Happy Birthday, Kyle!!

Today we celebrated Kyle's 27th birthday. I made Kyle a German chocolate cake, not nearly as time consuming or as fancy as Ethan's cake a few weeks back, but he didn't mind. It is a big cake for the three of us, so if anyone wants to come and visit us in the next few days...

We had a fun Easter weekend last week. We traveled up to Logan just for Easter Sunday. Unfortunately we forgot our camera (which is one of our excuses for not posting last week). It was a busy day rushing around to visit family. It was a really busy week for us. Kyle was spending countless hours locked away in our office doing homework all week, and it will probably continue this week as well.

In the meantime, Ethan has kept me busy. He has gotten really good at walking and is now running at times. The other day I left him in his room for a few minutes to sneak away to check my email. After a few minutes I realized that things seemed a bit too quiet. This usually means Ethan is up to something. I found him in the bathroom with the jar of Vaseline. He had it caked all over his hands . Fortunately I caught him right as his was lunging for the bathroom cabinet. He then rubbed his hands into my sleeve. Not long after, I laid down on the couch for a few minutes to shut my eyes. Ethan was playing innocently with the broom, like always and felt I was safe to shut my eyes for a few minutes. I believe only a few minutes had passed when I opened my eyes to find that he had gotten into our potted plant and scooped handfuls of dirt all over the rug!!It seems that now we can't even leave him for a minute without trouble. We fear that we've only seen the beginning of what is to come.Ethan has had a few more experience with sugar since his birthday, and seemed to really enjoy Dada's cake.
Kyle's mom and sister visited us yesterday and took us to lunch for Kyle's birthday. They brought Ethan a plastic rake and shovel. They are his new favorite toys. Since yesterday he has constantly been carrying them around the house. In fact, the rake was the first thing he went to when he woke up this morning. It will be fun to let him play with them in the yard when the weather gets warmer again. Ethan has hated being cooped up in the house the last few days it has been stormy. If he could he would live outside 24/7. He always gets upset whenever it is time to come back inside. This should be a fun yet interesting summer!