A few new pictures

Our little Ethan is quickly growing. He can already sit up all by himself and he is getting really close to crawling. He can get up on his hands and knees and I think it will only be a few days before he's on the go. He loves to roll and can roll from his back to his belly and then from his belly to his back. And today he totally surpised me and sat up all by himself. I was watching TV and he was playing on the floor infront of me and then I looked down to check on him and there he was sitting up on his bum looking at me with this HUGE grin! Here are a few recent pictures I've taken.

And last but not least a little video to brighten your day!

My thoughts and actions

So lately I have really been getting into scrapbooking...digital scrapbooking that is. I joined this fun website called scrapmatter and they do a weekly challenge. The LO below is what I made for this week's challenge. We were supposed to only use one picture and we had to list 10 things were were currently focused on or ten things we'd like to focus on. I decided to do my on what is going on in my life right now. It was really neat to sit and think about what is happening at this very moment in my life. We have a night time routine with Ethan were we read him a story before he goes to bed. One night while Jared was reading to Ethan I realize just how into the story he was so I grabbed my camera and took this picture. I LOVE IT! It is just so precious.

Blog Game

My dear friend Brittney introduced me to this amazing photographer Melissa Davis. She took pictures of her niece and they were amazing! Well Melissa is having a contents to give away a free photo session. All you have to do is post a comment on her blog. The first 5 people to leave 25 comments on a new post win! I'm excited and hope that I will have a chance to have her take Ethan's pictures. Check out her amazing talent and post your comments so you can win too!

Here is her website: http://melissadavisphotography.com/ to play the game you have to go to her blog but make sure you check out her website. She has some amazing photos!

(This is a picture from her latest post. Isn't she great!)

Look at how he's growing

Jumperoo

A few months ago we bought Ethan a jumperoo. At first his little legs were too short to touch the floor but now that his is a little older he can touch and jump like you wouldn't believe. Here are a couple of video clips of him jumping.

I love this one cuz you can see him looking at me and giving me a big smile.

This one show just how crazy he can get in his new favorite toy.

Easter

Another month old

Grandma's Birthday

A few weeks ago we celebrated my Mom's birthday. The picture below is of my mom, Ethan and my niece Adysen. Adysen LOVES Ethan! Every time she sees him she says "babies" and wants to hold him. She loves to give him kisses and hugs.

Here is a cute picture of my Dad and his 2 grandkids. My dad loves nothing more then to spend time with these two as long as they aren't crying. That's the best part of being a grandpa. Once they cry you can give them back to their parents.

Solid Foods

Ethan is now 4 months old and we have started feeding him rice cereal. He wasn't quite sure what to do when we tried to feed him from a spoon. At one point he wanted to hold the spoon and feed himself. Here are a few pictures and a couple of videos from his first taste of solid food.

This video is of his very first bite of cereal

After a little while I think he figured out that this cereal taste pretty good. In this video he gets really excited.

Rolly Polly Baby

While Jared and I were visiting his parents Ethan crossed a milestone. Our little boy can roll over all by himself! I was able to catch the last part of him rolling over in this video. Babies really do grow up so fast.

All done!

Ellen with her Hawaii Chair

Check out my new kicks!

Our dear friend Chad loves Ethan and LOVES to spoil him. When Ethan was just a few days old Chad come over with his arms fun of presents. One of which were these cute shoes. Ethan is finally big enough to wear them so I had to show them off.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Well I never got around to sending out a birth annoucement of Ethan so I decided to send out a Valentine. My wonderful friend Brittney created this for me...isn't she talented! I thought I'd post this so that you can all see our cute valentine. Happy Valentine's Day!



Make sure you check out Brittney's blog. She makes all kinds of annoucements http://blessedevents.blogspot.com/

My little talker

Ethan is now 3 months old and he loves to tell me stories. Obviously he is too young to be talking but he can coo and giggle and as my dad says "howls at the moon". My parents gave him this toy that he loves to sit under and most of the time he talks to himself. He is also getting really good at his hand-eye coordination. As you can see in the video he can grab his toys and "howl" at the same time. Isn't he just the cutest thing you've ever seen? We think so :)

He's getting so big!

Ethan's growing up

My Christmas Project

This Christmas I made my first digital scrapbooking calendar. Check out all of my pages and hard work :)

Our Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

This year my little sister and her husband wanted a "live" Christmas tree. They went to Herber and stood in line to get a permit so that the we could cut down our own Christmas tree. Well Jared and I weren't able to go with my siblings to cut the trees down but they were nice enough to bring us a tree. I'm sorry to say that we were all disappointed. The trees in Utah are not the Christmas trees we had in mind. It took Jared and I about 2 weeks to get our tree up and when we finally did it look just like Charlie Brown's tree. Oh well it created great memories for us. Thanks little brother and sister for getting our tree this year!

The Boppy

For all of you who know what a Boppy pillow is you will get a kick out of this and for those of you who don't here is a brief description: the Boppy pillow supports baby as you nurse and also as your little one rests, plays and learns to sit up. Well one day I came from the back bedroom to the living room to find my husband a sleep...using the Boppy as his pillow! I laughed so hard that I had to run and get my camera. Then the next day Jared had that pillow around his neck again! It has become his favorite pillow. What a silly husband I have :)