Singing Baby Boy!

So, here's a video of Leann getting Ethan to help her sing "Old MacDonald" he doesn't quite get the "O" part out... but he's got the "E I, E I" part down pat.  This video was taking about a week or so ago.

 

Growing Baby!

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Originally uploaded by Supercork

Here is Ethan's 6 month growth picture! Supermax just keeps getting smaller and smaller in relation to Mr. Ethan!

We just happened to have the same sheets on the bed again (they are my favorite) :)

Bouncing Baby... Laughing Grandma!

Teething boy...

Ethan is teething, and drooly, and fussy.... but he loves his new toy that helps him teeth!

Multi-Baby Photo Shoot...

Today at the Cork / Law household Leann and Tiffany held a baby photoshoot... completely spontaneous I'm sure... Anywho, there's the output... I take no credit for the wonderful photography!

From one month to 3 months...

So here's a couple of pictures showing Ethan's growth as compared to his buddy SuperMax. Enjoy!

Baby PattyCake with Mommy!

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

Super Baby Time!

So back in September I gave Leann a gift card to Build-a-Bear for her birthday in anticipation of her wanted to build a bear for Ethan once he got here. This last week we took Ethan on his first outing to the mall and we made him his very first little Teddy Bear... the Bear's name is Max (or SuperMax).

For those of you whom haven't been the Build-a-Bear store is way cool! Although being two adults purchasing a bear for ourselves in the store was a little awkward... but for kids it's awesome! They have you pick out the bear (or other animal... Dog, Leopard, Turtle, etc...) and then you get to put a sound in the bear that they will hear when they squeeze it's foot or hand. After that you get to put a little heart in the bear and they make you kiss it and make a wish. After they they fill him with stuffing to the desired fluffiness level (we choose super squishy for SuperMax). Once you've filled him up with stuffing they sew him up and you head over to give him a "bath" (air shoots out of shower head looking thing taking off all the extra fluff that got out or any bear lint)... they also have you brush him (I"m sure there is no purpose behind this... but it's fun for the kids) which is really awkward when you are just two adults with a one month old in your hands and you are brushing a stuffed bear. Anywho, finally you pick out clothing, dress the bear and name him on a computer where you get a printed up birth certificate!

We created SuperMax as an object to take pictures against Ethan's growth... an idea that the awesome nurses at Scottsdale health care shared with us! As you can see from the attached photo... we choose to purchase not one, but two of the same outfits for SuperMax.... what was the second one for you ask.... humiliation I think (based on how that shirt fits little Ethan) :). Actually, Leann came up with the great idea to put him in the same outfit as SuperMax for the pictures so he could see later in life just how small he was! As it turns out he has done quite a bit of growing in his first month! Per our one month checkup last Thursday Ethan is in the 75th percentile for height (at 22 inches) and in the 50th percentile for weight (at 10 pounds). So he's grown an inch since birth and put on 3 pounds!

Anywho, I love this picture because he's got this look on his face like "Who's this guy... and why did you put me in a belly shirt?". Lots more pictures to be seen in our Picasa Web Album!

Enjoy!

JLC

Confessions of a Rookie Dad....

So I thought I would post this note that I sent myself from my iPhone the night before we left the hospital. It's a pretty funny story and had the nurses the next morning in stitches from laughing so hard at what had happened. I'm going to put this one in his baby book. Check it out and let me know what you think!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joshua Cork
Date: Oct 17, 2007 1:20 AM
Subject: Confessions of a Rookie Dad
To: Joshua Cork

Baby notes
Holy crap - literary!
Wow, so the veteran nurse just left the room at midnight after there was a very audible poop. She placed the baby on Leann's chest and said something like "he may need to be changed" :) and then quickly exited the room.

Well mom quickly turned hat responsibility to me. So I took on the task by placing him on the end of Leann's bed and taking him out of not one but two swaddle blankets that he was in (he was cold so we used two blankets - this important later). So now Ethan is on top of his two receiving blankets and at the bottom of moms bed. I begin to change the diaper, by taking off the old one that i knew was soiled -
rookie mistake number one - I didn't get the other diaper ready. So here I am opening the diaper when I realize that, good lord, this is the poop of the century! I see what appears to be black lava flowing
from the rear of the cutest little tush you have eve seen! At this point I'm a bit she'll shocked, you know... A bit of deer in the headlights look from me. There is so much black lava everywhere that
I don't know where to start wiping. I take clean diaper number one (on yes there will be more than one clean diaper in this story) and place it under Ethan placing the lava filled diaper number one on the
floor. I begin to wipe down said lava flowing bum when I realize that I will need to get another diaper because clean diaper Buber one has now become lava filled diaper number two/changing mat. I turn around to get diaper number two and release Ethan's legs - rookie mistake number two. I turn back around to find his heel now covered in black lava! So I ask Leann, whom up until this point has been a passive observer, to get in the game and grab a leg while I wrangle the poop covered leg and wipe it down. Finally I get the poop off of little Ethan's heel and I turn around to throw the wide on top of the diaper which is on the ground when I turn back around I'm stunned to see a jet of liquid flying just past my face and over my left shoulder…. Apparently my son also had to pee… a lot! I grab the only other thing I have in my hand (a cold wet wipe) and proceed to cover his peeper. Being that the device I choose to cover it was both cold and wet scared him a bit I think and really helped move along the emptying of the bladder! Remember how I said that he was swaddled in two blankets? Well Mr. Ethan pee'd so much that it soaked through not one, but both of the blankets that he was swaddled in… along with Leann's top blanket on her bed, her sheet, and her fitted sheet… right down to the plastic covered mattress of the bed she was sleeping in! Leann and I had to then push the little emergency button on her bedside controller to call in the nurses…. Yup, nurses plural… two of them had to come in and completely strip the bed and remake it…. At 1am!

Sent from my iPhone.

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So that's my story... hope you enjoyed it!