I am not really sure why but Ethan has always been fascinated with mowing the lawn. All summer I could set him in his stroller and he would just sit and stare at me while I mowed. Later in the fall he started riding along with me on hte riding lawnmower as I picked up leaves. Never made a peep, he absolutely loved it.
Ethan had a fun first Halloween. He didnt get out and trick our treat but did wear his sweet gnome costume to the neighborhood party. I think is favorite part of Halloween was trying to capture and eat the taco dog...
Ethan is now 10 months old. It is amazing how fast time is flying by. He is an amazing "little" guy. At his 9 month appointment he was 30.75 inches long and weighed 24 lbs and 15 ozs. This put him in the 100th adn 99th percentile. He is generally just a very big little guy.
Ethan is getting so close to walking. He walks all around the house pushing his little CAT tractor. You could see the pure joy on his face the first few times he did it, he looked like he had just unlocked the greatest mystery in the world. He was very proud of himself. He has taken a couple steps on his own but nothing consistent. I think he will be walking fairly soon.
Until last week Ethan's vocabulary consisted of happy screech, mad screech and oooo's and aaaaa's. We were starting to worry about the lack of dada, baba, gaga, etc. Then all of the sudden he started babbling away. It is absolutely adorable to hear him ramble off a ton of sounds, its the cutest jibberish ever.
After a few months of struggles we finally got Ethan to sleep through the night "most" of the time. We had been giving him bottles and rocking him at night and just sort of waiting for him to sleep through the night, he would do it every now and then but not consistently. Eventually we had to devote one night to convincing him that he had to go to sleep on his own. It didnt take that long and worked pretty good.
Ethan had his first visit with Santa and wasnt very impressed. I was impressed that Santa, Mrs. Clause and Isabelle managed to hold a smile during the screaming fit!
