Hanging Out With The Kids

Julia has been growing into her role as big sister. She loves to give Ethan hugs and kisses, and is always concerned when he cries and makes sure to notify a parent until one of us picks him up and she determines he’s “better.” She’s been expanding her vocabulary to include a lot more fun words, such as “gross,” “messy,” “a-ma” (grandma), “a-pa” (grandpa), and “eth” (Ethan). Ethan has started cooing and surprised his parents with sleeping for a whopping five and a half hours straight the last few nights. We’ve been a little superstitious about the whole deal, and have made sure to use the exact same blanket to wrap him up every night since and repeat the same motions for fear he will go back to his three hour routine.

Julia’s routine is to wake up early from her naps so she can come snooze in the parents’ bed. Here both she and Ethan are sound asleep.



Hanging out with the neighborhood cat (“Mao” as Julia likes to call her) Julia always looks forward to seeing and playing with her.

Julia just loves her dresses and having her hair done “special”

All ready for the pool

It’s hard to tell here, but Ethan has been adding some meat to those bones. At his last doctor’s appointment (1 month check-up) he weighed 8 pounds 13 ounces. Everyone says that he looks like Joshua, but we think he actually looks like his Uncle Nathanael.