Six Weeks Old!

"Mom, you are silly!"
Mom LOVES to give me kisses!!

Naked Ethan!!

"Hahaha not going to smile quite yet, keep working on me!"

Looking at the world!

Awww Dad and Ethan:)

I Can Sleep Sitting Up!

The other day grandma Jastifer put Ethan to sleep sitting up....this is his first trick! We are working on the smile, not quite there yet, but soon!! :)

Poor Car

I was holding Ethan looking outside this morning and I noticed that there were some dents on the top of my car. I thought, oh no, the hail storm left dent mark all over the top of my car. Well I was wrong, the hail storm left over 200 dent marks ALL over my car!! It actually looks pretty cool, but will take some work to fix. The pictures do not do justice for what my car really looks like. Nothing I can do about it now, but it proves what a powerful storm it was! (All the circles that are shiny are the dents...the sun was not cooperating with me).

Hail Storm!

So tomorrow is the first official day of summer and Marquette gets hit with this HUGE hail storm! Hail up to the size of baseballs fell on Marquette today. There were several cars with cracked windshields and houses with dented siding, luckily we were not one of them. It took only a couple minutes, but left Marquette with a white blanket of hail balls. Streets were getting flooded and leaves were everywhere! Here are a couple of pictures of the aftermath...

Happy Fathers Day!

Today Jim celebrated his first fathers day with Ethan and they had a great time together. This morning we all got dressed up for church and finally took a real family picture:) Jim is a great father to Ethan and is so wonderful with him! He would do anything and everything for his son. We love you daddy!!! Happy fathers day to all the dad's out there...you are special people!

Ethan and Dad Time!

ETHAN SMILING!!!!

Today was an extremely HOT day in Marquette, so Ethan decided that he was most comfortable in a diaper. Daddy and him were having so much fun playing with each other! Daddy even got Ethan to smile for the first time!! Okay, it might have been on accident, but he smiled!

"I LOVE MY DADDY!!"

Mom Having Fun With the Camera!

Ethan looked so cute in his outfit today (Thanks Mindy!!) that I had fun taking pictures of the little guy. In some of the pictures, he was not having as much fun as I was:)

Do you like my giraffe? Nope, not going to smile!

"Okay mom....enough pictures!!"

One Month Old!

Our precious little man!

Our little guy is already a month old....Jim and I can hardly believe it! We love watching him grow. He isn't doing any tricks yet, but we are working on it:)

Ethan loves tummy time!!Dad with sleepy Ethan....awwwww!! "We're tight" as Jim would say.

Mom and Ethan:)

Ethan meets LOTS of Family!!

This past weekend Ethan headed down state for the first time and was able to meet LOTS of new family members!! We started the weekend off by surprising grandma Helms at work on Thursday, then it was off to great-grandma and grandpa Bieners to meet the entire Biener side (my dads side) including grandpa Biener, then on Friday night he met all of the Jastifer side (Jim's dad), on Saturday he met the majority of the Jousma side (Jim's mom) at a graduation party (congrates Lindsey!), on Sunday he had another baby shower put on by the Jousma side in which he was spoiled (Thanks everyone so much!!), then we ended the weekend at grandma and grandpa Helms (my mom & step-dad) for a cookout where he met his uncle Mark and grandpa Helms for the first time and enjoyed spending lots of time with them. Needless to say, we all were pooped by the end of the weekend, but it was fun visiting family!!

(I couldn't put pictures of everyone with Ethan & I forgot my camera for the Biener side- grandma could you send me pictures!!)

Spending time with grandpa Jastifer!!Meeting great-grandma Jousma:)Hanging out with Uncle Mark (first time holding a baby)!

Grandpa Helms with Ethan!

Bath Time!!

Ethan FINALLY lost his cord, so mom and dad gave Ethan his first real bath this morning. We were going to wait until tonight, but after he peed, pooped, and spit upon himself, we thought that he needed one a little bit sooner:) He LOVED it and had a great time! Here are a few picks of the little guy in the tub....

Visiting My Students...

I promised my students that I would bring Ethan in for a visit before the end of the year and I try not to break promises, so Ethan and I headed to school today to visit my kindergartners. It was so much fun to see them and for them to see Ethan. I was pregnant the entire time I was teaching them, so it was neat for them to see who was growing in my tummy the whole time. One kid even said, "Wow Mrs. Jastifer you look less fat!" I died laughing, they are so honest at that age....gotta love them!

Grandma Jastifer Is Here!!!

Grandma Jastifer is here! She arrived Tuesday afternoon and is having so much fun playing with Ethan, and Ethan loves playing with grandma! She is a big help and we enjoy having her here:) We are heading home next week for a graduation party and baby shower for Ethan, so we have lots of things planned for grandma while she is here. Grandma Jastifer snuggling with Ethan!

Our Little Guy....

It has been so fun to watch Ethan grow! He had his 2 week check up yesterday and he weighed in at 9 pounds 6 ounces and was 21 3/4 inches long. We are so proud of our little man!! Here are a few pictures that we have taken throughout the week....ENJOY! Ahhhh....life is SO hard being a baby!! Hmmmm....let me think about that??
"Dear God, please look after all the children of the world. Amen"