Ethan and the Orange Circle...

We discovered a while ago, while playing with the shapes from a shape sorter toy, that Ethan has an odd preference for the orange circle. It would never fail, when we piled up the shapes, he would move them around until he could get a good hold on the orange one and shove it into his mouth. It has been a while since we played with these toys, so today I got them back out to see if he still preferred the orange one, and...

He's clapping in this one :)

And, doing what he does best...chewing on it.

8 Months Old!

Ethan is 8 months old today! Everything he does amazes me. I love to watch him learn and try out new things. He loves to get into everything we don't want him to get into and is quite an efficient 'army crawler'. He doesn't go back to the doctor until next month, so the measurements are, again, not very exact. Here are a couple 8 month pictures from tonight. We have such a happy boy.

Weight: 20.1 lbs

Length: 27ish in.

Saturday Night Fun

We had a pretty uneventful day, but I did have the camera handy for some funny moments.

Ethan's new trick...the bear crawl pose.

Baby on the move

1st Homemade baby food...not a fan, he kept gagging. They were bananas, but maybe not ripe enough for him.

Bath time with a mohawk

Squibb Babies

This past weekend we headed to Salem for Kendra Squibb's baby shower (my cousin Timm's wife). I took my camera...but didn't take any pictures (thanks for the photo, Libby). The cousins that were able, made it to Salem for the event. We always have a great time when we get together, especially with all the little ones. Our family will be experience a small baby boom this coming March. Kendra is due on March 15 and, Amanda (cousin Phillip's wife) is due March 1. So after March, there will be 12 'babies' between us 10 cousins. Here are the 5 that were in town.

Ethan (7.5 mo), Hazel (25 mo), Haley (20 mo), Finley (23 mo), Scout (3.5 mo)

Ethan and Max

Ethan has recently become very interested in Max and his toys. Anytime Max comes in the room he watches him very intently and then 'crawls' as fast as he can go, over to get whatever toy he is playing with. Max is so good with him and knows when to play gentle (note the picture below). I'm not sure if Ethan likes the kisses from Max but it makes a cute picture. Enjoy your week.

"DaDa" Wins!

I've been working so hard with Ethan to say 'MaMa'. Over and over I'll say it to him, and he just looks at me and smiles and then makes some other noise. I was for sure he was going to say it first...but he tricked me. Yesterday he just kept saying 'DaDa' over and over. I love this stage in his development. It seems like he does something new everyday and it's so exciting to watch. Have a great weekend!

Pulling Up

Ethan was working so hard at pulling up to his piano this afternoon...and he finally made it! I don't think he quite knew what to do after he was on both feet, so we helped him out a bit.

Finally standing and having some fun

Snow Day!

Everything looks so beautiful and cold outside after the 6 or 7 inches of snow we got yesterday. Ethan and I have enjoyed an eventful day inside staying warm. Here are some of the things we did...

Longing to play in the snow

Yes, we still have our Christmas decorations up

Playing the piano

"Sledding" inside

7 Mo Stats

Ethan was supposed to get his 2nd flu shot tomorrow...but I got a call from the doctors office and they needed to cancel his appointment because they ran out of flu vaccine. So, these measurements are courtesy of the Wii and our tape measure.

Wearing Aunt Abby's 'Boots with the fur'

7 Month Stats

Weight: 19.3 lbs

Length: 27 in.

Crawling...Almost

Ethan has been trying so hard to crawl for the past week or so. He rolls a lot, but here is his attempt at crawling.

He really likes Max and his toys : )

Chatter Box

Ethan was just talking and yelling (happily) tonight, so we got the camera and actually caught some on video. Enjoy!