Happy Holidays

We had a wonderful holiday season this year! We attended lots of family holiday parties, visited cool places, and did some enjoyable activities at home.  This holiday season was extra special because daddy was home almost all of the time mommy was off:) Check out our fun below!

Decorating the tree.

Santa Ethan

E showing off his Santa butt

Santa's little helper.

Visiting Santa Joe at Henry Ford.

Visiting a train passenger car.

Watching the trains go around the city

Making the Thomas train go.

Writing to Santa

Reading Santa Comes to Michigan...a special delivery from Santa's elves.

Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo.

Santa visits the Matthews' party.

Making ornaments for the grandparents,.

Decorating cookies.

Santa visited our house.

Baked cookies.

Christmas brunch at our house.

Prizes in the Christmas crackers.

That Snowman looks like daddy.

One of our many zoo visits.

Flying paper planes at Henry Ford Museum.

Jungle Java with friends.

The Michigan Science Center.

Painting Snow

Cold!

Water Balloon experiment.

Making foam dough: Snowman experiment

Halloween Fun!

Creating pumpkin faces with the card from Grandma W

Enjoying a pumpkin blizzard in my skeleton pjs

Painting fun:)

We are off to the zoo...

So tired...enjoying my apple from the zoo

Reading The Leaf Man

Craving my pumpkin

Goodies for Henry's daycare party

Ethan is 7 months!

Ethan was 7 months on November 12th. Silly mommy missed it because she was busy doing report cards and holding parent/teacher conferences. Ethan did not have a well visit this month, though he did visit the doctor to get his flu shot. He was a trooper for both rounds...he barely cried:) E weighs in at 20 pounds and is about 28 inches.

Currently, Ethan is enjoying all sorts of yummy solids. He eats all sorts of squashes, sweet potatoes, green beans, avocado, apples, pears, bananas, yogurt, eggs and oatmeal. At Thanksgiving tried some turkey, cranberry relish, potatoes and sweet potato casserole. E seems to love all food, he just isn't sure about the textures sometimes. Ethan and I are still breastfeeding, though I do supplement with formula because I can pump enough during the day when I am teaching. Hoping to hold on until his first birthday, but we shall see. I feel so blessed that I have been able to do it this long:)

Ethan loves to talk, talk, talk:) E also got his first tooth this month. His bottom, left, front tooth. He has been a great teeth so far. Ethan is not crawling yet. He loves to sit up and play with his toys. He also likes to play in his Jumperoo. E can also stand and hold onto things. We may have a walker before he crawls just like his big brother. 

Up north trip

The cowardly lion from OZ...Grandma W made it:)

Posing with mom and dad

Tired from all the fun

Cutest little pumpkin!

I don't like to go to bed:)

Tunnel fun:)

Franken E

Holiday fun:)

Fun at the park

First time sitting up on my own without falling over

Not feeling so great:(

Playin a Detroit Kid City!

Fall zoo trip:)