Cracker :)

I came home from work tonight to discover Ryan sitting at the table on the laptop creating a Facebook page, and Ethan sitting in his high chair eating Ritz. Ryan smiles at me and looks at Ethan and tells him to say cracker. He immediately responds, "Cack-er" :) Loving it. It is the cutest thing. And I thought "Ah-pull" was the cutest thing! Now we go around him pestering him, "Say cracker, Ethan! Say cracker!" He's going to think he's a parrot, lol!

Labor Day Fun

Saturday, we went to Alexus' birthday party. So hard to believe she is 3!! Ethan had fun seeing everyone, and we took him swimming in the pool. He loved hanging on to the "noodles", and we would put him in swimming position on his tummy between Ryan and I, and Ethan would kick his feet while we held his midsection. I think swimming lessons this year would be great for him!! After Ethan's late nap, we headed down to Kenwood Towne Center to check out the new primitives store!! I am in heaven walking in primitives stores. There is a new location of The Olde Farmstead, which is the same store that is at Fairfield Commons where Ryan got my awesome handmade frame with Ethan's ultrasound photo in it. We got a yummy candle and a cute carved Welcome pumpkin, and headed to Cheesecake Factory for dinner. They do something cool for kids, they bring a banana and bread plate out when you arrive. Very nice :) Ethan loves looking through menus and there was a picture of fireworks inside the menu. He kept pointing at it, and when we would ask him to find the firework, he would flip to that page :)

Sunday, after church we went to lunch at Cracker Barrel with Mom, Jim, Lindsay, and Shawn. Ethan loves his cousin!! They boys played really well together during church too. We went home to get Ethan's naps in because we went to the WEBN fireworks!! Ethan loved the fireworks and enjoyed them like an old pro :) He sat and pointed at them all, but when the waterfall display went off, he stood up and clapped. LOL!

We got up this morning and headed out to have some family time... I have been determined to make a day of it going to Winton Woods Parky's Ark (water play area) and Parky's Farm. Today was the last day the water park is open for the season. We got there right after it opened at 11 and had the whole area to ourselves. Ethan had lots of fun!! He seemed a little hesitant touching some of the water areas, but with a little nudging from Daddy, he loved putting his foot down over the spurts of water and making them spray all over Mommy. We had a blast :)

Afterwards, we headed over the Parky's Farm. The first animal we saw was a roaming chicken. Ethan started chasing after it, and he would stop and bend down, hit the palms of his hands together trying to get the chicken to come to him, lol! We checked out a gigantic hog, the horsies, sheep, donkeys, more chickens, and even went in the pen to pet the goats. We went for a walk to check out the garden area and Ethan took a stumble. He went down on his hands on a gravel path and one of the rocks cut a little strip on his palm. First big boo-boo! We got it all cleaned up, but now he walks around looking and then pointing at his hand, and saying a really sad "boooo-boooo". Not good that he got the boo-boo, but good that he learned a new word :)