Learning Faster Now!

No newer pix of Ethan that I havent already posted, so here's an older one :)

Ethan’s doing all kinds of new things, rather suddenly! He WINKS! Lol, well kinda… if you wink at him, he smiles Real big still his face wrinkles up & his eyes close, and sometimes only one eye closes… its SO cute! We almost caught a picture of it… but its on my sis’s camera…. I’ll try to get a hold of it.

Ethan puts the buckets from his toy bin on his head! And also the small laundry basket. Its SO cute! Diella & I laugh & say, “Bucket Head!!!”

My dad taught him how to do pound! He would give a high five, then Papa asked him for a pound, and her makes a fist, but holds up one fingers… so he kinda just pokes the other persons fist… but he does it on command every time, hehe, at least he’s consistent.

My sis got him to say Pizza! He hardly says any words! (hi, bye, mama, dada, binky…. Did I never blog that he says binky??? Its So cute when he does!!!)… and now pizza lol! Not clearly of course, but I love that pizza is his 6th word, ha!

He’s still doing the tiger sound, and now also does the elephant sound! We’ve been working on lots of them. He watches very intently & giggles when we teach him, but just wont try. Its alright, he’ll get it.

He’s also doing the sign for please…. Not very accurately, but still! So now his signs include, please, all done, milk, more, and eat!

Finally Getting Good at Doing Short Ones, Whew!

Ethan is finally pointing at things with one finger! Maybe he should have been doing this for a while now? I dunno. But he is now, and its cute!

He’s learned another sign! The sign for ‘ball’ …. Its really the same thing he does when he signs ‘more’ but he does it for either word, they’re similar signs. Oh and I think he said ‘up’ … we’ve been working on that one & a few others. He’s not a big talker yet, but we’re tryin.

We go for a walk almost every day, at least a few times a week, and most of the time I don’t take the stroller, we just walk. We live on a block & there’s sidewalks around the whole thing, so don’t worry, we’re safe. Well I always hold Ethan’s hand of course, and sometimes he tried to pull away, cuz he wants to go alone. But anyway, one time my mom took them, when Ethan wasn’t feeling too well, and she said she was proud cuz he walked almost half of it! (without her picking him up). Well usually when I take him, its about the same, he’ll walk half, I’ll carry him half. Well today, he walked the ENTIRE thing! I was So proud of him for that! A whole block, all the way around!

Short Blog, YAY!

The pic in the tie is from Easter Sunday. The other ones are playing outside on a nice day!

I failed to mention in the blog from the other day how close Ethan is to Running! He goes so fast! It'll be soon here!

And I said how close he is to coming down the stairs by himself, and that that would be soon as well... well, he Is now! Slowly, and only like 3 stairs at a time... but he's got it!!!

Also, I've watched him, and believe he might be left-handed. He eats primarily with his left hand... but I've heard its common for babies to use both. Well, this morning, Ethan, Diella, and I were throwing around some balls, and Ethan used his left hand every time! Plus, he's pretty good at the throw & release for his age! Go boy!

Doing More & More!

TOO long again, since I’ve blogged! The pictures include a few from when we first moved in… the ones in the highchair, you’ll read the corresponding story below… and a few from his birthday!!!

Ethan is finally doing lots of things on command! (grant it, its still whenever he FEELS like it, but still, hehe). His words now consist of mama, dada, hi, and bye… and the newest one… his first TWO syllable word, just as of the past 3 days or so, he says “binky”! lol… I think now that he can say it, breaking him of it is gonna be…. Fun.

If he ever chokes a bit on his food, we’ll say “chew it up” and he does. Aw! Oh, and he has 6 teeth now, by the way.

He’s been doing the sign for ‘all done’. I think the sign for milk was first, and this one was second. He also does the sign for “more.” And only a few times he’s done ‘eat.’

The things he also does on command… “shake your head,” “clap your hands,” and when we say ‘dancin feet!’ its like he runs in place, his feet alternate back & forth, pretty fast! And he gets all smiley during this! Its adorable!

Also, when we say, ‘where’s your tongue?’ sticks out his tongue. This one he’s been doing for a while… I think its his fave, hehe. One day he even watched himself do this in the mirror, haha!

A Precious Moment for me…. I was on my belly I the living room, Ethan walked over to me, bent down, gave me a hug, stood up, and walked away. That just filled my love tank Right Up!!!

I think it was a few days before we moved in, we were here at the house, when Ethan first went from sitting to standing, without holding onto anything. He had already been walking for a while, but would never sit to stand on his own, weird.

There’s a few things that he went through a short phase of doing, that he no longer does. Like he used to take his hand, and turn my face to face him. Oh I Loved that!! He also used to constantly get his arm stuck in his high chair. For some reason he would wedge it down in between the seat & the side of it… never knew why? And I remember he also used to say, “Ooohh.” It was really cute! But I haven’t heard him do that in a while.

For a while there, Ethan HATED wearing shoes, he would kick one off before I even got done putting the other one on! But he’s used to them now.

He Loves to walk into Diella’s room while she’s taking a nap (and when I’m not watching closely enough of course, cuz sometimes I’m able to catch him before he goes in there), but he even walks right up to her bed! Almost as if to say, “why are you sleeping? Come play with me!” hehe

Ethan also dances to music, so cute! And he even incorporated his arms in his dancing yesterday, when he & Diella were both dancing! Aw that was great!


This one day Ethan was in the highchair eating, and I got out the camera for fun, and he just started giving me these huge, cheesy grins! I really don’t think it was something he was trying to do, like For the camera… I think he was jus bein silly, but it was perfect timing!

In addition to Ethan’s new obsession to put things into the garbage & toilet, etc., he also likes to throw things down the stairs. Like he’ll stand at the top, and one by one, find a new toy, and chuck it down the stairs. I dunno if it’s the banging sound that he likes or what, but I cant lie, its kinda funny, and I don’t stop him, hehe.

Oh yea, Ethan also says, “uh oh”! …. Well… sorta… it’s more like “uh, uh”… he doesn’t really pronounce the Oh, but he does say it at appropriate times… its cute!

He also says Hi when you put a phone up to his ear. Love that!

Oh yea, and two other things he does on command. He’ll nod yes when you ask him, “yes?” … and also if you say “belly belly belly!” he’ll hit his belly with both hands, cute!

We have been working pretty hard on getting him to learn going down the stairs backwards. We practice about once a day… and he’s getting very close!!! He loves going up the stairs so much, I figure we gotta learn how to go down them SOON so I don’t hafta watch him as closely. We’re almost there!

And he Finally does his first animal sound! He’s always loved when we go through them. He watches so intently, and giggles when Diella & I make the sounds, but he would never attempt to repeat them back. Well about 2 weeks ago, in church, where there are walls with animals all over them, he saw the tiger, and made a tiger sound!!! And now he even does that on command too! … he’s also really close to doin elephant sound too!