Muffins for my muffins

Mail for Ethan

E is for Ethan.  

That much Ethan knows is true.  

Although he can sing the alphabet song, the rest of the letters are slight insignificant to him for now.   Everyday Ethan loves to grab the mail after school.  It's a chore he calls a very important and dangerous job.  Important because there might be something in the mail for him.  Like sticker packets from a sticker club chain letter we sent out.  Gifts from our distant friends and family or a magazine for me which Ethan will say " oh mom you are sooo lucky, another magazine" ( more like advertisement but why burst his bubble).  

Ethan takes great pride of being able to accomplish hard tasks which include dangerous tasks safely.  Danger in getting the mail means he gets to stand tippy toe with both feet on the curb to open the mail box.  I tell him if he steps into the street I'm hiring someone else to get the mail.  We call the street the danger zone.  We never set foot onto the street without a parent, not even if a ball rolls into the street.   Now as Ethan is learning more letters from the alphabet he sorts the mail into piles for K, T, A the other E in our family.  He calls her E L.  With all the new stickers he is getting Ethan has been sharing them with the UPS carriers by rewarding them with a sticker every time they deliver a package.  

I hope this post inspires you to send us more mail of any kind. 

 We love to hear from you! Especially Ethan.

No Fear Elise

Everyone always asks me about Elise age. 

 My answer often include something about her being the third baby in our family.  

In comparison she is a tiny toddler ranking in the slightly under ten percent of toddlers her age.  

Wait what about all the other rankings.  Such as how well she moves to the beat of 

Moves Like Jagger, how communicative she already is and how she loves to and is good 

at climbing.  

It feels like she learns new tricks while i have my back turned to the rest of the house washing dishes.  

One day I turned around and saw Miss Tiny clinging onto this chair for dear life.

 I wonder if she was comfortable in this position because she never yelped for help.  

And this picture was the start to many more climbing adventures

 much higher and without fear.  ....OH DEAR!

Tickle, tickle

Lately we host fewer play dates.  

After school the kids are a play date of their own.  It's the joy of having siblings. 

Their gift is to entertain each other.  One of Aidan and Ethan's all time favorite thing to do is wrestle.  

Elise loves to get in on the action.  The boys try to be gentle but someone always gets a little injured.  

I pray its not Elise every time.  

Aidan is so good to lay there and get the royal tickle. 

Such long limbs on the boys.

  I remember when Aidan and Ethan looked just like Elise.  Kinda tubby. 

Easter wreath

Fort Bitting

The boys said

"MOM can we build a fort?"

Elise was gesturing

" Oooh, what's a fort? I want to play too...."

Ethan's first field trip

Ethan went to Taborah Farm with his class. He learned about different kinds of pumpkins. This is his favorite the Shrek pumpkin.

For his first field trip Ethan made sure to wear his favorite t-shirt.

Sister came along.

She had fun swimming in the bin of apples.

When I asked Ethan about his favorite part of the field trip he said he liked lunch because he got to have his water bottle. It was an unusually warm October day.

Ethan's least favorite part of the field trip was when everyone came and sat on the bench that he was pushing. Here's he's saying " you, plus you, plus you, plus you are too heavy".