These are the Moments

Ethan does about a million tiny things daily that, to me and Will, are so cute and precious that we'd love to bottle them up to enjoy at a later date. We could have a wine cellar of sorts, but it would be an Ethan cellar, with bottles and bottles of utter cuteness. And when we're old and gray, we could pick out a different vintage every once and a while, relive these moments, and toast to our happiness. But since we can't do that, reading about these adorable tidbits in my cyberjournal will have to suffice. Most of these little idiosycrocies are difficult to describe adequately, but I'll do my best.



Ethan - here are the little things we love:



-You now use Mama and Dadda often and greet us by name in the morning. The other morning, Daddy went in first and I came shortly after. When you saw me you said Mama with a big smile then looked at Daddy and said Dadda like you were so lucky to have us both there at once.

-You LOVE to read and point out the same things over and over in your many books. One of your favorite items to point out is a moon. You even point to the plastic disc in the ceiling of the car and call out, "mooooon."

-You turn a lot of one syllable words into two syllable words. Among them cuuu-lock for clock puuuu-llow for plow.

-Because I sometimes put ice in your water, you now yell out "eyece" (not quite two syllables but close) everytime I give you your water cup.

-If either me or Daddy tries to lay down while we're playing with you, you go behind us and literally lift our heads up off the ground as if to say, "No sleeping on the job, mom and dad."

-When you want to read a book, you grab it and then back into our laps like a car backing into a parking space. Often, we fight the urge to go, "Beep, Beep, Beep."

-At random times, you will furiously roll your hand in circles until we start singing Wheels on the Bus.

-When we sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star you now say "uppa" right before we get to the part that goes "up above."

-At breakfast, lunch, and dinner, whenever I tell you to get your bib, you do a lap around the house laughing and make me chase you to put it on.

-If we say thank you, you return it with the sign for thank you (palm against mouth then pulled away) and say, "Ga Ga."

-You eat your fruits and veggies first always. We love that. You also refer to all vegetables these days as an avoca, your word for avocado.

-Your word for pacifier is Tata. Don't think the pun is lost on us here. :)

-When people you don't see often (or strangers) talk to you, you either give them the puffed out lip stink face or you run into our legs and hug us.

-You give really wet, open mouthed kisses.

-In the morning, while I clean up the counter and get breakfast ready, you bring your stool to the counter and eat Kix or Cheerios while you watch me.

-Recently, you put your whole face in the water during bath. You are in no way afraid of water and we pour it over your face with little warning. You just laugh.

-You are slightly obsessed with looking at pictures. You take them off the shelf and point to everyone while naming them. Your recent obsession is with Aunt Moe (Malia), which sounds like Ammo, and you run around the house with her picture.

-You've started doing your own grocery shopping at Trader Joe's with your own cart. You know exactly what to do, and it's cute beyond words. Today, you started putting your items on the counter before the patron before us was finished. You were just too excited.

-If I ask you to come help me cook, you run and grab your stool, put it next to the counter where I prepare the food, and say, "I cook, I cook" with a large emphasis on the C in cook.

-While this is you being naughty, we can't help but giggle when you kick us (lightly) and say, "kiiiick" and then run to the couch where I put you in time out. I guess time out is not working quite yet.

Ethan, we love all of these little, and big, moments with you. Thank you for making us smile all day long.