Holy Cow!

I took Ethan for his 2-month checkup this morning and he is doing great! He weighed 11 lbs. 3 oz. which is just crazy since he was only 10 lbs. last Thursday! He is now 22 inches long and is in the 50th percentile for both weight and height. I don't think we're going to have the weight issues we had with Kaitlin! Poor little man had to have four shots and an oral vaccine today, but he took it like a champ (and so did Mommy)!

Stuffed Animals

After we finally got Ethan's room painted and the crib made up, I decided that it was pretty boring and we really needed some more animal stuff to jazz the place up a bit. When I saw these stuffed animals at Target, I knew they were perfect for Ethan's room! I couldn't resist taking his picture with them and posting them for comparison.






















































I forgot to mention that I've actually seen these stuffed animals in two different TV shows since I bought them. We're clearly trendsetters ;)

Ethan's Room

I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures of Ethan's room. Actually, that's because it just got finished recently - a result of what we call the "Second Child Syndrome." I have to thank my friends Courtney and Nicole for introducing me to vinyl lettering from Etsy. Ethan's name turned out great and was much easier to put on the wall than the wood letters that we had in Kaitlin's nursery. And due to a shipping mishap, the lady I ordered it from sent us the monkey over the changing table for free! It looks really cute; I just wish I had told her to make it in brown (she automatically makes everything from black if you don't specify a color).

See Ethan Grow

Ethan is two months old today! We decided to continue the tradition of taking pictures with Harley, so this is the first of the series of Ethan and Harley. In the first picture, he is 2 weeks old and in the second, he is 2 months old. We think that he is growing so much faster than Kaitlin did, but I compared their weights at this age the other day and Ethan actually weighs several ounces less than Kaitlin did at 2 months. There was a macro enabled on the camera today when we took pictures, so they are a little blurry, especially the one with Kaitlin :(

Poor Harley

Kaitlin's new favorite activities include tormenting Harley and Simba. She loves to wake Simba up from his naps, chase him around the house, make him sit, and has picked him up a few times. Simba is NOT a fan. She also enjoys dragging Harley around by his collar. Harley is a good sport and is desparate for attention, so he often complies. I was able to catch a few pictures. This particular day, he was protesting pretty strongly.









































Success!

Big Sister

Kaitlin is a great big sister! She likes to talk to Ethan, shake toys for him, and cover him up with his blanket. She even got to help give Ethan a bottle one night (he rarely gets one)! Kaitlin doesn't seem real interested in holding Ethan lately, probably because he usually cries when she holds him. Not because he doesn't like her, she just usually wants to hold him when he's already grumpy. It's been really fun to watch Kaitlin with her dolls since Ethan was born. The other day, we went to the grocery store and I had the baby in a carrier. Kaitlin wanted to put her baby in a carrier too. So off we went "wearing" our babies! She talks to her babies just like we talk to Ethan. She'll stand her baby up and say "Look at you standing up" or "You're getting so big." It's very cute!

Caught Smiling!

Our "little man" Ethan is becoming less grumpy everyday (thank goodness) and if you're lucky you might even catch him smiling.


















Things are so much different with this second child. Someone asked me when Ethan was five weeks old if he had started smiling yet and my honest answer was "I don't know." It really made me realize that I had been so busy with Kaitlin and trying to get a little something done that I forgot to look at Ethan and talk to him. So now, when a rare moment comes along that he is awake and not grumpy, I talk to him and play with him. He seems to be less grumpy now that he's getting some more positive attention :)

Content

So, today was the second day this week that Ethan has made a big fat liar out of me. I keep telling people what a grumpy baby he is and then he decides to be happy. Now I'm not complaining, a happy baby is much more fun than a grumpy one, just surprised. This morning, I gave him a bath and he didn't make a peep the entire time, even when I opened his diaper. Then, I took him to the doctor and he didn't cry the entire time!! I undressed him, put him on the scale, and changed his diaper; the nurse took his temperature and the doctor examined him all without a sound. Here's a picture of him looking at himself in the mirror:














And this is how things usually are:


















"He cries a lot" -Kaitlin Yost

Awwww!

Yes, I know you're not supposed to let babies sleep on their tummies or on the boppy pillow, but how can I disturb him? Poor little guy has been so congested and yesterday I had to carry him around all afternoon because it was the only way he could sleep. I just can't bear to wake him up, but I am checking on him constantly!

Ethan's One-Month Checkup

Ethan had his one-month checkup this morning. He hated every minute of the exam and let us know by screaming as loud as he could the entire time. He got so mad at one point that we got the "silent scream." Aside from a little cold, the doctor said he looks great! He weighed in at 8 lbs, 5 oz and is 20 ¼ inches long. He is at the 25th percentile for weight so he is going to be little like Kaitlin, but he is gaining weight steadily which is a major relief to us since Kaitlin gained weight so slowly. Here is a picture of Kaitlin and Ethan wearing their monkey pajamas. This was taken on Saturday, the day before Ethan's one-month birthday :)