Ethan is such a busy boy these days. Now that he's walking everywhere he doesn't stop. (He's been going strong since beginning of 13 months and I promise to give you a video) He loves stairs and seeks them out wherever we go. He is talking up a storm and sometimes we actually can understand what he says. The grandparents are all on a mission to get him to say their names. Last week we taught him to say "ahh nuts!" which is melt-your-heart adorable. We got a video of that too and I promise to post it. Ethan has this strange love of brooms and dust pans and plays with them all the time.
Here's a shot from when we were up at Arrowhead a few weeks ago.
Ethan got to try out my old rocking chair when we were visiting Grandma and Grandpa last week. He thought he was such a big boy sitting in his own chair next to Grandpa. My parents are redoing their floors and Ethan loved having a furniture-less room.
Mike, Ethan and I joined my parents for a little vacation at Lake Tahoe last week. Ethan was a good traveler and we had a pretty smooth drive up. We stayed in a condo a short walk from the lake through the beautiful, fragrant forest. I love the mountains! The picture above is at the beach at the end of the short walk. Ethan is all about Dad right now. He loves to play rough and he definitely loves to be thrown in the air. The higher the better. In fact, if he has a choice between me or Mike he will choose Mike and he is so sad when Dad leaves in the morning. Back to Tahoe...the weather was beautiful in the high 60's to low 70's and the mountains were all packed with melting snow. We went on a little hike up the hill behind our condo.
What a view.
