Peas, Sweet Potatoes, and Trees

We've had a fun week of food with Ethan. He sure loves his peas! We gave him sweet potatoes for the first time this week (and he likes them almost as much as he likes paper). He was so excited to eat his sweet potatoes one day that he lunged for them and got a spoonful on his nose as seen below.

He is getting ever so much closer to crawling. It shouldn't be long now. Jen has been trying forever to get him to start clapping but to no avail. This morning he just started clapping for daddy out of the blue. This week we are going to try to teach him to whistle.

Lastly, here is a picture of what we did all of Saturday. Our neighbor loaned Kyle his chainsaw to help clean up our yard from the storm we had. We also took down a tree that we wanted to take down eventually. We learned that if you don't have any rope to anchor a tree to fall the right way, a garden hose works just fine. This picture really doesn't do justice of showing the piles of branches and wood that came from the 5 trees we no longer have standing.