Hello Family and Friends: It has been way too long since posting a blog. My computer has a virus that I am starting to deal with......however it dawned on me today I could use Trav's computer to post. Most of you know, but for those not in the area we have had a winter storm that has left approx 20 inches of snow. We have been snowed in for the past 3 days. We are making the best of it although I was very disapointed as the snow has stopped my family from MT making it to us for the holidays. We will greatly miss them, however have decided to not let the weather stop us. We are just shifting our celebration to the weekend after New Years, when we can all be together. At this rate, Allyson (who lives across town) will be lucky to make it to our house for Christmas. However in many ways we are blessed, I had stocked up on food so we are set there, have plenty of diapers and I am not scheduled to work for the next 4 days. So basically we have everything we NEED at the house. Our neighbors are awesome and made a trek to the grocery store today and picked milk up for us. (I made chocoloate chip cookies yesterday.....and we burned through our milk!) Anyway enough about that......le's get to the good stuff. Ethan!
He is 9 months old now and such a little boy!! He started crawling last week, and is already pulling himself up on everything!! He loves to stand, and is learning how to protect his head when he falls over. You can literally watch him learn. At first crawl he would bump his head on so many things because he was always looking down at his hands. He figured that out quick. Same with tipping over.....it only took a day to figure out that if he tucked his head it was less likely to bounce off the floor. Our new phrase of the week is "Your ok, your such a big boy!!" He buys it pretty quick and the cry has been getting less and less with the wipe outs. Baby gates went up, he found the back stairs really quickly...and is very curious. It's as though everything that could be dangerous calls to him. The stairs, the iron cord, the outlets ect. He is a true boy!!! Although he hasn't gone after the Christmas tree yet. He is still happy as ever, and his little giggle delights us all. Trav and I were just saying that if we are ever having a bad day all we need to do is spend a little time with Ethan and the world is right again. He is eating more and more everyday and get's his veggies down if they are disguised with fruit. He often eats peas mixed with apple, or carrots drenched in pear. Still no teeth, fine by me. I am nursing still, and it's going well. We are still up once a night, and I probably just need to cut it out but I haven't minded it and actually love the time with him. He wakes screaming and is so happy to see me, nurse and within 7 min. back to sleep in my arms. See......probably unneccessary for him, but I haven't been ready to let him "cry it out" . So I continue to get up with him around 2-3am. Here are some pics from the last few days. Enjoy!! Hope everyone has a very Happy Holidays. The Hoovers
