Eleven Months Old Already!

So I thought in the spirit of Christmas I would give you a little 11 month update on Ethan in the form of a familiar song. (The 12 Days of Christmas if you can't figure it out. Silly I know, but hum the tune in your head and let yourself get in the Christmas spirit just a little.)

The 12 Update Facts of Ethan:

12. Hours a night sleeping

11. Be nice to Max reminders (per hour)

10. Da Da Da Da's (O ma ma ma ma's mind you)

9. Steps by himself he's taking

8. Digital pictures mommy's snapping

7. Temper Tantrums

6. Central and Lateral Incisors (teeth)

5. Diaper Changes

4. Snacks a day of Gold Fish

3. Feed myself meals

2. Daily Naps (for 2 hours each yipeee!)

1. Happy Toddler Most of the time

Anyway that pretty much sums up what Ethan is doing now except that today he started signing "More" and "All Done" while he was eating. Hopefully we can keep this up and maybe lessen the out bursts he has when he wants something. (Hey a mom can hope right?)

It has been 11 months since Ethan was born and I continue to be amazed by all of the things he is doing. He is such a little ball of energy and we have so much fun with him. In the last month I think the new thing that Ethan has taught me, is to have patience with the mom at the groccery store with the full cart of grocceries and a child screeching at the top of his lungs because sometimes its ME!

I love this little guy more than I can say, and thank God for him every day!

Come on mom this is NOT a real Turkey

I'll ripe your stuffing out you silly bird!!

I love setting up the Christmas Tree!

My Very Own 1st Christmas Ornament

Ethan being dedicated to Jesus

As you can see Ethan is a little more steady now, but he still

doesn't want to walk unless someone is there to catch him.

A Day to go down in History!!

Yesterday while we were outside visiting daddy and grandpa Ethan took his first steps!! We didn't have the camera then but 5 minutes later we went inside to see if he would do it again and were so happy to get this on camera. Take a look!!

Now the real fun begins!

Happy Halloween...from the 10 month old!!

So with a new baby comes new family traditions. Here are some pictures we took with our friends this year when we visited a pumpkin patch. Ethan was so excited by all of the pumpkins that he just couldn't decide which one he wanted to make the perfect jack-o-lantern. I was too busy watching my "little pumpkin" and thinking how much fun the holidays are going to be with someone that gets so excited about the little things.

Uncle Adam Comes Home In...

Finally I am returning to blog again. Seems the last month and a half have been so busy I haven't had time to sit down and do any playing on the computer. I have been feeling guilty about it and have talked to several people that have asked when I am going to post something new, so I have finally taken the time to add a few things. One very exciting thing that is coming up soon is that my brother is coming home for Christmas!! He is in CA at Loma Linda in dental school, and hasn't been home since last Christmas. With Ethan being born almost 5 weeks early it worked out that Adam got to see him before he left, but he was all hooked-up to monitors, and wasn't able to be held yet, so Adam has never seen him in person since he came home, and has never held him. Even though he is no longer a cuddly little newborn, he has matured and grown and is trying to learn to walk by the time Uncle Adam comes home so they can play together and enjoy the time when they get to really meet for the first time.

Can't wait till you come home Uncle Adam. I love you already and can't wait to see you and get to know you. --Ethan

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Bits and pieces

These are some video clips I found and like but didn't include them in several past blogs so I thought I would devote a blog just to them. Enjoy!

I hope sand doesn't do anything to your insides.



This is Ethan's choice of transportation lately.



I was eating a peach and then looked up and this is what I found.(A peach snatcher)



I don't think it will be long till Ethan is walking.



I give birth to him, I feed him day AND night, I bath him, I dress him, I change him and this is the thanks I get...

A Labor Day Tradition

There is debate over the number of years that my family has been going on the houseboats at Dale Hollow Lake, but we all agree it has been twenty something years. We look forward to seeing friends we haven't seen all year, and enjoy a great weekend of relaxing, eating great food, swimming, skiing, going on boat rides, and did I mention eating great food (seems we do alot of that). Since Labor Day is a bit special to Matthew and I (i.e. we had our first kiss on houseboats (then Matthew was sent home after dad found us oops!!!), and then we got engaged 6 years later on houseboats.)it seemed only fitting Ethan should get his first exposure to the lake up on Dale Hollow. We were a bit nervous about how Ethan would do spending the weekend with 18 people and sleeping in a cubicle with Matthew and me, but we were pleasantly surprised at how well he did and were happy to have him sleep through the night and take good naps. Ethan even choose Labor Day to get up on his hands and knees and start rocking back and forth, he even crawled a little by the end of the weekend.
After 3 days back at work Matthew was off to the Boundary Waters for a guys trip (he hasn't worked more than 3 days in a row since July, boy is it going to be a shocker when he gets back next week.) Ethan and I are surviving here and missing Matthew but hope he is having fun and being safe.