Upside Down

Ethan has decided that he wants to ride in his sling his own way. I was making dinner and Ethan wanted to be held so I put him in the sling. He kept wiggling his head out of sling. I would put him back into the fold of the sling and before I knew it he would wiggle his head out again. For some reason Ethan really likes to be upside down...I guess he was that way in the womb so I shouldn't be too surprised. We'll see if Ethan keeps up his upside down preference as he gets older.  Silly kid!

Haircut

I decided that long hair is pointless these days. If I have time for a shower I rarely have time to blow dry my hair and what is even more rare is if I have time to curl or do anything cute with my long hair. Having a new born takes up a lot of time and frankly my hair ends up in a wet messy ponytail or bun every day. So I decided to cut my hair to make life a little easier. Now I can wash, blow dry and curl my short hair in the time it took to wash my long hair. I love it already!

Before

After

Three Weeks

Jared and Ethan took a Sunday afternoon nap. I couldn't help but take some pictures. Here is my favorite.

Ethan is officially three weeks old today! I can't believe how fast and slow the past three weeks have gone. Here are some pictures I took of him today after his bath.

One more thing...Ethan is getting a diaper rash. Anyone have any good suggestions on a great diaper rash cream or anything else that could help? I think it might be from the diaper rubbing up against his legs because the rash is in the insides of his upper thighs not on his bottom. Let me know what you think.

More pictures of Ethan

There isn't a lot of time to write...imagine that! All the mothers out there are just smiling I am sure because they know how much work newborns take! We had a rocky weekend but things are looking much better today. Ethan is just about over a little cold. As for me... I am hopefully on my way to healing from Mastitis (an infection from clogged milk ducts).  I had a temperature anywhere from 100-105 degrees from Saturday afternoon until Monday sometime in the early morning. Jared and I went to the emergency room on Sunday around noon because I couldn't take the fever much longer. They gave me antibiotics and I feel much better...I'm not healed yet but at least the fever is gone! Oh the joys of breast feeding.

Other than having a mommy with mastitis and a baby with a cold (that he got from daddy) we are doing quite well. Here are some pictures of little Ethan from the last couple of days.

Daddy and Ethan sleeping on the couch...notice how they are in the same position? Like father like son!

Ethan trying to eat his blanket

Daddy did a little "photo shoot" of Ethan

HALLOWEEN

Since Ethan was born  before Halloween I had to post pictures of him a cute little halloween outfit. I also had to post our Halloween costumes from the ward party last Saturday.

Here is our cutie on Halloween. The hat is a little big but somehow that made him look even more cute!