Friday, June 10, 2011

Easy Rider

I realize I have been off the grid for a little bit.  What can I say?  Life is happening everyday.  It could be that I just didn't have anything to say.  Possibly it could be that the heat has fried my brain.  I would like to know what has happened to Spring.  We have had some days here where it was 110 degrees!  I am thinking about hibernating for the summer.  Ultimately I am going to blame sleep deprivation.  For the last few weeks, Ethan has decided that he doesn't want to sleep.  It is strange to us, because he has always been good as far as bedtime goes.  Now, not only does he not want to go to bed (which I am blaming on Daylight Savings Time), but he has decided that 1:30 AM is a good time to get out of bed and wake everyone else up.  Seriously, if he wants to get up in the middle of the night and do something quietly in his room, I'm all for it.  The fact that he feels the need to crawl up onto our bed and keep us up is another thing entirely.  Last night he did stay in his room all night.  I'm hoping that wasn't a fluke and that he has finally decided to just stay in there.  I have been told that it is illegal to handcuff your kid to the bed.  I will point out that when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he isn't screaming or crying.  I think he is just waking up and wants to see what's going on.  Tiffany thinks that the reason he doesn't want to go to bed on time is because he finally figured out that we weren't going to bed at the same time.  He's afraid he might miss something exciting I guess.  All things considered, we are doing fine.  Ethan will be two years old in less than three weeks.  I am most looking forward to being able to state his age in years like a normal person.  I will admit that I have been referring to him as "almost two" for quite a while though.  Twenty-three months sounds stupid.  This past weekend we made a trip to the big city.  Saturday night we saw Bowling For Soup in Fort Worth.  Although I have seen this band probably a dozen times, they are always fun.  Sarah and Josh took care of Ethan, and they even said he was good.  I'm not sure if I believe them or not, but they seemed like they didn't mind.  Sunday we had planned to stick around for a while, but after breakfast we decided we needed to get home.  Apparently we are too old to be hanging out at bars all night.  No, mom, we were not hungover--just exhausted.  We did make a planned stop in Arlington, which I will now just refer to as the Babies R Us incident.  I could probably fill up another ten pages on that, but that is a story for another day.  The pictures of Ethan that I have included are the most recent ones we have.  I know, because I took them about an hour ago.  The tricycle was a gift (I think at Christmas) that has just been sitting in the box.  I finally got it put together a couple of weeks ago, and Ethan loves it.  He was using the word bicycle before I even got it put together.  I don't even know how he knows that word.  He is not great at riding it by himself, but he loves me pushing him up and down the driveway.  I will probably enjoy this more when it isn't 110 outside.

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