Language

Ethan was exploring language this morning. Specifically he was interested in expletives. Now, I know that it's not a good trend to start so young in life and I didn't laugh or encourage him, but now that I'm away from the house I can say how cute it was.
Especially in his squeaky voice.

And, because those of you reading this blog will know that Mia and I don't swear, I'll let you know that he was saying things like

"My gosh" In front of sentences or as he was spilling milk while eating breakfast.

"Oh brother" After breakfast while we were playing with his new Teddy Bear (created at Build-a-Bear, as yet unnamed).

So, I guess it's not too bad. ;)

Baseball

In Boston you can't get away from it. Which is why I shouldn't be too surprised that Ethan seems to like playing it. Of course, he's probably more interested in just swinging the bat at this point. I would like to teach him to play some sports. I was never very good at them as a child and I expect to re-live my childhood the way I wanted it to be through my son.

I'm sure he won't mind. :)

Easter

Just trying to keep up with the boy these past few days. The weather has been nice so we were outside most of the day.

But, since I don't have anything interesting to talk about, here's a video of Ethan helping us color Easter eggs.

Random

Ethan walked out of the office tonight carrying an empty bag of Milano cookies and happily munching on one.

This happened at 9:00PM when he was supposed to be asleep.

Just talking

My mom asked for some video of Ethan just talking. We tend to do a lot of prompting, we tried to just ask him some questions and let him do the talking.



He's really getting to be such a big boy.

And, I spent the night tonight getting other videos ready, so I'll be posting video for the next few days.

Life Again

So, I've been a little lazy posting this week. Partly because we didn't have the boy for the first three days of the week.

In case you are wondering, I love my son but it was amazing to have some time to ourselves. Mia and I thoroughly enjoyed sleeping in and doing our own projects. We got some of the serious cleaning and re-arranging of the house done, which was nice.

Then for the last two days, we've just been catching up with Ethan. He always learns so much when he's around older kids and we've been impressed with how much he talks.

I'm going to put up some more video soon. Ethan picked up his baseball bat today and so we were playing a little baseball, it was very fun.

My biking saga

I decided to bike to work today, after the morning commute. I wanted to see if I could do it, since I'm going to start riding to work every morning (as soon as I can).

Well, the first trip was really really hard. And it took me about 45 minutes to bike the 4 miles (one-way). That has to be some kind of record (not the good kind).

But I figure I'll use my blog as a diary of my biking efforts so that at the end of the summer I'll be able to proudly tell you that I'm biking 4 miles to work in 10 minutes... well maybe not that fast.

So anyway, I'm sore, but feeling good about getting outside and doing some exercise.

Branded

We are getting ready for a trip out to Grandpa's house, where we'll be leaving Ethan for a few days (we are excited) and part of getting ready has been putting some music and books on the iPod.

So, while Ethan and I were sitting in the hallway playing he asked me "Daddy, where's your iPod?"

My son is now officially a child of the new millennium.

Puppies

We went to the park this morning and a very small friendly dog was there too. Ethan loves dogs (though he's been nervous about letting them get near him recently) and he wanted to play with him.

I think that he like the dog because it didn't look bigger than him. Even when the dog was jumping up on him, it didn't get taller than Ethan and he laughed while they played.

But this was a very playful dog. After a couple of times getting jumped on, Ethan wanted to climb up on me, or on his bike, which, as he repeated a few times "It's not for dogs".

But, then after a minute he'd want to go back over and see the dog again. He even threw the chew ball for the puppy to chase. Overall we had a very fun time at the park this morning.

Hard at work

Ethan had to go to work today. His work routine consisted of:

Hiding under his blanket (with me tickling his legs)
Reading a book
Playing with his trucks
Riding on my back (what a killer commute)
Closing his bedroom door as he declared he was going to work

I don't know how he gets his 40 hours in but it must be rough.

Contacts

I don't know if I posted about this, but I've been wearing contacts for about a month now. They are getting quite comfortable on my eyes. And I like that Ethan can't grab the glasses off my face.

That's a bit random, but it's what I'm thinking about tonight.

Birthday

So, it's my birthday. The big one... or rather the first of many big ones that will make me face my mortality every decade or so.

I am officially 30 years old.

But, I have the consolation of having a hot twenty-something wife so I've still got that going for me.

My birthday was actually very fun. Except for the fact that I've had a cold this weekend :( But Mia was great about taking care of Ethan today, even while she was cleaning up.
And actually, Ethan did a great job playing by himself. Normally he's very needy of our attention, he wants us to always be right next to him. Today he was in a good mood and just played along without much trouble. Which was nice because I had very little energy.

I also had a surprise party last night. I was completely surprised. This may stem from a difference that I've noticed between Mia and I when we watch movies. She's always looking to figure out the mystery or twist early in the plot. I'm more content to just watch and let it unfold by itself, waiting to be surprised by whatever happens.
I think that's why I just accepted that Mia really wanted to get the house clean this weekend, and why she made a gigantic lasagna for just the two of us. And why, when the doorbell rang and I thought Beth and Tyler were joining us for dinner Mia wanted me to get it... especially when I sent Ethan to open the door instead (I was talking with my brother online at the time).

So, I was very surprised by the party and I was very glad that everyone was able to make it over. We had about 4 other couples with their kids (about 5 kids total). The kids played well together and the adults all got to chat and eat some good food and cake.

I guess with a birthday like that I can't complain much about being 30. :)