Ethan,
I can't believe it has been so long since I wrote anything to you! So much has gone on in the last year and a half it has been amazing! You are such a big boy now, you've turned 3, potty trained and counting and coloring and growing so fast it is all just a blur.
Some of my favorite things from the past year and a half...the night you told Mom that you didn't want to wear a pull up any more...watching football with me (and no matter who was playing, they were the Aggies)...learning to say Gig'em Aggies and Go Aggies...our time together while Mom was traveling...helping me make dinner and breakfast and sometimes lunch...going fishing for the first time with Fletch and Uncle Will...catching your first fish with Granpop's fly rod...the Memorial Day parade with Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Camilla...the way you say "Daddy" when your happy, sad, or scared...listening to you play with your cars...singing along to the Jake and the Neverland Pirates theme song...singing Rainbow Connection...our trip to San Antonio...our trip to Colorado...giving group hugs and kisses...telling me when I should be nice...the way you say "hangerbur" instead of "hamburger"...giving me high fives...always wanting to beat me to the potty...saying "good job Daddy!" when helping you with puzzles or anything else for that matter...asking to go to Costco, and Tom Thumb and Kroger...Hiking at the Nature Center...trick or treating in your Darth Vader costume...reading stories to you at bedtime.
One of my favorites lately is when I tell you a story before bedtime. After we have read books and brushed teeth, and found Douglas and the cars you want to sleep with you ask me to tell you a story. Sometimes you give me the characters and situations other times I make it all up. I try and sneak some sort of lesson into each story, and each story is unique and just a little different. Sometimes they are good stories and sometimes not so good but you never mind. All you want to do is spend a few more minutes with me every day.
I love you,
Dad
