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.

Ethan August

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