This post probably won't be very long because Ethan is napping so I want to write this quick. Ethan is quite the adventurous little thing these days. He climbs on everything. His walker, the couch, his chair, pretty much anything he can get on to he does. He also can climb the stairs and loves to do it. He thinks it is a game. He will go up a couple stairs and just sit there and when I go to grab him he hurries and crawls up to the top and laughs about it. He is a stinker. We keep the gate up most of the time, but occasionally we let him have his fun on the stairs. He is a brave little guy! He tried going down the stairs head first! That could have been bad! He doesn't realize he just just scoot his little butt down backwards. Ethan also thinks he needs to play with every single thing he finds now. He will sit on the floor and pick up every little fuzz he can find. Surprisingly he normally doesn't try to eat random things. If he sees a dropped puff or a crumb of food though he will go for it. I find is funny he knows the difference between edible things and random gunk on the ground. Not that he should be eating stuff off the floor, but if he were to when I wasn't watching to take it from him, at least I know he probably isn't eating something awful. The little monster's two front top teeth are coming in now so he thinks it's a good idea to randomly bite people. He will act all cute and come up to you and then just bite your arm, knee, toe - really anything he can get at. He's something that kid. He also bites when he is mad. I tried getting his hoodie on him one day and he kept biting my arms when I touched him! Stinker!! Hmm what else is new in the life of Ethan??? He is cruising now, I believe that is what it's called. He holds onto the couch and walks from one side to the other. He can also stand for a few seconds on his own too. When Nick holds his hands he will walk with Nick but for some reason Ethan refuses to walk with me. I guess Nick is responsible for teaching him to walk. Ethan can drink out of a straw now too! A BABY straw, that comes out slowly. When I was buying the cup with the straw the cashier decided to question my parenting and told me I shouldn't be allowing him to drink out of a straw until he is a year old and continued to "ask" Ethan "Are they good parents?". I could kill a bitch. The package specifically says 9+ months. Ethan will be 9 months. It's not like I am giving a newborn a straw damn. Also, I bought another straw cup today that says 4-12 months so suck on that meijer worker. ANYWAY Ethan just didn't like his sippy cup. He does NOT want to lift his head up to drink it and would always put his head down to the cup, so I figured the straw would work better. I will still use the other cups because he needs practice but it's good for him to learn to use a straw too. Welll..that is all of the news I can think of at the moment. This ended up being a lot longer than I expected...
