a brief update

So much for blogging more, right? Oh, well. It'll come back.

Ethan started preferring walking to crawling on Friday. Brett said he saw Ethan standing and then he wanted to get somewhere, so he bent down to crawl. Brett said it was like something clicked in his brain, because he paused, stood back up, and started walking. He'd been doing a few steps here and there up to that point, but now he's walking everywhere!

He loves to read. I moved all his books down to a low shelf so that he has access to them. He sits down surrounded by his scattered books, reading to himself for 20 minutes at a time (or sometimes more). I just caught him reading a book to himself, babbling away, but when I watched him for a minute he was babble signing too! He was moving his hands all around while he pointed at the pictures and words. So cute!