to my angel on his birthday...

Happy birthday my little Ethan.

I love you son, you are so precious to me in every way and I am so very thankful for you and every moment I have shared with you. You have made me feel like the luckiest mom in the world!

Thank you for bringing so much joy and love into my life, I cannot imagine how it would be without you. Thank you for the kisses, the hugs, the "I love you's", the warm cuddles first thing in the morning -- they are all the biggest highlights of my days.

I hope that I can be the best mother to you and that I can show you as much love and patience as you deserve. I pray that I can help to give you all of your hearts desires and be there for you always.

I love you baby.

-Mom

and we're up again

It's been almost 4 months since I last posted and I was thinking about closing the blog since I seem to never get around to posting, but I have decided to start it up again, to post things so that Ethan can have it when he's older and see all the different parts of his life documented.

It's been a busy time and I haven't had a camera for the past while so I don't have tons of photos from the last 4 months, but I will put up what I have to catch up a bit. He is turning 2 on the 22nd of this month but due to different reasons, I wanted to have his party early -- so we did it yesterday.

He had so much fun and really enjoyed all the attention, gifts, snacks, ect. He got a Lightning McQueen cap from his auntie Shelly, a cool truck from his friends Eric and Amanda, some hot wheels from Justin, a cool spider man tooth brush from Auntie Elise (and thank god for it, this is the first time I have been able to brush his teeth without him screaming and hating it), and a Lightning McQueen school backpack filled with crayons, markers, drawing pads, ect, from me. He wasn't too crazy about the cake, like John, he's not into cake at all -- but the ice-cream was a definite hit.

Today I started the weening process (from the bottle) and he seems to be handling it very well -- he asked for it at first but I told him that now that he is 2 he is a big boy and doesn't need his bottles anymore, so he said ok and went down for nap without asking for it again. I'm ready for a long night though in case it doesn't go as well as it did today...we'll see. Here are photos from his party yesterday.