Super Bowl Weekend

This weekend was quite the 'party' weekend for Ethan. Saturday morning I decided to take him up to visit with my Mom (while Dave stayed home and studied!!!). We enjoyed the company of my Mom and brother for a few hours. We even had pancakes and bacon for lunch -mmm! Ethan actually tried bacon, which was a definite surprise to me. He seemed to like it enough to eat a half of a piece by himself. Here's Ethan playing with Grandma - at one point he came over voluntarily and gave her a hug, which I thought was adorable!!

Note the cell phone in the picture - Ethan doesn't travel without it! :-)

BIG hug for Grandma!

I don't have any pictures, but Sunday we went to a friend's house for a Super Bowl party. Ethan was Mr. Shy at first with all the new faces, but there were also two younger girls there (3 and 5) and he just wanted to follow them around and laughed with them, it was absolutely adorable to see him just want to play with the kids! At one point the two girls put together pillows and blankets to roll around on and he watched them and smiled and then copied what they were doing and was so proud of himself!! I think Ethan needs a sibling!! :-)

A few cute things that Ethan has been doing lately:

*He loves to play with the remotes and knows exactly what they do. Even though he doesn't know how to turn on the tv, he takes them in his hand in the correct position and walks right up to the tv pointing the remote at the tv - cracks me up!

*Tonight Dave came home and gave Ethan a kiss and then me a kiss. Ethan immediately leaned towards me and wanted to also give me a kiss. Just to test it out, I had Dave give me another kiss and Ethan proceeded to give me a kiss and then gave one to Daddy also - such a sweetie!!

*He's almost tall enough to open the door knobs now. He likes to shut the doors (and says "bye-bye") and then he gets up on his tippy toes and can pull down on the lever, but doesn't have enough 'umph' yet to completely open it by himself.

*Last Thursday when Grandpa watched him, he was playing in his crib playing peek-a-boo and he got real quiet and managed to put himself to sleep in the middle of playing with Grandpa! Here are a few pics of his second nap that day - he was still sleeping when i got home from work. Who can resist a butt up in the air photo opportunity!

Here's Ethan trying on Daddy's fleece sweatshirt!