This morning during Ethan's tummy time I caught a good picture of him up close, he is getting so big! We love our little guy, he is so much fun!:)

Ethan Meets More Friends

This past weekend my good friends Mindy and Aaron from college came for a visit to meet little Ethan. We all had a real good time, but it went by way too fast! Good thing we are moving down state in another month for 5 months so I can catch up with everybody! Thanks for visiting Mindy and Aaron, it was good to see you! Here are Mindy and Aaron with Ethan:)Mindy and Me!

Ethan LOVES Sitting Up!

Ethan LOVES to sit up now that his head control is so much better! He is like a sponge, soaking up everything he possibly can!!

Fun With Mom & Dad!!:)

Ethan, dad and I had a great time playing the other day. He is full of smiles all the time (well when he is not tired or hungry) and we love it!! He is so much fun and loves playing with all his toys. He bats at toys and is even holding the toys and putting them in his mouth and sucking on them. He is working on finding his thumb and soon I think he will find it:)

Here is a video of Ethan getting some tummy time! We were testing out the video on our camera...ENJOY!

New Toy!!

Ethan was able to play with his new toy today! Yesterday I put this together and thought that I would see what Ethan thought of it. He LOVED it! He is still a little small so I had to put a blanket around him, but that did not seem to bother him. He couldn't reach any of the toys yet but the orange monkey, but he enjoyed standing up!

He is growing like a weed! He had a doctor appointment yesterday and had to get three shots, poor guy. He did very well though and really only cried though one of them and by the third shot, he did not even make a peep. He is 12 pounds 12 ounces (75% percentile) and 24 inches long (80% percentile). We love watching Ethan, he is cooing all the time and is smiling more and more everyday!

Family Reunion!

Last week Ethan was able to be part of the annual family reunion in Warsaw, Indiana. It was so much fun seeing all the family and for them to meet Ethan. We had a blast and can't wait to do it again next year:) Here are a few pics from the vacation.....miss everyone already!

Cousins!!

I love my Great-Grandma!!

Hanging out with Uncle Mark

Sleeping on Grandma so peacefully!

Ethan giving Aunt Kelly kisses:)

My Cousin's precious daughter, Talia, turned one while we were there!
Another family pic...there were lots!

Our little family!

The WHOLE family! Yes, there are a lot of us!

Yup...that is a smile!:)

Daddy snoozing with Ethan on the hammock...awwww

Four Generations! (Mom, Ethan, Grandma, Me)

Aunt Kelly Meets Ethan!

Aunt Kelly arrived Thursday and finally after two months of waiting was able to meet her nephew Ethan! They have so much fun together....Ethan LOVES his aunt very much and spends as much time with her as possible:) I love having her here as well, Arizona is so far away that the two times a year that I get to spend with her means a lot. Grandpa Biener visited as well and was able to spend some time with his grandson. We love when family visits!!

Going Swimming!

Last Tuesday it was 95 degrees out and we were so hot that our good friend Andrea said that we could come over and hang out by the kid pool that she bought for her 17 month old daughter. So of course I had to dress Ethan in his bathing suit!! It was a little big, and he didn't touch the water because he slept the entire time, but it was fun seeing him in it:) Maybe next time he will actually touch the water and get it wet!

Doing my hula dance!!

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!!"