Bye- Bye Binky!

We are officially binky free in our house! I wasnt in a big hurry to force Ethan to give up the binky... but I had to. We only came to Mexico with two binkies of the only kind Ethan likes and we ended up losing both of them. Turns out they dont sell the Soothie binkies here in Mexico....When the last binky remaining vanished I was a little worried and thought he was going to have a serious melt-down. It was around bed time and so I laid him down without it and he fell peacefully asleep without a single cry! I was shocked! I thought maybe it was just a fluke but he has had no trouble falling asleep without it ever since and its been almost a week! I think it helped that he only had the binky during naps and bedtime. So anyways, I know that not all of our children will be that easy so we feel pretty lucky that it went so smoothly for this one!

Animal Noises and Other Things

I thought yall might enjoy this one! He is getting really good at his animal noises!


I'm sad that he wouldn't do the lion. He will scrunch up his face and gives a big "rarrr!!" Maybe i'll catch it on video one of these days!!!

Here is Ethan and I reading a book together. He loves to "read" and will take our finger and point it to the animals in the book for us to make the noises of what the animals say.( Sorry that was a really bad sentence gramatically, but I couldnt think of a more eloquent way of saying it!) It gets hard to make the animal noises though when he wants to read a Dr. Seuss book. I have no idea what kind of animals they are, they all resemble a cat to me. I just make up ridiculous sounds for them and he laughs. Anyways, we love story time!


I LOVE this picture of my two handsome boys! The flash kinda washed them out a little bit, but I still think it is so precious! This kid loves his daddy!

Im So Glad When Daddy Comes Home...

Ethan gets so excited for his daddy to come home! He will wait at the window and watch for him to come home from work. He jumps up and down on the couches when he sees him and will run to the door and await for him. Although I dont have video of this yet, I do have video of why Ethan loves Daddy to come at night. Justin will play with him, flip and throw him around, what dads do best! Ethan just squeals with delight and laughter. In this video, Ethan is again practicing his jumping skills and laughing along with daddy!

A Drinking Problem...

Our little Ethan has a bit of a drinking problem in the bathtub. He loves to drink the bath water! I wouldnt freak out so much about him doing this if we lived in the states, but there is no telling what kinda parasites and other things are in the water we bathe in! The only "toy" we have for him to play with in the bathtub is the little hair spray cap shown in the picture below. You might say, "Well, Ashleigh, if you want him to stop drinking the water, then just dont give him the cup!" Which would work except whenever he doesn't have the cup he face plants it into the water to drink! I figure giving him the cup is a much better alternative than having my kid drown himself! So while we work on the whole drinking issue.. here are a few pics for you to enjoy of our precious son loving his bath!

By the way, because everyone has showers here, they have these cool little tubs for the kids to bathe in!

Ethan Loves to Eat!

So I thought I would dedicate this post to my son and his ability to pack food down! It seems as if he has been going through a "growth spurt" now for about 2 months. I have never seen a kid eat as much as he does, he is constantly hungry and eats full course meals every 2 hours. Its like he has regressed back to his newborn eating habits or something! He seriously eats more than I do and makes the food supply pretty sparse around here. Seriously, we go shopping on Saturdays and by Wednesdays the food is pretty limited! I'm convinced that he has his daddy's fast metabolism! He sure is a cute eater though and we sure love him, even if he does eat all our food! :)

Here he is eating one of his many meals a day with a mouth full of food!


By the way, he has had his back two molars in for a few weeks now and can chew food really well now. His top two molars have cut through and are making their way down as well! Surprisingly he hasnt been fussy at all through the teething process and I hear those molars are suppose to be the worse! We got lucky!

I dont usually do this but.....

So, a while back I was tagged. I have never done one of these before ( usually because my blog is dedicated to Ethan most of the time) but this one seemed a lot of fun! So here it goes...

6 Quirks About Me:

- First of all let me start off by saying that I have many weird quirks about me. These are the first ones that popped into my head though. If you are curious as to what the others are, just ask :)

Quirk #1: I have super long toes and can pretty much pick up anything with them. This actually comes in handy with holding kids, it saves your back! My parents have always said that my toes are like fingers and they are right. I personally dont think toes should look like fingers...its just awkard!

Quirk #2: Im a girl, and I dont really care for chocolate. It's true, I dont. I mean of course if its there I will eat it but never in large amounts. I have always had white cakes and never had chocolate frosting for my birthdays. If Im in the grocery store and decide to give in the the marketing scam of providing all sorts of yummy treats at the check-out, I never pick chocolate. Instead I always go for the gummies! I love the sugar filled candies of Starburst, Gummy Bears, and Mambas!

Quirk #3: Im am really good at always remembering to write important things down on paper. The problem is is that I always forget what I need to do and can never find the peice of paper to remind me. I usually will just grab the first peice of paper I see in view to write down my reminder- this may be my problem. I need a consistent note pad or something that I use to prevent this from happening! I always know that this cycle of remembering, writting and losing/forgetting will happen, I think Im just too lazy to do something about it!

Quirk #4: If i am standing still, I stand like a flamingo. Kinda like this...


I will take that one foot and rest it right above my knee cap while the other one is on the ground. I know... it's a little strange. In high school they called me "flamingo legs" for good reason. For some reason its comfy for me. I don't even realize I do it!

Quirk #5: I love to sing around the house or in the car but my problem with this is that I dont sing lyrics correctly. When I sing for fun I never think "Oh, are the lyrics I am singing making sense?" No, and sadly they usually are just jibberish words I sing anyways. I sing what I hear and they never make sense. No one ever caught me on this one (or at least no one said anything) until I met Justin. On one of our very first dates I butchered the song "In the middle" by Jimmy Eat World. Justin looked at me with a smile and said " What are you singing? Those lyrics dont even make sense!" We of course had a good laugh and I still continue to do the same thing today without even realizing it!

Quirk # 6: This one is from Justin- I have a gum problem. First of all, I usually always have a piece of gum in my mouth but cant keep the same piece in for more than 15 min. I have no idea why. But what Justin thinks is really funny about me is that I always take my gum out and stick it somewhere (anywhere) "for later" and "later" never happens. I always forget about it and we find it later stuck to the bed, scriptures, glasses, floor, sink, kitchen counter, papers, etc. I know that this is a pretty gross quirk but I really do have the best of intentions of getting it "later!"

Well thats all for now! Hope you learned something new about me!

A Day at the Park

Last Saturday Justin was home the whole day with us! Ethan and I took advantage of this and made us all go to the main park here in La Primavera (our neighborhood) and had some fun playing on all the equipment together!



The slides are always Ethan's favorite! He gets so excited to go down them and then once he does he turns around and tries to unsuccessfully climb back up them laughing the whole time. I love days like this!

I am So Lucky!

Justin left the other day for a business trip that would only take him away from home for 2 days or so. He left early in the morning while I was still asleep. When I woke up, this is what I found on our mirror.....

If you cant read the bottom it says: " PS. I love Ethan too!" and "PSS. Thank you so much for all your hard work as Mom and Wife!"

I love getting little messages like that, they mean so much to me. I am so blessed to have such an amazing, caring, sweet husband! Thank you Justin for being the perfect companion for me! I love you!