Shopping Experience

Over the weekend we took Ethan to the grocery store, which is a pretty normal experience but this time was a little different. He had his own shopping cart. (I just hope these "role-playing" toys/experiences doesn't affect him later in life.) But anyway, imagine if you will, Ethan with his cart transporting his two favorite friends at the moment...Elmo and Old MacDonald's horse...looking around as he strolls down every aisle with an occasional run in to the back of Richard's heels because he wasn't paying attention to where he was going. And there you have it.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Finally getting around to posting.

Here are some photos of Ethan's first egg coloring experience at home back on 8 April 2007:

Patiently waiting...










Dropping of the eggs...











Patiently waiting...











Retrieving the eggs...



He seems to be pretty pleased with the results...











"Now what? I'm bored!"

Easter Day 2007

The Easter Bunny left Ethan several items in his basket(s),










but the most prized gift was a small box of raisins. He noticed it first thing and insisted on eating them.










Even while looking at the cards he received from his Aunt Dee Dee and Uncle Tom & family, as well as one from Grammie and Papaw Tacy, he was still hanging onto those raisins. Of course, there is another member of the family that loves raisins, probably as much as Ethan does, and that's Kumiko. As you can tell, she tends to be by Ethan's side when he's eating them, waiting for one to drop.










Some other items he received were a couple of stuffed Easter Bunnies (no chocolate ones in this household yet...trying to keep him away from the addicting stuff as long as we can...of course, one of the bunnies smells like chocolate).










Some clothes, a Crayola "mud" soap kit for him to get dirty in the bathtub with, cookies, foam airplanes, a Sesame Street easter egg with a toy school bus inside, a puzzle to help him with his numbers and a $10 bill from Grammie and Papaw Tacy.




















THANK YOU EASTER BUNNY!!

Like Father Like Son...

Normally Ethan is a little scared of the vacuum, but today, he was helping right alongside Richard. If only his Dirt Devil worked as well as the real one!

Easter Egg Hunt Adventure

Yesterday, we took Ethan to the Keystone United Methodist Church, which was having an Easter egg hunt at 11am. We got there about 10:45am expecting to hunt eggs shortly thereafter. Unbeknownst to us, they had planned to play games first (i.e. egg toss, sack race, water balloon toss, etc.). That normally isn't a problem, but when Ethan saw the eggs laying on the ground, he decided he wanted to go over there. So therefore, we had to get his mind off the eggs, which at times was a struggle. He got upset several times. Then it was finally time to hunt the eggs. The kids were let loose and poor Ethan grabbed two eggs, one in each hand, and just stood there. I guess he figured that's all he was entitled to. I tried to get him to drop them in his Easter basket (that he didn't want to carry) and gather some more, but he just wasn't interested. The other children were filling up their baskets fast and Ethan didn't have a one in his. I guess I was wanting Ethan to do everything himself in order to get "the photos", but it wasn't happening. So Richard decided to take over and moved the process along smoothly. When all the eggs were gathered up, we could trade in the eggs for a goodie bag. After we got the goodie bag, Ethan started helping them sort the eggs, by putting eggs from one container into the other. He did this for a few minutes and actually didn't want to leave when I pulled him away.

After he hunted eggs, they were offering lunch inside the church hall, but instead we decided to get Ethan's face painted. He was so cooperative when the girl started painting. We left after that.

Overall, he seemed to have enjoyed himself.