Big week!

This week has been a big week!  Ethan rolled over!!  It has been a long time coming.  Back in January he was trying so hard to do it and we thought it was going to happen then.  But when he learned to sit up he gave up on rolling over and all he wanted to do was sit up and play with his toys.  Then the other day he was laying down and he started to try again.  This time his form was much better and we knew it was only a matter of time before he would do it.  Matt had a work from home day and sure enough with both of us there he did it.  The first time we didn't catch it on video but we had him do it again so we could grab a video of it.  As you will see in the video we had to help him a long a bit but he did it all on his own.  What a big boy!  He also has a few new loves, the song if you are happy and you know it and waving hello.  As soon as we say "If your happy" he immediately gets this bashful look on his face in preparation for someone grabbing his hands and clapping them together.  He smiles through the whole song.  And waving, well he just started mimicking us one day.  We would say "hi Ethan" and wave and soon he was waving his hand. It is not as controlled but very cute.

In other news Uncle Pat and Aunt Sara made a trip to New York to visit!  They wanted to see us before we made our move and will be going off to Australia soon so they didn't want to miss us.  It was great having them.  It was a short trip but we made the most of it.  Ethan absolutely loved Sara, Pat on the other hand for some reason kept making him cry.  I think it is a combo of his voice and Ethan has suddenly developed stranger anxiety of men.  A nice old man at the post office said hello to him and he lost it and started to cry hysterically.  Last night Matt BBQ up some burgers and we had a fire in the pit in the back yard. Later we Skyped with Jenny and the girls and Gerry too.  Pat and Sara had never used Skype and so it was a first for them.  It was funny joking with Pat and his lack of technology.  We also took them to downtown Fredericksburg, all the shops were closed though because it was Sunday and apparently they don't open until noon whoops!  There is a store dedicated to cats so since Sara is such a cat lover we did stick around long enough to take a peek in there.  We enjoyed seeing them a lot.

Ethan and Aunt Sara 

Hanging by the fire pit

I included these photos because they were so cute!  It was so nice out and Tucker was a little stir crazy so we went out in the backyard to toss the ball.  It was a bit breezy but sunny so we tossed Ethan in this adorable little snow suit my Aunt Kathy got him. It has some meaning to me because she bought it when we first found out I was pregnant and her and my mom took me shopping for maternity clothes in SF.  I remember thinking boy or girl how cute our little one would look in it, and man was I right!   Ethan definitely was having a blast sitting there on the chair watching Tuck run around.