A -mazing March

Erin and Ethan at Ingleton park Ethan in daddy's shoes (Excuse the mismatched pajamas...lol)

Ethan relaxin' at Anne and Luke's house.

Ethan sitting on the steps with "pih pather"

Ethan has just increased his vocabulary tenfold, with the help of Go Diego Go, Ni Hao Kailan and Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs and us and his general surroundings.

Ethan speak includes:

Food: seeral (Cereal), hot dog, cheese toast, appo(Apple), patsa (pasta- ravioli, spaghetti sauce on spiral pasta), juice, appo juice, milk, prepo(pretzel), bay beans(Baked Beans0, cake, chahlaht(Chocolate), caddy(candy)

Colors that he knows: Boo, gween, yeh yo,pur po bow-n , wed(Blue, green, yellow, purple, brown, red) We are still working on pink and orange.

Vehicles: Bike (Motorcycles and bikes), car, nee naw nee naw(Firetruck), bus, truck, pwane(Plane)

Nyo nalan( Ni Hao Kailan), Nyo nalan( Watch a Ni Hao Kailan DVD)

Diego!!! (Go Diego Go), Diego Watch(Watch a Diego DVD)

Harry book, weed Harry Book (read a Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs Book)

teh a tubbies ( teletubbies), Teh a tubbie toast

Spanish words: Soobay (Climb), nademos(swim) and a few others I can't remember now.

Chinese Words : Bei Bei, (Blankie) Bao Bao(Hug), She Zhao(Bath), Nei Nei(Milk bottle),Wah wah(socks), Ai yee ( auntie- whom he calls all our female friends as is proper in Chinese)

Dinogoc(Dinosaur), chair, bed ( as in I want to go to bed)

Bah(Ball), daddy cah, (daddy's car)

wook (work) as in Daddy wook.

sit -as in mommy sit down beside me and stahs- stairs

big ow (If he does something that might potentially be dangerous) as in pointing to something sharp like scissors and saying "Big ow"

Sheep and sheep mum mum (Sheep are eating)

pay (pray) as in say our prayers or say grace before meals.

"cold!! "with pretend shiver and "wuh! Hot! phuh phuh" (Blowing sound)

Naked!! (Which he shouts whenever we change his diaper/nappy since he wants to run around without anything on)

camra( camera), pyu-tah (Computer)

uh oh, ye ah!!, faw down, (as in I fell down), cool!!, chee-E monkey... ooh ahh ahh (Cheeky monkey followed by monkey sound)

bin( trash can), You did it ( as in after he farts he says, mommy or daddy did it)

He will put colors to most vehicles and make their corresponding sound, and often add pweese (please) to his demands to watch DVDs. He will also say the color of the balls he finds. (Speaking of balls- these are his latest favorite thing and he will throw a tantrum if someone takes it away or he wants someone else's ball. Football, soccer ball, tennis ball, basketball. (any ball really) It's also starting with the ride on cars at playgroup as well...

The list grows by the minute so I can't keep track. I definately need to start writing them down...as if I have the time!!!

More to come!