I hauled off to Little Rock and Shreveport without the camera... suprising, yes... so the only pics I have on me are the ones of Eli and Emily's Christmas visit. When all the other people with cameras send me their pictures (hint Nana), I'll post them.

These are all random.
I just got the "mama mama uh uh" from Ethan's room. Apparently he's awake.

And... HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUDREY!!

Hello Hello. I'm a footballer's wife this evening. Apparently its an important game. I've just made my first batch of toffee, and it happens to be excellent.

Ethan took 6 steps this weekend. They were short and wobbly... but they were unassisted. He hasn't done it since. His carrot was (you guessed it!), his stuffed dog.

We threw a two-day-coup and got our living room back. We now have all the toys stuffed into another room that has a door. Ethan likes that the spider man couch is his gateway to the other couch, and Elmo is SO MUCH BIGGER on the other TV!

I was audited by the Arkansas Board of Examiners of Speech Language Pathologists today. That was fun. Shaun was no help saying that audits were "a good way to learn" and "necessary to improve." PUH-LEASE Mr. Taxman... nobody likes an auditor. Mine; however, was reasonable, and lauded me as "excellent" and as "obviously not being userpt." Strange, but I'll take it. A facade of pretty charts and graphs can get you places.


Ethan also showed his true colors last night as he scarfed down two bowls of crawfish chowder and two garlic toasts. His teachers today remarked on his disgusting gas, they said it was indescribeable... We describe it as voodoo-doodoo.

On that note, nighty night.
E

Since this blog has become Ethan's baby book, I will now post the year in pictures. This is actually my third attempt. I sat down at 8:04. I perused the internet, caught up on my entertainment news, then decided on my blog theme. FIRST, I was trying to move a picture to perfectly align my text, and all my pictures disappeared. THEN, I was on a roll, labeling, labeling... then I was one short. I forgot May, so I tried to add it and it got all screwed up. So NOW, on my third attempt, and with different pictures than I picked the first time... eh hmmmmm... our year in review. By the way, it is 9:22.

These won't line up right... alas they are in order.
December... aaaaawwwwww. All squishy and furry with a big nose.
January... he thinks we're cool.

February... he wants to trade us in for trained professionals,

March... beginning of the fat phase

April... head. is. still. so. heavy.

May

June... still fat

July.. thinning out, learning to sit.

August... HAM BONE!

September- would still wear a hat

October... on the move!

November... ate too many sweet pots and got an orange nose!

December... saw the vacuum and said "dat?!", saw the clock and said "dat?!", saw the dog and said "dat!" saw the fill in the blank and said "dat?!"

Whew. I did it. I'm posting before it can go away. Night night. E

DOG PARTY!

December 8th came and went with less bang

(and pain medicine shot into my spine... for that matter) than last year; alas, we had a dog party. There were dog cards, and a dog cake, and dog wrapping paper, and stuffed dogs, and pictures of dogs, and dog books, and dog stuff everywhere.

Birthday Boy had a good time, and enjoyed all the new stuff he got. He didn't open two of our gifts, and I think we'll just save those for Christmas.... probobly the only year we'll get away with that.

He didn't care much for the cake, and he slept trought the back end of his party, but we'll remember it always. ;)

My motherly resolutions this year include:

1. Blog like he was just born

2. Take on a different hobby than obsessing over sleep patterns

3. Ensure proper speech production

4. Teach him about cake

It's not weird when he calls me mamamamama.... what a difference a year makes!

:) E

Here's some pics. I'm trying not to lose my blogging chutzpah. What does chutzpah mean??
E

We're back! So sorry for my lag in picture posting. We've been busy. We made the Thanksgiving rounds ... Ethan got to see all his cousins. This was our best shot of all the Byrd cousins in Nana's new cool fort.
Ethan got to steal cookies at Momo's house... and got to see lots of cool stuff at SciPort. All those pics are on my fancy new phone, and once I figure out how to harvest those, I'll send 'em right out.

Otherwise, life is speedy. I made a folder called Ethan December this morning to hold all these new pics, and low and behold, there already IS an Ethan December folder. Hmmm. Full circle.

At the lighting of Fayetteville square. It was COLD and late, but we had fun.

We've gotten our tree up.. did I mention that yesterday was a snow day??? All the streets were clear by 10am, but we all got to stay home anyway! Fun fun. We went to pick a tree... then we went shopping for lights, etc.. we got to the checkout and realized all we had between ourselves was one checkbook. No IDs, no debit, nothing. They wouldn't let us proceed with our checkout. It made for a long day, but we got everything eventually.

I need to go clean up pine needles. Tootles. E