Forts, Airplanes and Pointing

Forts, airplanes and pointing, these three things have struck up a new found fascination around our house.

Personally, I have always been a fan of a good fort, somewhere to hide or a club house. Ethan currently has two forts in our house. The first is in the coat closet under the stairs, there is extra storage behind the coats, its like a little room. We have some stuff back there but there's just enough room for Ethan and either Mommy or Daddy. Plus, this is where we keep the basketball and football and he goes nuts over either of those. The other fort is the bottom bunk of the bunk beds we have set up in the guest room. We put the dust ruffle thing on the upper bed so it is quite sheltered, add a bunch of pillows and its a perfect hiding place. Yesterday he learned how to get himself in there, now we just have to work on not standing up while in there and then getting out.

Airplanes, oh airplanes, how we love you when you fly so close to our house. Ethan goes CRAZY for airplanes!! He wants to chase them, he even says airplane, it sounds like up but I'm a mom, I know the difference. Although this picture looks like it belongs in the pointing chapter of this blog, he is actually pointing to the passing airplane.
Now comes pointing, instead of just grunting to show that he wants something, Ethan now grunts and points (most the time we have no idea what he's pointing at but hey it's a step in the right direction). He points very frequently, as we've learned with most new skills, he likes to test them out. Here's some good pointing pictures: