and sure enough the movie was at the main menu and we needed to press enter. Guess he's heard us telling each other that. Scary how they are always listening.

New Years Eve 2011

Ethan and Emma managed to stay up for the New York Times Square ball drop. Happy New Year.