A new post!!!

So it's been a while since I've made a post in earnest... instead of just pictures sent from my phone. Since my last real post we've been pretty busy getting ready for Christmas. We've done a ton of shopping, taken Ethan for his first pictures, organized lots of block watch stuff, started our yearly planning sessions, organized our finances for next year, took pictures for our Christmas cards, and spent time oohing and ahhing over little Ethan. Speaking of that last one, we took him in for his two month checkup on the 20th and everything was fine. The doctor said that he looked fantastic! He took 4 shots in the thighs (two in each) as he got some of his vaccines. They weighed him and measured his height and he is in the 80th percentile for weight and 90th percentile for height! After lots of bleeding from one of the pokes and a fair amount of red faced crying he finally passed out and we spent the rest of the day shopping and delivering gifts to friends in Gilbert. Little Ethan was all dressed up in his Santa outfit that Bryan and Judy got us and he got lots of comments from the people at Kohls and from all our friends about how cute he looked!

Leann got a new camera for Christmas (opened early so we could use it to take our Christmas photos) so expect to see lots more photos and videos of little Ethan. This camera takes optimized video for YouTube and Leann can use it to snap off rapid fire shots of Little Ethan smiling up a storm... which he is now doing with great frequency! He woke us up a couple of times this week talking like a madman to himself in his crib for 30 minutes straight! He will gladly hold cooing conversations with you and will just melt your heart with his little smile if you are willing to listen to him and take the time to play with him... he is soooo much fun right now! He also almost rolled over on his own this last week.... he was on his belly for his tummy time when he decided to lift his head up and turn it and put it back over his right arm... since his head makes up probably 35% of his weight mos of the rest of his body followed and he was just about on his side. If he would only have kicked up his one leg I think he would have found himself staring up at the ceiling from his back!

Anywho, that's the skinny for now... we are late already for heading over to Kim and Paul's house (Jake is in town since yesterday and is staying with us for a week)... and we are picking up dinner. I'll post a few pictures with this real quick before I leave you.

Until next time.... Laters Gators!

Josh