"Bye-bye Daddy"

Hey baby...heres a video for you. Joy has been teaching him how to wave bye-bye, he hardly ever does it but if you watch closely at the very end he did it. I love you!!!

Photos and more photos...

Heres a bunch of photos from today...We did a big pizza BBQ with Miguel and Esther...it was quite the project and took up a good 4 hour chunk of our long tiring day...(Ethan was up quite a bit last night, but I wont complain because it's only once in a blue moon that he sleeps bad). Anyway, it was fun cuz all the kids got to roll their own pizza dough and then i would make them and give it to Miguel to cook. All in all, it was fun and now im really ready for bed. I love you John and miss you so much...Love you too mom, dad, silas & lilly...and all my other close friends and relatives....xxxxxxx

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Laughing at his Auntie Shelly
me and my angel
"mom, quit tickling me"
time for cuddles
First time eating with a straw...haha, Miguels cheezy grin...
Jolene rolling dough
eric rolling dough...
Esther and the beauty queen (charlene "charlie", 2 months younger then Ethan)

My Little niece Teri...shes a darlingMiguel and I making pizza
Ryan (Miguel and Esthers baby), my favorite muffin man ever
BEAUtiful Shelly in her last 2 weeks....
It got hot so we took all his clothes off...

Dear daddy...

We love and miss you so very much....Jamie took these of me and Ethan for you.
I hope you are doing well and not stressing too much. Ethan is doing well and is very happy, don't worry...of course he notices that you are away but he is still being the angel that he always is. We love you daddy!! (more photos coming soon)

After bath time...

He's continuing to grow bigger and fatter by the day, weighing at 21 lbs its getting harder to hold him now...thank god I ordered a walker that daddy will bring home in 5 weeks...(sniff, I miss you honey). Ethan ate his first egg today, I mashed up a soft boiled egg for him and I think he liked it...his adorable baby breath is starting to go away now since he's eating all sorts of things. I do miss his new-born stage but i'm happy he's growing up so that I can start teaching him and really playing with him. His godfather just bought him the most adorable new clothes but they are still a little big, but i'll post photos as soon as we wears them (Thank you Oliver, I love you). These are some photos I took after his bath today, he was being super foolish and blowing spit bubbles all over the bed...

I missssss youuuuuu!!!!!

Baby we miss you SO SO SO SO SO very mucho!!! I don't have any recent photos yet...but I love you and will call you soon.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
-Me and ET

The weekend...

I took Ethan to the town square to get him ice cream and loli pops...(just kidding daddy)...no, I just went there to get out of the house with him cuz since he has been teething, he gets a little more restless and wants to do a bunch of stuff, so we went there, he rode on the marry-go-round with me and watched these guys putting on a drumming show with all these different shaped drums...it was pretty cool, he didn't want to stop watching. I also took him swimming, well...not really swimming but sort of, some of the other kids were having a pool party with water balloons for Jolene and Aidans birthday, so he got all excited looking at the water so I brought a tub outside with warm water and toys and he had a blast...anyway, here are the photos. I love you baby and miss you SOOOOOOO much. xxx

Cousins After swimming
Amanda and Ethan
Watching the drummers He absolutely loved them!
He was getting heavy so stef took him....
Time with Celeste...he loves being with her

Happy 5th month day!!!

Almost half a year old...can't believe it!! I love him to bits!!

I miss you so much John, I hope everything is going well and falling into place. Write me sometime....or get online to chat. I love you!!!!

5 months old....

...Tomorrow....but I wanted to post about it because im excited as he is growing so fast.

(Daddy, we miss you SO much, it seems like it going to take forever till you come home to us, but I guess we will have to patient, Ethan can tell you are gone, every morning he looks over the bed for you to play but gets offended when he sees you are not there. I showed him the video of you making him laugh and he watched it like 4 times and was laughing the whole time.)

Ethan slept I think the best he has ever slept last night, he went to sleep at 10:00 pm, and didn't wake up at all till close to 8:30 the next morning....I think its because since daddy is gone, I let him sleep in bed with me last night cuz he was being a bit clingy...I'll have to not let him do this too much because he'll get used to it, as he already knows that he has to sleep in his own bed.
He is continuing to teethe more and more, but he is a brave little one and doesn't get too fussy till later in the evening. he is starting to let me put him on his tummy for longer periods of time now so I hope he will start trying to crawl soon. Anyway, enough blabbering.

Liz and Micah came over the other night for a party and brought their little man over (julian...he's adorable) who is 2 months younger then Ethan, a big boy though.....here are some photos.

Bye bye daddy!

John left at 4 am this morning to set off on his lonnnnnng trip to Florida. He will be gone for close to 6 weeks along with Jordan, Mikey, and Sam, to do a construction job at some hotel. From now till he gets back this blog will be for him to see updates and photos of Ethan. (so if im writing to him a lot, thats why) I love you Babe, we will miss you like crazy!!!

(February, 2008)

My brave little angel had his first accident today...He fell off the bed and got quite the bump on his head. I should have known better and am normally good with not leaving him on the bed by himself, but he had went pee everywhere all over his clothes so i turned around to get his towel to bathe him, and he had scooted off the bed. He was very brave and cried only for half a minute till I nursed him and put honey on his head (very good for bumps so that they dont bruise). Anyway, now I know better and will never leave him even for the second that I did. Sorry I have been a lazy blogger...for one, I hate blogs...and I have been busy with Ethan as he is growing out of his naps and only take 2 a day now...so he keeps me busy. Here are the latest photos of the fat one. In 4 days only he will be 5 months....time sure flies!

Practicing his sitting by himself.
My happy boy
loves the guitar....
his comfort chair....he loves it.
smiles...

First time on the johnny jump-up

Sweet Tiffany took him for me for my day off so that I could sleep in and relax...here are the photos. He is so big now, already wanting to walk around so im going to get him a walker soon, as he refuses to try to crawl....he is lazy and only wants to be on his tummy for sleeping so i dont think he will be a crawler...at least not for a long time. he gained 2 pounds this month and so carrying him around is getting more back-breaking by the day...I'm lucky he likes his stroller.

Photos from yesterday

Ethan's first tooth came in today, I know it's really not that big of a deal but it's so exciting for me as he's growing up so fast! Too bad John is still not here to see it yet. Poor guy, he was gone for the first time he rolled over, the first time he laughed, sat up, and now his first tooth....Anyway, heres some photos of my muffin.

"I love my bath time"
"I hate having to wake up"
"Lets see how much I can fit in my mouth"
And the photo of the day.....this will be good to use to embarrass him when he's a teenager in front of his first girlfriend....hehehehe, im an evil mom.