Reading in bed

This was just too cute to pass up. Ethan loves to read and after his bath last night, he just had to read Finding Nemo with dad in our bed.

Boondocks of fun!

Last Saturday Enterprise had their Christmas party at Boondocks. Enterprise picked up the bill for endless games, fun, and food. Ethan loves to throw balls so we thought that Skee Ball would be fun. He had a great time throwing the balls.
Dad had to jump in and get the balls all the way up to the top. Ethan just wanted to throw them, but couldn't get them up very far though. He had so much fun throwing balls that when ours ran out, he stole the kids' balls that were next to us.
It looked like so much fun, I wanted a part of it too. And why not, Enterprise gave us 60 tokens!
Look, I think we may score some points this time.

The dinosaur, Whac-a-mole and the choo choo

Ethan loves dinosaurs, but this game scared him at first. It took him a while to realize that the dinosaur game was cool. We didn't have any luck winning him a dino though. There weren't any in the center to grab only on the sides. And of course the big jaw only goes to the middle.

This was Ethan's favorite game. He got to hit the moles, he didn't hit them too hard but he sure did think it was fun to see Mom do it.
Dad stepped in to show his boy how it was really done!
This was a tricky game. You drop your token and try to get it to land in oune of the little red slots just above the train car. When you do, you win as many tickets as there are tokens in the car. Mike played and won a ton of tickets.
Ethan loves trains so this was the perfect for him. He kept saying "choo choo! choo choo!"

"Look Mom!"

And he's off. Ethan was excited to play in a play area just for the kids. He was so excited we had to pull him back so we could take his shoes and coat off.
Ethan kept climbing and climbing up and up to the top. Here he is just above our eye level.
Okay, so there is a balance beam way up there he is balancing on all by himself. He is just like a big kid. My camera is zoomed in as far as it would go. I would have to say that he is about 5 or 6 feet above our heads. He didn't seem to mind at all.

Dinner at Boondocks

During our dinner at Boondocks, Ethan decided he wanted to be a monkey and climb over into the next booth.
Eww, coke! Don't let this picture confuse you, Ethan loves to drink my or Mike's "juice." He really does like coke! Crazy kid!

Setiting up the Christmas tree

We set up our Christmas tree last Monday for Family Home Evening. It was a lot of fun and Ethan was a very good helper picking out ornaments to put on our Christmas tree.
Here he is putting an ornament on all by himself. What a big boy!Mike and Ethan in front of the finished product.
It's nothing fancy, and the ornaments may be unbalanced, but we sure like it. And the best part about it is that Ethan helped.

Ethan loves to play with the nativity from Israel we set up last week. I got out part of the little people one he got from his Grandma Lott last year so he can play with that one instead. It didn't work, he wants to play with both. (The rest of the little people set is in the family room.)
I think those sheep are a little big for the little people's nativity, and I think the donkey and sheep look a little out of place with the olive wood, don't you?