Funny Things

Here are some cute things Ethan has done lately:

When I go to lay him down in his bed for the night sometimes he will throw his arms around my neck to get me to stay with him.

Squint his eyes and wrinkle his nose and try to get some tears out.

Throw his hands over his eyes in a dramatic attempt to look like he's crying.

The other day Ethan found a can of pears in the pantry and brought it to Grandma. She told him just a minute, as she was ironing. A moment later he was back again, holding the can of pears and a can opener and handed them to her.

If he sees Grandpa sitting on the couch he will go grab his hand and make him go upstairs with him to get him ice cream.

Attempts to do the itsy bitsy spider hand gestures.

Can put his shoes and socks on, and even gets them on the right feet.

I put Ethan down for a nap the other day, and after leaving him in there for several hours came to get him up so I could go to Twin to run errands. I opened the door and discovered it was obvious he hadn't taken a nap. Instead he was laying in bed on his back, books covering the bed, along with some toys. He had one leg crossed over the other with a book resting on his leg and he was reading. He looked up at me and gave me this look that seemed to say, "did you want something?"

How can you go so wrong?

Last night we decided to try another chinese food resturant from the area, a new one we hadn't yet tried. I LOVE chinese/oriental food, and I have good memories of the few oriental resturants I've been to in the Seattle area, they were SO good. How is it that people can go so wrong on oriental food? Seriously? Many people have never had any chinese food other than their local small town Idaho restuarant, and they think that is what chinese food is supposed to taste like. And therefore they decide that they do not like Oriental food. I have tried to make oriental food and it never turns out quite right, something always seems to be missing... and it makes quite a mess and takes a lot of time. I do think I am coming close to getting my orange chicken recipe tweaked to taste right, but it means the family ends up being my test subjects, and when it goes wrong oriental food REALLY goes wrong, at least in my opinion. If anyone has any good oriental food recipes, I would love to get some, or if anyone has an idea of why it is so seemingly hard to fix a good oriental dish I would like to know. Maybe I can convince Ryan to move us to Seattle (Ryan thinks it's hilarious that I still hold out hope of moving to Seattle, esp. in his opinion just so I can have a good chinese food resturant to eat at....:) )