The Way With Books

Ethan loves books. Not only reading them, which he does quite often and can do so quietly on his own for a long time, but also throwing them about, tearing them (I just used up 1/3 of a roll of tape putting together one particular book a couple of days ago. I should post a picture of that book. It doubled in volume by the time I was done with it.) or putting them in a heap.

At 10 months. Thought it was quite cute.

At 2.5 years. Not thinking that it's so cute anymore.. cos he has many more books now and I have to sit with him and make him put it back one by one which takes a really long time because every book that he picks up, he will browse through it and appear to be deciding whether to read it or not.

On the topic of making a mess, Ethan was alone in his room this morning and we could hear him throwing some of his toys around. Benjamin told me later that he saw ethan standing on his bed looking out of the window when he went in to check on him. He thinks ethan might have thrown something out of the window but we don't know what. Hope we don't get a visit from the police anytime soon.

Ethan Meets His Cousins

You might realise that so far, there have not been any pictures of Ethan with his cousins. Not that he does not have any. In fact, he has three lovely cousins. Just that they live in Sydney and Ethan has not really met them yet (actually, he did, briefly, when he was abt 6 months, when they were back for a short while but I'm sure Ethan does not have any memory of it). Anyway, they are back for a visit and we are really happy to see them again and to spend time with them.

Ethan with cousins Janelle and Janine at the family portrait photo shoot for the occasion of the wedding of Ethan's Xiao Shu. By the way, he absolutely hates the bow tie.

Chasing bubbles at the Botanic Garden (the boy in the hat is a friend of his cousins)

Cute-as-a-button Cousin Josiah

Day at the zoo. The last time we went to the zoo was on his 1st birthday. I think he enjoys it much better now that he's older. The animal he was most fascinated with - the monkeys especially those that pee-pee while swinging about in mid-air (not a good role model for a little boy who is undergoing toilet training)