Ethan enjoyed following the big orange ball with his eyes. i know its good for his brain to touch different textures and so i helped him explore all the surfaces of the pumpkin.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Ethan Wayne and the Great Pumpkin
Ethan enjoyed following the big orange ball with his eyes. i know its good for his brain to touch different textures and so i helped him explore all the surfaces of the pumpkin.
pumpkin patch
then we found some pumpkins to lean against. matt was afraid he was going to fall over but think we did pretty good! i got him the cute outfit at gymboree! it says mommy's little (picture of a pumpkin)
he had fun riding on daddy's shoulders. he was playing with daddy's hair and staring at the fun hanging lights. i also got to take him on a train ride but we only got video of that. it was pretty much a lawn mower made to look like a train with a cart attached that made me dizzy going round and round but it was fun nonetheless! he didnt even get scared!
i know he is a little young for all these fun activities. they are more for my benefit i guess but its just so fun to have my own little guy to take to all these fun things!
Friday, October 29, 2010
my luna loo!
a few weeks after we got her her ears stood up. she loves us very mugh but she was very standoffish with matt. i told him that it was because i was the one feeding her and walking her and doing everything for her. she definitly helped my last few weeks of pregnancy go faster. sure enough after i had the baby matt had to provide for her needs and in those few days luna found her new love was her daddy! luna runs in the house to alert me when daddy is home. she plays with him and loves to be around him. this is a picture on the way home from my parents house one night right before ethan was born. loo couldnt fit on my lap anymore in the car but wanted to cuddle with me to fall asleep. nest thing i know she has perched herself on my back and fell asleep. such a cute puppy!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
joys and sorrows of motherhood
we drove home from my parents house and i started to get really worried so we stopped at matts parents house on the way home so matts dad could help matt give him a blessing. brenda and melanie recomended a cool bath. he was so lethargic and his eyes were glassy and bloodshot. we got home and i put him in a lukewarm bath and he screamed his head off. i took him out and took his rectal temp and it was 102. i decided to feed him and calm him down to see if that helped. i took his rectal temp again and it was 103. i told matt to feed the dog and left for the ER. i know not to mess with high fevers! at the ER they took us right back and weighed him and took his temperature ( he is 17 pounds now by the way) they got us right into the doctor. the doctor told me that there were standard tests for high fevers in infants. because they cant tell us what hurts they just test for everything. i was cincerned and called matt but he didnt know what to do either so i called and woke my parents up. my dad said to do the tests and that he would come meet me at the hospital. they started with a chest x ray. then they put in an IV so they could draw blood and administer antibiotics. it was so hard to hold my baby down while the ER nurse who is not used to putting IVs in children let alone 3 month olds try to get his IV in. he finally got it in and i calmed him down. then they had me and my dad wait in th waiting room while they did a spinal tap. ( i know... awful) then they loaded me and ethan into an ambulance and transported us to st rose sienna. de lime has no peds unit ( i wish i had known that) he had more tylenol but he still had a fever when we got there
thank you for all the prayers and support. thank you to papa for spending his night with us. i couldnt have done it alone!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
a few things about ethan wayne
~Ethan loves the itsy bitsy spider and head shoulders knees and toes. Those songs always get him giggling!
~He is a great eater! For a little boy who had trouble learning to eat he is now a very healthy eater and is aver 16lbs already! he is also a noisy eater. feeding him in public always gets a few laughs!
~Ethan has stinky little feet! i keep them super clean but for some reason his feet get very stinky! and yet i cant help but play with them!
~ethan is learning to grab things. he always grabs his binky clip and yanks on it which only makes him sad sometimes
~ethan is very good with his bink. he doesnt need it to fall asleep at night. he uses it to calm down and then spits it out... he kind of reminds me of a smoker. he take a few drags on the bink to calm down and then hes done!
~ he loves sports already! he watches his daddy play basketball twice a week and soccer once a week and he watches the whole game! its fun to watch him turn his head to watch and he even gets upset if you turn him away from the game.
~he tried to sneak watching tv! he loves lights and so he loves to try to watch the tv every chance he gets! i keep him turned away most of the time cause i dont want him watching it till hes older but he sneaks it!
~ he is very good at holding him head up and bearing weight on his legs.
~his eyes go crazy when i use the camera flash
~his new thing is sucking on his lip and its really funny! i love to hear the smack smack smack coming from the back of the car!
there are millions of things i could say about my little ethan wayne but that is enough for now! i cant believe how big my baby boy already is! he makes being a mommy so easy. i look forward to seeing him grow.
Proggression of a smile
This is when he looks like his daddy with just a corner turned up on his lip