We have the greatest friends and family- and a pretty cute kid too!

Thanks to everyone's votes, facebook posts, and emails, Ethan won a $1,000 prize for being an "Impossibly Cute Kid- Fan Favorite"!  That money will be gone one day, but the sense of support from our family and friends will be a lifelong memory.

Now the voting site shows this headline:

Wow, if he kept this up, Ethan would start paying for himself!  A heartfelt thank you to everyone who put in all that effort!

Yes, he owns another shirt

As I was writing this post to share with you the last bit of our Easter adventure visiting the cherry blossoms, my dear sis wrote me asking, "So, does your kid have another shirt besides that Obama one?" (I bet my Grandpa was wondering the same question!) Why yes, he does, but he did grow out of most of his short sleeve shirts so it is in heavy rotation! So here's the disclaimer, these three posts are from the same day, I do cloth my child, but I also do need to go shopping now that it's getting warmer.

Finally, here are our pictures with the cherry blossoms!

(testing for pollen allergies apparently)

When your kid becomes a tourist attraction

When we last went to the National Mall to see the cherry blossoms, we stopped by some beautiful tulips for a couple of pictures.  Little did we know what would occur...

We snapped a few pictures...

 Ethan wanted to eat a flower...

And while we posed... it happened. 

 A small line started of people.  Asking to take pictures with our child.  Really?!

This woman borrowed someone's Easter balloon to get a smile for her photo op. 

Needless to say, we found it hilarious!

If Ethan starts getting vain though, I'm telling him it was only because of his Obama shirt.  (See what your gift started, Caroline and Frank?)

Help make Ethan a winner?

I'm so proud of my little redhead!  A few weeks back I entered a photo I took of Ethan in Babble's Impossibly Cute Kid Photo Contest.  Out of thousands of entries, he was chosen as one of the top 20 finalists!  Now it's down to popular vote to see which child wins $1,000!!  

If you have a spare moment between now and April 15th, mind voting for our little model?  

Click here to vote!

There's no registration or log in needed, it's a simple click!  And family members out there... you can show your love by voting once a day until the 15th if you'd like! ;)  

Thanks in advance for validating his Mommy's vanity and 

for helping put some cash in his college fund!

Update: 4/16- YOU DID IT!! ETHAN WON!

His third wardrobe option was no wardrobe at all!

Our favorite pictures of Ethan from our recent fun at the mall were of him crawling out of the bathtub.  These are going to make perfect blackmail photos if he ever decides to be late for curfew!  You can see the real blackmail photos here.

Yes, we made him wear a Christmas sweater!

We did our first mall family photo session this past week to get our picture for our Christmas cards.  It ended up being a lot of fun and included 3 wardrobe changes (for Ethan of course!  Well... really two.  One was the cheesy Christmas sweater, which of course his parents declined to wear, a Santa suit, and the third, naked bum shots (again, Ethan only)!   You can see the holiday pics here.

Think they'll turn us in to AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com?