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"Big Shark!"

Together in the shopping cart

Ethan and Alex playing at the park

Ethan on Mars

Ethan on the moon.

Ethan says that Alex is "saying prayers."

Look at all the Christmas packages delivered by UPS today!

Sleepy boy. The paper crown and temporary pirate tattoo are from his Christmas cracker.

Ethan with his prizes from his Christmas cracker: A candy cane and a paper crown.

Alex's presents from his Christmas Cracker: a paper crown and a temporary pirate tattoo. He's also showing off his new tooth.

Playing in the river simulation sandbox at the Dinosaur Museum

Yummy pancakes!

Close up of Alex. He's starting to hold himself up on his hand now.

Ethan (holding Baby Jesus): That's Alex!

Ethan QOTD: Go hug the spider!

Look who's doing a little tripodding today! (Finally.)

Ethan drinking "Zombie Juice" (soda) at IHOP

Alex + rice cereal = cute

Ethan put Mr. Potatohead together all by himself. He says its his homage to Picasso.

Sham-wow!

Ethan at the 3D IMAX show "Oceans of Wonder". His first real movie theater experience.

What is this thing called snow?

We bought Alex his first book at the Museum of Ancient History. He enjoys manipulating it, but doesn't get the idea of books yet. Maybe we need to start reading to him more.

Ethan playing at the Museum of Ancient History (or as he calls it, the "Dinosaur house"). At the end there's a couple of sandboxes that kids can dig in to find dinosaur bones. Ethan, however, just plays in the sand.

One of Ethan's favorite things about the Dinosaur Museum is the dark room full of stars. So we bought him some stars to stick on his ceiling. Of course, Chris wouldn't be satisfied unless the stars were somewhat accurate, so we bought a set that had constellation stencils. Here's the constellation Orion.

This is what we found on our walk to the park. Yikes! Ethan was fascinated (so was Chris). Chris debating on whether he should kill it or not (predators are an important part of a food web) but this particular predator is potentially dangerous to people so.... squish.

We're eating at Winger's tonight. Ethan is loving the popcorn.

Chris: "Ethan, what's that?" (expecting 'dinosaur')
Ethan: -pause- "A ceratops!"
Chris: -dumbstruck-

I think he got this from a dinosaur book he has, but I've never really quizzed him on this or anything. I'm amazed by how much this kid absorbs and remembers.

Ethan loves musical greeting cards. This Star Wars one played the theme and also lit up an green LED lightsaber. This is a picture of him watching it in the dark.

Ethan's really into planets lately. Now he can name them all.

He will emerge as a beautiful butterfly

Orca plays the guitar!