A little of this, a little of that.....

Not to much has been going on lately in our household! The kids are doing good, staying healthy for the most part. Carson has had a bad cough this last week and ended up having to use an inhaler...I am sure you can imagine how much he LOVES that. But he has gotten much better in the past few days.

Pre-school is still going well for Ethan. Last week he got in trouble for telling another kid he was going to beat him up. Sometimes it's hard not to laugh when I see those kinds of things written on his daily report. They have a system at his school where their names are put on the board at the beginning of the day and then they basically get 3 warnings before their names get erased. Or if they do something really naughty (like telling someone you are going to beat them up) they get their name erased instantly. So when Ethan gets his name erased he can't have his Wii time when he gets home. It usually happens about once per week.

He has his funny moments at pre-school too. A few days ago when one of Ethan's little girl-friends came to school she walked into the room and Ethan said "Hey Gorgeous!!" to her. hahaha. His teacher said they all got a pretty good laugh out of that. Oh Ethan. :)

Ethan has really enjoyed playing outside in the snow, he just always wishes he had someone to play with him so he doesn't usually last very long if he goes out by himself. One of the times we got a dusting of snow, he shovled the whole driveway just because he wanted to!

Sledding behind the 4-wheeler on Christmas Day (don't worry Grandma's, I made sure dad was driving SLOW!)

This is what happens when mommy is talking on the phone while holding Carson while standing against the counter with an open box of KIX cereal right behind me. Carson really enjoyed eating, throwing and crushing the cereal while I tried to clean it up!! :)

Cozy Warm

Don't you wish you could get away with wearing cozy fleece pants and coats with little ears on the hood?


Carson can. :)

Family

Just a quick post to put up some pictures of family from over the holidays. Hope you are all keeping warm in this lovely snowy, cold winter!

Snowy Christmas

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! It was a little crazy this year, with all of the lovely wintery weather. We spent Christmas with Jarred's family and also spent a lot of time at home just the 4 of us! My parents were not able to come up because the roads just weren't very good.

We got a Wii as our family gift, Ethan loves it. He is really good at golf and bowling! He also got a fun fishing game and we all like Mario Kart too. We spent quite a bit of time playing that. Ethan also got a sled from Grandpa John. So on Christmas Day Jarred pulled him behind the 4-wheeler (slowly) up and down Grandpa's driveway. That seemed to be the highlight of his Christmas Day! He loves playing out in the snow, and making paths with his trucks and cars.

Carson liked the sled too!

All ready for church on Christmas Eve.

Ethan with all of the Wii stuff.

Carson had fun ripping the paper off his gifts and playing with it. He also tried to sneak some of it into his mouth of course. He was sick a few days before Christmas with a fever, cough and runny nose. But he bounced back quick, thankfully.

Unfortunately the weekend didn't come to a very good end. My Grandpa Poppe passed away on Sunday night. We will miss you Grandpa.

Christmas Program

Ethan had his Christmas program last Friday. The theme was "Starry Night". The kids sang 6 songs, the boys were dressed as shepards and the girls angels. Ethan did great! He stood still for the most part. Some of the kids were turning around, talking to eachother and messing around. It was pretty entertaining. The best part was when they sang "We wish you a Merry Christmas". I only caught the last part on video but Ethan really got into it with the arm actions as you can see.

Singing up front.

Ethan the shepard.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas! While it would be OK to be snowed in with this weather we are supposedly getting, it makes it hard for everyone to see their families. So I hope the snow holds off for safe travels.

Here is a picture of Ethan and Carson just for fun. The last 3 posts have been about Ethan and I haven't taken to many pictures of Carson (sorry bud!)

Backgrounds!

Thanks to Sara I finally found some fun backgrounds for my blog!  I have been wanting to do this, and searched...but found nothing.  It was making me mad, because you would think that someone who went to SCHOOL for web programming might be able to figure something like this out.  Well, now that I know how to change the backgrounds and where to find them, I can have fun with it!  You will probably find the background changing often.  :)  Tomorrow I will put up a post about Ethan's Christmas program, it was cute!

Birthday Party

This post is a little past due, but Ethan had a really fun time at his birthday party!  We went to the WOW Zone.  What a fun place!  Five of his friends came to his party and they bowled, ate pizza and cake, opened presents and played video games.  It all went really well. Thanks to everyone who came!

Silly Boys!

It's a big task to get everyone to smile nice.  :)

5 Years Old.