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)

Heaven

Ever since he learnt about the Wordless Book in one of his sunday school lessons (and also after I went through the book with him at home a few times after that lesson), ethan has been talking about wanting to go to heaven (which is symbolized by the gold page, for those familiar with how the book works).

One wet morning a couple of days ago, we had this conversation.

Ethan: Want to go heaven.
Me: Yes, what do you have to do to go to heaven?
Ethan: Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Me: Yes, that's right.
Ethan: want to go heaven. Daddy, Mummy and Yi Yi also.
Me: yes, we do. We are all going to heaven.
Ethan: But it's raining.

Something tells me that I'm not teaching it right.

Friends!

Sabo-ed

My dad called me up one evening when ethan was at his Gong Gong and Po Po's place. My dad wanted to check something out with me after having the following conversation with the boy who had been coughing quite a bit that day.

Gong Gong: ethan boy, how come you are coughing?

ethan: mummy give ice-cream

The thing was that I (actually, it was the husband) did give him some ice-cream just the evening before when he had NOT (of course) been coughing.

Just the day before....

Funny Sunnies

I love putting sunglasses on ethan and he quite willingly lets me do so.

How can a cute face like that do the naughty things that he does?

Well, I don't know. But he sure does them!

Dating 101 - What Not To Say

While having breakfast with ethan one weekday morning at Holland V, an impossibly pretty 3-year-old came over to talk to him.

Girl: What is your name?
Ethan: I am two years old.
(ethan's mummy slaps her forehead with palm at this point)
Me: Erm... his name is Ethan.
Girl: Is he a baby?

Fail la.

At the Marina Barrage

We made a trip to the Marina Barrage on a whim a couple of Saturdays ago. It was our first time there. There were not many people around while we were there and we rather enjoyed ourselves.

The husband could not resist posing for this.

He also could not resist making me pose for this.

We couldn't resist taking this shot of ethan who just happened to be standing there like that when we took the picture. :)