8 weeks

Excuse the horrible picture...Tonight I was changing Ethan into his PJs before bed and looked away for a second. When I looked back, he had rolled himself on his side without any help. He's been close to rolling onto his side for a long time now but never did. I don't think it will take him nearly as long to start rolling over completely as it did Alli.

Ethan's 1st Haircut

I think it's sad that I'm posting about Ethan's first haircut before Alli's. She really needs a good shaping haircut but...I digress...we haven't done it yet. Anyway, Ethan was blessed with a beautiful head full of hair. It took less than 6 hours after being washed to look oily again. I love the personality that it gave him but it needed a trim.

Julie so lovingly cut it for us and now he looks like a trimmed up little man.

He looks so different doesn't he?

Being crazy has its downside...

Alli was being silly last night before bed and ended up losing her balance and busted her lip on her bed...So here's her first busted lip.

2 month check up

Ethan is 7 weeks old this week and we went in for his 2 month check up. He had been starting to try to smile this week and we had yet to catch it on camera. We had some time to kill while waiting in the lobby and little man decided he would cheese it up for the camera. So I finally captured his adorable gummy smile! He's been cracking me up during the wee hours of the morning showing me this smile but I never caught it any other time until now!

Now onto his stats. We are now measuring a whopping 12 lbs even! He has grown from 22 inches to 23 3/4 inches! Ethan is in the 50% for his weight (so much for my Dr being worried about him over eating and getting too big) and he is in the 98% for his height. Where did this tall kid come from?? I guess he gets it from his grandparents. I don't remember specifics because I was so shocked over his height but I believe overall (when you compare height with weight) he is in the 90 something %. Dr. said "he's a lanky kid". haha. yes...yes he is! So instead of the worry wart lecture I got at his 10 day check up, today we got a "good job mom" report from the dr.

Ethan continues to sleep well at night. We might increase what he's eating during the day to try to help him sleep better during the day. Since he's only in the 50%...I feel like he has some wiggle room to eat a little more.

6 weeks and improving

Ethan is 6 weeks old and has been showing signs that he might sleep through the night. So last night I experimented. After his 8pm feeding I let him sleep instead of waking him to feed before I went to bed. He didn't get me up until 2:45am to feed. He then slept again until 7:40. So I'm pretty excited about this. He still fusses some in the evening but I'm beginning to think he just likes to cluster feed before bed.

Ethan I also starting to smile. I got 2 or 3 out of him last night at 3am. It's such a cute toothless grin!

Stay Classy

Our neighbors continue to defy our understanding of decency and common sense. I guess you get this privilege as a renter. I guess you don't have to care about your property or neighbors when its not your home.  Anyway...over the last few years, no matter how much work Ben has put into our yard, we continue to battle weeds because our neighbors (current and previous) fail to see the need to mow except once a month or more. So we get the pleasure of our good grass being ruined by flying weed seeds. Ben is trying to counteract this by mowing the half of our neighbors yard closest to us so that the weeds never get that tall. We've asked the management agency to send them letters in the past telling them to mow but we've helped mow their half in the mean time. Anyway on to the point of this blog...

Yesterday Ben was mowing our yard and it was the second time we've mowed since our neighbors had. Ben was almost done with our yard and would have moved onto the neighbor's next. As he was mowing he saw our neighbor pull his mower out and thought, "oh great he's going to mow. Now I won't have to mow his side". As Ben was finishing up, and ready to put the mower away, he saw our neighbor putting his mower away, WITHOUT having mowed our side of his yard. So this pompous twit thought he didn't have to mow his yard on the side of our hard because we had done it for him the last 3 times!! Not only this but he didn't even mow his back yard where his daughter's play set it. Lazy...just lazy! Way to stay classy! So Ben out of spite did not mow his half of the yard to purposefully leave this guy with part of his yard un-mowed. It is moments like this that I am thankful for our management agency over the homeowner's association. One more letter from the association agency and then they start getting fined without warning. They got the hint with the last letter after we complained about them working on their loud racing truck. Now I haven't had a baby lose sleep from the revving of an engine for 30 minutes! Hallelujah.

Losing my ability to trust...

What used to be outlets for me to keep family and friends informed and involved in our lives, regardless of distance, have now become opportunities to be potentially hurt and exploited for the gain of others. I have never felt so censured in my life and that isn't the purpose of my blog. I should be free to share with my family and friends any aspect I desire in my life but this isn't always the case. That being said, I don't want to have to worry about who is reading our family's blog and so we are going private. I didn't want to have to do this but I don't feel I have a choice anymore. If you frequently read our blog and enjoy following us, please give me your email and I will give you clearance to follow our blog.