Our BOYS!

Ethan is now 7 months old and is learning a ton of new things. We call the pose in the above picture the playgirl pose. All he needs is a thick mustache and a van with no windows. He is crawling everywhere now and always has a car in his hand. He has been working on pulling himself up on everything. He would be more successful if Mason would stop pushing him over. E-man's hair still sticks straight up and I don't see that changing anytime soon. He loves taking baths. Hates getting out of the bath and dressed. Ethan has mastered his sitting skills; however, when he is sitting in the shopping cart he has a rubber butt and can't or won't sit. E loves to eat. He gets super excited when he is placed in the booster. Mason however doesn't want to give up his seat and usually eats most of his puffs. When we give him a bottle he holds it with his hands and feet. This evening I discovered that Ethan has his first bruise on his forehead. Unfortunately it isn't dark enough to show up in a photo.

Mason . . . well Mason is 2, enough said. Mason is into everything. Nothing is safe. He likes to push Ethan over, sit on Ethan, and drag Ethan around by his ankles. He likes to torture Molly. He will push Molly off the couch, off the chair, out of her bed, and throws her food into the trash. The toy room is always a mess because he likes to dump everything out on the floor and then leaves. The kid loves to eat and is constantly dragging us to the pantry for more food. When we are giving him something super yummy he lets us know by rubbing his tummy and saying, "Mmm" over and over. Mason is doing awesome using the potty. He's even told us he has to go a couple of times. And as always we love to find little presents laying around (Can't blame him for dropping them off, no one wants to carry that around in their drawers.) The day he had the squirts wasn't fun but we made it past that incident.

We had family photos taken a week or so ago. I'm sure the photographer was grateful when we finally packed up and left. Mason did not want to cooperate. The props were just too much fun and were calling his name. Ethan is a champ with photos and makes it hard to choose just one photo.


This was the only photo that everyone was looking at the camera and/or smiling. I didn't realize it was off center until now. Can't complain too much it was a free photo.