Little Negotiator

Ethan is becoming quite the negotiator these days. Our conversation during lunch today:

Me: Look Ethan - we get to eat chicken soup for lunch today!
E: Don like it. (Don't like it)
Me: You didn't even taste it yet. Let's try some.
E: (refusing to let the spoon near his mouth) How bout cookie?
Me: We don't have any cookies.
E: How bout man ereal? (As we refer to Quaker Oat cereal since it has a picture of a man on the box. As opposed to 'circle ereal' which are Cheerios)
Me: How about some soup?
E: How bout eese-stick?
Me: Okay you can have a cheese stick. (I come back and give him the cheese)
E: (plays but does not eat cheese stick. gives me a big grin). How bout cookie?

*Sigh*. I miss the days where he would readily guzzle down (and love!) everything that we plopped in front of him. But of course back then he didn't know how to express his preferences either. =P

The Best Sound in the World

The best part of this age is the deep belly laughs that you get. I never know what will set off a fit of giggles - a new word, a funny sound, or lately having objects fall off from your head.

To Yeh Yeh and Nai Nai

I got an idea from my friend Cindy to make an album of our family tree (well actually it's just a print out of some pictures of members of our family). We will periodically whip out the pictures and he will say hi to everyone. Ethan has been missing his grandparents so decided to send a shout out.

Lightroom

I've recently started getting obsessed with photo editing. I love love love Lightroom. It's so easy and intuitive to use and you can batch process large groups of photos shot under the same condition with just a few clicks. My problem is that I love super saturated photos so I am a bit heavy handed with colors. Well, my other problem is that I'm not exactly a great photographer to begin with so my starting photo isn't all that great to begin with but we will ignore this one for now. =P

This is the original SOOC:

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Okay, I also have a problem where I like to tweak the settings around a lot and then I can't figure out which version I like best.

Easter 2010

We had big plans for an egg hunt this year. Alas we were stymied twice. First when our friends who were hosting a get together with all the little kids at their house on Friday got sick so the event was cancelled. Then we found out that the public egg hunt in DB was only for kids 3 and older. So we ended up just having a little impromptu egg hunt in our living room. Ethan wasn't exactly too ecstatic about the thought of collecting eggs until he realized they were fun to spin around the room (until an extra hard kick resulted in an egg casualty). The eggs were dyed his favorite color - green!

Ethan kept wanting to put the eggs in his pocket.

Short clip of our fun with eggs.

Little sock bunnies that were made based on this tutorial. I can't sew very well so they didn't turn out as cute as the ones in the tutorial but Ethan liked them!

Ethan lit up when he saw the bunnies

It's hard to see from the picture but there were mobs of people at the DB egg hunt. And this was only one of the 5 egg hunts they had that day!

Dancing on the beach!

Even though we couldn't participate this year, we were able to scavenge some leftover eggs still hidden in the beach.

There was also a big festival in the town plaza. There were vendors selling balloons, clowns, and arenas to play egg hockey, ride a mini roller coaster, catch fish, and paint eggs.

Ethan got a balloon lion to play with.

Ethan had only eyes for the bouncy castle so we waited patiently for our turn to jump! The line was insane - it took us half an hour to reach the front, but it was worth it. Ethan loved bouncing around - so much so that he was very reluctant to leave (i.e. mini meltdown!) when our few minutes of fun were up.

And what was left of the balloon lion the next day. =P

All in all we had a lot of fun this Easter. Happy Easter everyone!