Happy Birthday to Ethan!!!

Yesterday was our 1 year mark with our precious baby boy! I can't believe I have a toddler. We had a fun day of shopping and playtime. Grandma Savage is in town and Ethan was spoiled rotten yesterday! Then we met with daddy at the Grand Luxe inside the Palazzo for a yummy dinner. It's busy season for Skyler right now, and lately he's been leaving the house around 6:30 or 7:00 in the morning and getting home around 11:30 at night. I assumed last night would be no different, but at dinner Skyler kept asking us what we were going to do or where we were going after dinner. I told him that my mom had to run into Target but that was it. I even asked him why he wanted to know because it seemed kind of odd that he was pressing for answers. Well when I opened the garage door.....Skyler was home!!! It was a fun surprise!!! Ethan and I are SO lucky.
This was us 1 year ago....

And now today!

Ethan opened lots of presents and got lots of really fun toys. I think his favorites were a ride-a-long dump truck (thanks, Emme!!) and musical magnetic letters for the fridge (E says E, and E says Eh, every letter makes a sound and E says E!) I think it may take a while for me to get used to hearing that all the time!!


Here are some fun pictures from yesterday! There's lots of them--so get comfortable!
Thanks Mom for cutting off some of my head! Isn't his outfit cute??!


He was playing peek-a-boo with the napkin at dinner...everybody thought he was too cute! He was being pretty flirty with the waitresses too....is this a foreshadow of what's to come? Should I be worried??!




Thanks Uncle Jared for the homemade book!! He loves it!

I made that cake!!!!!



A better picture of his cake...

Ethan's "smash" cake. He LOVES M&M's and when he saw that giant "m&m" he was sooo happy!

A series of Ethan tearing into his cake......




I can't believe I forgot to put him in his birthday hat for cake!!! I had to have a picture of him wearing it, and I figured there's no better time to have him wear his birthday hat then when he's in his birthday suit!

Just Because...

Here are some cute pictures from this last week. Ethan and I made some delicious brownies--he is a great helper (and eater)! He knows exactly what is going on when we stir in the ingredients and he can't wait to taste the batter or dough.





I also wanted to post some pictures of Ethan getting ready for Church--Grandma Black gave Ethan a tie and he looks soooo handsome-just like his daddy!! Thanks Linda!




What channel is the Giants/Packers game????

I'll tell you what...

I know one of the major milestones of being parents is when your baby begins to sleep through the night. We were lucky because Ethan was doing that probably a month after he was born--but another WONDERFUL milestone is when your baby begins to walk. Nothing tires Ethan out more than a few laps between mom and dad. And it is working out beautifully for me and Skyler. We were able to sleep in till 10:00 this morning! We put Ethan down around 9 last night--he was out cold for 13 hours!!! Can you believe it? I sort of woke up in a panic when I saw that it was 10 in the morning and I hadn't heard a peep out of Ethan! Life is certainly good!

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So I guess Skyler and I make perfect babies.......

Walking to Mama

Another cute clip of Ethan learning to walk!

Walking to daddy

These two videos are pretty cute!

We're Home

It was really nice to be back in Colorado for a while, but there is just nothing like being at "home." We got home on Monday, and let me tell you--Ethan has been sleeping from around 7 at night to about 8:30-9:00 in the morning! He must really love being in his own bed! We don't mind it either!!! One of his new favorite games to play is to have one person on the other side of a door, so that he can shut it, then have it opened just so he can shut it again-I don't know what he finds so amusing about it, but he does--I guess it's his modified version of Peek a Boo. By the way, his shirt is wet from drool--it's about all he does these days. He's getting tons of teeth! Poor guy.