Swimming lessons

We're sorry, but we saw these two videos of Ethan getting ready to swim and while he his swimming that we thought you all might like to see. We think that our little Ethan is just a cute little boy and he loves to play in the water!!! We hope you all will like the videos as much as we do!!!!

Father's Day 08/Swimming Lessons

So we know that it has been over a week since Father's Day, but we still wanted to show you all what a great Papie we have. Ethan and Sharifa are so happy that we have such a great dad and want all of you to know that. There could never be a greater dad than our Papie and we are just so greatful that he is in our lives. He treats us better than, sometime, we deserve. What a dad!!!!!!!!! Ethan Loves his Papie. Look at that smile!!If you look closely you can see what Steve's shirt sayes. Ethan gave Papie this shirt for Father's Day. Ethan picked it out just for his great father!!!!
We got Papie a Father's Day Ice Cream Cake. We think that Ethan loved it a little bit more than his papie. What do you think? Ethan really loves ice cream and we have a hard time getting him to stop eating ice cream unless it is all gone!!!

The past two weeks Ethan and Sharifa were able to take swimming lessons at the city pool. We really enjoyed the classes and the things that we learned from our classes. Here are some pictures of Ethan and Sharifa having some fun. We hope that the classes will help us so that we can be safe while swimming this summer!!

Ethan and mommie posing for papie.Ethan getting ready to get into the pool for his swimming class!!

Zoo Day!!!

Hey all we know that it's been a while since we posted a new blog, but we think that you all will love what we have to share with you all!!! Last Saturday our family got some great suprises. First, we got to have grandma and grandpa McClaskey come to town and spend the whole weekend with us. Second, Steve was able to get his first Saturday off in a long time so we decided to go to the zoo with our grandparents and really enjoyed the day. It started out to be a cold day, but it got a little warmer, not that it seemed like a summer day! Well, here are some fun pictures of us enjoying the zoo!!

Here is an elephant. It was the first one that we could get without it's but facing us!!
Ethan and Papie infront of the elephant statue, it would play music and then it would blow out water from it's trunk!

Here is Steve and Ethan comparing themselves with an elephant scull. That thing is huge!!!

Ethan and Papie looking at something really amazing, a water fall!!!

A white alligator, it was so very cool to see something like that, but most of the animals didn't interest Ethan that much.

Ethan was enjoying the white alligator's enviroment more than he liked the white alligator it's self. What a crazy kid!!!!! He loved to see the water full that was inside.

Ethan really loved to see the monkeys, his grandpa Phillips would be very proud!!! Here he is playing with a little lemur and having lots of fun 'cause the lemur would come over and play with him!!!!

Here is a picture of a giraff, behind her was her baby.

Ethan and Papie playing with the lions and having so much fun!!!!

Here is a cugar that was just having a nice little walk.

Ethan decides that he wants to go into the cage and play with the linx, but the linx doesn't feel like playing right now. He seem a little tired!

Here is a really cute gorilla. He was lots of fun to watch, but Ethan decided that he wanted to sleep.

Steve trying to see how he measures up to a gorilla.

Grandpa McClaskey decides that he wants to know how he measures up to a gorilla. Grandma did it too, but she wouldn't stay for a picture!!!!

But mommy sure tried and didn't measure up to high! What a shortie!!

A nice little family picture with the statue of the gorilla. Ethan didn't get to be in it cause he was fast a sleep and we didn't want to wake him!

The last animal that we got to see was this little monkey. Isn't he just a cute little fella?

Lava Weekend!!!!!

On this memorial day weekend we went to Lava Hot Springs with the Phillips grandparents!!! We really enjoyed the hot pools and were very excited to see what Ethan would think about the water. Luckly, Ethan loved to swim and loved to splash aroun in the water, he is known as our "fish out of water"!!! We are soo excited that Ethan and Sharifa are starting there swimming classes on monday!!!! We'll see if Ethan will have just as much fun in colder water!!! Well, here are some pictures of us having so much fun in the warm pools!!

Ethan in his new little crab floaterand enjoying his crab floater!Papie helping Ethan swim around the pool and enjoying the warmth of the pool!!! Ethan and Papie taking a little break to take a picture!!
What a cute little face of Ethan!!
Ethan and Papie taking a little swim out in the middle of the pool! Let's have a family picture!!!

Here is a little video of Ethan swimming around the pool and playing on the steps. We hope that you enjoy the video as much as we do. Sorry about having a lot of videos that we are posting, but it's just so much fun to see how much Ethan is growing!!