New Zebra!

So, the newest thing that one of my co-workers tuned me into was a website called "freecycle.org". It's a place where people post items that they want to give away or need and everything is you guessed it...FREE! Anyway, my great find for the weekend was a little zebra toy for Ethan. The only thing remotely wrong with the thing is one of the hand grips was chewed by the previous owners dog a little bit. But, we're just going to tape over the end a bit so the sharp edges don't hurt Ethan and it's as good as new. We tried it out today and he seemed to think it was pretty neat. Soon enough he'll be moving his little legs and riding the zebra all over the house I'm sure!

I have some video clips to post, but will probably do this during the week...these last two nights have proven a bit rough on the sleeping for Ethan. I think those two top teeth are ready to burst because he's really rubbing his mouth and is just not sleeping like his usual self.

Latest tricks Ethan is doing...he loves to push any button that makes sound. He really uses his little index finger and pushes down hard. I think it's cute - as if the harder he pushes the louder or better the sound will be?? I've been standing him up on furniture and to play with some of his taller toys so he gets used to the standing position. His favorite is the coffee table - when you pound your hand, it makes a lot of noise! He's getting very good at putting different shapes in his "cookie jar" of shapes. As long as you show him which hole each piece goes in, he really tries. The circle is his best, but Dave got him to do 3 other shapes as well. On the crawling front we're still not there, but it seems that he made what I'd call progress this weekend. If I hold my hands on the outsides of his knees (to keep him in the crawling position) it helps him stay up - otherwise he slowly spreads his legs and ends up in the belly flop position again. He actually lifted his hand a few times and put it a bit forward and then I moved his knees to mock the movement of crawling. All in good time...he'll get there.

I'll try to post the videos tomorrow night...