Mother's Day

Mother's Day Weekend proved to be as busy as the past few weekends for us. Friday evening we treated Lauren and her husband to dinner as a special thank you for always taking such good care of Ethan for us. We tried to take them to one of those all you can eat meat buffet restaurants (special treat for the boys of course) and the one in Downers Grove unfortunately had closed. So, we drove back to Naperville and enjoyed Catch 35. Saturday we did the usual swim class in the morning and then Dave and I had a date night. We had Lauren's sister watch Ethan while we went to Cirque Dreams at the Aurora Paramount Theatre. Dave and I really enjoyed the time together and the performance - it's amazing what those acrobats and performers can do!! Highly recommend!!

For Mother's Day, we met Dave's parents downtown Naperville for breakfast at Egg Harbor (yummy!!!) and walked around the Riverwalk a bit. Actually, we stayed in the same 100 yards of the riverwalk the whole time, as Ethan liked the bridge where he could see the ducks swimming and the fountain squirting water and the park benches that he could crawl up and down on a few hundred times....repeat sequence over and over and OVER! :) In the afternoon we had planned to take Ethan to the local zoo in Aurora, but I voted to just hang out closer to the house and go to the zoo on a bit warmer day. Either way, it was great having the family time. Dave also cooked me a very yummy dinner on Sunday evening - a new recipe he whipped up in his head and it was marvelous!!

Ethan is absolutely loving his stuffed animals in the morning now. Pictures below show 4 total that we had to take out of the bed with us. How I manage to unzip his pj's and change his diaper while he holds them all is a magical mommy skill that I have acquired. He usually wants to hold them while he eats breakfast, but I bribe him to let them just sit on the table so they don't get milk from cereal or sticky oatmeal spilled on them. (Don't mind my appearance in the picture, as these are first morning pictures)

Before breakfast photo opportunity

Looking out off the bridge

Ethan's latest cute things he's doing:

*He is trying to jump, he'll crouch down real low and pop up - real cute

*He likes to turn his night light on by himself now. The funniest thing though, my morning routine was to shut it off with my foot on the way out of his room because my hands were full...well, when I asked him to turn it on, he walked over, held on to the wall and lifted his foot up to turn it on. SERIOUSLY, kids are so atuned to certain things!!

*He is an absolute outdoors boy! He doesn't like coming in these days!! Today when we came in, he wanted to keep his coat on!! He also loves walks! Yesterday we took a walk for almost an hour from the time we left the house until we got back. He pushed his lawn mower the entire way around the pond and back. Of course, we had to stop to watch the tractors/semi trucks loading dirt.

I can't believe that he's already 19 months - 5 more months until he's 2?!