This one goes out to my fabulous sis-in-law Kari

Kari,

I remembered the post you did about not being able to find a modest swimsuit. Well, I found a site called Lime Ricki that has cute and totally modest one piece suits and cute tankinis too! http://www.limericki.com/ and if you want to enter a giveaway contest for a free suit, click on the button link on the right side of my blog that says "30 days." The drawing ends on Tuesday, so hurry!

Here's my favorite one piece!

Here's my favorite tankini

Emma's Concert

My niece, Emma, had a choir concert last week . . . she's the one in the black, long-sleeved shirt with the camo jumper. I think she was an army ant. The other grades were bees or other kinds of bugs. She had a solo speaking part that she memorized perfectly (that's the 2nd picture).

Birthday Pictures

Here are some pics from Ethan's birthday party last week! He was okay with the cake in the beginning, but he got mad when frosting got between his fingers.

Happy Birthday!

Today is Ethan's birthday!! My little boy is 1 year old now. This past year went super fast . . . We're having his birthday party tomorrow afternoon, so I'll post pics of the event in the next couple days. Let's hope he goes wild and digs into his cake!!! I'll cross my fingers that we get some good photo ops!

Fridge Helper

We went grocery shopping yesterday, and I was putting all the refridgerated items away and turned around to grab the next bag to empty out and came to find Ethan taking all the refridgerator bisquits out that I had just put away. He did it really cute the 1st time, but of course we didn't have the camera going, so I put them away again to see if Ethan would repeat the action . . . and he did. He took them all out and then put them all away again. Almost all of them were put in standing position too, so he balanced them pretty good.



Also, I don't think I've posted on it yet, but Ethan started walking about 2 weeks ago. He's pretty stable and will walk about 4-5 feet distance before deciding to sit down again. He got a cold last week and since he's been sick, he hasn't wanted to do any walking . . . or eating for that matter. It's tricky trying to find out what foods he will eat. I think he has a sore throat cause he won't even eat the snack foods that he scarfs down on a normal day. His temp today got back up to 103 degrees again . . .

Little Daredevil

So I think it's getting time to put the walker away . . .

He likes to climb up on the railing and hold on until Michael comes over and grabs the sides, holding Ethan's hands on there and rushing down the hallway.

A Crush on Flo

Ethan loves the Progressive commericals with Flo in them. Whenever she's on t.v., he stops whatever he's doing and stares at the t.v. smiling at her. It bothers Michael cause he thinks she's annoying. So I think this would be dubbed as Ethan's first crush. I think she's a little old for him though.


He got fussy today, so I found their website with links to play the commericals. It did the trick instantly.

We'll be on the run now!

So in Sunday School today, Ethan was playing at the chair from the row in front of us and ripped off the tag. He usually plays with them and tugs at them, but today he just pulled really hard one time and it ripped off. It's one of those plastic-like tags that says "under penalty of law . . ." so I'm afraid that Ethan will soon show up on next Friday's episode of Washington's Most Wanted . . . unless the tag pulling is a federal offense. :) I kept the tag for a momento to scan into my blog . . .

















I just keep thinking of the Pee-Wee movie where that guy he meets who had ripped the tag off a mattress had broken out of jail. I don't really get why it's a crime unless you are the consumer. I know it's got the hazard warnings and material descriptions, but it seems silly for that to actually be against the law.

Sad Day

Alex (my brother) and his wife, Jasmine, are moving to Sacramento. Alex is moving with his job since they shut down the plant up here in Washington. It's only 11 hours away, but now that leaves both Alex and Nathan who will live out of state.


I guess that means me and Becky are the devoted children, and should be rewarded with favoritism from our parents now. :)

I belong . . . to a gym!

I joined the gym the last week of December with the goal of going every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and so far I'm in my 3rd week and haven't missed yet! Yeah me! I stay for about an hour and a half . . . and it helps that Becky is usually there and my Mom comes on Fridays.

The membership is only $9/month, so I would probably have tried to go 4-5 times a week, but they charge per hour for the kids center where I put Ethan. I was worried about how he would do there since he's never really been away from me, but it's a small gym so I can always see if anyone tries to walk away with him. But Ethan seems to love it in there. He's always excited to see me when I come to get him, so I know he misses me :), but I'm glad he has fun in there. I've peeked in on him each day about half way through the time and he's either playing contently in the corner or crawling after a little girl and following her.

Last week when I went to pick up Ethan, he was chewing on a plastic hamburger patty - it was kinda cute looking, but Lorelai came over and took it out of his mouth and said "No, baby Ethan, that's a choking hazard." It's funny to hear big, adult sentences come out of a 4 year old.

I do the treadmill and a bunch of the weights. I feel like a wuss when it comes to the arm machines, but I can do a lot of weight on the leg ones. I've found that there aren't a lot of machines for the abs and that's what I want to focus on the most and get rid of this pregnancy belly that is still hanging on.

The machine that I hate is the one where you sit and try to pull down with your arms and up with your legs to work on the abs. I seriously can't make it even move. But I watch this 60 year-old lady do it with no problems . . . so what's wrong with me. I'll blame it on the baby belly - I still don't really have any feeling left on the skin around my belly button, so I'll just tell myself that my muscles are numb and don't know to work yet. One day maybe my stomach will be a flat as the lady in the picture (only if that day is in the past).