Risky Business

Ethan did his best impression of Tom Cruise's character in Risky Business and danced on the couch in his underwearz the other day. Okay, I might have prompted him a bit. I'm sure he also appreciates that I was able to capture the moment on video!

Note: His favorite position to read books is, yes, standing upright on top of the couch. He has one favorite page in each of his books and when we get to that page he will clutch the book open at that spot and then crawl (well, he kind of scoot/hops on his knees and back of his hands since he is trying to keep the book open) over to the couch just so he can read standing up. It's not enough to just lean against the base of the couch, he has to climb onto it and lean against the back cushions. LOL...

Rock-A-Bye Baby

Bob mentioned that I should add these pictures to complement the previous post on Ethan being a mini-Bob - this was Ethan back when he was less than 2 months old! Ethan used to always sleep on his side just like Mommy - although now I think he prefers to sleep on his tummy.

And one of Bob and Ethan:

I'm drooling...

over the Olympus E-P1 camera. We have taken a gazillion pictures of one very cute boy over the past year, but our camera is just not up to snuff. I want to take amazing pictures in low light situations and have been eyeing the Nikon D60 for a few months now, but since we always want to capture every little moment I think it would be difficult at this time to carry around both a 20+ lb. toddler as well as a bulky camera. If only Ethan would show some interest in walking! So when I heard about this pen DSLR (well, Olympus advertises it is a DSLR) I've decided I'm in love. The two big drawbacks that are preventing me from buying it right now? Well, it is seriously $$$ and two, it has slow switch on time and focusing speed. It definitely wouldn't be a good camera to use for sports, but I'm wondering whether it would hold up well for scrambling kids as well. Hmm...maybe if I win the lotto I'll get this camera. Until then, I guess we will just stick with our point-and-shoot.

Ethan 2.0

We typically cut Ethan's hair with blunted scissors but since we recently unearthed a buzzer in our bathroom cabinets we thought it would be more fun efficient to give Ethan a buzz cut. The last time I used the buzzer Bob was left with a large bald spot, but I figure even if it comes to that our little monkey would look pretty darn cute bald. Luckily the haircut didn't turn out too bad. Now just a bit more practice and maybe Bob will let me near his hair again.

Before:


During:

Ethan being quite the good sport in indulging our whims.

After:

It's a bird, it's a plane...

It's Super Ethan!