Wednesday, July 13, 2011

2

I will do my best to catch everybody up, but my memory is not great as it used to be.  I can barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning.  It is pretty rare these days for me to have much to do on the weekend anymore, other than chores around the house.  The last three weeks have been an exception.  Some might even say they were exceptional.  The first of our exciting weekends began with a Saturday night trip to the Taylor County Expo Center to see Jeff Dunham.  He was absolutely hilarious, and we had a wonderful time, despite the fact that it was warm enough in there to cook a turkey.  Ethan had a great time that night as well.  He stayed with Vicki and Carl, and when we went to pick him up he didn't want to leave.


On June 29, Ethan turned 2 years old.  It's funny how time flies, and yet somehow it seems like he has been here forever.  I guess we are getting into the Terrible Twos, although most of my friends assure me that the 3s are worse.  That's comforting.  We had a small party with extended family here at the house on the weekend following his birthday.  It's nice at this age when they have no concept of actual dates and you can hold the party when it is convenient for everyone.  Ethan wasn't big on presents again this year.  The first package he opened had stickers in it, and he pretty much didn't care about anything after that.  What is so fun about stickers anyway?  He did get a trampoline from my parents, which has already gotten quite a bit of use.


This past weekend, we were graced with the company of our good friends Matt and Lisa.  They brought their kids as well, and we all had a great time just visiting and lounging around the house.  Lilah and Ethan had so much fun that they hardly seemed to notice the rest of us were even there.  Monday we had Ethan's yearly check-up with the doctor.  There were no shots this time, which was nice.  I guess he is doing fine.  They didn't tell us we were bad parents or anything.  Here is what I can tell you.  He weighs 28 pounds, is 36 1/4 inches tall, head circumference of 19 1/4 inches, and a BMI of 15.  If you are looking to compare, here are the percentile numbers respectively: 50, 90, 50, 10.  In layman's terms--average weight, super tall, normal head, skinny.

As far as I know, the next couple of months should be pretty calm around here.  I still have a million things to do today though, so this is all you're getting right now.  My mom took a bunch of pictures from the birthday party.  I will try to weed through them this weekend and get some of them posted.