Ethan and Catherine

Catherine has been potty training for a little while. She is learning well and loves getting prizes when she completes a row of stickers on her chart!

Ethan's hair is the first thing that most people notice about him. It's real light and fluffy like a baby chick or bird. One of his nicknames is "bird."

Catherine and Ethan play so well together lately. Especially since Ethan started crawling. He gets the biggest smiles when she comes into the room. They had a blast in the laundry basket.

Look out world! Ethan's on the move!

So, Ethan started crawling a couple weeks ago and he's been busier than ever. It took some coaxing from us, using the TV remote he never gets to play with. He was so excited to reach it and then we'd move it a little farther away. Now he's into everything. We took some video a couple weeks ago and I'll post that soon, too. 

Learning to Eat

Helping Ethan learn how to eat by himself has been totally different from teaching Catherine. I'm sure it's this way with most parents: You're always more careful with the first. And so it is with us! The pictures explain the rest. 

Catherine eating at around 10 months.

Ethan eating at around 10 months.

Baking and Cooking

Catherine is learning so much about cooking and baking. Lately she's helped mommy  with some cookies and this morning she helped daddy cook some eggs with cheese on top...her favorite breakfast!

Friends, Friends, Friends

While in Utah we were able to see the Christley family. Lilly and Catherine had a blast together.

On the way up to Utah and on the way back we stopped and spent some time with the Barney's. The highlight of visiting them was playing "Rockband" on the Play Station 3.
We were also able to see the Liddle Fam while in Utah. We have been friends with them since 2004 when we lived in UT.

Kimber's Wedding and a trip to Utah

We had the opportunity to attend Kimber's and Ryan's sealing/wedding in the Mesa, AZ temple on the 26th of April. It was a beautiful ceremony and Larry played photographer for most of the day. We are so happy for them.

The week after the wedding we went to Utah to attend the sealing of Brandon (our nephew) to his parents, Ben and Adrienne Donner. Ben is Melanie's brother. We had a great trip and were able to spend time with lots of family and friends. The sealing took place in the Jordan River Temple.

California

We had the opportunity to go spend time with family and friends this past week. We left on the 11th and came home late last night. We were able to see the Cattin's, Melanie's Grandparents, the Glauser family and Melanie's cousin, Julie. We basically had a pretty lazy vacation, just relaxing as much as possible. We were able to go to the Aquarium in Long Beach and the kids loved it. Catherine had the chance to join the parade in the main building at the aquarium. We went to the Redlands temple with the Glausers and spent the day with them. The kids enjoyed spending time with their grandparents and friends. It was a great trip!