First Feedings

When we finally sat Ethan down to start solid foods, he went through the whole gamete of emotions. First there was the typical...

What the hell was that??




However, once he realized what he was supposed to do, he couldn't get enough!!  We had to practically hold him down because he would lunge for the spoon and try to jab it in his mouth.  This ended up being the most difficult part of the feeding, just keeping hands off the spoon.

 Eventually he learned to sit back, relax, and to enjoy just letting the food come to him.  You can't get much better than that!

For more photos from Ethan's first few feedings, follow this link.

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.

More laughing!!

I promised everyone more video of Ethan laughing, so here it is! I am not going to say much because there is nothing I can say which will top how adorable Ethan is when he laughs. Enjoy!

Got Drool?

Ethan's baptism is coming up so we decided to try a "professional" style photo shoot for Ethan's announcement.  The pictures aren't quite professional, but they didn't turn out too bad and I think that they did a decent job of capturing Ethan's fun-loving, happy-go-lucky, loving-the-word personality.  In the picture below, I believe that this is Ethan's trying to be flirtatious with a look that says: "Hey baby.  Got drool?"

For more pictures from this photo shoot, follow this link.

Life of the Party

Mom and Dad have been telling Ethan all about food from various countries and he has been very eager to check it out.  I think, in part, it was because he was kind of confused as to how there could be that many different flavors of milk.  When Mom's friends from residency,  Sarah and Greg, came into town and Mom said she was going for sushi, Ethan promised to be a good boy if she took him along.  He know it was a big deal so he wanted to dress as fashionably as possible for sushi.  So he put on his Burberry shirt and slacks and then threw on his fishing hat to go along with the whole sushi theme.  He ended up looking a bit like Padington Bear, but it was way too cute for us to say anything.
    Sure enough, Ethan kept to his word and was a VERY good boy.  He laughed and played and ended up being the life of the party.  If this keeps up, Mom and Dad are going to have their hands full, if they don't already.

   

For more pictures of Ethan being the life of the party follow this link.

3 Months Old!!!!

Today was a big day: 3 months old!!!  Now why was this such a big deal?  Well it is for several reason:

1) It is the first birthday in which is age didn't at least double.  I mean his first month birthday was exciting because it was his first.  However, Ethan was a little depressed on his second birthday because he was concerned that his age had exactly doubled, going from 1 to 2 months.  Can you imagine if every birthday your age doubled!!???  It is enough to make anyone depressed.  I think to some extent Ethan was expecting his age to double again on his next birthday; needless to say, he was a little apprehensive about it.  In the end, though, he was quite relieved that  his 3rd birthday only resulted in a 50% age increase from the last.  I think he is starting to settle into this whole birthday and aging thing and is now excited that on his next birthday his age is only going to increase by 33.333333...%.  Oh, to see things from a child's perspective.

2) He is Greek, and as we all know 3 is kind of an important number.

3) It is the only time in his life that he will ever be able to celebrate his birthday AND Saint Patrick's Day (one of his mother's favorite "holidays") at the same time.

So we all had a great time and looking forward to the next one!

For more photos from Ethan's 3 month birthday (and St. Patty's Day) follow this link