Ethan and Emma Ethan and Emma t to their first movie

Ethan and Emma went to their first big kid movie and saw Frozen.

They had a great time and were very well behaved. They don't look thrilled here beciaise they had been waiting for the movie to start for almost an hour by the time the picture was taken. We tried to go to earlier show and it was sold out so we came really early to get the best seats.

Grandma reading Ethan a bedtime story on Xmas eve.

Emma made Santa a present

Emma left this for Santa.

Oh

No it's too early for this to start!

Ethan off-roadin' in the snow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethan was "skating" on a black ice patch we found today

Daddy's little pirate

Ethan's Disneyed out!

"Can we just stay in the room and be bored today"?

Quote from Ethan on the way to the shuttle bus to the Magic Kingdom. 

Day 1 at Disney - on our way to Emma's Bibbity Bobbity Boo princess makeover

View from our hotel overlooking the beach

Cool thing about the Holiday Inn of Daytona Beach Shores is that its only one row of rooms wide so every room has full ocean view. 

Emma and Mommy on Daytona Beach

Emma and Mommy got up before Ethan and took a walk on the beach at Daytona. 

Ethan's funny for the day

So we are coming home from Mom's on Sunday and the kids are having us repeat things
They think are funny and Ethan says "I'm the DIRECTOR - you
Need to do what I tell you to do".

I have no idea where he got this from.


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Ethan takes one for the team

Poor Ethan is enduring his third Friday in a row with 30 girls seeing a princess each week. This week it's Merida from Brave.

Ethan and Emma's first day of preschool was today

They both said they had a fun first day of pre-school with their new teachers.

Ethan's funny comment for the week

Ethan and Emma tore part the foam floor puzzle of alphabet letters and tossed them all over. As mommy was making them put them back (as Daddy doesn't allow them to play this "game") they looked everywhere but could not find the letter T. After looking and mommy asking "where could that letter T be" Ethan says "Well mommy they can't just get up and walk away you know!"

Emma got a big splinter in her foot today

We really had a hard time getting it out. Mommy, Daddy and Aunt Linda had to work together to hold Emma still. As we were digging into her big toe with a needle very deeply Emma screams the following:

"If you stop what you're doing I'll stop crying"

and my favorite 

"I'm not telling you next time I get a boo boo!"

Ethan and Emma visit Brookfield Zoo with their friends

Ethan and Emma went to the zoo with four of their friends and had a great time.

Location:Brookfield Zoo

Emma "Tattooed" her hands

The Friday play date group went to Brookfield Zoo

Had a great time with our friends at Brookfield Zoo today.

Ethan on carousel at Brookfield Zoo

Emma on carousel at Brookfield Zoo

Ethan and Emma went to the zoo with Jude

 

Jude with Ethan and Emma at Brookfield Zoo

Jude was so cute, he sat on the handle of the wagon and rotated the entire wagon in a tight circle. We had a blast with Jude while he was visiting Granda and Grandpa.

Carousel at Brookfield Zoo

Groupshot while riding the carousel.



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Emma feeds her doggies Scooby Snacks

Emma of course stated she must eat the Scooby Snacks for the doggies.


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Ethan in his suit for Jared and Kelli's wedding

Too cute.

Location:W 2nd St,Lawrence,United States

Taking a dip in the pool

Swimming with the cousins.

Playing at the park in Lawrence, KS

Ride 'em cowboy!

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Location:South Prk, Lawrence, KS

Ethan shares Daddy's iPad with cousins Logan and Landen

Chilling out after swimming and before dinner. 

We are all in Lawrence, Kansas for Jared and Kelli's wedding. 

Ethan and Emma with cousins day before Jared and Kelli's wedding

Emma's self portrait - age 4-1/4

Too cute. Emma got off the bus and gave this to me yesterday. Proceeded to tell me about every body feature and then concluded with " ... and I have rainbow flowers in my hair". Lately rainbows have been in all her artwork, we are a little rainbow crazy.

Ethan rides a two wheeler without training wheels at 4 years -2 months

2nd day trying to ride without training wheels and he nails it.

Rode by himself four blacks home from the park.

I guess the balance bike last year was worth the money. Next up mountain-biking with daddy.

Ice cream cures all!

Had to have some ice-cream after we drove our Police Car down the steps of the deck and bit our tongue. 

And then here were none!

Emma ate daddy's last Hostess cupcake that was frozen away. It's the end of a era.

Worlds biggest snow cone

Emma and Ethan liked decorating the saved snow with food coloring. 

I made individual snowballs for each child in Emma's class to color when I volunteered at her pre-school class and had the big one for everyone to decorate and play with. It was messy, but the class had a great time.