hooray for ethan!

sorry i haven't been around much... the weeks seem to fly by as i attempt to enjoy every little moment with ethan & caroline while keeping some sort of order around here! ethan's big accomplishment over the last week is... (drum roll, please!) that he's putting words together! yay!!!!! for a speech therapist mommy, this is a big big deal! :) for the last few weeks, it's been "kick.... ball.", but now at ANY given moment at our house, you can hear "kick ball" (actually, it's more like "KEEEEEEEK ball", "KEEEEEEEEK ball"). he also kicks around his 500 soccer balls saying, "FOOT ball", "FOOT ball", but daddy's working on that one... ha. he's saying new little phrases every day, and i just can't write them down fast enough!

he is also learning to love his sister more every day. he continually asks to hug her, and if she's down on the floor or in her car seat, he crouches down and in the cutest little voice, he says, "heyyyyy!" as much as i love the name we chose for her, it is a little challenging for ethan to say right now... so he's shortened it to "caaa" (if you're a three amigos fan, just picture steve martin on the ledge saying, "caa caa! look up here! look up here!" and you've pretty much heard ethan say caroline's name. kristie and i get a big kick out of that one!) :)

stay tuned for some sweet brother/sister pictures...