Ethan loves talking on the phone (which consists of "nuh nuh nuh nuh") , and he will try to pick up the phone and talk on it whenever he gets the chance. He's mistaken calculator's for phone's, and I'll find him wandering around talking to a calculator. My mom bought him a cute play phone for his first birthday, and I bought him another one for his second birthday, and he loves playing with them, but he somehow knows that they are just toys, and he will get more excited for the real thing when there is a real person on the other side. One night a couple weeks ago or so he kept trying to get the phone while I was on the computer, so I called my sister Rachelle and once she answered I handed the phone over to Ethan, and he was so excited. I've let him talk on the phone before, but this time he got so into it that I ran to get Ryan so he could see. Ryan ended up taking a video of him as he paced the floor carrying on his meaningful conversation with Rachelle, who in turn jabbered away back. We thought it was pretty funny. However, for some reason the video will not up-load onto my blog, so for those of you who have facebook, it's on there. Since that particular conversation with Rachelle Ethan has opened up in his speech and jabbers away almost constantly at times. It makes me happy to hear his voice more. At night when I put him to bed, sometimes I'll lay next to him and sing him Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, or Once There Was a Snowman. I like to lay there and listen to him as he is falling asleep and jabbering away.

Lately I've noticed how much Ethan has grown, and is growing... It's always good to see your child progress, and you want them to, but it's still a little sad to see the baby phase go.

Play Group

Today was Ethan's first day at the CSI play group. Up until now Ethan has had a developmental therapist come out to our house to work with him (it went along with the speech therapy he was getting). Ethan isn't as delayed in development as he is in speech, never the less it helps to have people and programs available to work with him, esp. when we don't have to pay for it. From now on until he turns 3 he will go to a play group twice a week, instead of having the developmental therapist come to our home. (He will still have the speech therapist, Lisa, come to our home though). He loved playing with the toys, and with the other children. I stayed for the first part because he was clingy and it was his first day, but once he got focused on a toy I snuck out. Later when I came back I watched through the observatory window they have (the kind where you can see them but they can't see you) and Ethan was having so much fun. He is becoming quite a social little boy. He was racing a truck around the room (he loves pushing anything that will move as fast as he can) and another little boy was racing alongside him with another truck. Whenever the other little boy would pause Ethan would stop and wait for him to start racing again. It was very cute to watch him interact with the other children, although the other children didn't seem as interested in social play as he was. I even knew several of the moms who dropped their children off, and even one of the CSI students who helps out in the play group. I'm really excited for Ethan to go to this group, I think it will be very good for him to be in a pre-school like environment and react with other children, and get away from me for a little bit. And I decided that while Ethan is in his play group, I am going to start working out at the YMCA, so it will be good for both of us.