Ethan Racing

Ethan likes to race down the sidewalk to see if he can beat my car to the end of the block. We live 5 houses from the end of the block and I was leaving the other day and he said "come on mommy lets race". I had to video it with my phone.

He was barefoot this day. I don't know how he runs so fast. I thought I would post the video it is too cute. Of course I let him win.

Putt Putt Golf

After we spent most of the day at the beach we played a game of Putt-Putt Golf. I really hadn't played putt putt in years. Ethan loves playing it online and now in person too.

This course was so much fun. Every hole had something fun on it. We played eighteen holes and Russell ended up winning by one point. Ethan got a little bored toward hole 13 so his score kinda went down hill from there.

The picture of the big shell was fun. You had to hit the ball inside the shell and hopefully it went through a hole. If not you could also go around the shell. Ethan loved climbing inside the shell.

Galveston

We went to Galveston this past weekend. We spent pretty much all day hanging out in the hot sun. Houston is going through a very dry spell right now, so we hit the beach.

You'll notice Ethan and Russell in the water they are actually looking for shells. Russell is a pro at finding shells. He found this really big shell. He is holding it in his hand. The only bad thing about hunting for shells...make sure you have lots of sunscreen on your back. Russell never reapplied it and is paying for it now. He looks like a tomato.

Ethan and Brittan made a sand castle and decorated it with some of the sea shells. They both were so proud of the sand castle.

Graduation from Kindergarten

Ethan Graduated from Kindergarten June 5, 2009. Look how excited he was walking up to the stage. He is the second one from the left.













His class did a couple little skits. He was Noah in one of them. He did a great job memorizing his lines.


















Now he is smiling big. I'm sure he is like WA HOO I'm getting off the stage.














He is still practicing on smiling. His hands are full of awards he received. He received an award for Excellence and a trophy for being a Diligent Worker. He also got 3 ribbons for track and field day along with his little diploma.














These are Ethan's buddies at school. Notice they all raked in the awards.















The school had a cake to eat afterwards. They had the class picture on it. What a great idea. The kids loved it.

Ethan's name is in the Bible

My cousin Sara commented that Ethan's name is in the bible. Thank You Sara! Ethan loved it. I flipped the bible open to Psalms 89 and showed Ethan his name and he had the biggest smile. I then noticed his name was in other places.



I think he really wants his name to be a book in the bible. I told him he can't have everything. :) At least his name appears in the bible.



So we have been working on memorizing the books of the bible. He is doing very well.

Bible Names

After church on Sunday Ethan asked me if his name is in the bible. I said "no, but there are a lot of names that are not in the bible". He asked because they are learning all the books of the bible at church. Five books at a time starting with the old testament.

Last night we were working on memorizing the books in order. He is suppose to learn 5 this week, but that is way to easy for Ethan so he is going to memorize all of the new testament books this week. So we were in the middle of working on the names and he started crying. I asked him why he was crying and he said "I want my name in the bible, its not fair that my name isn't in the bible".

So I had my bible in front of me and I took my pen and wrote Ethan's name at the top of the page. I then said his name is now in the bible. His response "not in every bible". I asked him if he wanted me to write his name in every bible I came across and he didn't respond just continued to cry. I just continued to tell him that my name or daddy's name isn't in the bible and we are okay with it. I don't think that helped. I changed to subject to bed time.

We shall see how today goes with memorizing. Hopefully he won't bring up his name not being in the bible.

Watermelon

I picked up a watermelon a couple days ago. Russell placed it in a cooler with ice for the past two days so we could eat it cold and it didn't take up room in the fridge.

Today was the perfect day to eat it. Russell and Ethan ate it outside and were seeing who could spit the seeds the farthest.

After we were all done eating it we had to empty the cold water out of the cooler. Russell had a great idea.... lets pour it on Ethan. Don't know if many of you know that we always play tricks on each other. So of course I agree to this one.

Russell started it with saying "Ethan come help me pour this out outside". Ethan actually caught on a little. I said out loud where is my camera. Then he busted out with "y'all are going to pour it on me". I quickly changed the subject and said lets pour it out front where we put a couple of pieces of watermelon that Ethan didn't finish all the way.

I grabbed my cell phone to video it. The quality isn't that well, but you will totally get to hear Ethan's response when he figures it out. Remember this video was taken on my cell phone and it is dark outside.

Russell didn't get the cooler up fast enough so Ethan did not get wet.

Twin Feet

I found the picture of Russell's painted nails. Ethan really looks a lot like me except the feet. He has Russell's feet 100%. So here is Russell's feet and look below to see Ethan's feet.

They have great nail beds for nail polish. :)

Painted Nails

So I was painting my nails and Ethan was watching and asking 20 questions. "Why are you painting that toe first?... Why don't you clip your nails before painting them?.... Why do you paint them red and not blue or purple?" The questions never stopped. So I had to ask him if I could paint his toes. Of course his first response was "no".

He finally agreed as long as I took it right off. He didn't know I would take pictures. When I pulled the camera out he laughed and then posed for a few pictures.

Ethan really checking out his painted nails.

He has daddy's feet. I guess that is a good thing since I don't really like what my feet look like. Now that I'm thinking about it I once convinced Russell to let me paint his toenails and I have pictures of them. I'll see if I can find them and post them. Their feet are exactly the same.

Ethan was a really good sport about it. I had to take off the nail polish immediately following these pictures.