A little more than 4 months:)

Hi everyone!

We apologize for not keeping you up to date! Ethan is now 17 weeks old and a lot has been happening:)

Here is a quick update on the little fella and our fam, as well as a ton of pictures!

• Ethan will be having his 4 month check up and shots tomorrow. We will find out his official height and weight then, but when he gets onto the bathroom scale with me, he weighs in at about 16 pounds. With the measuring tape he is 26 inches long! He is wearing 9 month old clothes and sometimes 12 month old clothes!






• He is now tolerating more tummy time and can hold up his head 90 degrees:) He has found his hands and enjoys munching on them when ever he is awake. He also likes watching his toes move but hasn't decided to put them in his mouth (Cameron's glad!).





• Ethan likes standing up (with assistance of course!) and walking around the room. He especially likes to walk up to the mirrors on our closets and then smile at the baby he sees looking back at him. Sometimes he will start screeching at the other baby as if to say "There isn't room enough for the two of us!"



• Cameron has started working again at the Advanced Care Hospital of Southern New Mexico but only twice a week now. Ethan stays with his Nana on Friday mornings through the afternoon until Andrew comes home from work and then Andrew is with him all day Saturdays as well. Andrew is now permanently on a day schedule at work and it is so nice because it is predictable and he is always home at night!





• Cameron and Ethan have been a part of a "Mother Goose Story Time" group, which meets every Wednesday at our local library. The group is made up of about 8 Moms and their babies and our group leader. We sing songs, read a story and then there is a time for the kids to play together while the Moms visit with each other. It is offers support, a chance to make new friends, an excuse to get out of the house and a place to share germs! Overall we enjoy it (in spite of the germs!).




• Our Sunday School class has become a huge blessing. Most of the couples in our class now have children and this offers a big support for everyone. It is a joy to get together every Sunday, share stories, learn together and relate to each other. After we had Ethan our class brought us meals a several times a week for a month- - - we never would have eaten so well during that time without them. It also offered stress relief not having to worry about making a meal for that day.




• Andrew continues to have opportunities to prepare and deliver sermons at the Baptist Student Union at NMSU and at First Baptist Church in Truth or Consequences. He hopes to enrol in seminary classes in the future and continue to take the opportunities to preach when they arise.



• Andrew also started taking an oil painting class at Hobby Lobby and made his first painting last month. See below for a picture of him showing it off:)

Thanks for keeping up with us! We appreciate each of you!