Last week was a crazy! We started out with a well-baby check up on Monday. It was actually a well baby/sick baby check up little did the MD know. Nick and Ethan had been sick for the week prior so when Ethan and I walked into the MD office, Ethan let out a huge juicy cough. Poor baby had been coughing so bad his face was turning a nice shade of red. So, during the well baby check up the MD also gave us a script for the cough/cold but told us to hold off on filling it to see where the cold goes. The good part is that Ethan is still way big for his age. (Ya don't say) He was actually 9 months and about 2 weeks. He weighed 26 lbs and 14 oz and he was 31 1/2 inches long. This put him in the 99% for everything. What a big boy! He also had his anemia test, Ethan is not anemic, and his last hep B shot. We're good to go now! The cough comes and go still, but he seems to be feeling better.

Then, later on in the week Nick's illness got worse. He was having coughing fits which woke him and me up and I am sure he was running a fever at some point. He sounded terrible and felt terrible. So he went to the MD and Yep, he had walking pneumonia. It was bad! Immediately he got on his meds and took it easy and I called Ethan's MD. I told her RN what nick was diagnosed with they put Ethan on a much stronger med. Thankfully he only gets it once a day. Me, now that's another story. I don't feel good now, but I am thinking its the weather, no infection or anything.

Well, on a brighter note, Ethan loves to walk. He loves to hold onto your fingers and just walk around. He loves to be upright! He'll just walk in circles if you let him. We are trying to teach him his balance right now and that's a slow process. He's so funny...if he falls on his bottom or something he just look at us. If we react immediately he gets upset and starts to cry, but if we just look him and tell him its okay, he's like "okay, I'm cool, now pick me back up and lets go again". We have also seen Ethan starting to crawl!!! Yep, crawl! At this point, its more of an army crawl, just shuffling forward. He'll put his hands in front of him and pull himself forward. He is also pulling up on things. We spent some time yesterday working on pulling up and crawling. This is also funny b/c if he gets mad or something he'll scream and pout then look at us to see if we seem him pitching a fit (which we do) and if we aren't doing anything about it, he'll start playing with something else and forget all about it. He's so funny! Its really neat to watch him!

Ethan and Nana looking at pics

Ethan riding in his wagon that Big Ron bought for him after dinner. Walter and Tiger are enjoying the ride. :)

We bought Ethan this car for his one year old (holy cow) birthday. We got anxious and went ahead broke it out. Good thing we did b/c if we waited any longer he wouldn't fit into it!

Ethan watching me through his playpin wall. It was so funny b/c I turned around to look at him through the top and he wasn't there. I looked down and his face was plastered up against the side.

This was Ethan almost two weeks ago. You should see him now. Totally different! He is scootin more and pushing up on his hands and toes (who needs knees ;) ) as if he is doing push ups. He is developing so fast!

Once Again....

Once again I have managed to go weeks without blogging. Sorry!

Ethan is doing well. We now have 5 teeth, but I am seeing the 6th and 7th tooth under the gums. He has three on the bottom and his two knobby teeth have poked through on the tops. He's so funny looking, but just as cute as a button! When he is laughing all you can see is the bottom of his top teeth. He loves to blow spit bubbles and air through them. Its so funny!

As far as mobility, we are working on that. Ethan is rolling all over the place. When he is sitting up, he leans forward and moves one leg back but the other one gets stuck. He hasn't figured out how to get that other foot back yet. He does a nice split though! :) As far as walking, we aren't too far from that either. He can walk with his wagon and with someone propping him up, but for sure not by himself. I think his little chunky legs are strong enough to do so though. We have to work on balance..hehe

We had a visit to the MD office yesterday. Ethan's allergies were acting up. I thought we had pink eye again, but it was just some bacteria built up. We got some good meds and he is doing much better now. Still a bit snotty nosed and congested, but in good spirits. He now weighs 27lbs! We have a well baby check up next week, some shots and another weight check.

