Friday, April 27, 2007

Enjoying life!

Grandpa came over for dinner last night and Ethan wanted him to read him his night night story. It was too precious not to get a picture of!
Like my new hairstyle?
I think I'll wear this hat to church on Sunday!
Ethan was hilarious last night. He fell asleep in the car at 4pm and we put him in bed and let him sleep until 5pm. We brought him in the living room and he fell asleep on Tracy. We tried again at 6pm and he still wouldn't wake up. Finally at 7pm we put him on the floor and he started to go back to sleep on the floor until I said the magic words, "Do you want some chocolate?" Immediately, he smiled and sat up and was wide awake! It was too funny!
We got Ethan a little Elmo guitar from Goodwill and he wants to play with it all the time! He wanted to take it to the bath even!
Katelyn likes to play with the guitar too!
Doesn't she look beautiful in the Easter outfit Nana got her? It's one of my favorites.
Need I say anything? Super Daddy!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Thunder Over Louisville

The Hercules
Some of the 800,000 who came to see the Air Show and fireworks
Lima Lima Company
Navy Air Rangers
Lima Lima Co
F-16 Flying Falcons in formation
F-18 Tomcat
The Apache
Louisville 3rd street bridge where the fireworks display was

B-2 Stealth bomber
The Chinook
F-22 Raptor
F-22 Raptor

These are Tracy's awesome pics from the airshow yesterday. Unfortunately, there aren't any pics of the kids and me because the moment the air show started the loudness of the jets scared Ethan to death!! He was running for cover and screaming to go home so I took them both home! It was so pitiful. Even today he has been telling me that he saw the planes and he was scared! We're uploading some video tonight and we'll add it later with some planes and the 60 million dollar fireworks!


Looking adorable as usual!

Ethan was very excited that he got to pick out his yellow shirt! We're excited that it's warm enough to wear it!
Ethan likes to make piles of all the blankets and pillows.
Yummy--I like spaghetti!
I'm just too cute for this high chair!
I forgot to say that Katelyn weighs 17 pounds and 13 ounces and is doing great! She's got lots of lovely little fat rolls all over her legs and arms so we know she's healthy. Her appetite for solid food has increased which is great! She keeps leaning forward like she wants to crawl but just hasn't committed to it!
Ethan has been talking up a storm now! He knows all of his shapes and colors (he even knows octagon!!), his alphabet and his numbers. What a smart boy!

Friday, April 13, 2007

Ethan and Daddy hamming it up!

Thinking of Nana



He's wearing his Hakuna Matata shirt DaddyBob got him from Kenya!

These pictures are dedicated to Nana Claytor! We all love you and glad your knee surgery went well. We are praying for you and hope you feel better soon. You'll need your new bionic knees to chase these two cuties all summer!

Monday, April 09, 2007

Easter Weekend

Katelyn opening her basket.
Ethan got this Nemo towel for Easter from Nana and Papa. If you see in the TV screen, Joe is dressed up like little Red Riding Hood. Ethan then wanted to wear his towel and carry his basket.
Ethan painting his Nemo picture.
Katelyn playing with her Easter ball.
Unfortunately, it's been so cold that this weekend we had to get them all bundled up.
I look good in Daddy's shoes!
Here's a better pic of Ethan with his towel and basket.


Monday, April 02, 2007

What a weekend!

She loves standing up. She actually pulled herself up using the toy!
Daddy watched the babies while I had to work the kidsale and he just loved seeing her hold her own bottle!
I'm trying out some of the features on the my camera!
At the park today!
Katelyn enjoyed watching the kids at the park playing. She was just giggling!
Isn't that adorable?
She's wearing the cutest little outfit! This one is my favorite!


Gotta have the baby in the laundry basket photo!
I think we got most of it on her face--what do you think?
This is Daddy's favorite outfit for Katelyn
Ethan and I like to go down to the parking lot and play with the chalk when Katelyn goes to bed.
Wow--this weekend went by fast! Last week we got the car fixed (the doors had issues and we did the big 105,000 overhaul) and picked it up Thursday afternoon. After we got the car back, we realized they had scratched up the sides of the van pretty badly and never said anything. We took it back today to get it fixed and they have to keep it for a couple of days so Tracy is driving a rental.
After we picked the car up on Thursday we went to a big Kidsale sale in a neigbourhood where we also were selling stuff. We found a ton of cute clothes for Katelyn (see above for a few examples), but not much for Ethan. We went shopping today at Wal-mart with the money we made at the sale. Why is it so much more fun to shop for kid's clothes than for your own??
Saturday we hung out with Dad and Ilona all day since it was Dad's birthday. We went out to Olive Garden for dinner and Ilona left her very expensive sunglasses on the table. She realized when she got to our apartment and called and they said they had them. They drove by on the their way back and the sunglasses were gone. Ilona was very upset and it was a big ordeal. The day was good except for that!
Ethan is now officially one week bottle free! Whoohoo! In fact, early this morning he went to the fridge and got his sippy cup with milk in it and drank it. This is huge since he was refusing to drink milk out of the sippy cup most of the week and has been crying for his bottle every day. I don't think he's mentioned it but once or twice today. He's also right now sleeping in his own bed! He's been so needy this week with getting rid of the bottle that we've let him get into our bed earlier in the night. I'm glad he's in his own bed so I can have time to read in bed!
Katelyn is doing well--we believe there is a tooth about to make an entrance because she has been drooling and chewing on things and a little fussy. She's sleeping great lately usually sleeping from 7:30pm to 7:30am only waking up once around 11pm to get her pacifier put back in her mouth. She's a sweet smiling little girl and loves standing up! Won't be too long before she starts taking those first steps! : ) She has her 9 month check up on Thursday so we'll see how she's doing.