Happy Independence Day!

Well, of course I had to go with festive colors and such today. We're just taking it easy so far this 4th. Easton is wearing the same outfit he wore last year. Sad, eh? Here he is last year:

And here he is today:

But, speaking of how tiny my almost 18 month old is, I finally found him some teeny tiny jean shorts at Target yesterday. They're still a little big on his skinny waist, see:

However, how sad is it that his tag says, "NEWBORN"!!!! They are 3 month old sized:

At the same time, there is a lot of variation between brands and sizes. I mean, he wears 12 month old sized clothes some of the time as well. As long as it's plenty elastic-y. And, he needs the length as he's not all that short, he's not all that tall either, though. Moving on...

We plan to do a little barbequing tonight for just ourselves and then let Easton watch the fireworks with us. He woke up from all the noise last year and watched them. He really loved them so I'm hoping he'll like them again. I think we'll get him all ready for bed and then take him to sit out front in our lawn chairs where we have a perfect view. They start at 9:30 and so bedtime will hopefully follow right afterwards. We'll play it by ear a little. If he's just to sleepy then it's fine if he misses it. But, I have to mention that last night was another perfect night for E sleep. It was peep-free and paci-less again. Yay! Who knows what might happen if we keep him up extra late tonight? Oh well, it's a special occasion.

Jumping back to last night: J brought home some Olive Garden take-out for dinner. See:

Easton liked getting in the bag, then he'd get out and sign "more". J would ask, "More what?" and Easton would point at himself. Tee hee! "More me in the bag, duh Daddy!" Oh yeah, he's finally starting to call J "Dada" again. It was his second word and he used it correctly for quite awhile before stopping. He still doesn't do it all the time yet, but more and more. So, we're excited about that. And while I'm still "on" last night, here's a fun bath picture:

The picture right afterward is of E yakking in the tub after choking on too much water from the shower head. Oh well. He's a puker and that's all there is to it.

Did anyone watch the shuttle launch today? We all did, Easton's first.

Totally by coincidence J was wearing his red, white, and blue NASA shirt today. So, then I of course had to take a picture of that too:

The cool thing is that Discovery is the shuttle that launched today and that's the exact shuttle Jason was on for work a few years back. Neat-o, huh?

Okay, well while I'm on a picture sharing kick, here's one from car shopping the other day. It's a winner and I forgot to show it before:


Anyway, I guess that's all that's new on the Setzer-front today. The weather isn't too hot otherwise we wanted to take E swimming or in the backyard sprinkler at the least, but I s'pose today's not the day. After his nap I think we'll start thinking about some BBQ, perhaps a nice long walk, maybe some free 4th entertainment nearby where they do the fireworks and then our primo seats for the actual fireworks tonight. Enjoy the holiday! God bless America!