Happy Birthday Shawna! I hope you have a great one tomorrow!!
Love ya!
Val
Friday, September 28, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Another Monday!
After days like this, I can't believe how glad I am that I only work a couple days during the week!! Geez, everything at work turned out to be like 1000 times more time consuming than it should have been. I was so glad to finally get off work, head home to see Ethan, and enjoy the night. And even though we didn't actually get home until 10:00pm or so, it was nice to get out of the house and visit with Mat's mom for awhile.
It's funny to see how family interact with Ethan. Tonight, Grandma was feeding him bananas. (He has been eating real people food lately...cracker bites, cheerios, mashed up real bananas, mashed potatoes....that kind of stuff.) And when he eats it....boy, he wants to explore all ends of it. After his banana tonight, he ended up with it in between his toes, up his nose, and in between his fingers. LOL...I love that guy!! To say the least, I LOVE watching litle kids try new foods!!
But anyway, my long day is finally over, and I can hear my little one snoring peacefully through the monitor. (He has a runny nose since his teeth are coming in....so it makes for quite a nasty, drippy nose.) I should head to bed and enjoy as much sleep as I can.
It's funny to see how family interact with Ethan. Tonight, Grandma was feeding him bananas. (He has been eating real people food lately...cracker bites, cheerios, mashed up real bananas, mashed potatoes....that kind of stuff.) And when he eats it....boy, he wants to explore all ends of it. After his banana tonight, he ended up with it in between his toes, up his nose, and in between his fingers. LOL...I love that guy!! To say the least, I LOVE watching litle kids try new foods!!
But anyway, my long day is finally over, and I can hear my little one snoring peacefully through the monitor. (He has a runny nose since his teeth are coming in....so it makes for quite a nasty, drippy nose.) I should head to bed and enjoy as much sleep as I can.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
First post....
After reading Shawna's blog, I decided I should make one of my own. So here's a short update of what's been going on in our life.
It's been a rough year and a half for our family. Shortly after moving to Kokomo and buying a house, we found out that we were expecting a baby. Coincidentally, we were also awaiting the arrival of another baby in the family, due about 3 weeks before our little one. However, due to developmental complications, we lost our nephew in September 2006. And to add to an already emotional situation, we also lost our niece in July 2007. With two miscarriages in less that one year, you can imagine the emotional stress that is put on a family. But during the whole situation, it was very evident that God is very much in control. It was a blessing in disguise that we moved back to Kokomo and became pregnant when we did. Although it can be very bitter-sweet to welcome a new baby into your family shortly after losing one, God brought us this baby to bring a sense of joy back into the family.
On February 8th, our family grew. We've begun the challenge and joy of being parents!!
Fast forward 7 months later..."how can it be September already??"
Ethan - 7 months, 3 weeks
What's new with Ethan:
* Now that he's crawling, he's into everything!!
* He has some strange fascination with the door on the VCR.
* He loves splashing around in the bath.
* He's started giving hugs and kisses (If you consider an open mouth bite on the nose to be a kiss.)
He weighs about 21 lbs. - pretty big for his age. Luckily though, his weight gain has really tapered off over the past few months. And best of all, when I'm gone from him all day for work, he gets excited to see me and wants to go where ever I do.
Well, I've rambled on long enough. I should head to bed...I'll play around more with this later!
It's been a rough year and a half for our family. Shortly after moving to Kokomo and buying a house, we found out that we were expecting a baby. Coincidentally, we were also awaiting the arrival of another baby in the family, due about 3 weeks before our little one. However, due to developmental complications, we lost our nephew in September 2006. And to add to an already emotional situation, we also lost our niece in July 2007. With two miscarriages in less that one year, you can imagine the emotional stress that is put on a family. But during the whole situation, it was very evident that God is very much in control. It was a blessing in disguise that we moved back to Kokomo and became pregnant when we did. Although it can be very bitter-sweet to welcome a new baby into your family shortly after losing one, God brought us this baby to bring a sense of joy back into the family.
On February 8th, our family grew. We've begun the challenge and joy of being parents!!
Fast forward 7 months later..."how can it be September already??"
Ethan - 7 months, 3 weeks
What's new with Ethan:
* Now that he's crawling, he's into everything!!
* He has some strange fascination with the door on the VCR.
* He loves splashing around in the bath.
* He's started giving hugs and kisses (If you consider an open mouth bite on the nose to be a kiss.)
He weighs about 21 lbs. - pretty big for his age. Luckily though, his weight gain has really tapered off over the past few months. And best of all, when I'm gone from him all day for work, he gets excited to see me and wants to go where ever I do.
Well, I've rambled on long enough. I should head to bed...I'll play around more with this later!
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