Ethan turned 4 on January 7th! I can’t believe he is already 4 years old! He has been counting down the days to his birthday since Christmas got over so he was pretty excited when it was finally here. The first thing he did when he woke up was to run in my room and ask if he could open his presents now. Mind you this was around 7:15 and he usually doesn’t get up until 8:30 or 9:00 so I was a little surprised. I told him he could open one gift so he immediately ran out, got the one from Great Grandma Green and Aunt Carol, and jumped up on my bed to open it. When I told him I wanted to take his picture he told me he wasn’t going to smile he just wanted to make a pout-pout fish face.
What a goof! The present was a game which he insisted on playing as soon as he got it opened. He won of course, sometimes he gets so lucky on games like these.
I had to convince him to go to preschool by telling him the presents would still be there when he got home. I took some treats to preschool and they sang happy birthday to him so he thought that was pretty cool. When he got home he just couldn’t wait to open more presents so I told him he could open one when Jake got home for lunch.
It was a package of funky hot wheels cars. He opened them right away and drove them all over the living room. Luckily they kept him occupied enough that he didn’t ask to open any more presents until dinner time. We had dinner (he requested burgers, fried potatoes, and green beans) and then got down to opening presents.
He had a lovely red mustache all night. We got him a few little things that we knew he would like. He loves the play dough and also the bowling set that Jake picked out.
We saved this one for second to last. It was a present from Grandpa and Grandma Lester.
He was having a face off with the dinosaur. Then he decided it would be good for scaring bad things out of his room so ran in and put it by his bed.
His last present was one he has been looking forward to. He’s been using a small bike that we got from our neighbor but the wheels kept going flat and it was a little small so we decided rather than buying two new bike tires we would just get him a new bike. Since my parents didn’t know what to get him for his birthday they went in on the bike with us. This is the bike he wanted.
It is a Hot Wheels bike with motorcycle revving sounds on the handlebar. We didn’t want to pay to ship it to our house and we didn’t have room the last time we were in Cedar so we planned on going to Cedar the next day to pick it up. We were going to leave Olivia home so he could have a day with us by himself. We had planned on picking up his bike, taking him out to eat, and going to a movie (because he has never seen a movie in a theater). Unfortunately around 11:00 that night after he had been asleep for about an hour he woke up and threw up. He proceeded to throw up about every half hour for the next three hours. Finally he got to sleep only waking up a couple times to throw up again. Needless to say we didn’t go to Cedar that weekend. We did manage to make it over there this last weekend and he was so excited. We went to walmart first thing and picked up his bike. Then we went to McDonald’s (his favorite place to eat) and to the movie. We saw Princess and the Frog. Very cute movie but the earliest showing they had was 4:30 and Ethan fell asleep about an hour into the show. Also, the seats were really tall and it wasn’t really stadium seating so even with the boosters they had he had a hard time seeing. We will try another movie sometime when he isn’t already tired and in a theater where he can actually see.
He was so excited when we got home that he really wanted to go for a walk but it was about seven o’clock and freezing cold outside so we promised him we would the next day and then he rode his bike around the house. (For anyone who hasn’t been to our house there is a open area that runs through our entry way into our computer room through the kitchen and past the living room that is perfect for doing laps/races/chasing). He probably would have done laps all night but we finally made him put his bike outside and go to bed. I think it was probably his favorite birthday present.
Thanks to everyone for the presents and birthday wishes. He told me he had an “awesome radical” birthday and can’t wait for Olivia’s birthday!






















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