Emma's First Haircut

She is almost 3 1/2 years old so it is about time we get her hair cut. For the historic event we all piled into the car and headed over to Snip Its. It is over in Garden City and it is pretty cute in there. Emma let me put her up in the big chair and sat very still.

The First Cut

All Done!

Ethan's trick list...

11 Months!

I know a lot of you haven't been able to see the little man lately. We seem to be in a birthday drought or something. Anyway here's the updated list:

1. Stands up and walks everywhere!
2. Drinks for a sippy cup (Mostly, he just steals Emma's)
3. Says Ma, Dada, Em-MA, hi, yeah, and mimics a lot of the sounds we make.
4. Understands, No and will shake his head no.
5. If you say, "love you," or "kisses" he will smack his little lips.
6. Claps and says, "yeah!"
7. Can feed himself with his fingers.
8. Climbs on everything!
9. Waves hi and bye but is is sometimes about 10 seconds after you already have left.
10. Loves his sister!
    

10 Months!

Ethan and Manny

Ethan is now 10 months old. Poor Manny is really getting beaten on now.

Ethan's Top 10 Facts

1. Eats everything, good and not so good.
2. Crawls everywhere including up the stairs, see videos.
3. Naps twice a day.
   
4. Has 8 teeth.
5. Weighs more than 20 lbs.
6. Loves to eat in has fancy new highchair.
7. Can still say, "Dada, Ma, Em-aa, hi, yeah."
8. Waves bye and hi.
9. Torments his sister.
10. Walks all over the place!
    

Surfing turns into Walking!

YIKES!

NINE MONTHS!

Ethan turned nine months on 1/24/2009Sadly this is the best picture I could get with Manny this month

The other 20 I took looked something like this:

Poor Manny

Emma's head popping up

If you haven't noticed 9 months is a pretty active age. This little man has been keeping us on our toes. I find myself saying, "Boys are different" quite often. Ethan does things like crawl with his head down and goes until he bumps into something and then pulls himself up on it, dives out of high chairs, yanks every plug out of the wall, eats Polly Pockets like its his job, and other random bad boy things.

We did take him for his check up today and he is perfect! I know we are at the parenting age now because at one point we knew all 3 of the other moms in the waiting room. Anyway his stats are:

Weight: 20 lbs 11 ozs (50%)
Height: 28 1/8 inches (50%)
Head: HUGE (off the chart)

I knew his head was still huge because I always have to buy a size up in hats. It is growing at a consistent rate though so he is fine. With all of his tumbles it is probably better that he has such a large melon on there.

Here is Ethan's top 10 trick list:
1. Eats everything! As long as it is small and/or mushy he is all over it
2. Has the pincher grasp down
3. Can say "Dada" "MA!" "Em-ma" "Yeah"
4. Waves hi and bye
5. Crawls like a crazy man
6. Pulls himself up and surfs along furniture
7. Has 7 teeth, will the 8th ever show up, ugh!?
8. Knows exactly how to push Emma's buttons
9. Takes great naps
10. He can stand all by himself (we call it, Like a big boy) for a long time and actually took a step yesterday.

He is quite amazing and hard not to love (even when he is naughty). Emma is wonderful with him still, well most of the time anyway. She gets really excited for all of his milestones as we do. We are proud parents for sure!

What's Ethan been up to? (and snow...lots of snow.)

Ethan has finally figured out how to get off his belly and "crawl like a big boy". He really began crawling well last week. He will sometimes still do his little army crawl thing because he gets around pretty quick like that.

He also said his first word a few weeks ago, "dadadadada". He says it all the time now. He thinks it is pretty funny. As for "Mama" he said it once, and Emma is my witness. Emma and Ethan were taking a bath sometime last week and Ethan fell over and drank some of the bath water. As you can imagine, he wasn't all that thrilled about that and reached out for me and cried, "mama". That was it. I haven't heard it since.

Little Ethan is turning into a little tease too. He wants whatever Emma is having, especially if she doesn't want him to have it. The other day I caught him in the picture below, trying to steal Emma's sippy cup.

I think this is how she does it.

This picture was requested by Emma. She wanted a picture of her and Ethan in front of the tree with jammies on. Ask and you shall receive Emma.

Now for the snow...Friday school was canceled because of the approaching storm. I was disappointed because since I am still layed off and if I don't work I don't get paid. I was at least hoping for a half day. Oh well! The snow did start coming down around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Once it started it really did come down.

Emma Friday Night

Emma Saturday Morning

You can really see how deep it is on the railing above Emma.

Our Snowy home.

