Monday, November 20, 2006

Naked Spagetti

Well it's spagetti night for us, which means Stephen is eating in the buff! He loves it but man oh man is it a mess! Tonight is a big night, Brian has tickets to the Jaguars game and Stephen, Ethan, Xander, Shara and I are all going to go to Chuck E Cheese for some fun play time.
This whole week will be packed, we hope to go to a movie tomorrow night, then Wednesday we leave for a visit to my Dad & Sue's house for a huge Thanksgiving dinner and a few days of visiting, then to my Mom and Jack's for more fun. We should get to see Jeffrey and Katie too this weekend so that's very exciting.
I just gave Stephen a haircut, it's shorter than I planned, but I really like it, you can see it in the pic!

Well to those of you who I will be seeing this week I can't wait! The rest of you need to come visit us! We are having Christmas dinner here and it's not too late for me to set another plate!
loveyou,
Erin

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Random updates




Here's a pic of that cat that adopted us. I go back and forth daily as to whether I want to let it in the house.

I've been sick this week, fever on Monday and run down sense then. I'm feeling much better today.

Ethan is still working on his crawling. He's just stinking cute, I took some pics of him moving around. Oh and I put him in the pack and play thing when I was sick and he loves it in there! I think because it has toys and they can't get away from him, he can definately move all over that small area. Stephen likes him to be in there too, he talkes to Ethan through the mesh stuff on the side.

Stephen is too funny, he's addicted to orange juice and frosted miniwheats all the sudden. He also loves icecubes. I've heard some stories about kids choking on them so I keep a close eye on him when he has one. We are trying to work on his speach, he hasn't really learned any new words in a while, I think maybe I need to challange him to speak more. I'm not worried or anything yet, just want to see him learning fast again.

We are all getting pretty excited about Thanksgiving next week. Stephen just brought me a pic of my Grandparents and said, "grams" I don't know how he knew, we didn't really teach that. Still no "mommy".

Oh and we are super busy, it's good I'm feeling better, Tomorrow I have a The Angel Company party. It's a stamp company that uses home parties like tupperware parties. I'm a demonstrator for them. Friday is MovieNight at Brian's work, where they show family movies and have piles of snacks and stuff and it's all free, the movie is Cars. We think Stephen will like it. Saturday Brian is going to try to go to Tallahassee for the FSU game. Sunday Marcia is coming to visit and have dinner, then next week we leave to go down south! I think we have plans almost every day until Christmas actually! Wow!

Well I need to go, I've got a house to clean before my stamping party tomorrow! Wish me luck, I want to sell tons and tons of stuff so I have Christmas money! :)

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Mobility for Ethan (and a new cat)





We've been suspecting it for a while but I finally witnessed it today. We would put Ethan down somewhere and go do something like get a drink and we'd come back and he'd be somewhere else. Brian and I wern't sure if he was just wiggling all over, which we've been seeing for a while, or if he really crawls when no one is looking. Well today I was getting Stephen out of the bath and I turned and Ethan was up on his hands and knees, belly off the ground and he crawled one "step"! He then went back down and then rolled over, but I'm counting it! :) Ethan crawled today. Hurray Ethan!

In other news Brian took Stephen to a basket ball game last night, apparently they loved it, Stephen danced and made friends with the mascots. Ethan went to a crop with me. Well when Brian got home with the boys (after picking Ethan up from my crop) guess who was sleeping in our couch? A stray cat! It's this cat that's been coming around for a month now. We've been feeding it, it's all our fault! Anyhow it was just sleeping there and our other two cats were within sight and didn't mind at tall. Brian said for Monday I need to call around about where to get this new cat some shots and a checkup. It's just a kitten. I'll try to get pictures soon, it's still scared of us. After Brian came in and said hello to it it ran back out. It used a spot where the screen for the window is pushed out. Thanks to Stephen for that!

Friday, November 10, 2006

Candle Fart (A Stephen update)

Stephen says some of the strangest things. Once in a parking lot with my Dad and Sue he just looked up at me and said, "Candle Fart" then went back to being a wide eyed quiet little boy. Where does he get this stuff? If he doesn't feel good he puts his hand on his head and says, "woah".

I was keeping a list of all his words for a while, but I didn't keep up with it. It's strange to me the things he decides to learn, he's said "Daddy" and "Kitty" for ages but only vary rarely says "mom" and never "mommy". And we never refer to me as mom, just mommy... Course Brian calls me "Babe" so maybe Stephen will too? He sometimes calls Ethan "Eathy" but usually just "Baby". I wish he called me "mommy". Why should Brian and Ethan get all the credit? hehe Thank heavens he doesn't call anyone else anything, my poor heart would break!

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Welcome to The Kellogg Show


Hi to friends and family! I'm setting up this blog so everyone can keep up to date with the boys and also Brian and I. (but mostly the boys, I know what you are all here for!) Now I've never done this before so you have to bear with me as I get it going and make it all cute.