Cousin Ethan

Madeline and Connor are proud to announce the arrival of baby Ethan Rowe. His birthday is December 9, 2011. He was 9 lbs, 8 oz, and 22 inches long! He gave us quite the scare, but is happily at home now with his awesome mommy and daddy. We love you Ethan, Aunt Jasmine, and Uncle Brandon!

Cute smiles

6 month update

Connor is half a year old. He loves getting up on his hands and knees, and sometimes brings a foot to the floor. He scooches a little bit, but mostly rocks back and forth. He can almost sit unassisted, but not quite. He smiles and laughs a lot! He tried cereal for the first time tonight. He seemed very interested... but I'm not sure how much of the ceral got down to his stomach. Madeline really enjoyed watching Connor "eat" with a spoon. It got a little messy, but not too bad.Madeline picked out a green apple, a tomato, and a cucumber from the grocery store (all by herself) and played with them the rest of the night. It was hilarious! She loves the produce section of Harter House, especially when it "rains" on the vegetables.

I predict...

Connor will be crawling before Christmas! He's getting up on his hands and knees now fairly easily.

Arts and crafts time

Madeline has been LOVING "arts and crafts time" lately! We do some coloring, fingerpainting, cutting out shapes, stickers, pumpkin decorating, whatever we can think of. One day, she switched from finger-painting to elbow-painting!They do lots of projects at preschool (Developmental Learning Center), and we recently found a good way to display a lot of the artwork (thank you Land of Nod):Madeline goes to preschool 2 days a week, and it is so cute watching her make friends and learn new things. She can sing the whole abc song now, actually she has been doing that for a while. She can count to 10, usually. She started out doing it correctly, then for a long time would consistently skip #4, and now 4 seems to be her favorite number. She rarely takes a nap anymore. She is potty trained for peepee but not poopoo yet. She loves to pedal her tricycle, especially if mommy is pushing her. She watches at least part of the movie Ice Age almost every day for the past few weeks, she can now predict some parts of the movie. She calls her stuffed Snuffy toy "ice age." She now pronounces her own name correctly, instead of maa-maa as she said for a long time. I could go on and on...

5 month update

Connor is a happy and healthy baby! He loves to grab his feet and suck on his left big toe (the favorite), he laughs when you tickle him or make funny noises/faces, he pushes up on his elbows and wiggles all over the place, he rolls over onto his belly (he uses his head to guide the rest of his body) almost instantaneously when you put him down, he still only has the bottom front 2 teeth, but he's definitely got the drool to prove that more are on the way, he is mesmerized by Madeline whenever she is around, he is reaching for and grabbing anything in his path, and he provides full time enjoyment for us!

Funny story

Ed took Connor to the doctor today to check out a rash on his neck that we were treating for a yeast infection but it wasn't improving. First the nurse came in, asked a few questions and left. Then the doctor came in, asked a few questions and opened Connor's diaper... Then she said, "Are you talking about the redness on his sack?" And Ed kindly reminded her that the rash was on his neck, and she said oh, cause I didn't really see anything down there. Ha Ha Ha Ha!!

In other news, Happy 28th Birthday to Auntie Jenn and Happy 2nd Anniversary to Uncle Brandon and Auntie Jasmine!