Twit

Well I have been having many feelings about my little 2 1/2 year old. I love him more than I could have ever imagined and yet still have those moments where I look at him and think. "Your cuteness is all that is saving you right now!" He has been becomming more and more of a troublesome two year old. A little insight on Ethan's new twittyness.

1.) The other day we were outside playing and Ethan loves to push his tractor up the ditch and then ride it down. Well at one point he was playing with a shovel and a pile or rocks in the ditch and walked up to me and said "momma come, shovel won't work... i jumped on it and it just wont listen!" well I told him "ok just one minute let mommy finish with this pile" he looked at me and got a real impatient look on his face and said "momma its not working!" then started clapping his hands and saying "momma come, come momma come!" the exact way we call the dogs in. Well I looked at him and said "I am not a dog you be nice to your mommy and say please" so what does he do? Exactly what I said...twit...he looked at me started clapping his hands just as before and said "momma come, come momma come....please?!?" I couldn't help but smile. He's just like his father!

2.) That same night I believe it was, he started a new thing. Ethan is easy to put down for nap but bedtime is the opposite. He fights it most nights. Well this night he came out saying "no momma me awake!" (which is nothing new he's been using this line for a while now) and so then I walked him back in his room for i think the 5th time in like 10 minutes if not less and I said "you get back in bed" well he ran in the opposite direction so I gave him "the look" and told him again "Get in bed now." well he walked to his bed and being that it's a captains bed he needs a stool to get in easily. Well he hopped on the stool leaned his head on his bed and looked at me and said "like this?" I glared and said "no your whole body in bed now" so he grinned wiggled onto his bed so his legs were hanging off and turned with a smile and said "like this?" (my patience fading at this point) I said "feet too"he pulled one leg on the bed...yep looked at me and said "like this?" my response of course "both feet now!" so another grin and he tucked his feet up under him and said "like this?" all i could say is "yes and you better stay like that!" turned and walked out the door and said "stop being so much like your father....stay there....go to sleep, goodnight and I love you" Well luckly for him he stayed in bed and that was all we heard from him till the next morning. I came out and retold the story to danny and my parents and they just couldn't keep from laughing. Although I agree it was very funny it was also a shock and a wake up call that my child is EXACTLY like his father and growing up WAY too fast.

3.) Well just like all children he has selective hearing. He will ignore you and play dumb when he's being told no or to stop. I always know he hears me and knows what I'm saying but for the life of me can't get him to listen. I have told my dad and a few others. I love him and wouldn't change him for the world but if little Emily takes after him in his new recent twittyness and lack of listining skills we will be stopping at 2! I can understand now when Jill tells me she fears of getting a 3rd one like Ryan :).



A few other new things of Ethans



*He swapped from a phone obsession to keys. He knows what every key on my keychain, danny's and both my parents keychains goes to. And he is always right. You tell him once and he doesn't forget it.



*He is too cute when he puts his clothes on, a pair of shoes (sometimes his sometimes mine, sometimes even my moms or dads) grabs his keys and his play wallet, shoves some pennies in his pocket along with his play phone and walks up to me saying "momma me be right back. me need to go to walmart" and usually when asked he will tell us exactly what he's wanting to get there "batteries" or "ice cream" or "bandaids" etc. He will do this with other places too. He picks a store and then sticks to it. He even tells us which car he's going to take.



*He is obsessed with wanting to start the car. (or so he thinks. he only ever turns the key enough to start the music but he says he's starting the car...and yes of course we're always right next to him he's never not being monitored)



*He loves to fix things. He will find a screw driver and try to fix anything with a screw. Or he'll tell us it needs a hammer to bang it. He loves taking things apart and trying to put them back together.



I know there is more things but I am having a brain fart right now and can't think of them. But that just gives me more to blog about later. :)