Back to work...

I'm tired. I'm exhausted. It's hard getting back in the routine of getting up early and going to work. I'll be back when I'm not so tired.

My little swimmer

Well, he's starting to become a swimmer. He has no fear of going under the water and getting things off the bottom. Ethan also likes to try and swim "like a fish". These are his words. He likes swimming under the water. Not as much on top. But, he will go under and kinda swim for a few feet. It's a step in the right direction.

I think a few more lessons and he will be swimming before I know it. The problem is that we don't have a place to really practice what he has learned. We don't belong to a pool or anything so while he has gotten better, I'm afraid that he may forget what he's learned over the summer. So maybe some lessons in the fall and winter would be the thing to do.

FIrst dentist trip

Okay, so not really his first visit. Ethan is a bit of a daredevil and fell when he was two years old and chipped a tooth. His front tooth. It looked bad. We took him to the dentist and had him look at it. It's grown out and really you can barely tell that it was chipped earlier. This May he also fell, on our carpet, and totally knocked one of his lower teeth. Seriously it freaks me out just thinking about it. I have a thing with teeth, I can't handle them. Ick. The tooth moved forward and the gum was completely purple, and it bled. A lot. Took him to the dentist then also, but that tooth seems to be doing okay also. Hasn't died yet and turned gray, so I think we are okay.

Anyway, his dentist trip went well. Ethan didn't want to lean back in the chair and so they just had him sit up and she cleaned his teeth that way. He picked chocolate toothpaste. Yuck. But, of course he picked chocolate. Anything chocolate and Ethan is happy. He went to the treasure box when it was over and picked out a snake and then it was my turn. He sat patiently and watched me get my teeth cleaned and even helped out a little by holding the water in my mouth. Good visit and no problems at all for either of us.

***oh and our dentist doesn't need to see kids until they are 4, so we weren't late on this appointment.***

I have a walker....

Well, to be fair he has been walking for a while now. He started before the beach and then didn't walk at all at the beach. (must have been the wood floors) Got home and off he went again. He no longer does the monster arms.

Sand Castles

Eldon and Kayla bought Ethan a sand castle bucket thing. Ethan promptly fell in love with it and had all kinds of plans for what he would do. So the next day, out he went and he did build a good sand castle. (with a little help)

This is what Owen and Dan did while Ethan was building.

The finished product.