Poor Little Boy with a Cold!

Ethan has officially gotten his first full-blown cold! He woke up Thursday morning hacking and it continued to get worse thru the day with sneezing, coughing and just being miserable. Thursday night he could only stay asleep for an hour at a time (at most) without waking up, upset from not being able to breathe. So helpless Dave and I feel to have him be miserable and not be able to understand or communicate with us on what's wrong. But, Dave and I alternated going into work today and he seems to be doing a bit better with some TLC from Mommy and Daddy.

Speaking of "Mommy and Daddy"...Ethan has now graduated to those titles vs. Ma ma and Da da! He still says both, but actually saying the two-syllable words was impressive to me!! He's also acquired "yeah" in his vocabulary. He doesn't know what it means, but he definitely says it a lot now (and you have to hear him say it, because it's more like "yeeaaa" in an exaggerated manner). I think he hears the word a lot because he is always pointing his finger and chattering and I usually say "yeah, is that right?" or something like that. So, "yeah" is now on the list of first words I guess. I also swear he's trying to say "cheese", "tractor" and "truck" some of his favorite toys, books and food (again, hearing the words repeated a lot).

As far as his mobility goes. His favorite game is to play "chase" around the coffeetable while crawling. He just cracks up when he comes around the corner and you're there. He also LOVES walking around with help. This kid scales our staircases at least 20 times per day!! Sometimes his legs go faster than you can keep up with, and he's in an almost horizontal walking position trying to take stair after stair with the helpful adult (whomever it may be at the time) trailing behind! Once we reach the top of one staircase, I'm trying to teach him to go feet first down the other set to be safer.

Here are a few pictures from staying home today. Not too exciting..he was again trying to crawl all over me!

Coming to get you Mommy!

I've got you in my grasp!

Can I touch the camera with my little paws?

Short video of chase around the coffee table...he goes so fast it was hard for me to change to video mode on the camera before he came around the corner...