A New Skill

I was in the knitting store today getting some help with a project when I noticed that Ethan had my keys up next to his ear. I took them away afraid that he would try to poke them inside. Later in an effort to keep him quiet I handed him my cell phone which he promptly held up to his ear and than he smiled really big...I wonder where he learned what to do with a phone? ;)

Ethan's Birthday

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Here He Is! The Birthday Boy! It's so hard to believe that it's already been a year...he is a joy to have around and we don't know what we'd do without him...well, maybe get more done and we wouldn't have to keep our games out of his reach and we wouldn't have to lock all the cabinets and...:)

Here's the bathtub cake that I made for Ethan. The water is made of blue jello and the handles are made of marshmallows:) It was fun and easy....www.familyfun.com has a lot of cute projects, cakes, and treats to make.
This is the cake that Jamie made from Keegan and Ethan's joint birthday party. We also celebrated Ryan, Amanda, and Amy's birthdays as well. On Friday and Saturday of Thanksgiving week all the Weiss girls went shopping and spent the night at a hotel. It was fun to spend time together and considering how many trips were made back to the van with packages it was pretty successful too! We won't mention the room keys that were locked in the room or the missing van keys:)

Below is a slideshow of pictures from Ethan's two parties. This time I used more upbeat music although it doesn't really fit the pictures... The Happy Birthday song that I downloaded from iTunes wasn't able to be downloaded into Windows Movie Maker...oh Well! Enjoy:)

New Poll!

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Pictures are still forth coming of E's Birthday parties (yes, he had two!) as soon as I can get the camera unpacked from the car. It's buried deep, deep inside the trunk so it's any body's guess as to when that might be!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and were reminded of how blessed we are! It was nice to be with family and it's nice to be home again:)

We met with the moving company today and set dates for the movers to come. They will start packing us up on Monday, December 17th and end on Wednesday, December 19th. The twins have school up until the 20th of December so we'll head to Illinois sometime on that Friday or Saturday. It depends on how long it takes to do a final cleaning of the house. Our official move date is January 2nd. Our flight leaves at noon on that day.

The rest of this week will be busy with getting the house decorated for Christmas and getting cookies made for an exchange this weekend. I have to have my final spreadsheet of all that we own done by this Wed and start packing our belongings that will head into storage. Plus, the Christmas letter needs to be written and our list updated:)

Fun Cake Wins!

I made Ethan a tub cake with Jello for water and a rubber ducky floating on top - he LOVES rubber duckies:) Pictures to follow...

Guess who's walking?!?!?!?

Life will never again be the same around the Weiss household! I'll try to get video tomorrow to post. We were at Fehr's for supper tonight and E several times took 4-5 steps in a row to get somewhere. You can tell that he really wants to do it and his little body is geared up for it....and than his mind catches up and says, "WAIT! I MIGHT GET HURT!" so he falls to his hands and knees and crawls since that is the safer way to get around at the moment:) It's fun but what on earth am I going to do with a walking one year old on a 20 hour flight?!?

Where's Ethan?

We've been playing a new game lately..."Hey! Where'd Ethan go?" I have learned that most of the time I don't really want to know the answer to that. He may be destroying Kaitlyn's room, or eating crayons, or breaking night lights, or - UGH! - swishing his hands in the toilet!! It's an adventure most days for him:) His favorite thing to do today is to climb on top of the Little Tykes picnic table and than chew us all out because he can't get back down! You would think that he'd learn...must be his daddy coming out in him...I'm smarter than that;)

Better Late Than Never!

Here it is, finally! This is a slideshow from the Annual Kellenberger Weiner Roast back in Sept. It took me forever to figure out how to make it and post it...So, here it is! To view the slideshow just click on the play button under the picture below. PS: I take no responsibility for pictures of people eating:)