Friday, June 10, 2011

School's Out for Summer!

Ethan is enjoying the change in routine lately. I am home during the day with him and Chris. I am glad that I get to see him more than 3-4 hours a day now. We have lots of fun things planned for the summer and am excited to celebrate his first birthday in a few short months!!

Ethan went to his 9 month check-up on Monday and is right on track for his age. He is 20.5lbs (47%ile) and 29.25 inches tall (81%ile). He's come down quite a bit on his weight percentile because of his new fat burning exercise called crawling! But he's still our baby giant on height.

Because Ethan is getting so big, we needed to get him a new car seat. His old one only went up to 22 lbs and our new one is a convertible car seat (rear or forward facing) and goes up to 65 lbs! He looks so little in this monstrous car seat. He still does a great job in the car and has plenty of room to grow! 

The last 2 1/2 months I have been running 3 times a week with my friend Lauren to have some much needed girl time and some great exercise. On June 4th, we ran a 4 mile race at the Belton Research Hospital and supported a new dental clinic in Belton that will offer free or reduced dental services to thousands of kids in Cass county who don't have dental insurance. We felt really good about all our hard work, especially because we were the 7th and 8th place finishers! We sadly didn't take a picture together on race day, but we captured a running moment just last night! We didn't have time in our day to run until after 9pm and our loving husbands were fearful of our safety and provided us with super cool running gear (that we didn't wear!!). We just took our trusty mace with us!



Swimming at the community center

Splish Splash!

 Ethan hit his head on the side of the cart at Walmart! His first black eye...I'm sure it won't be his last!

Tiger Tail

First Haircut- we went for the buzz cut and he looks so grown up!

Ethan met our friend Jesse who happened to be our waiter at Ruby Tuesdays one night. Ethan helped him rake in some tips by meeting everyone else in the restaurant!!

New way to drink from a bottle!

My little independent boy wouldn't let me feed him one bite. Here's his way of doing things.

Holy Guacamole!!

Why not sit in the toy box?? It looks so fun!