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Monday, November 22, 2010
Cutie Pies!
That time of year. So here is a sneak peek of this year's Christmas photos. Yes, yes then it won't be such a surprise if you get some. I just hate to rob you of any time with these cute cute kids (ahem - I AM their mother you know!)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Baby ETHAN!! 6 months old
Soon I won't say "Baby" anymore. He'll just be Ethan. It goes so incredibly quickly!
So today Ethan had his 6 month check up.
Measurement Summary (since I NEVER remember to capture these!)
17 lb 4 oz = 50th percentile
27.5" long (or tall!) = 75th percentile
17-1/2 inch head size = 75th percentile.
He has TWO teeth (which he has had for about six weeks already) and is TRYING to cut some top ones still.
He is growing growing! Our premature baby (5 weeks early!) has caught up completely. He hits all his milestones and is quite active. He eats one jar of stage 2 baby food at a sitting, and sometimes polishes off two in one sitting! He has been eating baby food since just before he turned 4 months. He was almost demanding it by then, the formula was just not enough for him!
He turned 6 months last week and it has been a busy time for him.
Friday, he had surgery to get TUBES in his ears. He was one continuous ear infection and miserable kid, and already he seems better for the tubes (which he has had 4 days).
He is much like his sister in this way. (Post: Megan gets tubes)
Sunday, he suddenly wheezed and made all sorts of awful breathing noises, and we rushed him to the ER (because this all happened at midnight of course). They diagnosed him with CROUP. Megan never had this, and I had no experience with wheezing, coughing and barking that came on suddenly with no congestion, fever, runny nose or ANY other symptom. So they gave him a steroid, and that seems to have helped. He still has a bit of a chest issue, but seems much better (check out his bouncing baby jumperoo video, taken today). He is fine. Just sounds funny at times!
Ethan can stand with support (usually Megan's who loves helping him do this). He sits up, and only falls over occasionally now! He is a pro at rolling over from tummy to back to tummy. He's quick so you have to watch him! He wants to crawl, but just can't get those knees under him yet. It won't be long!
So that is a summary of our Ethan at 6 months! He is still our baby Ethan.
So today Ethan had his 6 month check up.
Measurement Summary (since I NEVER remember to capture these!)
17 lb 4 oz = 50th percentile
27.5" long (or tall!) = 75th percentile
17-1/2 inch head size = 75th percentile.
He has TWO teeth (which he has had for about six weeks already) and is TRYING to cut some top ones still.
He is growing growing! Our premature baby (5 weeks early!) has caught up completely. He hits all his milestones and is quite active. He eats one jar of stage 2 baby food at a sitting, and sometimes polishes off two in one sitting! He has been eating baby food since just before he turned 4 months. He was almost demanding it by then, the formula was just not enough for him!
He turned 6 months last week and it has been a busy time for him.
Friday, he had surgery to get TUBES in his ears. He was one continuous ear infection and miserable kid, and already he seems better for the tubes (which he has had 4 days).
He is much like his sister in this way. (Post: Megan gets tubes)
Sunday, he suddenly wheezed and made all sorts of awful breathing noises, and we rushed him to the ER (because this all happened at midnight of course). They diagnosed him with CROUP. Megan never had this, and I had no experience with wheezing, coughing and barking that came on suddenly with no congestion, fever, runny nose or ANY other symptom. So they gave him a steroid, and that seems to have helped. He still has a bit of a chest issue, but seems much better (check out his bouncing baby jumperoo video, taken today). He is fine. Just sounds funny at times!
Ethan can stand with support (usually Megan's who loves helping him do this). He sits up, and only falls over occasionally now! He is a pro at rolling over from tummy to back to tummy. He's quick so you have to watch him! He wants to crawl, but just can't get those knees under him yet. It won't be long!
So that is a summary of our Ethan at 6 months! He is still our baby Ethan.
Legs of Steel
Ethan Jumperoo, originally uploaded by homanhouse.
He must have some crazy leg muscles working! He jumps and jumps and jumps and jumps. Ethan here in his favorite jumperoo.
Monday, November 15, 2010
EthanEthan!
I love this one. His eyes are changing. You really start to see some of his face here -- developing from a baby baby to our little boy!
Helping Daddy
She is great at sanitizing bottles for the beer bottling! Daddy's little helper you know!
Megan asleep
I swear she has litigation in her blood. I can't tell you how many times we find we have to be even more explicit with her in giving instructions than we think we should.
For example - Megan - you sleep in YOUR room. Do not come get in our bed. We don't sleep well with you in our bed.
Ummmm, I guess we never EXPRESSLY forbid the use of the DOG bed (BESIDE our bed), so we found this later completely asleep missing half her pajamas in the DOG bed. New instructions have been edited!
Expressive face
Really, she wasn't even in a foul mood. Just camera face I guess.
Our sweet sweet girl. I just love this girl. She has turned into the most amazing AMAZING big sister I could ever imagine. She just loves her brother, and misses him when he isn't around. I catch her checking the baby monitor during his naps just to see if he is awake yet. And as soon as he is, she is cooing at him from her own stool she keeps just beside his crib. Our sweet girl. And Ethan never has a bigger smile than when he is looking and playing with Meg.
Here Megan has set up one of her favorite tents with her brother. Poor dog, she even looks a little left out. Megan, once the constant pet lover, seems to just enjoy her brother even more. At least for now when he can't really bother her too much!
Uncooperative photo moments
I swear. I can not EVER get a picture of his teeth. He has two adorable lower teeth and has had them for almost two months now. They are quite solidly in, and hurt when he bites down (to sooth all his other teething). However they don't seem to show in photos laughing, smiling, sitting, eating or even crying. I was sure this open mouth crying (hungry feed me faster!) was going to work, but even as Chris fed him, not a single tooth showed on camera. But there ARE two!
Kitty kitty
The cat has just recovered from Megan and isn't sure what she thinks yet about Ethan and his new found interest in her. Of course he isn't mobile yet. I am sure she will decide what she thinks soon enough!
Freezer restocking
Ok, my freezer restocking has officially begun. We had finally eaten through most of what is in our deep freeze, and hadn't really put much there since before Ethan was born!! (But you can eat for months literally out of our freezer space!). This is the outside freezer stacked with the home cooked quick dinners of meatloaf, pork loin, pork chops. Adding a few more friend suggested recipes next. Also the 10 lb of flour from my 25 lb bag purchase (for all the homemade bread baking!)
Friday, November 05, 2010
Snow White
Ready for trick or treating. And since we went to Disneyworld, and arrived back late late on Saturday night, of course Sunday would be a Disney themed Halloween. Plus she got to wear it at the Magic Kingdom Halloween Party too!
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