Boating Trip

We went on the boat with Uncle John and Jamie last weekend. Ethan had a great time! Kal stayed home with Emilie, Diego and Declan. He also had a great time! Thanks for watching him!

Ethan's favorite part was going fast when we were on our way back to shore. He was also scared at the same time, but we focus on how fun it was. He has asked several times this week if we are going to get on the boat again.

I am so Fast!

Ethan has really been into being fast lately. In this video down below he is running down the hill very fast (in toddler speed). He is so proud of himself.

His favorite songs right now are:

"Freight Train" - He gets to pick where we are going, but it is usually Micky's House, Donald's House, Minnie's House, Goofy's House or Pluto's House.

"Santa Clause is Coming to Town" - I thought we had gotten rid of this in December, but he knows what the picture of the album looks like and knows how to find it on my phone. He had it on repeat this morning for at least a half an hour!

"Freeze!" - He likes to dance and freeze with this song. They also do it at his school.

Here are some of his sayings lately:

• "You are beautiful Mommy" - He is charming, just like his daddy!
• "I am fast" - We can get him to do lots of things by racing him or saying that he is really fast.
• "We better hurry" - He may have gotten that from me being late for things and needing to hurry to leave.
• "There's Big Jet" - Little Einsteins of course. Big Jet is trying to get their treasure map in one of his favorite episodes.
• "Hurry, there's a monster" - Not sure where he got this from, but it is entertaining because I ask him questions like what color it is or what it's name is. He has some fun answers, but it is usually green right now.
• "Gabby called me Daddy" - One of the girls at school woke up and called him Daddy. He thought it was so funny. He tells us about it all the time.
• "I am happy now" - It is nice when he can tell us that he is over being sad.
• "The sun is out" - We usually hear this in the morning when he is waking up.
• "Holy Crap...." - He just started this,but luckily he doesn't say it that much. I think we can thank Daddy for this one.
• "You're Awesome Daddy" - It is so cute to hear him say Awesome.
• "I am funny" - He likes to agree with you know when you tell him that he is funny.
• "He's looking at me" - He says thisabout Kalvin sometimes. I think he got it from one of his big brother books.
• "That's Cool"
• "We made it" - He says this as we are pulling into the major street by our house. He must not think that we are ever going to make it home.
• "No Way Hosilly" - I think they may have taught him this at school instead of no way hosa.

Here are some good pics of Ethan:

The first one was our ice cream treat after swimming lessons. Of course he picked the brightest, messiest ice cream. Luckily he liked mine better.

The bottom right is Ethan holding the Mother's day gift that he made at school, a pencil holder with some pencils.

Almost 3 Months Old

A couple of weeks ago we went for Kalvin's 2 month appointment. The doctor said he was doing great. He is now 11lbs 14 oz and is in the 50th percentile for weight and height and 25th percentile for his head. Ethan always had a small head too, so it runs in the family.

Kal has been smiling for a couple of weeks now and is such a charmer. He likes to raise his eyebrows and I think I even saw him wink at me once. I have mentioned several times that he is very strong, but he amazes me all the time. This week he rolled over a couple of times from his tummy to his back. Of course his arms happened to be in the right position, but he did have to scrunch up and use his muscles to push very hard to get over. He has now moved on to sitting and standing since then. I haven't gotten him trying to stand on video yet, but he will stand until he is shaking because he is using all his energy to stand. It makes me laugh.

Here are my picture picks:

Kal loves to sit up and see what everyone is doing.

Kal is doing a great job at holding his head up!

This is just a close up of how cute he is.

Kal "crawled" off the play mat and fell asleep with his head on the couch. His crawling is really just scrunching his body up and then extending really quickly...maybe it is more of a scooching.

DinnerTimeConversation

Here is a fun video of one of our dinner time conversations. You can see how Ethan is growing up and has a fun personality of his own!

Muffin Man

This is a Muffin Man, at least that is what Ethan says it is. I am
about to give it to the doggers to play with. So far today I have
found them fighting over a pair of eyes off of one toy, stuffing from
another toy, and 2 legs from another toy. I am guessing the muffin man
will last an hour.

LC

Haircut

Today Ethan got his first professional haircut. He really needed it!
I decided that his hair was getting a little too long a couple of days
ago, so I cut the hair around his ears. It looked awful! I do not
recommend ever doing that. Ethan was awesome the whole time and moved
his head how he was supposed to. He did like to look at himself in
the mirror when he could. He got a sucker when he was done and ate
the whole thing. His haircut looks really good now. Thanks for doing a
great job Fantastic Sams! Family pictures are back on.

Before

Tummy Time

Kal loves this mirror! It makes tummy time so much easier.

LC

Yummy!

We tried something new today! We like to try something new from the
barrels at Sprouts every time we go. (luckily we haven't made it all
the way through the candy) we tried yogurt pretzles and Ethan loved
it! They are very messy in the AZ heat.

Strong Boy

Kal is such a strong baby! He has moved on to trying to sit up. Kal
normally goes right to sleep after he eats in the morning, but this
morning he kept grunting and doing mini crunches for about 15 min. I
thought he was trying to work out some gas, but it turns out he wanted
to try sitting up. I grabbed his arms and helped him sit up for a few
seconds and then he laid back down on the pillow and got his glossy
eyes. Within a couple minutes he was sound asleep. Too funny! His
personality is already showing....he is going to be a very determined
boy.

LC

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