Teething and Tantrums

Ethan fell in love with this big elephant at the indoor play center that we visited with Grandma and Grandpa Y

Loving the slide

Playing with Daddy

Looks like Grandma and Ethan are having a good time!

What to do on a cold winter day?  Finger paint with chocolate pudding of course! 

Happy Valentine's Day!  Ethan is clearly telling me to put down the camera so we can go for our walk!

Valentine's Day lollipop

We were so happy with the warmer temperatures this week, that we rushed to our local beach- it was a mud fest, and Ethan loved every minute!

Freedom!

This is how we are battling teething these days- homemade popsicles

We have continued to keep busy.  We had a really nice visit last weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Y.  We visited a local indoor play studio and Ethan just couldn't get enough of it!  He bounced from activity to activity, but by far his favorites were the big stuffed elephant, and the slide.  Ethan loved having his Grandma and Grandpa here to entertain him- he was certainly tuckered out after a weekend of lots of activity!

Ethan has begun tried and true temper tantrums this week.  All out crying fits where he throws himself to the ground when he doesn't get his way. Pete and I are hoping that if he's starting the "terrible twos" early, maybe he'll be finished with them early too- we can dream, right?  We're thinking that teething is contributing to these crying fits too.  He'll put his fingers in his mouth and just cry.  We've been trying to keep him as comfortable as possible, but it's so hard to know what helps when he can't tell us.

So last week I posted pictures of our potty arriving at the house.  Since then, every night when Ethan is getting undressed to get into the bathtub, I ask if he wants to sit on the potty. Over the weekend when Colleen and I were getting him ready for the tub Ethan sat on the potty, and then stood up and proceeded to pee on the floor right next to it!  I think that he's trying to tell me to put the stinking potty away until he's ready!

Thanks for reading!