Busy couple of days!

We've been quite busy the past few days and I think the weekend definitely wore Ethan out. On Friday Ethan got a chance to meet Alicia and Kevan, who were in from Nebraska. We hung out at the house a while and then headed to Ricardo's for some pizza, which was excellent as always. We then stopped by St Mary's Festival, it was alittle too loud there so we didn't stay too long.





On Saturday, Justin had off so we planned to walk over to the Bayview library for their book sale, but coincidentally the South Shore Water Frolics parade was about to start. We decided, well I guess I decided because Justin was very reluctant to watch the parade, to make it Ethan's first parade. It was a lot of fun and a good first parade because it wasn't too long, but as you can see, Ethan enjoyed it in his own little way!


We then headed off to Ethan's babysitters' book party, she just started selling Barefoot Books.
We ended the day Saturday with a trip to Bastille Days, where we ran into Justin's parents, and aunts and uncles and hung out with Justin and Lizzy for awhile too. We didn't get home until almost midnight-luckily Ethan fell asleep at Bastille Days-still a little later than his normal bedtime of 7:30.


Sunday rolled around and we keep going, we headed over to South Shore Frolics with my parents. We walked there from our house and there was a nice breeze so it was a great walk. We walked through the art fest, the car show and ate some yummy food. Ethan stayed up for almost all of it and had a great time laughing and giggling.

Today is my day off so I got to hang out with Ethan all day, I think he was catching up on his sleep though because his naps were a little longer than usual. When Justin got home we went for a nice walk to Stone Creek and then decided to try rice cereal with Ethan when we got home. It took us about 20 minutes to find the video camera, but finally we were all set....Ethan's first bite did not go so well, I think he was a little confused, but then he got the hang of it and ate pretty much all of it.

4 months and Baby Graham!

We just had our 4 month check up and Ethan seems to be right on track, he's 14 lbs 14 oz now and 24 1/4 inches long-he's slowed down in inches but our Dr made a good point that he's got genetics working against him in that field :) -we're going to start rice cereal soon, so we're excited to see how that goes...

Ethan's been spending more time exploring different things and new toys-he loves his froggie, which you can see seems to be his comfort item, and the exersaucer-not to mention mommy's necklaces . He also just realized that his tongue moves and is constantly sticking it out-which is great along with his little giggle that just cracks everyone up!

He also doesn't mind sharing his bumbo with Lola-

I have no idea why she decided it would be a comfortable place

to hang out-but oh well. We were alittle worried at first but she seems to be getting along quite well with him.

Also very exciting news, Ethan's new cousin Graham was born on July 2nd! He's the biggest of the three boys in terms of weight, but just seems to be the littlest of them all. Justin is very excited because he can now dress them up as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Halloween-he's one step closer to having all 4(he said he'd sacrifice and be one for now). We're really excited to have the 3 boys be able to grow up together and be so close in age.

3 months, Florida

Better late than never...here is Ethan's 3 month pic, we almost forgot to take it so we had to catch him at the end of the day sleeping!

We just got back from our long planned trip to Disney World, we were very hesitant to take Ethan(or I guess I should say I was)...he did a great job on the plane and slept the whole way, we worked our most of our kinks the first day at Sea World with feeding him and figuring out how to keep him out of the sun without suffocating him(he's still too young for sunscreen).
Justin and I got the hang of it and we also went to Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom. We also took Ethan in the pool for the first time-with many layers on-poor kid I dressed him so crazy :)

Once we got home, Ethan came down with a fever and a rash and after a trip to urgent care, we found out he had his first ear infection...NOT FUN. But after a few days of medication he seems to be slowly getting better-but it definitely helped out that Justin had thursday and friday off, and I had today off.

Other than that Ethan's just getting bigger and bigger-he LOVES standing now and holding his head up all the time. Oh yeah and Cousin Baby Bean decided not to be born while we were gone which we were really excited about...any day now!!!!

Disney here we come....

We officially leave for Disney World tomorrow-I have a bunch of different emotions going on about that-ready for a vacation, nervous, anxious, so much to think about-especially when you have to pack for a baby! We started packing last night though and should have more than enough for the trip-the only really difficult thing will be to try to keep Ethan out of the sun since he's still too young for sunscreen-it will be fun though and hopefully a somewhat relaxing VACA. Plus I'm alittle worreid about the plane ride, I hate flying myself and hopefully it won't bother Ethan at all-atleast we booked a direct flight-no connections for us!!!!!

Ethan is now 3 months old-CRAZY! He's getting so big and we went through and have packed away boxes of old clothes that don't fit-but hey that means i get to buy new fun things for him...

We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of baby cousin bean, but are hoping he/she doesn't arrive while we're away....

I'll post pics and a trip recap after we get back :)

Mother's Day, Graduation and more

So much has happened these past few weeks....we celebrated our first Mother's Day! It was a beautiful day and we woke up and went for a walk and then had my parents, Nick and Janet and Wilson over for a very yummy brunch and then headed over to Justin's aunt and uncles house to see his side of the family-it was a great day....

Then this past weekend Justin graduated from UWM and we had a small gathering over at the house afterwards. We had catering from Beans and Barley and it was excellent-I would highly highly recommend it to anyone(a little plug for them:). I think Justin's definitely excited to be done with school and have a bit more free time and we'll get to see him more as well. He's going to put the feelers out there for jobs, but fortunately he has a pretty stable and accommodating job for right now, so he doesn't need to be frantically looking.

Ethan had his 2 month check up yesterday, well he's about 2 1/2 months now but close enough. He's just over 12lbs now and has grown over 2 inches-Growing like a weed! Everything went well, he got a couple of shots and did amazing and I was able to ask my millions of questions about our upcoming trip to FL.

I'll post some pics of all of these events soon!

8 Weeks and One Day Old!

We got this idea from a variety of people to take a pic of Ethan every month next to the same object so that we can see his growth. I think it's a great idea because he's already grown so much and you don't really realize it when you see him every day. We chose his stuffed elephant since it's big and will take him awhile to out grow.

Ethan still has his first cold-it seems to be hanging on for quite awhile, but I went to his Dr and she said everything's just fine-just congested-Which means I have to torture him with the cute little elephant snot sucker daily-I'm sure he'll have reoccurring nightmares about it!

We went to the Brewer Game this past weekend and Grandma and Grandpa DeVoe got to babysit the little guy-but we made sure he was sporting Brewer Apparel before we left and snapped a few pics...

We've been lucky to enjoy the weather and go on many walks. Still trying to get out to the Urban Ecology center though with Janet and Cousin Wilson. It's so fun watching Wilson with Ethan, he is so gentle with him and rocks his car seat and hands him his pacifier and toys. Ahhhh..little kids!(This pic was taken at the hospital-one of my favorites)

Back to Work

Ethan is 6 weeks old today and I officially went back to work at CJ. I was surprisingly strong this morning and didn't cry when I dropped him off-I think it helped that he was sleeping when I dropped him off. I did stop and get an extra large coffee though to suppress my feelings :)

Ethan did well at the babysitters and even went to a play group! I'm definately excited that I have off of work tomorrow though to spend with him. I do have a closing tomorrow afternoon and have a feeling I will be spending most of my day figuring it out-but atleast I'll get to hang out with him.

Justin started putting in the our new bamboo floors to get ready fro when Ethan starts crawling and it looks awesome-I feel much better about him crawling around on that someday soon.