Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving, we headed up to Denver to spend time with family! The car ride was pretty decent on the way up there. Ethan slept for most of the time. When we got there, we went to Kim and Ryan's apartment to have dinner with them. We were excited to see our new niece Emma and to see Ellie again. We stayed with Kristen's aunt and uncle in Littleton so we headed over there after dinner.

We stayed for three days and we were able to spend lots of time with Kristen's family. Kim and Ryan's family came over every day. On Wednesday, we went on a walk to a park with a nice lake and a playground. We put Ethan in the baby swing for the first time! The park is right next to Columbine High School and they have the Columbine Memorial that we went to visit.

On Thanksgiving, we had a great turkey dinner. That evening, we went to Wal-Mart for some Black Friday shopping. We got Kristen a new laptop. Fortunately, it was very busy but we were able to get out of there in under an hour!

Unfortunately, Ethan got a little sick on Thursday with a cold. It was his first time and it was hard to have him sick.

Kristen went Black Friday shopping with Kim at a few stores on Friday morning, but I decided to take one for the team and stay home and sleep while Ethan slept! For lunch, Kristen, Ethan, and I headed to the Costa Vida down in Lone Tree that I went to while I was on my mission.

We left on Saturday for our drive back. It was a lot longer since Ethan was fussy and we left later than we wanted.

Ethan in a baby swing for the first time

Columbine Memorial sign

Two of the quotes that I thought were inspiring

Tired boy taking a nap while Kristen looks at the biographies of the victims

The lake at the park with some cool clouds overhead

Here are a few videos of Ethan from the past week

Party animal

Here's our late night party animal!

This video was from last night. It was taken after 1 AM! I stayed up with him while Kristen went to bed. He finally fell asleep at about 1:45 AM. Then, he apparently woke up again at 2:30 and wanted to eat! I was completely oblivious to this though since I was sound asleep.

He fell asleep after eating and didn't wake up again until 8 or so

My mom says that he's a California baby so he's sticking with California time!

Sorry about the weird aspect ratio, I took it on my phone

Rice cereal and Halloween

Here are a few pictures and videos from the past few days! I'll add more info to the comments

This is our attempt at a Halloween costume for Ethan using clothes we already had (he's a bear cub). Kristen gave him a nose with some makeup!

Close up of our little bear cub

Ethan's first time trying "solid" foods. It was really mostly milk with a little bit of baby rice cereal mixed in

Most of the cereal is on his face and bib! It looks like he's looking right out of the screen and at me

"Mom, it's so terrible!"

Video of Ethan's first meal