"Happy Birthday, Daddy!!!"

Yesterday was Daddy's birthday and to celebrate we all went out to Casa Grande. While we were there, one of the boys filled one the waiters in on why we were there. The video at the end of this post is of all the waiters singing "Happy Birthday" to him. It was too funny not to share. After Casa Grande we all ran down to Sam's Club to pick up a few things and then all headed back home for some cake. Daddy loves the ice cream cakes so Darin and I picked one up while we were doing our birthday shopping earlier. He had no clue that we got him a cake and I think it was a pleasant surprise for him! Of course, we couldn't go easy on him...we loaded that cake down with 44 candles and made him blow out every one of them!!! LOL.

Hope you had a GREAT birthday, Daddy!! You deserved it!! You're the best and I love you with all my heart!! Love, Shan

"Yue Yights"

I just had to share this with everyone!! Because of Darin working for the Rowan County Sherriff's Dept and being Chief of the East Spencer Fire Dept, Ethan has become FASCINATED with "Cop Cars" and "Fire Trucks". He loves to explore the "cop car" and if Darin is going to the Fire Dept you can bet Ethan won't be far behind him. LoL. Every day that Darin has to work, Ethan is right on his tail, following him around the house while he gets ready. (He can't get over the fact that "Ewin" wears the same clothes to "Wurk" as Pee-Paw.) We've kinda started a little tradition and I've been wanting to take a little video clip of it to share with everyone. I didn't get as good of a clip as I would have liked, but I think you'll get the idea. Ethan walks Darin to his car every day that he works night shift & before Darin leaves, he will always turn the "Yue Yights" on for him. Ethan gets so excited that he can hardly contain himself. Usually, he gets really bouncy and those little arms get to swingin'!! He turns to me and hollars "Yue Yights!! Yue Yights!!". He walks up the grill of the car everytime and tries to stick his little fingers through to touch the lights, then he'll go to the corners and stick his little nose up to the flashing light. Today, he got so excited, he climbed on his little park bench in the flower bed. I had to cut the clip short cause he got so excited about the lights that he took off around the car to inform Darin that the "yue yights" were on and he fell down. Needless to say, it didn't stop him for long. He jumped right back up and took off to Darin..."Yue Yights, Yue Yights!!" I managed to get a couple of pics of the two of them after he climbed in on Darin's lap. Ethan has fallen in love with Darin and quite honestly, I think he's getting to where he prefers Darin over mommy the majority of the time!! I have so enjoyed watching the two of them bond and I hope that the bond that is forming will last many many years!!

(For some reason, my pictures and the video were downloaded backwards. I worked on this for about an hour and couldn't figure out how to reverse it. I'm sure you get the idea though. LoL)

"Splish-Splash"

Within the last week or so, Ethan has figured out how to turn the water in the tub on and off. I have really had to keep my "ears" open for that little "boom" (which would be Ethan falling headfirst into the tub). This morning, I was folding laundry and heard the boom and then the water started running. When I walked around the corner, the bathroom was completely dark and this is what I found. Of course, I had to grab my camera!! He had so much fun!! He was "swimming" all around that tub!! By the time he decided to get out, his diaper was, needless to say, OVERLOADED!! When I went to take his onesie off to get him dried off, the absorbant gel was oozing out of the top of his diaper!! I had a good laugh watching him "swim" around the tub and couldn't resist sharing some of the pics!!