Slowly getting back to sleeping through the night. I think its a mixture of teething and separation anxiety. My book (and neighbor) tells me that this is the time when it gets really bad. Plus, I was still rocking him to sleep and my book tells me that's a big no no b/c he has to learn how to soothe himself and this is the age he needs to start to learn. SO, now we get him ready for bed, I read to him just enough to watch his eyelids shut and then put him in his crib. He'll kick and scream but for only 10 minutes or so. After that he sleeps. Its worked twice so we will continue to try this. We'll see how it goes. Oh, and we are doing the Motrin and orajel too (thanks Somer).

Okay, I think that is all. Here are some updated pics....

Ethan has a mean mommy....I went to go pick him up from school one day and this is the outfit he was in. No, I didn't send him to school in this outfit. Apparently he tee tee'd all over his other outfit and this was the emergency outfit in his bag. Obviously, I had not update his emergency clothes in a while. Poor Ethan...

Uncle Matt Matt and Ethan during Big Ron's B'day

Chillin...

This is after Ethan's second hair cut

One foot in front of the other....

So, I do realize that I haven't posted anything since the beginning of February. I will actually be shocked if anyone still looks at this. Y'all have probably given up on me. I'll try my best to be better about posting, I promise.

Lets see what we have been doing for the past month. You might ask if Ethan is crawling and that answer is still no. I don't think he has any desire to crawl. On the flip side of that, he loves to walk! We will put him in his walker in the kitchen and he goes to town walking around and pulling open drawers and opening cabinets. Its a good thing Granny and Grandpa (Carlene and Ronnie) bought some cabinet closers and safety things. Once we get those put out, it will be a big help!

We have moved onto baby's 3rd foods and table foods. He kept gumming his 2nds and spitting it out, so I tried the 3rds and it works a bit better. Why can't I find anything green in the 3rds? Ethan totally doesn't like green beans with rice and I can't stand the smell of all that mixed food (ie, lasagna, or broccoli and carrots in cheese, totally smells like throw up imagine how it tastes). Therefore we have started some table foods, only the cool stuff though. We've eaten dinner rolls, sweet taters, ooh and Popsicles, he loved the Popsicles. I bought him some cubed peaches and he is so funny when he eats them. He'll put them in his mouth, squirt out all the juice and then the rest of the peach just kinda falls out of his mouth. I found three peach cubes stuck to his pants. I just laughed!

Teeth are popping out left and right! About a week and a half ago Ethan quit sleeping through the night. He would sleep upstairs for a few hours then wake up screaming. We would try to calm him down, but that didn't work. He began this pattern and ended up in bed with us. Yea, I know, I preach to others about letting their child sleep in bed with them and look at me. This seems to be the only way to calm him down! He'll come down here and snuggle up next to one of us and fall asleep. Throughout the night we'll wake up to him kicking us. Nice, I know, but you do what you got to. Anyway, I was feeding Ethan last night and discovered one cutting through on the bottom and was like "YES!!!! Sleep finally!" Boy was I wrong. He woke up screaming again. THEN, I was talking to his teacher at school today and she had concerns about him not eating as much and I said it was probably b/c of that tooth coming in. She said "oh yea, I see it up there on the top." I was like "What? I was talking about on the bottom!" And yep, we have two coming in right now. I can't wait to see what he looks like in a week!

Okay, enough blabbing. Hope you enjoy the updated pics!

Catching up on the lastest news before school

Playing in the sheets

Enjoying his first popsicle

Trying to get the doggies attention...he's so funny...we say 'doggie'...Ethan says 'Ugh', but on que

The little bit of snow that we did get.

February

We had a family trip to the park during one of our wonderful weekends! This was our first trip. I guess Ethan had a good time. As you can see he enjoyed the swings!

We have really had a lot of fun! Ethan us just a bundle of joy! His two bottom teeth are sticking out and are as sharp as a tack! He isn't crawling yet, but shows signs of walking and crawling. He loves to stand up and bounce around. He is waving his eyes in the air like he is going to fly away. We have taught him to give us kisses, although he doesn't do it every time, but when we ask for one he opens his mouth and open mouth slobbers on your cheek. Its so funny!

He is almost 26 pounds says the MD. We have had both flu shots and currently have a cold. But we are taking good care of him! His next well baby check up isn't until April. They say by the age of 1 year the baby should have tripled their birth weight. I don't think we have anything to worry about, we're a bit ahead of schedule.

