Saturday, January 16, 2010

Christmas!!

We were super excited to spend our first Christmas as a family. We had kind of a late night on Christmas Eve...we drove around to look at Christmas lights and then came home and had to bake some Monster Cookies for Santa. Thankfully, Ethan is still a little young to get up extra early because he is so excited for Christmas, so we got to sleep in a little.

Elephant p.j.s from Aunt Kelly, Uncle Justin and Anderson!

He loved opening presents, especially the books he received from both grandparents! He was actually more impressed with the gift wrap and liked crinkling it and trying to taste it.







Just relaxin' and watching a Christmas flick!!
He did enjoy the items that were in those packages once the unwrapping fun was over. His Grandma Bernard sent this elephant toy for him and once we introduced him to it he was not without it for the rest of the day! It's still one of his favorite toys right now! Even while watching a Christmas movie with his dad and me, he didn't let go of it!




Well, minus the drool it could have been a cute pic in front of our little Christmas forest! As you can see, he was still learning to hold up his big head, but he was getting so much better!!! We loved having Ethan as a part of our family this Christmas and look forward to many more fun memories!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Ethan's Fourth and Fifth month

My how time flies! I have been terrible at keeping up with the events during the holiday season! I have devoted myself to catching up, so here are some of the milestones Ethan has reached in the last couple of months:

We introduced Ethan to solid food right after he turned 5 months old. He has been pretty interested in anything that we happen to be holding, but he was especially interested in this bowl of food!
Getting ready for the first bite of solid food...
Not so sure about this new food...
After a few bites, he wanted to take over!
We did have some issues with the new texture...
and swallowing...
But in the end he was a happy boy! I bet he'll be really happy once he gets to start eating some foods with some flavor!

We took Ethan to the playground at our apartment complex to introduce him to the swing. I wasn't sure how he would like it considering that he hates his swing at home. But we were pleasantly surprised that he LOVED it and was cracking up most of the time!





As you know, tummy-time has been a dreaded event for Ethan from the beginning...we are finally making progress and he actually enjoys tummy-time now, especially since he can roll over to escape it now! We can't put him on his tummy without him rolling over within 5 seconds!
Five months old already!!! We can't believe how fast he's growing up!