Started Christmas shopping!

We have been doing some window shopping to get ideas for Ethan for Christmas and his birthday. We happened to go to Kohl's today after I got back from my haircut, and they are having a really great sale! The toy department is on sale, plus an extra 15% off, plus they have a coupon out now. So, we got some really great deals on some things that we think he will really enjoy! Most of the toys we have seem more baby-ish, so we are trying to focus on some items that will be fun and educational for him to help him over the coming year! It is hard since Christmas and his birthday are so close, we are trying to think ahead of things that will be good for him for the whole year. We picked up some soft Tonka cars and a shape sorter. Ethan Felty had brought over some of his cars and our Ethan really seemed to enjoy them, so we think they will be a hit :)

We also ran a few other errands and picked up some other good sale items: some Mega blocks at Meijer, and we went to Berean and they had some very cool kids musical selections... or so we thought! They had several Sleepytime Worship Lullaby Renditions of some of our favorite artists... Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Third Day, Jars of Clay... so we decided to pickup the MWS for a stocking stuffer for Ethan. You couldn't listen to it in the store, so we found them online to listen to music clips and they all sound SO bad! They are instrumental, but have a funky xylophone sound. Very odd... Ryan said it sounds like a midi file. So, we are going to take it back and get another Praise Baby CD - there is a Sleepytime Lullabies version and a new Christmas version as well, so we will get one of those instead. Ethan listens to this Praise Baby CD that Uncle Brad, Aunt Lindsay, and Shawn got him every night at bedtime!

I have been wanting to go to PF Chang's for dinner so we decided to splurge tonight and go. It was so yummy! We got lettuce wraps, chicken fried rice, and mongolian beef. Ethan had his first Chinese food! He did really well with rice, the crispy noodles that come with the chicken, and some beef. We even got comments from the wait staff about how good he was! I was holding him after we were finished and he grabbed the lemon that had come with my water and got a taste! He made some really funny pucker faces, but he kept going back for more, lol!!