Ethan had his first hair cut. He did great! He just stared around, soaking everything in. Most of you are familiar with the Myers scowl, Ethan had that look on his face for the first five minutes of so and then calmed down. Lasted about 10 minutes and no crying! He did great!!!

During his hair cut

After his hair cut

No other news really. We all have spring fever. Ethan went fishing for the first time the other day. He slept through most of it. No bites by fishies either. I bet where we went was just a puddle from some of the rain we have been getting. BOO!

That's about it! Here are some other fun pics! :)

Uncle B came by to visit

Riding on his horse

Bath time....yes, that is mommy squirting him with his bath toys. Notice how much it bothers him. :)

Teefees

Teefees, Teefees, everywhere!

Ethan's 2nd tooth has popped through! He's so cute!

6 Month Well-Baby Check Up

We went for our 6 mos well baby check up today...

Got some shots...circ looks good...in the 99% for his age....he's a big boy!

Wt: 24.2 lbs

Ht: 30 inches long

First baby tooth popping through...Check....Yep, that is right! Ethan's first tooth has arrived and Dr. Cochran says the the next one is right behind it! She said usually this happens when babies are around 8 mos or so, so we have an early bloomer!!!!! I was expecting it soon, but not this soon! He didn't really show signs, but I guess he did now that I know it was him cutting teeth...fussiness, drooling, and a little rash on his bottom. Now I know what to look for!

He's growing so fast!

A New Year

Happy New Year Everyone!

We are sad to see the holiday season come to an end. What a great time we had! Well, it didn't start out so great. Ethan came down with his first illness. He had pink eye in both eyes and a slight right ear infection. He did not feel good at all and we were so happy on day two of antibiotics. You could tell a huge difference once we got the gunk under control.

Our first stop to celebrate the season was down on the plains. We traveled to AU to be with my family. Ethan did good traveling, slept the entire way! It was nice to see the fam and spend time with them. As you can tell by the pic above, Ethan had a big time opening presents and made a new best friend in the process. He spent time talking, blowing raspberries, jumping up and down, and playing with his toys. Everyone enjoyed seeing Big Boy Ethan while we were there. Maw maw had a time with him. I got so tickled b/c I think Ethan and maw maw look alike. Big Ron bought him his first wagon too. Ethan is going to love it!

Ethan and his new wagon

Ethan and Maw Maw


Next, we stopped in at Irene's for a quick game of dirty Santa and then onto Nana and Papa's house (nick's mom and Dewayne). There we did the same, spent time with the fam and opened presents. Ethan got to meet some of his cousins and Auntie Sonia for the first time. He had a big time playing with all the kids! It was hard to calm him down after that night. I know...that's just the beginning, just wait until he can talk back to me when he isn't ready to stop playing with them. I look forward to those convos ;) ! Ethan got his first piano set and drums. Cousin Sean bought him a football that he chewed on constantly. It was a good time!

Ethan opening his presents

Watching the Dirty Santa game

Finally we went to Grandpa and Granny's house (Nick's dad and Carlene). Stayed the night with them, visited, played with them, Aunt Julie, Great Grandaddy and Great Grandmother. Ethan got some bongos there which he loves! I got photoshop so expect fancy things in the near future. I am going to become the master at that program! We had a good time there too! We hated to leave all our family!

Ethan and his new bongos

Now we are back at home trying to get back into the swing of things. Its hard. It has actually been real nice for me b/c I got to spend time with Ethan and Nick, do things around the house, try to get organized. I have worked maybe a week out of the past three weeks due to pink eye, ear infection, taking time to travel and then the boss lady forcing me to take off (everyone in the dept is required to do the same), not to mention the possibility of me being sent home tomorrow b/c of pink eye. That sure is a way to start off the week! We'll see what the md says in the am. In the mean time we are anticipating Ethan to be crawling soon and his first tooth to pop out any minute. He is just drooling up a storm and teething so bad! He can sit up by himself really well, but he likes to stand up rather than sit. I am thinking he might actually skip crawling and go straight to walking. I am probably wrong, but we'll see. He just loves to stand and bounce around! Nick and I are in a race to see if he says mama first or dada. We got some time to see though. I'll keep you posted!

Happy New Year to All!!!!