So it's been ages, but...

...I am still here!!

And here are two stories about Ethan to brighten your day. :)


The first one is told by Ian:

Tonight the boys asked me for a song. I said okay and sang one of the songs common in our house:

I love my boysies, oh yes I do.
I don't love anyone
like I love you (and Mom and Elena too).
I love my boysies, I do (do, doooo).
Oh boysies, I love you (doo-biddy-doo.... Bonk).

On my way out of their room Ethan asked me whether I really didn't love anyone else like I love him and his brothers, and Elena, and Mom. I told him that I love him and all my children as much as you can possibly love someone, and mommy a little more. So he threw a curve ball and asked about my Dad & Mom. So I told him, "Yes, them too."

About 10 minutes later I had gone back up to play some guitar and sing. It's been too long since I've done that. I pretty much sang them to sleep. As I got up to put the stool back in their bathroom, Ethan seemed to wake up and he said to me "Dad, you know that song, where you sing that you don't love anyone like you love us?"

"Yes," I replied, "Just your mommy."

"You know," he said, "That's kind of how I love chicken wings... Only we don't eat the people we love."

I almost didn't make it down the stairs :)



And from me:

When I picked him up from school today, he said they get a 'compliment party' on Friday (if another teacher or someone give the class a compliment, they add a letter to the word 'compliment' on their board, and when they finish, they get a party). I asked what type they are having this time (last time was popcorn) and he said they are doing Show and Tell. I asked him what he was thinking of taking. He said he wanted to take his crystals, from his crystal growing set. I told him it wasn't grown yet, so maybe he could think of something else. He said his Zhu Zhu pet.

Jokingly I said, "You could take your sister." *laugh*
He was quiet for a minute and then he said, "I could but I don't think she'd like it very much staying in my backpack until it was time to take her out."

HA!!

He IS.

So last night Ian and I had a talk with one of the counselors in the bishopric.

We had to take the kids, which was fine...one of our friends watched them in the hallway while we were talking.

Ian decided to stay and play volleyball at the church with some of the guys.

Ethan DEARLY wanted to stay and play too. He kept asking if he could. We told him that it was way past his bedtime, he had school the next day, etc.

I finally said, "Ethan, I want to stay and play too, but I can't. Girls aren't allowed."

Ian said, "Yeah, you have to be a man to play."

Ethan said tearfully and vehemently, "But I AM a man!!"

*sigh* Don't grow up too fast, my little man.

Wordless Wednesday - King StickerBelly

(Thanks, Laura, for this idea!)

Ethanism Redux

So this evening, Ian was telling the boys a story in front of the fire.

Tonight's tale was 'Cinderella'.

As Ian got to the part where the step-mom locks Cinderella in her room, he said, "But the step-mother didn't know about all the shennanigans Cinderella had been up to."

Ethan piped up and said, "What's a shennanigan?"

Ian: "Well, it's...*pause*"

So I said, from the living room where I was changing Tiny's diaper, "It's doing something you're not supposed to do."

*pause*

So I said, "It's causing trouble."

*pause*

Ethan: "I sometimes do that." said very earnestly.

Ian and I couldn't help but laugh. :)

Musings from My 3 1/2 yr Old

Here are two funny things that Ethan said.

I seriously laughed out loud, especially the one from yesterday.

Today:

In the car, he said, "You sure are lucky, Mom."

I said, "Why, because you're my son?" *smile*

*pause*

"No, because you don't have to wear clothes to bed."

*me laughing to myself*

"I DO wear clothes to bed."

"Mom, garments are not clothes."

HA!!!

And from yesterday:

Ian had called at lunch time to tell me about how he'd gotten caught going through a red light. Oops!

Ethan asked to talk to him. He got on the phone and said,"Hi Daddy! Did you get caught at a red light?"

*Ian answers in the affirmative*

"Oh, did you get a ticket?"

*Ian again answers in the affirmative*

"Oh okay, just throw it out your window, Daddy!"

If only it were that easy, son!!

He says the best things, honestly!