The last few months seem to have flown by! We had a steady stream of visitors throughout Ethan's second month, which is part of the reason why I think it seemed to go too fast. He is changing so quickly. There are times that I look at him and can actually picture what he will look like as a little boy! :( But we are really enjoying him and love him so very much. He is SO vocal now (except when I try to record it!) and is smiling all of the time. He has even started to experiment with laughing and giggling. He is also holding his head steady now and practices sitting up on our laps and on the couch. Here are a few candids taken over the last couple of months.
He seems like he's trying to hold his own bottle already and even has success if we position his hands right. Sometimes I think he does this so I won't take it out of his mouth!!
He is kicking and using his arms a lot more now...I know that rolling over isn't too far away! I can't believe how strong he is getting!
He really notices his toys and grabs for them and has even started trying to pull them into his mouth.
As you can see, he has been busy growing and developing, but we have also been having some fun as a family over the last couple of months:
Ethan got to attend his first birthday party in October. Natalie and Grace Miller turned one and our whole family got to attend their party together. He was practicing sitting up here so he could impress the girls!
We actually managed to get a picture of the whole family while at the party! It seems like more and more these days the pictures are of Ethan or of Ethan with just one of us.
Since we told Ethan all about Halloween, we HAD to take him to pick out pumpkins. We desperately tried to find an ACTUAL pumpkin patch, but we could only find places that piled pumpkins up, no pumpkin fields! So since Ethan is still little, we just went to our local produce stand.
We took our pumpkins over to Eric's house to carve them, however, I think Ethan was so worn out from picking out pumpkins that he didn't have much Halloween spirit left in him! Even though he slept we made some good memories!
Tristan was full of enough antics for the both of them!! We enjoyed our night, even though Ethan wasn't awake to party with us!
We celebrated Halloween a few days early at our church's annual Trunk-or-Treat. We were so glad that Tristan was able to stop by after work for the last few minutes of fun!
As many of you know, I was DESPERATELY trying to find an elephant costume for Ethan to wear this year, however, they only had HUGE sizes in the one that I could find. So plan B was this cute giraffe costume that Kelly and I found for Anderson while she was down here visiting. I ended up picking one up for Ethan also, so he and Anderson were actually twins (even though they live across the country from one another!). It was fun to hang out with his buddies, especially Drew. Isn't his cow costume cute? We joked that he was the Chik-Fil-A cow!
In true Ethan style, he slept through most of the excitement! It was sure fun to celebrate his first Halloween with friends...with many more fun celebrations to come!
