He loves trains, tractors, trucks and airplanes. Really anything with wheels that moves.
He's just started talking more. For a long time he just said "that?" a lot...A LOT...but now tries to repeat what he hears. He'll also combine signs with words now, for instance, saying "peese" and signing please at the same time.
Lately he's been trying to grab things off the page in picture books. He really wants to eat those pretty strawberries and is terribly sad that they won't come off the page.
He loves to try and share with the cat. He gives her his pacifier, food, toys and tries to include her in his games. The cat does not appreciate this. :D We're hoping this desire to share will extend to his sister when she is old enough to appreciate it.
Although we're not officially potty training we are trying to teach Ethan the basic idea of the potty, what goes in it and when. He has taken to putting dolls and frogs and stuffed pigs and a duck into the potty chair so they can use it, even if he doesn't want to himself. It's very cute.
A couple times that he has peed in the potty chair he was very excited to take it to the toilet, dump it out and flush. Hopefully that excitement will continue when he really does get trained. :P
He's noticing things that are the same. For instance, the penguin that appears at the back of the book also appeared on an earlier page. Or, like when I got him up this morning, he pointed to the cow printed on his sheets and then across the room to where we had been reading a book last night that had a cow. Then when I got him out of the crib he ran across the room to point directly to the book.
Ethan listens to the Bullfrogs and Butterflys CD's daily, much of the day. There is a song that the chorus repeats, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus..." and Ethan loves to sing along although it sounds more like he's saying "chica, chica, chica..." :D
TJ is at work all day then attends night school four days a week. Ethan misses his daddy but now happily walks around saying very confidently, "daddy, work!" I hear him in his crib sometimes saying "work, work, daddy, work." The only catch is he also says that when TJ leaves the room, so I'm not sure he's quite getting the whole message.
Out in public he has started waving goodbye to people. For a long time now he shows any stranger who will pay attention all the lights in any given place. He loves lights!
