Ethan

Ethan was born at 7:51am on Friday, April 26, 2013. He was 21.5 inches and weighed 9lbs 2oz.

 

Grandma brought Abigail to visit us in the hospital.

Abigail was excited to see her brother, but she was also feeling grumpy.

 

When we brought Ethan home we had more visitors.

Ethan dressed for bed; Abigail wore these PJs too.

 

Abigail doesn't understand why Ethan sleeps all the time. She wants him to wake up and play with her. She has been having fun pushing him in the swing.

 

Grandpa holds Ethan during my birthday dinner.

 

Ethan meets cousin Lexie. She's a week older, but he's quite a bit bigger (though it's hard to tell in the picture).

 

Just lounging

Christmas Vacation

I started this post a long time ago. The last time I tried working on it was Februrary. There were more pictures I was going to upload, but the site was having issues. Today I decided to just post what was already uploaded.

Christmas Eve, playing Candyland

Family picture before bed

Santa Came

Christmas Morning

Bedtime

Abigail's Train, she picked this out at the store to buy with some money she was sent for Christmas.

Fun with Grandma and Grandpa

Too many toys!

SNOW!

Playing with her Legos

Family Portraits

We had our family portraits done today. One of the best things about the studi, is that each year we get a CD with the 50+ photos they took. The lady who took our photos this year was great; she got Abigail to smile for the camera.

Fall Fun

Brrr! It's getting cold out. It's fall, but it's starting to feel wintry. I am not a fan of chilly weather. The weather actually turned cold earlier this year, and mid October saw highs in the 60-70 range. But, it warmed up in time for Halloween and lasted a good week or so. It's currently in the 40's outside though, so I'm feeling a bit chilled.

Halloween
We began Halloween with a trunk-or-treat activity with Rowena. Her church/ward had a party the Friday before Halloween (which was NV day so I had the day off and was able to finish Abigail's costume). Someone set up a nice backdrop and took pictures.

Here's the picture from the party. I made Abigail this Jessie costume because she is obsessed with Toy Story. By obsessed, I mean she has watched one of the movies about 4 times a week since mid-August.

 

 Adam bought Abigail her own pumpkin and let her draw on it.

 

 On Halloween night at our ward party. Abigail had a lot of fun getting candy.

 

 

Early October

Abigail's first braid. I later braided it completely for her Jessie costume, but it's too thick and short to make a good whole braid. The partial braid was better. Below she has two small braids. She is usually good about letting me do her hair.

 



Abigail loves to help cook breakfast.

 



Just being silly.

 



My mom complains that Abigail doesn't smile for pictures. It's not that she doesn't smile, it's just that she won't smile when I get the camera out. She either wants to be silly and say cheese with a pseudo grin (see picture from Halloween), or she wants to grab the camera from me. I have a hard time getting a candid happy shot of her.

November so far

My mom was in town last Saturday. We took Abigail to the small Las Vegas zoo. We'd taken her once before, but she was probably 10 or 11 months at the time. It was a lot less busy this time. Abigail had fun petting the goats and feeding the pigeons and peacocks.

 



She really liked sitting on these statues. She loved the tortoises because she could get up on them herself. She went back to them several times, including just before we left. Abigail says 'tortoise' rather than turtle because we had a pet tortoise for a while (see cooking picture above). They were tortoises as the exhibit nearby included 2 African tortoises.

Abigail is feeding Mickey Mouse while waiting for her own dinner.

 



Playing in her tent

 



Adam and Abigail this morning before church. We got the dress yesterday at Walmart. It's a 4T, on my little two-year old. Of course she isn't that little. She's 38 inches already!