My Little Dutch Boy!

As promised, here are some pictures from Tulip Time and Ethan as a little Dutch Boy - minus the wooden shoes! We did get some wooden shoes for him, but not in time for the day we went down there! Oh well, he pulled them off right away anyway! He actually kept his hat on all day, which was really surprising.

Off with the shoes!

That's what he REALLY thinks about his Dutch Costume!

Ethan and Grandma Sue!

The eyelids were getting pretty heavy here, I thought he wasn't going to make it to the parade.

But then the parade started and he loved the bands!

He was clapping, kicking and laughing!

Sorry it took me forever to post these. My computer is wicked old and seems to work when it wants to, plus it takes me like 15 years to upload images!! Anyway, bear with me. Hope it was worth the wait!!

I thought it was April Showers!

Hello everyone! (if there's anyone that still checks my blog that is!) I'm sorry it's been forever since I've blogged! It's not that I didn't have anything to say, my hold up was that I wanted to upload pictures with my entry and I can't seem to make that happen at the moment so I guess you'll have to wait on those, but I'll post some soon....I promise! Let's see, Ethan is really getting into everything now! He loves to stand up on, well, everything! Some of new fav's are pulling open my drawers in the kitchen and emptying them all out, standing up on the TV and then banging on it as hard as he can (Daddy especially loves it when he does that!), putting toys on the end-tables and banging on them, and pushing anything/everything around that he can; cups, spoons, bowls, cars, the entire dog tray is his favorite - it's so cute! Last night he was standing up in the bathroom holding onto the closet door buck naked and dancing his little heart out, oh I wish I would have had the video camera at that moment, I just laughed! Little things like that I hope are forever burned in my memory.

Last week we braved the crouds and impossible parking and headed to Tulip Time! This is something for the past several years I have avoided at all costs. I guess I needed a break after being part of it for most of my life! Anyway, my mom and I went down on Thur for the children's parade. We took some pictures of my little Dutch Boy in the Tulips at Central Park and then went down-town for a junk food lunch. Mom and I ate at Subs and More ( I know, not a vender, but it sounded good) and Ethan didn't really want much to with what we were having so we got him a corn dog from one of the venders and he really liked that! Then we ran into a friend from work, Julie, and her family in front of their family's store. They invited us to watch the parade with them, they had some spots reserved. I wasn't sure we were going to make it to the parade b/c that's usually when Ethan's napping, and for a while I thought he was going to zonk out in his stroller. He came close, but when the parade started he got his second wind and just loved it! He was clapping and rocking back and forth to the bands, it was really fun to watch him. (Here's where I would have included the pictures....)

I guess that's all for now, I can't wait for the weather to cooperate so we can do some more exploring outside!!