It's REALLY Cold When...

....when you wake up to let your dog out and her water bowel looks like this...

The ice-sickle (sp?) was 9 inches long and 7 inches tall from the highest point. Crazy!

Gone Sledding

We took Ethan sledding for the first time yesterday before dinner. He wasn't too sure about it all at first, but after a couple times down the hill he was smiling. Sorry the videos are so dark next time we'll go earlier in the day.

18 Month Stats

Ethan is 18 months and here are his statistics from his last appointment

Weight: 19lbs 11oz 0.53%tile

Height: 31" 15.77%tile

Head Circumference: 18 1/4" 14.36%tile

He actually lost 1 ounce from his last appointment, grew 1 1/2 inches in length, and his head measured the same. The doctor said keep trying to get him to eat. No snacks in between meals and if he doesn't eat at one meal then hopefully he'll be hungrier at the next meal. He also is back on Pediasure. The doctor said the only way she knows to make a child eat is feeding through IV, but she said there's more options before going to that extreme. Maybe some metabolic testing in the future. Ethan will have a weight check in a month to see if he's gaining weight then we'll go from there.

Christmas 2009

We spent Christmas morning with Spencer's family this year. We got up around 6-6:30am and showered before going to Bryan and Hilary's house at 7am for opening presents. It was fun to see everyone (Bryan, Hilary, Kyleigh, Toni, Rick, Austin, Ridge, Jackson, Logan, Jen, and Kameron) that morning. It took about 2 hours to open presents and then we had a yummy breakfast made by Jen. We stayed and played till about 11:30 then went home and Ethan took his nap and Spencer slept a little too.

He began his night shift christmas night :(

Around 3:30pm we returned and had dinner then hung out till bedtime.

It was a fun-filled event!

The Presents:

Sledding Gear

A shopping cart and blocks from Cook Grandparents, laugh and learn puppy, busy ball popper, spiderman 4-wheeler, train set, pound a peg, doodle pro with shapes, animal pop-up, light saber sword, and more blocks

(quick funny/scary story: I went to walmart to return one of the boxes of blocks but didn't have the receipt so they asked for my driver's license. I showed them and they said "Sorry we need a valid driver's license to return this" I thinking my license is valid, what do you mean I don't have a valid license? Then they showed me it expired 8/22/2009. Oops! I've been driving with an expired license since August!)

More toys...fridge phonics and animal magnets

and a new easy cleaning high chair (one without any nooks or crannies to clean out the leftover food, Hurray!)

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

A New Playroom

I moved the computer desk and bed out of the spare bedroom and made it into a playroom for Ethan. This way he can play and I don't have to constantly clean up the toys. I can just shut the door to hide the mess if I like. So much better!

I built Ethan a fort out of the alphabet blocks one day. He liked pushing all the letters out and then pushing the wall/door out too.

Spencer climbed in too and showed Ethan a new "door" to crawl through. I think it was the letter "o"

Such A Big Boy

Ethan is growing up so fast. Right now he's determined to feed himself with no help from mommy.

Did you notice he eats with both hands? The applesauce is with the left and the dinner is with his right.

More Walking in Cold Cold Temperatures

So I unloaded the camera today and I found a picture of how Ethan looks when we take Sierra for walks (well when we can get thru the snow with the stroller)

This time he had actually fallen asleep during the walk.

So Cute!!!!