A Few "Ethanisms"

I have to write these down because they were so funny to me and some day I know I'll forget them all.

• Today Ethan was rummaging through his Halloween loot and found a blue Air Head. He looked at me and innocently asked, "Mommy, if I eat this, will I get air in my head?"
• Last week I took the kids to Walmart to pick up a few things. Of course by the end of our trip, all three were beginning to melt down. As we approached the registers, two nuns came up to me admiring my darling kids. They were asking about the twins at first and then proceeded to ask Ethan, "what's your name young man?" He looked at them and stuck out his tongue spitting. I wanted to DIE! Needless to say, he had a time out for that when we got home!
• The other night Ethan was doing something naughty...I honestly can't remember what it was. We had tried time out but to no avail. Nothing was reaching this kid. So, I tried a new tactic and threatened to send him to bed without dinner. It worked! He immediately started bawling and flopped to the ground begging me to give him dinner. Then, it was like a lightbulb went off in his head and he ran up to me and said, "Mommy, don't look at where I'm going and don't listen to me for a minute, okay?" I agreed but of course I looked to make sure he wasn't going to cause trouble. He ran into the family room, dropped to his knees and this is what I heard, "Dear Heavenly Father, please bless mommy that she'll give me some dinner tonight." At the conclusion of his little prayer, he ran into the kitchen and proclaimed, "HA! Now I've gotcha mommy! Now you HAVE to give me dinner!" It was all I could do to not bust up laughing. If only it were that easy. :)
• One afternoon I had put the babies down for a nap and was trying to get a few things done during my only quiet time. Ethan came in and asked me to play a game with him and I agreed but I told him I had one more thing to do. He began whining and told me he didn't want me to do ONE MORE THING! So, I let everything go went with him to pick out a game. As we were doing that, my mom called so I ran to get the phone. The next thing I heard was Ethan yelling..."Mommy! Are you doing ONE MORE THING?!!" Grammy cracked up!
• Here's a new one from today:

E - Mommy, why do I only have one sister?
M - I don't know...why? Do you want another one?
E - Yeah, I'm getting kind of tired of this one. She's pretty boring.

Fall in NJ...
My favorite time of year!

Since the start of fall, we've been trying to take in as much as NJ has to offer. We celebrated the first day of fall by going to a farm with my friend and letting the kids climb the haystacks, feed the animals, etc. It was the perfect way to kick off the season!

Ethan on top of a HUGE stack of hay!

Addie tries to figure out what this hay stuff is...

Grants favorite spot was the picnic benches. He kept resting his head on the bench saying, "awww."

Addie runs through the hay stacks.

Ethan rests for a second from running through the hay tunnel.


Then, last week, we joined our playgroup to go to Ort Farms in Long Valley. We've gone for the past few years so it's become a little tradition of ours.

Addie finds a pumpkin to take home. She can't quite lift it yet!

Ethan found his right away. Score! (He had to make sure it had a nice stem and no yucky parts if it was coming to our house.)

Grant wouldn't really cooperate for pictures but I did manage to get this one quickly!

My munchkins enjoying the hay ride. (Can I just say how happy I'll be when the day comes that I don't have to constantly worry about them falling off of things!)

Me and the gang!

Ethan feeding the animals. He was pretty brave and got right in there with the corn kernals. Can we say HAND SANITIZER?!

We've got a few more weeks of beautiful fall weather so hopefully we'll have more adventures to come. Special thanks to Aunt Nic for furnishing the adorable Halloween shirts and to Grammy for Addie's darling sneakers. The kids got lots of compliments!