Month seven

It is hard to believe that another month has come and gone. The summer is almost over, and we will be going back to school soon. E-man now weighs fifteen pounds and three ounces. He is starting to get chunkier cheeks. It is pretty cute. Each night as I put him to sleep I always check for incoming teeth. He is showing all the signs—and finally TONIGHT one day before he is 7 months old, there is a little hint of a tooth coming in on the bottom—I know what you are thinking…just in time for the airplane...it was our first thought, too.

Here are some more highlights from the month…

Took his first road trip to Oklahoma and I know I am biased, but he did an amazing job in the car. I have such a good baby.
Celebrated his first Fourth of July, including fireworks and sparklers…such a good boy, never got scared and then slept right through all the booms.
Starting eating fruits and veggies…and loves them all, except green beans.
Had meat for the first time the other night, wasn’t the biggest fan—we’ll continue to work on it.
Is ready to crawl, moving more and more each day, we know it is only a matter of when now.
Can pull himself up to the standing position, if he is holding on to one of us, we may skip the whole crawling thing altogether.
Went swimming in a big pool at Uncle Michael’s house and LOVED it
Went to summer “camp” while mommy taught fine arts camp at a local church. It was actually just the nursery for the teacher’s kids, but everyone there loved him, of course.
His absolute favorite toy is the TV remote, Chris and I continually losing the remote, because we have to hide it from him.
And, Chris and I are falling in love with him more and more everyday!

First OK experience

A long car ride…Meeting Great-Grandparents, Great Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins…A craft show…Casa Bonita…and a long car ride home. It has been a jammed packed weekend, because we drove up to Oklahoma to visit family. E-man did pretty good in the car on the way up there, but we drove mostly after his bed time, so he slept most of the way. He also slept most of the way home also. It was a pretty good first traveling experience.

On Saturday, E-man went to his first craft show. We went with his Great Aunt Carol and Grandma M., he pretty much had the VIP treatment, about thirty minutes into the whole thing, and he ditched me and the stroller to sit on Carol’s lap in her wheelchair. She broke her leg a few weeks ago, and this was her first trip outside of the house that wasn’t a doctor’s office. We only spent a few hours there, because it was starting to get to be nap time, and we were going over to Ethan’s Great Aunt Linda and Great Uncle Brad’s house to have lunch with the McDonald family. We had a great time—thank you Brad and Linda for having us! Ethan got to meet his second cousins Braxton and James.

That evening, after a long nap (both Ethan and me) we went to Casa Bonita. This is a place that Chris and his cousins grew up going to and I guess it is a tradition that has moved to the next generation. We all enjoyed the Mexican food, while Ethan had pears, but he didn’t seem to mind, and even got to raise the flag to let the waitress we wanted more food. We then went to the arcade, and E-man got to watch all the lights, and once again got the VIP treatment on Carol’s lap.

We all had a great time spending time with family. It was a great trip!

The infamous Casa Bonita...Uncle Tim, sorry you couldn't make it, I raised the flag for you.

Ethan and his Great Grandparents

Ethan and Me, Megan and Braxton, Jennifer and James

Great-Grandpa McDonald and Ethan

Great-Grandma McDonald and Ethan

Braxton reading to Ethan...too precious!

Shopping at the Tulsa Craft show
Tickel Monster Great Uncle James...Ethan looks concerned, but he was really enjoying it!

It sure does taste good, Great Aunt Carol.

This is how Ethan spent most of the car ride. What a good baby!

Maggie and Katie deciding who was going to drive home.

Fireworks!

What a wonderful Fourth of July. E-man went swimming in a big pool for the first time. I am proud to say that he loved it, and wasn't ready to get out, but Mommy and Daddy thought 30 minutes was plenty of time. He then proceeded to take a really long nap, we finally had to wake him up about 7:00, I never thought he would sleep that night. But, he did actually right through all the fireworks. About 8:30, we went out to play with the sparklers. He was mesmerized by the sparklers and loved them. Then some of the neighbors started to shoot fireworks off. Surprisingly it didn't seem to bother him. He even followed some of them into the air as they exploded. He actually loved it, he was laughing and jumping all around in my arms. The only part he squirmed at was when I would cover his ears right before the explosion.

Grandpa L's little boy, going to love fireworks. :)