Letter to my Children

Dear Ethan and Emeree,

I love being your mother and am lucky to be a stay at home mom.  But . . .

Must we poop just minutes after getting a diaper change?  Contrary to what you might think, I do not enjoy changing your diapers.  And is there some rotation game this week that I'm not aware of?  Is it a race to see who can do it fastest?  You two seem to take turns so that I end up changing 4 diapers in less than an hour.  Diapers don't grow on trees and the garbage man told us on Tuesday we have been over the garbage weight limit the last couple weeks - due to your many diapers. 

Ethan, your little sister is not a nail.  The toy hammers are not meant to hammer the baby's head.  And when the toy hammers go in toy time out, we don't use the funnel as a hammer either.

Emeree, the measuring cups, teaspoons, and tablespoons are not pacifiers.  And if you're going to empty out all the drawers in the kitchen, can you at least give me a timeline of when you'll be able to put them away too?

Despite the dirty diapers, time outs and days with no naps, I still love you.

P.S. you have my permission (and your dad's too) to scratch up, chew on, and destroy the Alvin and The Chipmunks DVD.

THE 'Stache

Halloween 2010

This year, Ethan was a Pirate and Emeree was Raggedy Ann

We had fun at the Trunk-or-Treat at the Ward Party and Ethan was fabulous at saying "Thank you" to everyone.  I had to prompt him for it the first set of cars, but he did it on his own after that.  And he really got into it this year.

And Mom made the costumes!  Thank you, Mom!

Neither of them were smiling or looking at the camera at the same time, so I don't have a great "group" shot of them.  And in this one, Ethan had just finished eating a blue sucker, so his teeth are blue :)

Here's a great shot of Emeree!

And a cheesy pirate!