Our Weekend

As I said before, we were out watching our cousins while Uncle Joe and Aunt Steph were at Brad's wedding. The weekend didn't start out as planned when I got stuck on the freeway for 2 hours because a tanker truck overturned and exploded in the middle of the freeway. I got about 2 miles from home before I turned around at the next exit and tried to take the back way. Everyone else had the same idea so basically it took me 3 1/2 hours to get to their house when it should only take 20 minutes. Thankfully Ethan was asleep for most of the ride and I was totally stocked with drinks and snacks. Unfortunately we missed piano lessons, but what can you do? Well, Ethan found a great friend at Joe and Steph's...Dingo their Golden Doodle. Poor Dingo just had stomach surgery a few days before so he wasn't feeling too well while we were there but he just let Ethan pet him and play with him. I thought it was so funny when Ethan tried to take Dingo for a walk. Every time Ethan would grab the leash, Dingo would come take it out of his hands. It would totally frustrate Ethan and he would scold Dingo and then come cry to me that Dingo wouldn't let him have the leash. I was just cracking up. Here is a video of Ethan trying to walk Dingo and play with him. I just love it when Ethan tells Dingo to "sit." So funny.

We took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese's on Saturday night so that was very fun and the kids were so good about taking Ethan through the play place. I actually got to sit back a little and watch the fun. The only problem that I had the whole weekend was Ethan trying to escape! He could totally unlock all the deadbolts so I was constantly trying to keep an eye on him. If I would get up to get a drink of water and turn my back for a second, he would be gone. Then I'd spend 10 minutes just trying to look for him. I was so worried since they have a pool so of course I would always be looking over the pool to be sure he wasn't near there. For most of the time he would try to run outside and get on the trampoline. I had to pry him off there about 4 times! How did he even get up there in the first place?! So besides our little "escape artist," everything went really well and I think the kids had a good time.