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So I have the new site up and have invited a friend of mine to blog with me on it. there is so much to talk about on it that I have been slow to post. That and have not been feeling the best recently. that is the end of my excuses.
This site will turn in to everything but political, or will try.

I have been leery about posting items on here about family. I really don't want a target placed on them for things that I post about political items.

So off to the races, this is what is going on in life.

Ethan is now 18 months old, that means I will no longer be in nursery with him at church, that means I can actually do some work in my calling. He has been trying so hard to say new words, we have the books out and read to him a lot. Yesterday he was trying to say car and it was something like "quaaacaar". We are so proud of him as he picks up little things here and there. He has a fascination with his bib drawer, he tends to take any cloth item and store it in there, such as my shirts, dirty bibs, and socks. For a few months now we have been able to ask him to put his clothes in the hamper and he eagerly doe is, and makes sure they are all the way in, not like his dad. Bath time is also a fun time for him, he loves to take a bath so much. we tell him it is time for a bath and he runs off to his room and starts to pull stuff out of place. It is his way of trying to get something done for his bath. We then undress him and tell him to run and he takes off for the bath and climbs in. He gets mad if we do not take his diaper off fast enough for him.
Next is bedtime, he loves it, and that makes us love it even more. We ask him to get his drinks and he gets his water and milk bottles and if one is too low he will bring it to the kitchen and we will fill it up and then he takes both to his room. Then we go through the struggle of brushing his teeth. Prayers are said then one of us sits with him, his blanket that he loves, his glow worm and his bottles, if one is missing he will let us know. He will usually drink his bottle while playing with his glow worm in the dark as we sit there rocking him. Then he will try to say bed, letting us know he wants in his bed, although sometimes bed and book both sound the same and he really wants his book. We set him in his bed and he just plays with his glow worm and talks for about a half hour to an hour and then goes to sleep. We are too lucky to have such a sweet little boy. He loves to torture the cats, especially when they are trying to sleep. He loves to go outside, I can't blame him, not that our house is all that big, I would go nuts in there too. He will run to get his shoes and bang on the door when we say the word "outside" or even if we say something about having to go.
This last week at church I sat in the back of the chapel on the stage due to the whole place being packed like a can of tuna. Ethan and I sat next to another couple form our ward that has a newborn little girl and Ethan was such a sweet little boy to her, he would lay his head on my arm as he gently touched her leg or the flowers on her dress. He will be a wonderful big brother.
It will be weird to have another little boy, I am sure we will love him to death also. We felt the same way before having Ethan, thinking of actually being parents was such a foreign idea to us now we cannot think of how it would be without him.

So I guess, that is all for now, enjoy life, enjoy family, may the blessings of heaven fall hard on you. Laters