Mr. Sociable

What a week this has been with Ethan. For most of this week he has been Mr. Krabs. He has been all about throwing temper tantrums over being told no. He wants whatever it is we happen to have in our hands & he won't let it go. He has thrown tantrums over the tv remote, cell phones, the house phone, poking the cats is the eye or pulling their fur (poor cats), & whatever else we have to tell him no on. Each morning after breakfast I get down on the floor to play with him only to be completely ignored. So I stay on the floor but will turn on GMA that I DVR each morning to listen to the news while I continue to try to play with Ethan. This is when he thinks he should get into all the no-no's. Somethings are just to big to put up out of his reach like the floor lamp. He got really aggressive with poor little Peek-a-boo the other day ripping her fur out, tugging her ears & hard as she tried since she won't jump the gates she just couldn't get away from him. He got really upset when I rescued her. I know it's just a phase he's in between the independent & dependent play with me stage. Some days it's just exhausting though. I guess we have reached Toddlerhood huh?

Yesterday we took Ethan on a few errands with us, then he went swimming in his pool, then he went over to his Aunt Cindy's for a cookout & watched the Point Place fireworks after that. We got home a little after 10:30 from the fireworks. Today we all took a trip to the zoo. Since we have a membership we were able to get in a hour earlier (just this week only). I think we covered every possible area except the aquarium & of course the Butterfly house. We took him to the new petting zoo which is more of a discovery area now but there were some goats for him to pet. He was a little timid with the goats, not really sure what to make of them. He got up close & personal with a Fox snake as well. There was one out in the open for people to touch. I was a tad disappointed that he wasn't allowed to touch it. Gov't says that b/c snakes carry E. Coli & other diseases children under the age of 5 are not allowed to touch due to their immune systems not being strong enough to handle it. But he was allowed to look. Ethan also was right up to the Tigers. We got the oppertunity to watch them feed the Tigers. They were right up against the glass chewing on rats. He was fascinated by that. He had a fun time at the zoo so when we got home he went down for a nap. Now he's in bed for the night talking himself to sleep.

I took some pictures & a short video of Ethan in his pool on Friday. They will be posted soon I just have to get them loaded onto my computer. Be on the lookout for them.