Schwiesow Family Photos

In October we had family photos with my family. My family had their photos taken at William Land Park in Sacramento.
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Family Time

A week ago Ken and I decided to finally make stepping stones for our backyard! I'll post pictures at the end of one of the two stones we made. One has our address on it so for safety I'm not posting it. We decided to do one stones for every year that we live in this house and then take them with us when we move.

For 2009 we made a house with mosaic stones and wrote the words "NEW FRIENDS", our address, "SOLD" and the year 2009. I also drew stick figures of Ken and me in front of the house. The one of me has a little baby bump since I was 12 weeks pregnant when we moved in.

For 2010, we made the stone all about Ethan. We put his birthday 2-18-2010, "LAUGHTER", & "SILLY" along with stars and moons, and we used polished stones of some sort to write his name. When we were finished with that we pushed his little feet into the cement so that we'll always rememberhow small his little feet were. We've placed them in the bark outside our patio. Next year we'll see what the 2011 has in store for us and then decide what we'll do for that one.

Ethan had a fun day with his cousin, Ella a couple weekends ago. She came over to play and by play I mean to play with all his toys. She does love her baby "Etan" a lot and wants to helps with everything. She also loves to eat at my house. She knows where her seat is and where all the snacks and juice are kept. It's so fun to have her around. It shows me what it would be like to have two kids two years apart. I'm hoping it's more like 2 1/2 to 3 years for us.

Here are the pictures from her visit:

Ethan doesn't know what to think. Earlier that day she went to get him up from his nap with me and he looked at me smiling and as soon as he heard her voice he was startled. He's just not used to the noise so quickly after waking up. I have a feeling they will love each other in about a year when they can play together. I look forward to seein Ella & Ethan running after each other at the park and swinging together or playing house in the kid kitchen upstairs at my parents house.

Auntie, Ella & Ethan wondering what Ella is doing.
She's playing peek-a-boo, I think.

Sweet Cousins.

Ella helping Nana feed Ethan.

2 weeks old!!!!

Sleeping on Daddy

Ethan finds his fingers to soothe!

A little Daddy/ Son bonding

1st time in his bouncer. It lasted about 2 minutes before he started crying.

He's already two weeks old! I can't believe how fast he has been growing and how fast times has flown by. I guess when you live in segments of time (eat, poop, sleep) with a baby the days start to go fast. Ethan is doing really well! He can hold his head up better. We need to start doing tummy time with him very soon. He's generally very happy and content especially if he has a pacifier to suck on.
We are sleeping as well as can be expected. Although, I do think that we have a good sleeper and are lucky that at night we can put him down drowsy and he usually goes right to sleep. He has his days and nights figured out. When the sun comes out he is much more alert and tends to stay awake for longer periods of time just staring at his daddy. He loves to look at our faces.
Lately, the funniest part of being a parent has been that it seems that whenever Ethan goes to Ken he poops. A few days ago Ken was holding him and Ethan let one rip, well he pooped, it just sounded really nasty. Ken kept saying "Take him, take him!", but I couldn't stop laughing and it was kinda funny to let him sit there with the stinky baby. Here's a picture:

A week ago, Ethan met his cousins. Ella fell in love with him almost immediately. We weren't sure how she would react, but she is a little mommy. She really wanted him to have his binkie in his mouth and would gently place it there and then say, "Eatan meh mehs (sleeping)!" then she would put her finger to her face and say "Shhhh!"

I love this picture! My friend, Lauren, came to take newborn photos when Ethan was 9 days old and he was not a happy camper that day.

Ethan cried and kept looking like he wanted more food earlier today so I gave him one more ounce of breastmilk in a bottle. A few minutes later this is what came back up. All because he just wanted to suck on something. Needless to say, he needed a small bath.