Catching up, in pictures

There are no excuses. I am a really bad blogger. I'll spare you all my "reasons" for not posting and go straight to catching you up on what we've been doing in the last month or so by showing you a few pictures.

First up, my mom's birthday was the beginning of June. Ethan had fun swimming with his Great Uncle A.J.:
And then he dug into some chocolate cream pie:
We didn't exactly let him do this. I was putting everything out on the table, and before you know it, that kid had a mouthful of whipped cream. He certainly is his father's son.

We've also been hitting a few birthday parties for some of E's friends. This is one of his favorite attraction at all his buddies' houses, the Cozy Coupe:
He also really likes to climb up slides. Not slide down them, climb up them:

We've been working on his piano skills:
He plays the piano a LOT at home and where I work.

We've been visiting more sprinkler parks around town. He's now more interested in walking around outside of them:

We tried finger painting. He wasn't interested:
He ate a little bit and then decided he'd rather play.

He hung out by the pool at a family friend's house:

He went to watch Daddy play volleyball on Father's Day:
And enjoyed cooling off in the misters while we were there:

So that's a bit of what the little monkey has been up to. I have more to share soon, but for now I'll leave you with one more picture of my favorite little 15 month(!?!) old:



P.S. to a couple of my most loyal readers: We miss you Uncle Gary and Aunt Elecee! Hope you haven't given up on reading the blog, I'll try to do better!