Beaches and Creatures to see!

After leaving San Antonio, we headed to Corpus Christi. We went to the aquarium where we watched a dolphin show, saw some sea turtles, watched some otters play, and observed many other sea creatures. (Ethan even got to see some jellyfish - among his cousin Bradley's favorites).

Later that day we went to Padre Island and checked out the very windy beach. What fine sand they have! It was warm, but with the wind it still felt chilly out near the water. Ethan dipped his feet in the gulf - but didn't really like it too much.

Hugs and more hugs!

Bradley loved hugging her cousin "Eefie". Ethan had fun watching Bradley and Colten during every moment he could in Texas. I wish I'd gotten some good pictures of Ethan with his aunts and uncles. He met Aunt Karen and Uncle Steve for the first time! It was a great time for us all! We even got to visit the Alamo and the San Antonio River Walk.

March Update

Ethan has been traveling a lot in the last month. We all took a trip to Texas for my cousin's wedding. The Siemens side of the family all met in San Antonio for the Valentine's Day weekend for Matt's beautiful day. During our road trip, Ethan got to visit Amarillo, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and Odessa in Texas. Then we came back through Roswell, NM so we could experience a close encounter of any kind. On the way home from the trip I noticed that Ethan had a solitary bottom tooth. He wasn't even crabby on the trip, so I had no idea! And now he has both bottom middle teeth!

After that long road trip from Wednesday, Feb. 11th through Thursday, Feb. 19 we got to spend the weekend relaxing together and getting back to a reasonable schedule. Then on the very next Tuesday, Ethan and I flew to Seattle. I had to be there for work, so Ethan got to spend some time with his Grandma and Grandpa Siemens. He was great on the plane - though I sure was exhausted after each flight. And he had a blast with his grandparents.

Ethan is crawling, pulling up, babbling, and always smiling!

Formal Christmas Attire.

Here are some other pictures of Ethan from just before Christmas. He went with his Grandma and Grandpa and cousins to get these done and surprised us!

Green monster rides green 4-wheeler!

We've been enjoying the winter. Christmas and New Years were fun and not too stressful. Ethan's Grandma and Grandpa Beu came out to Colorado to celebrate with our family and Jason's sisters' families. Ethan received lots of fun toys as well! He loves his little people-type sets - the construction workers and airfield set, the Old MacDonald animal and tractor set, and the Noah's Ark set. He also got an awesome tool box, cool balls, and books! He loves his Kawasaki 4-wheeler too - especially the revving noises (I guess he is taking after daddy?)!

Ethan is eating more and more "real" food. He is pretty good with some finger foods like macaroni noodles and cheerios, but as you can see from the picture, he misses his mouth sometimes. Avocado can be messy even for the best of us, so I don't blame him for the mess! He had fun though...and I just thought he looked disgustingly cute here.

He isn't crawling yet but he should get the hang of it sometime soon. He is already trying to pull up and stand a lot more.

Photogenic Babe

Here are some of the pictures I took of Ethan this weekend. He was just so smiley, so they all turned out pretty cute (if I do say so myself).

My first REAL snow!

It snowed all weekend here, so we actually had some accumulation. About 5 inches by Saturday and another 3 or 4 inches on Sunday. So Ethan got to experience snow! After Jason finished plowing our driveway and sidewalk in front of the house, he took the tractor around to the backyard and created a track by flattening down the snow and pulling the innertube. So Ethan and I hopped on the tube and went for a gentle ride around the backyard. Then Ethan went by himself. He fits perfectly in the tube (just like his cousin Colten did last December) and he actually enjoyed riding on his own as well. He was hootin' and Hollerin' and laughing most of the time. Ethan and Jason then drove for a while so they could pull me around. Ethan doesn't seem to mind the tractor noise at all. And then I drove and pulled them together on the tube. Lots of family fun!