It's been a crazy couple of weeks! Most of you know we had a flooding incident two weeks ago or so. About 4:30am on a Saturday morning (the first in a long time where we had nothing planned of course;-)) our poor neighbor from downstairs came pounding on our door and said water was pouring through her ceiling everywhere. We ran to the bathroom and sure enough there was water on the floor coming through the fan in the ceiling. Not bad... but obviously something was going on in the third floor condo above us. Apparently a pipe broke and they turned off the water but the damage had been done. The worst was on the first floor:-( Anyways, long story short, we spent a couple of days with massive fans and de-humifiers in our hallway that we so loud and made our house hot. They took out part of our bathroom wall and ceiling. Also the boys room carpet was wet so they tore it up and dried out that room. That meant the boys could not use their room so for a few days it was pretty crazy! Fans are gone now but we're waiting on the repair work... who knows when that will be! But I'm just thankful it wasn't worse. I feel so bad for our neighbors downstairs. Can't wait to move! This has happened so much in our bldg the past few years.
In other news, Ethan is starting walk! He took two steps this morning on his own. He is coasting very quickly and also actually doing a real crawl and not just the army crawl thing. We are so happy... only now we have another issue. He loves his big brother and wants to be involved in whatever Trey is doing... which Trey does not appreciate. It's been interesting! In terms of talking, Ethan is still much less vocal than Trey was, but we think he says "hi" and "what's that". Also he says Mama, Dada, and Trey. He probably says a bunch of other things but we just don't understand him yet. He's slimmed down alot and lost so much of his pudgy baby looks. And gotten alot taller too! Favorites of Ethan: Baby Einstein videos, music of any kind, books, Goldfish, juice, cheese, stuffed animals, pulling contents out of bags or boxes and putting them back in again, and my pot lid drawer under the oven. One cute thing that he does is he likes to scrunch of his nose and snort... to make us laugh. He also does this eye thing when we tell him to look at us... I can't describe it but its freaky! He knows it too.
Trey is of course learning how to open doors and figure out all those so-called child-proof stuff. He also figured out how to un-do his carseat. Sigh! He's not even 3 yet... they really need to work on making this more difficult for them. Lately Trey has been obsessed with wearing his clip-on ties. He has three and sometimes he will wear them all at the same time. He especially wants to wear them when we go shopping. It's cute! Duckie 1 and 2 are still required for sleep, although we can know go places and either have no Duckie or just Duckie 1. Trey loves puzzles (the more difficult ones), cars, soccer, football, baseball, riding bikes or his firetruck thing. He loves the playground, especially slides. He loves to run... and run... and run! We has gotten pretty shy around strangers and won't let me out of his sight when we go to places with lots of other people that he doesn't know. He loves to draw and paint. Loves playdough, dinosaurs, animals of any kind really. Favorite TV/movie: Lion King (still), Dora (still), The Land Before Time series (still:-), new one is A Turtle's Tale. He cracks us up all the time with things he says. And now as I'm sitting here, I can't think of even one of those things! I post them to Facebook usually:-)
Pj has been, of course, super busy at school. Thankfully there aren't as many evening events now that we're a few weeks into it. He's still playing soccer once a week with a group of friends in Germantown and has also gotten back into running. He's been able to do alot of fun stuff with us and also just alone with Trey lately.... like going to the park to play soccer or taking Trey to the zoo one morning. We love this cooler weather!
I just started a women's small group at my church that has been fun and a great break for me from the world of kiddos. I really love it! And during nap-time (on those few days where I actually get them to sleep at the same time) I've been enjoying organizing and fall-cleaning the house. Well, not actually enjoying it... but enjoying the end-result. Its amazing how much stuff we accumulate over the years that we don't really need. Other than that, no much else going on over here.
That's it for us right now! We're about to celebrate our 6th anniversary in two weeks... crazy! And Trey turns 3 in about a month. Where does the time go:-)
