Jabber Bug

Ethan thinks the phone is pretty awesome. He loves to just sit and jabber on it. The other day we had him hold Kacean's phone while Mart went in the other room and called him. He was so funny to just sit and watch, he was just chatting away.


And this picture is just me and Ethan. We don't have a lot of pictures together and this one turned out okay. My little baby is growing up! He's getting to be such a big boy.

"Hug!"

Today Ethan and I were hanging out in the living room, and I looked up at him and said "kiss?" and he finally ran over and gave me a big smooch. I lucked out and he did it 3 or 4 more times. He rarely gives kisses, but when he does he gives lots in a row then doesn't give anymore for a few more weeks. After he was finished with kisses he was standing by my tv and I looked at him, spread my arms out and said "hug?" and he ran into my arms and gave me a big hug. After he was done giving me a hug he ran back to the tv, spread out his arms and asked me "hug?" after I replied with "hug?" he would run forward and leap into my arms and give me a big hug.

I love days like this!

Toothbrush

Ethan absolutely loves to brush his teeth! He thinks that his toothbrush is one of the coolest things. Every morning while Kacean brushes her teeth, Ethan sits on the counter next to her and brushes his at the same time.


He loves to put his toothbrush back into the running water and continue brushing his teeth with the water. He figured out how to turn the sink on so he can rinse it out himself.

Piggy Bank

Home depot has a kids build just like Lowes, except theirs is once a month instead of twice a month. This month, they built a firehouse piggy bank. After Mart and Ethan came home from building it, Mart found a handful of change to give Ethan to try it out. He thought that was so much fun! He loves putting the coins through the slots and then opening it back up and putting them in again. He's getting so big, I can't believe he's already able to do things like this. It seems like only yesterday that he was learning to sit up and now he's a crazy little man.

Daddy's Boy

Mart has a huge thing for trucker hats! I couldn't even guess how many he already has. He was at the DI a couple weeks ago and found matching Pirate hats so he bought one for him and Ethan. He sure loves that little boy, I love watching them together. Ethan is definitely a major daddy's boy.

Yay!

Ethans has a new movie. It has switched from Tarzan to both Toy Story movies. When you push the play button option on the menu screen, the little aliens shout "Yay!" before it moves on to the movie. Ethan has recently decided that he likes to copy them and it cracks me up.

Ghetto Slide

Ethan loves to be outside. If it's rainy and he's stuck inside, he will sit on the back of the couch and stare out the window all day long. One of his favorite things to do outside is go to the park and slide down the slides. We were playing with Ethan outside the other day probably about an hour before it was going to get dark. We have a roof that touches our grass that covers our pantry and Ethan sometimes sits on it and trys to slide. I'm afraid one day he'll rip his pants right open on those shingles! Anyway, it was getting darker and we didn't have a lot of time to take him to the park, so we decided to make our own slide..we call it the ghetto slide.

We found a tarp and draped it over the pantry roof. One of us sat at the top and helped Ethan climb up. Ethan thought it was so much fun! He didn't care one bit that we didn't have a real slide. He played on that slide until it got dark.


He was so funny to watch climb up the roof, he would get on all fours and spiderclimb up to his dad or me at the top.

Here is a full view of our ghetto slide.

Here is a video of him playing on the slide.

This next one is him spider crawling up the roof.

It's wasn't a real slide, but Ethan had a lot of fun playing on it. When we took the tarp down, he threw a royal tantrum. He threw himself onto the grass and starting kicking and screaming. I guess we'll have to do this a couple more times before it snows.

Kacean and Ethan

Kacean has been watching Ethan while I am at school. He LOVES to play with her and she's starting to get a rather big softspot for him as well. She's really really good with him and I couldn't think of anyone better for him to hang out with while we are both gone during the day.

The other day we were playing in the backyard while it was still sunny and warm, and Kace decided to put Ethan in his toy bucket and wheel him around on the patio. He thought that was pretty funny. After she pulled him out, he tried climbing back in.



So we put him back in and let him play a little longer. He's like one of those tiny chinese acrobats that can fit in a shoe box! He just folded right in half.

These next pictures are just some of Kace and Ethan playing while I was at school and I thought they were cute.

Ladybug

In the back corner of my living room, I have a small granite table that Martin made me to match my coffee table (which is not out right now). The couches block it in so that Ethan didn't play on it. Well, he's figured out how to climb over the couches to stand/sit/climb, etc... on the table. He likes to play with the lamp shade and whatever else is on the table at that time. The other day I caught him reading and just sitting on the edge of the table. He was reading the word search book. What a goof ball.


A while back I had some fresh cut sunflowers from my garden in my kitchen and we looked over and saw a lady buy crawling on the leaves. We wanted to show it to Ethan. He really liked it, but at the same time he wasn't too sure about it. He didn't want to touch it so we put it back on the flower and he would scream so we'd have to get it for him again. He eventually let us put it on his arm for a minute. He thought it was pretty neat.