New Words and Ouchies

Ethan says some new words including: cracker, cookie, cheese, snack, stuck, no way, up, uh-oh, ga-ga, and pa-pa.

Also I'm learning that having an active boy means dealing with more ouchies. For example yesterday he got 2 ouchies within about 15 minutes of each other. The first he tripped over a toy and landed on a lego block (the underside of the block) so he has a cut the shape of a circle on his right cheek. The other ouchie he fell off the toilet. He likes to climb on the toilet to get onto the bathroom counter and this time he slipped and hit his left cheek/jaw on the toilet which left a little bruise. Poor boy. Usually his ouchies aren't that big of deal and don't leave any marks. It's all part of growing up ...right?

19 Months

I have exciting news! Ethan finally pasted the 20lb mark. Hip Hip Hurray! He is 19 months and now weighs 20lbs 13 oz! He has gained 1lb 2 oz in a month! That's really exciting because its taken 7 months to gain 3lbs. He has another weight check next month so hopefully he'll continue his growing trend, but in the meanwhile more Pediasure and more baby food here we come.

Just For Fun

I thought I would post some videos of Ethan doing some of his favorite activities

Basketball....

Watching Little Einsteins.....

He pats along with the show and then raises his hands and says "Go!"

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!