Rollin', rollin', rollin'.... Keep those babies rollin'...

One of our jobs as first time parents is to keep a keen eye on those ever-so-useless "milestones". Although, we understand that they are general guidelines and every baby progresses at their own speed, there is still a difficult-to-control desire to see Ethan hit those milestones on time. As such, we have been eagerly awaiting Ethan's fourth month so that he could start rolling over. So we had the calender marked for April 16 as the day for Ethan to roll over for the first time. Well, as it turned out, Ethan decided that he would not be happy with merely hitting that milestone head on, he wanted to be early. So on April 14, he rolled over for the first time. He was a bit shy with it at first and rolled over when no one was looking. His aunt Ashley put him down for a little "Tummy Time" and turned around for a few seconds just to turn back to see Ethan on his back with a look of pure shock on his face as if to say "What the hell, just happened???!!!" Well, by the next day Ethan had the whole rolling over thing down pat and would no longer tolerate ANY "Tummy Time". So at only 3 months and 29 days, Ethan beat the 4 month milestone by a full 2 days. Now, does this mean Ethan is going to be a genius, you might ask?

Yes, I think it does.

Easter 2010

For the last four months Ethan has been hearing about the huge parties and festivities that he gets to enjoy as a Greek, so he was very excite to finally be awake for one of them. Sure enough EVERYONE came, as usual for Easter. Ethan had got hang out with Dad's Nouno, Nouna and Nounitsa, which I guess would be his Nounopous, Nounia-yia and Nounia-yitsa?
       And he got to bond with his own Nouno and Nouna as well. His cousin, Gianna had a great time with "Baby Ethan", especially considering that this was her second Easter and she felt that she was well seasoned in the matter. She loves to play with Ethan and had a blast trying to trick Ethan into trying this years Magaritsa soup (which for those of you that don't know is a lamb based soup and when I say lamb, I mean the ENTIRE lamb... you can use your imagination from there). Luckily he is still just on formula so the little prank did not get too far.  However, Gianna still got a great reaction out of him, classic.

 For more pictures from Ethan's first Easter, follow this link.