I have been meaning to make a post about Ethan and me going swimming. Mia has been taking him to swim lessons on Monday, and I take him for free swim on Fridays.

The boy loves being in the water. It's amazing how much fun he has just floating around, or having me propel him through the water. Since I also love being in the pool, I'm glad to stay as long as he wants.

One of Ethan's favorite water activities is splashing. With so much water at the pool, he loves to splash and see how big a spray he can get.

It's very, very fun. We'll have to see how he likes the ocean this summer when we head to California.

A lot of things change when you become a parent. But I wasn't expected my childhood memories to become so different.

Just one minute ago, Mia was reading an old Christmas letter that my parents just sent in a package to us. She read the part about AJ getting a new bike in Ridgecrest.

What I remember about that story is that my parents found a mostly functional bike a a garage sale. My dad fixed it up and painted it blue. They wanted this to be special for AJ so they pulled Monica and I aside, to ask us not to tell AJ that it wasn't a new bike.

Remembering that story just now, made me get all emotional thinking about how my mom and dad wanted to do something for nice for their son. It made me think of all the things that I want to do for Ethan. I love spending time with him, he's such a happy boy, and I can only imagine how much more love I'll have for him as he grows up.

P.S. Dad, if I got this story horribly wrong, please correct it in your weekly email :)

I'm going to send out emails on this, but we are coming to California and Colorado this summer. We will be in California from June 23 through Jun 28. And in Colorado from June 29 through July 5.

We hope to see as many of you as we can while we are out.

Man, I'm tired. Not because it's late, but because I am tired.

We have a good life right now. Mia is doing well. Ethan is doing well. I am doing well.

But, I'm tired.

I guess that's the way life is when you have a baby. I try to help Mia keep from getting over-exhausted, and she's going to help me. Working together, I know we'll make it through.

Um... I am still tired, but Mia just informed me that the chronology of the pictures I just posted is a bit wacky. Some are actually from last year, and they all seem to be out of order.

I'll try re-doing them tomorrow or Monday, so stay tuned :)

Just want everyone to know that I posted 80 pictures of Ethan to my site tonight.

I know they have been a long time in coming, but they are worth the wait.

And now I'm tired.
Good night.

Quick post about our cute boy. He's been switching to one nap, which he needs to do, but has been hard on him. So, Mia was reading that when doing this, sometimes the child should be put to bed earlier.

Earlier than 7pm we thought? However, we have been trying it out and Ethan has been going to be at 6:30pm (lights out) and still sleeping until 7am in the morning. Plus his mid-day naps are getting longer too.

We also just noticed that he is getting a new tooth (finally) and we think that might have something to do with needing sleep. Not that a tooth would require it, but that he's starting to grow again. We'll see if he springs up another inch or two in height.

Not sure what to talk about today, so I'll just point you back at my home page in case you missed the special Valentine's day poem I put up.

It's late and I'm tired but I wanted to get a quick post in. Ethan is the cutest boy ever. Lately, before his bath I have been putting his towels (that have little hoods) on his head like a cape. He then runs around naked, or with a diaper on, with his cape yelling at Mia and I. Good yelling, he's so happy before his bath.

The other funny thing about bath time is that he has been trying to drink the bath water out of the cup that I use to rinse him with. It's funny because he gets a pretty full cup, bites the lip of it, then tips the entire thing upwards and splashes himself in the face.

He's a cute boy.

The other thing that I wanted to say was how much we appreciate our parents (Mia's parents and mine). We have an organized, clean basement. We have a nice chest freezer. We have a dishwasher (that I ran twice tonight). Thank you so much, it's made our lives easier having your support. We love you all.

Maybe I should post more often when I'm this tired, my feelings seem to be less filtered.

Good night!

I'm going to make this a quick one, but I was talking with a friend from college, Mary, about what we are currently reading.

We both, which I thought was funny, amended that our reading lists were really books we had been listening to from Audible.

It's pretty interesting how technology is changing the way we do so many things. I might have to update my reading list to include a few of the books I've listened to recently.