Your face might freeze that way!

Lately Ethan has been cracking us up with tons of new and hilarious faces and sounds. He still doesn't actively talk much (he's more of a parrot these days), but he loves to make us laugh with silly noises. My dad was lucky enough to capture one of these faces the other day and I smile every time I look at it.

He's also very into the swimming pool these days. Nana and Poppa pull the slide up to the pool and he's up and down for hours. It's funny to me how kids don't seem to mind the freezing cold water that comes out of the hose - as long as it's going into the swimming pool. Now we just need to get a slip-n-slide. Do they even still make those? So, even though it's terribly hot, our house seems to attract more mosquitos than any other house, and we're treating terrible cases of ezcema on his legs and arms, he still loves to be outside.

This is random, but I've always known that boys and girls are very different, but didn't realize how different until I had a boy of my own. Last night our neighbors invited us over for dinner and we took a couple of things for Ethan to play with since they don't have any kids. He entertained himself for 2 hours with a handful of matchbox cars (his favorite thing), playing hide and seek with their cat (2 guesses which one of them was doing the hiding and which one was seeking), and then he discovered the baseballs. AJ is a baseball umpire and Ethan discovered the baseball room which not only has lots of baseballs (his 2nd favorite thing), but also had AJ's umpire mask. Ethan promptly began hitting himself in the head which - in Ethan lingo - means please put that hat on my head. I really wish I would have had my camera, but hopefully we can catch it again. Anyway, all of that to say, I'm amazed at the things that not only catch but hold his attention for sometimes hours. I caught him the other day in the bathroom looking at the toilet paper holder. I took out the little bar that holds the t.p. roll, but the 2 holders are still in the wall. It was so funny because he would touch one of them and then sit on the ground under it and look up trying to figure out how it was attached to the wall. Then he'd stand up and touch it some more, then sit down and look at it again. I just love his curiosity and I love watching him learn new things every day.