6 months

Ethan is 6 months old, and during these past 6 months he has captured all of our hearts.  He is such a sweet and happy baby.  His sisters love him so much and enjoy playing with him.  He is starting to sit up and so that allows him to play with more toys they often sit on the floor and help him situp and play. We all love to watch him and make him laugh.  He hardly cries unless he is hungry or tired and laughs, smiles and talks almost non-stop.  His favorite toy is his jumper he makes that thing really go and he will bounce for an hour at a time.  He reminds us of Savannah at that age she loved the jumper and could probably get it going even more than he does.  He also loves his bath and has a few toys that he plays with or tries to eat.  He likes to hold something when he goes to sleep he has several small blankets with stuffed animals that are his lovies that he will hold and cuddle until he falls asleep (then we move them out of the crib once he is asleep).

At daycare they say he is also happy and the other children love him.  He smiles at them and laughs there just like at home.  I guess he goes from one crazy wild house to another so it seems normal to him.

He eats some solids now he likes carrots and sweet potatoes and all fruits.  He does not care for green beans.  At home Emma will try the food we give him and she said the green beans are terrible but the other stuff is ok.  A few of them Emma actually likes and tries to eat the rest of his baby food if he doesn't finish it.  He doesn't seem to drink as much milk but I actually think that is because he is so distracted and doesn't like to eat very long.

He had his 6 month checkup and everything is good he is going to be just like his sisters tall and thin. He weighs 19lb 2.5oz which puts him in the 25-50% and he is 27 in tall which is 75-90%.

Easter

For Easter this year we changed things up just a bit.  Instead of going to church service on Sunday we went on Saturday night.  Our church was short-staffed for Sunday nursery so we all had agreed to help out with the nursery on Sunday at 11 and would miss the service since we are not good at getting there at 9:30 especially feeding Ethan and dressing everyone.  Going on Saturday was nice because it allowed us to have plenty of time to get ready and there was plenty of parking and seating for our large family.  The girls actually insisted we sit on the front row beside one of their friends.

On Sunday the girls got up around 8 to see what the Easter bunny had brought and they had plenty of time to find the eggs that were hidden around the house.  Ethan even got a few things from the Easter bunny but he didn't have to search for his eggs this year.

We got to church a little early to watch the 2 year old nursery we had about 8 kids plus our 3 and we took Ethan to his nursery.  Our girls are very helpful and made friends with some of the other kids, Savannah played with a girl whose favorite word was 'no' and she was serious about saying 'no' to everything but Savannah was able to befriend her anyways.

After church we headed to my mom's since she was hosting Easter this year.  We had a ham and lots of sides and desserts, it was great.  I had to escape twice to feed Ethan so I missed out on somethings but got to see the kids do their Easter egg hunt and even helped hide some eggs.  I think all the kids ended up with like 40 eggs each.  We had great weather and enjoyed celebrating the Resurrection.

Rolling Along

Ethan is rolling from his tummy to his back but I have yet to catch him in the act.  He did it once while my mom was watching him and the girl but they didn't actual see him do it, they just noticed he was on his back instead of tummy.  Then at the mountains on April 11th I had put him on his stomach and he was being fussy so Bethany went over to check on him and he was on his back.

Patricia his daycare lady said that she has seen him do it a few times too.  He likes to lay on his side a lot and I've caught him sleeping on his side some but he mostly sleeps on his back with his arms spread out, it is cute.

5 Months

Ethan just turned 5 months yesterday and he is so much fun. He smiles a lot and laughs a lot too.  He has really changed from a complacent baby to a happy baby.  He loves his sisters so much and will laugh at almost anything they do.  Which makes them want to keep being silly, we have fun playing with him.  On Sunday we all went to the park it was a beautiful day out.  We put him in a swing and he seemed to really enjoy it, his sisters enjoyed pushing him and making him laugh.  He can almost flip over from his back to his stomach and he scoots around in his crib a lot at night.  He is a good sleeper and will usually sleep around 7-8 hours.

He has been eating food for a while now and he is getting the hang of it now.  He eats his cereal easily but it takes him a while to get use to the other flavors like green beans.

He drools a lot and I keep expecting to see his teeth starting to come in but I haven't seen them popping up yet.