These next few are from Sunday. Emma and Josh enjoyed some outside fun too. Ethan would have loved to get out there too but he didn't. He doesn't have a snowsuit and the snow was so deep I thought we might loose him out there.

Can you see in incoming snowball? Nice one Daddy!

Coming up next...the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party....stay tuned....

Mid Week Update

Yesterday, the night of December 8th, Ethan slept all night! This is HUGE! He usually wakes up at least twice. That night he went to bed a little after 10 and wasn't up yet when Josh and I left for work around 7 the next morning. Way to go, Ethan!

I have been so busy that I haven't had time to update. I will post some new pictures soon. Stay tuned for Christmas tree farm pictures.

The Day of Sevens...

Today this little man turned 7 months...

and Josh and I celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary...

This has been a strange year for numbers. I was 30 weeks pregnant on my 30th birthday and now Ethan turned 7 months on our 7th anniversary. Anyone know if that means anything or just strange coincidences?

And the award for most teeth goes to...

Ethan Luke!

The poor boy has done nothing but teethe for the past month or so. His tooth count is now at 5 but soon to be 6! Every time I look in his mouth there is a new tooth in there. He now has his two bottom ones and three across the top.

Yesterday Emma, Ethan, and I hosted a little playdate. I am so happy that my friends have begun joining the dark side and having babies too. Jill Morse and I have been trying to convince our friends how wonderful it is to have kids and I guess two of them started believing us. Jill brought her two, Sam and Jack. Jill Richard brought her little cutie Eve and Emily brought "Little Anna" too. We have decided that Anna's new name is "Little Anna" because she is such a peanut!

Hanging Out
Jack, Eve, and Ethan

Emma and Ethan

The Babies
Clockwise starting at 12: Jack, Anna, Ethan, and Eve

Poor Jack was less than thrilled about it!

We had such a wonderful time. Sam and Emma enjoyed a little dressup too, but they refused to have any pictures of it taken. Maybe next time! We are going to try to do this again in January or so so keep checking back to see how our friends are growing.

Halloween Party and a Bathtime First

Lauren and Chris invited us to a Halloween party at their home this past weekend. Josh and I went as Barack and Hillary. It was pretty funny, to us anyway, because Lauren and Chris were supporting Barack and Josh and I were not. It was fun to tease them about their choice. Josh and I are pretty sad about how the election turned out even though it wasn't all that shocking. At least we got to cancel out Lauren and Chris's votes.

Anyway back to the party....

Here are our hosts.

It wouldn't be a party at their house without a little Rock Band.

The most docile puppy I have ever met.
Obama's turn

We definitely had fun, so thank you Lauren and Chris.

Now for my Girly Girl and Little Man.

Ethan always sleeps with his little butt in the air. Don't you just want to pinch it?

November 4th was a big day in the history of Ethan too. It was the night he had his first bath in the big tub. It is so nice to not have to fill the baby tub and the big tub anymore and just stick both kiddos in the same tub. Yeah for having a sitting boy!

Emma was very happy for Ethan.

Ethan couldn't even speak he was so excited for himself.

I was having a sentimental moment when playing with Ethan the other day. I thought that I needed to remember what his little fingers looked like when playing with his toys. Someday those fingers will be big and I will miss all those little folds and tiny nails. I really think that the second baby grows A LOT faster than the first.

Thanks for keeping up with our little family.

Our Halloween and some Randomness

We carved our pumpkins about a week before Halloween and I took a couple pics of the kids that day too. It was an absolutely beautiful day to take some outside pics.






Emma was a lot braver this year. She still would not touch the "punkin guts", but she would at least look at it and touch the top.

Even Josh got in on the action.

Halloween 2008

This halloween Emma was Tinker Bell and Ethan was Captain Hook. I would like to coordinate their costumes as long as they will let me. Emma fell in love with her Tink costume in August or so and has been wearing it a ton since. Ethan's was a little harder to come by. Once I found it on EBay though, I knew it was the one.

This is how Ethan and I went Trick or Treating

Poor Emma was running a fever all day on Halloween. My mom brought her and Ethan to my school so that I could take them visiting in their costumes. Emma looked miserable and I asked her if she wanted to just go home. I knew if I didn't ask she would have been really disappotined. She still wanted to make the rounds so I had her take some Tylonol and once that started kicking in she was in a much better mood.

My camera doesn't like taking night pics all that much. That is why this one is so blury.

Cutest Pirate Ever? I think so!

Here is the bonus pic...Ethan had his first "real" food the other day (10/27/08).
A Ritz Cracker