Sneak Peek!

Check out a little teaser from our photo session this morning!

http://www.lifeinmotionphotography.com/photoblog/?p=3695

So so tired

This has definitely been one of those weekends (and it's only Saturday night!). You know the kind where you have something to do every single minute?

Tomorrow is our family's Thanksgiving. My grandpa has a chemo treatment scheduled for this Tuesday, so he wouldn't be up for Thanksgiving Day, so we changed it. It is tomorrow. At my house. Whew. We did the shopping the other day, which was pretty nice. No hunting for the last can of pumpkin or last packet of gravy. And tonight, after a morning session of cleaning and a baby shower this afternoon, my mom and I made pies and brined the turkey. Then there was a little more cleaning and some last minute sewing on Ethan's outfit for tomorrow. There will probably be more cleaning tomorrow morning after...

Our photo session!! I'm so excited, tomorrow is our family picture day with Lyndsay. Well, I'm not exactly excited about waking up at 6am to be there by 8, but I'll survive. I have been excited about this even before I knew we could afford to do it. I think the "picture taking" will be just as fun as the actual photos. It'll be nice to have fun as a family, lovin' on each other, and being happy.

Oh, and you know what else? The little man can now do this:


But usually, he can't get into that position by himself. Until tonight. When he was supposed to be falling asleep. I've been thinking about moving the crib down for a week or so now. He can't crawl, can't pull up, but I figured I wouldn't want the first time to be when he's alone in his crib. Well, shoulda listened to my instinct. He was standing there tonight just yelling. Scared the crap out of us. So, we paused the baking to move down the crib. I think Ethan just thought it'd be fun to add to mommy's stress level. Stinker.

Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to us (and to anyone else that may be celebrating early)! I'll hopefully be back with pictures of the festivities, but for now, I must try to sleep.

Our trip to DFW

Last weekend we headed up to Southlake to visit Cory's brothers and family. We try to go every year around Halloween, but it didn't work out this year until November. Cory really wanted to make it before our niece's volleyball season was over, so luckily the last game before playoffs was on Saturday. She's definitely taken after Cory, she's got natural talent, and she got to learn some skills from him while we were there. It was great seeing her play (and win)!

Otherwise, we just spent time catching up and letting everyone get some quality time with Ethan. Since I'm an only child, these are his only uncles/aunt/cousins. Luckily, he was really good the whole time. He didn't even do his usual fussy pants routine, so we might have to visit more often.

Here are some pictures from the weekend:

With Uncle Troy

And Uncle Lyle

And Aunt Kalie

Playing with his cousins

Grayson trying to get Ethan to eat. I love the look on E's face, "Mom, who is this kid, and what is he doing to me?"

Madeline and Grayson helping Cory entertain/feed E

Ethan taking a stretch break on the way home. We only let him ride that way half of the way home ;)
(kidding, of course)

Thursday Thoughts

1. I owe you a DFW post. We had a great time this weekend, but I haven't had the chance to sit down and go through pictures. I'll get on it soon I promise. This week has been busy.

2. E and I are headed out to my grandparents today. I love to visit them, and they love that E visits, especially when no one else is around to steal him away. With such a large family, there can be fights over who gets E next. Not today. Hopefully he won't throw a fit over going to sleep this time, that is not fun.

3. Update on last week's thoughts: We ARE getting pictures done!!! Woohoo!!! Lyndsay of Life In Motion is doing them next weekend. I'm so so excited. You may recognize her work:

4. Another update on last week (is that cheating?): I think I will try an Etsy shop. Not quite sure of the details, but I'm going to give it a go. I'll probably start making stuff, and perhaps after the holidays I'll set it up. Still scared though. And still looking for ideas on what all to sell.

5. Ethan has been doing the cutest thing in the morning. When I walk into his room to get him, he's pulled down a little section of the bumper, and he's peeking through it at me. He can see our room from his room, so he just sits there whining a little and waiting until he sees me coming. I tried to get a picture, but it didn't come out too well today. Maybe tomorrow.

6. I really thought I could make it past five today. Oh well, I guess I don't have a lot to say. Plus, the kiddo is getting tired of the Jumperoo and the "ma ma maa"s have begun, which translates to, "Mama get me outta here!!" So I must go now.

Wordless Wednesday

Thursday Thoughts

A lot of blogs I read do a "ten on Tuesday" post, and since I'm scared of coming up with 10, I thought I'd just try a few today. Here goes:

1. We're headed to the big DFW this weekend to visit Cory's brothers. I'm excited and scared. E did really well the last time we traveled fairly far, so I'm hoping he repeats his performance. He'll hopefully be trying out his new big(ger) boy seat.

2. I've been thinking of trying my hand at an Etsy shop, but I'm scared. I don't know what all I would sell. I've tossed around some ideas like crib bedding, mei tais (baby carriers), other random baby/home items that I sew. I just don't know... I wish I could think of something unique, but I haven't yet. Thoughts??

3. Speaking of Etsy, I'm thinking E needs something like this or this. Too cute, and you've seen how he can really rock a hat.

4. Ethan is starting to wave hi to people. It's the cutest/oddest wave I've ever seen. He really likes waving to our friend Don, and he kind of waves like a beauty queen. I'm gonna have to catch it on video.

5. I REALLY want family photos taken. It's kind of late for Christmas card photos, but I'm working on it. We just didn't think we could fit it in the budget, but we might be able to work it out. I hope so, and I'll of course let you know if we do.

Well, I got to 5, not bad for my first try. Perhaps I'll keep it up unless you let me know that I've bored you to death. Happy Thursday!

Oh, and a couple of random pictures of the little man for you:

drooliscious as usual

In his walker. The confused look is because he can't figure out how to get the toy under him. I tried to catch him when he was leaning over trying to get it, but I missed it, sorry.

Wordless Wednesday

7 months

Yesterday Ethan was 7 months. I won't even go into how crazy that is. It just goes so so fast. Why does it have to be that humans grow the fastest in their lives when they're the cutest? Why can't we grow the fastest during those awkward pre-teen/teen years? Eh, I digress, here's our cutie at 7 months, growing faster every day it seems:






And here he is trying to get the hang of the whole crawling thing:

He really wants to, but he can't figure it out. No complaints from his parents. He can spin around on his belly and scoot a little, but he's not very fast. He still has way more interest in standing.

Other things he's doing now... He reaches for us all the time. It's so so sweet and I love it. He's also trying to eat more foods, but he's really not into any of it. He doesn't really like to eat. Nana says it's what I get for being such a picky eater myself. He's still our champion sleeper, he goes about 11-12 hours. He talks/yells all the time. He says "ma ma," "ba ba," and "pa pa" so far. No "da da" which is of course killing Cory. He doesn't seem to be growing too much anymore, meaning not as fast as it used to seem. He still wears a lot of 3-6 month stuff, except for pants. His hair, however, does seem to grow quite fast. That's really all I can think of for new stuff, he's just a happy, animated, silly, sweet little 7 month old boy!