Busy Boy

Ethan is growing up more each day. He is really starting to look like a young boy instead of our baby. It is great fun to watch him make toys out of nothing, crawl all over the place and babble, squeal, and raise a ruckus. Never a dull moment for us! Ethan now has five teeth - 4 on the top and one on the bottom. He looks kind of silly, but oh well. He favorite thing to eat is cheese. I think he could live on the stuff. Other than that, he is just doing normal baby stuff right now. I cut his bangs a few weeks ago - what an experience. Hopefully we will have pictures up of that soon. Life is busy for us and to think it is only going to get busier!!

Boy Oh Boy...

Boy Oh Boy is only the tip of the iceberg. Ethan is growing bigger, stronger, braver, and Boy Oh Boy is he curious and full of energy! In addition, Ethan is going to be a big brother to a little brother. Boy Oh Boy will we have our hands full in a few months. Ethan is finally teething. At ten+ months, I finally felt his first 2 teeth poking through this morning. He is getting all four at the same time(we have had quite the crabby baby for the past month due to this mouth full coming in all at once). Nothing like getting them all at once. In addition to the teeth Ethan is standing, dancing, clapping and trying to walk along the furniture and behind toys. The biggest challenge for us has been breaking him of the bottle and trying to get him to use a sippy cup instead. We have less than 2 months to accomplish this as the Doctor and daycare make this a goal in the first 12 months of development. What a challenge for Mom and Dad!! We've upload tons of pictures and videos for September and October and we also have the new baby pictures up from the 20 week ultrasound. Enjoy our little ones!! They are growing soooooo fast.

Getting Braver

Ethan is getting a lot braver as he begins to figure out the mechanics of crawling. This morning he became bored with the toys we offered him on the floor in our bedroom while we were getting ready for work. Normally he would just pitch a fit and expect us to give him something more fun to play with, but this morning he up and decided to just army crawl away from the toys and into our hallway. Once there he was confused by the new floor texture, but it didn't take him long to deal with that change and sit up on his butt to explore the hallway, shadows, and the air exchange vent. Once he figured out the air vent made a great "string" instrument, he went to town making music by strumming the vent guard. He then proceeded to use his pacifer as a drum stick on it as well. It was great fun to watch him discover a whole new world outside of the confines of our bedroom this morning. The world seems to be at his fingertips now. What will be his next adventure???

Rolling Rolling Rolling...

Ethan finally rolled over from his back to his belly on July 31st. He now can't stop rolling all over the place. Right now it is his mode of transportation and he is already getting himself into mischief. It will be loads of fun when he puts all his coordination together and starts crawling. We are enjoying watching our son grow up (but it is all going much too quickly). I just want to bottle him up where he is right now and save all these precious moments.
Ethan is also beginning to use sign language. He first word/sign was milk on Sunday, August 9th. I am so excited that he is learning from Michael and I. Can't wait until he learns another word.

Food Rocks!

Ethan is finally starting to love food. It took a while for him to figure out what to do with it, but now he can't seem to get enough. Even though he has proven to be a messy eater (no matter what I try) he continues to chow down on the good stuff. Sometimes instead of eating the food he prefers to pull it out of his mouth in an effort to investigate what I put in his mouth. He then paints a self portrait on himself or the highchair. I'm glad I have patience, because if I didn't I wouldn't find any humor in his mess!

We are happy to say Ethan pulled through his surgery well earlier this month. He is healing wonderfully. Ethan is back to enjoying all that life has to offer him right now.

Parade and Fireworks

Ethan enjoyed his first 4th of July celebration, well mostly. The parade went well until the modern day fire trucks came roaring down the street with sirens blarring. He made it through the guns and old fashion trucks, but not the modern ones. After that he did great until he got tired and had to go take a nap in his stroller. He seemed to like watching all the activity streaming by on the street. That evening we went to see fireworks too. He only cried during the first few but then he got comfortable on my chest and watched the remainder of the 15 minute show. He cried a little at the end too when things got excessively loud again. We have a few pictures from this weekend in our July photos. We also upload a ton more to June. Enjoy our little Ethan!

Growing Tall

Ethan’s checkup went well last week. He got his 3 shots and even though he cried hard, it was pretty easy to calm him afterwards. He grew 2 inches since his 4 month appointment!! We were excited about that because it puts him back on the growth curve. His weight was 16 pounds 2 ounces (also perfect) and we have been cleared to start real food (though I have been trying the rice cereal for sometime). We are to feed him with a spoon twice a day now. This will be exhausting until he figures out what a spoon is and how to use it. He still hasn’t figured it out since we started cereal on Memorial Day evening. But I suppose in time we will all get used to it.