Zio Marco and Zia Rafaella

My aunt and uncle from Italy came for a visit for a few weeks in February. Ethan warmed right up to them! Seeing them makes me want to head to Italy to visit the rest of my family! Maybe one day . . .

"Seriously?"

Mamma and Daddy got Ethan this T-shirt for his birthday. Ethan opened it last, and it took everyone a second to realize what the shirt actually meant- Ethan, of course, knew what it meant the moment he opened it up. Given his expression, he would like it returned.

Birthday Cake

Elmo helped celebrate Ethan's brithday with us! Ethan didn't know what to do when presented with the candles! Daddy helped out and they blew the candles out together.

Let the wild rumpus begin!

Ethan opening up his gifts- with help from his cousins and Bree of course!

Birthday Boy

Before the party began, sporting his "smoking sweater" uncle Marco sent him for Christmas, watching Mamma and Nonna decorate the house.

Ethan's birthday was January 11- I'm obviously a little slow at posting things on the blog!

Finger Painting

Ethan enjoys painting and coloring. Here is is working on his first masterpiece! I love his expression in the second picture, kind of evil looking in a way . . .

Snow!

Ethan went out in the snow for the first time a few weeks ago. We bundled him up and walked to the park near our house. He loved walking around in it and we even pushed him down a few small hills- in his sled of course!

Christmas 2009

Here are a few pics from Christmas. We spent the morning at Nonna's house and then went to Grandma and Grandpa Bradford for the afternoon where Ethan recieved his most favorite gift ever- a Vacuum!! Just like Mamma's!!! Now when I vacuum he pulls his out and follows me around, he will even take the attachments off of my vacuum and put them onto his . . . I sure hope this lasts!

Fun with Jarrod's Computer

Jarrod (Cecca's boyfriend) got a new Apple computer over Christmas- it spent a day or so over at our house b/c Grandpa was helping to get it set up. It had a really cool camera feature where you could distort the pictures- here are a few fun ones.

Christmas Photos

Ethan did a good job of posing in front of the tree so I could take some pictures for our Christmas cards. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Thanksgiving and Pumpkin Pie!

I didn't take that many pics for Thanksgiving for some reason, but here are a few of Ethan enjoying pumpkin pie, and Norah looking on.

Meijer Gardens

We went to Meijer Gardens last weekend becuase it was such beautiful weather here! Here are a couple pictures from the day.

Handsome Guy!

More Leaves!

Ethan having fun in the leaves with Jim. He loved it when Jim would throw the leaves over his face!

Leaves!

Ethan helped us rake leaves today, such a big helper!

Elmo!

This is Ethan's "say cheese" face.

Halloween

Ethan went as Elmo this year- he LOVES Elmo. Here he is with Nonna and Grandma Jeri, Grandma Sue, Uncle Nick and Aunt Sunny, and Mamma (or, as Ethan has been calling me lately "mamma aletha" (mamma alessia)- which is kind of annoying!)
He was a big help while we were handing out candy, every once in awhile he would say "mine" as we were giving it away- he did get a few bites of KitKat- which he loved!