I cannot believe it has been nearly 10 months since my last blog post! My how true it is how fast time flies by! In my last post I included pictures of Ethan at 4 months old and now he is almost 15 months! In place of almost a year's worth of missing posts, I will provide you this update post and a promise to keep my blog more up-to-date in the future! :)
A recap in the last 10 months of the Aasby household:
February 2011 - In February I became an Independent Consultant for Thirty-One! I was invited to a Thirty-One party in January and loved all of the products. Knowing we obviously could not afford for me to buy all of them on just Brent's income I decide to sign up as an independent consultant to receive a discount on the products. Becoming a Thirty-One independent consultant has also offered me the wonderful opportunity to earn a little extra income for our household, as well as getting me out of the house to have a little girl time (which is much needed since my days are filled with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!) Feel free to check out my website at
www.mythirtyone.com/hollyaasby
March 2011 - Ethan got his first two teeth (within days of each other!) He looked
so cute with his new little pearly whites! :) He also started waving bye-bye...melt my heart!
April 2011 - Brent and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary. My wonderful sister, Connie, babysat Ethan so we were able to go out to dinner to celebrate! I cannot believe we have already been married two years. I'm sure that every year I will probably say this exact same thing with the only change being the number of years we have been married!
May 2011 - Ethan started walking using his sit-to-stand car. He also took his first steps at the end of the month! Look out world - Ethan is almost ready to start walking!!!
June 2011 - At the end of the month Ethan started walking all on his own! From this point on there was no stopping him and he became quite the little adventurer!
July 2011 - July was a busy month! On July 4th I turned 30 years old...as I was just typing that I accidentally typed that I turned 20 years old...hmm, perhaps that is how old I was wishing I really was? ;) The day before my birthday Connie offered to babysit Ethan so Brent and I could go to a movie and out to eat. After the movie I noticed a text from Connie saying that Ethan would
not stop crying or take his bottle so she wanted to know if we could stop home first to calm him down before we went out to eat. Brent didn't really seem to want to go home, but I told him we'd just go home and I'd nurse Ethan quick and then we could go to Red Lobster. When we got home I went up the stairs and was welcomed home by "SURPRISE!" and the smiling faces of my family and friends. Connie has planned a surprise birthday party for me! The best part of it was that Ethan was actually a
very good boy for Auntie, had not been crying at all and had drank his entire bottle - what a wonderful present for this mommy!
At the end of July we traveled to Montana for the 10th Annual Erickson Family Reunion at the Montana Wilderness School of the Bible. I had only met a few of the Ericksons (Brent's mom's mom's side of the family) so it was a wonderful time of meeting new family (well for Ethan and me anyway!) Brent and I, along with two other couples, are in charge of planning the next reunion for 2016! Oh boy!!
After the reunion, we stopped at Glacier National Park for a few days. Ethan and I had never been there so it was a great time! Glacier had so much snow late in the season this year that there were some spots (that are usually green and lush with flowers) that were still covered in snow!
On the way home we also stopped by Frontier, SK (in Canada) to visit some of Harold's relatives. I had never met these relatives and it had been
years since I had been to Canada! Ethan seemed to enjoy his first visit to another country as well. ;) This was also Ethan's first long road trip and he was
such a good boy!!!
August 2011 - Ethan turned 1 year old on August 19th! It is funny how turning 1 year just made him seem like so much more of a big boy! He had a wonderful 1st birthday party filled with family, friends,
many presents (aka TOYS) and CAKE! :D
September 2011 - In September Ethan and I went on a play date with a friend to the Red River Valley Zoo. This was Ethan's first visit to a zoo and he loved looking at all of the animals. The Red River Valley Zoo isn't all that exciting of a zoo but Ethan had a great time anyway (even though he was also suffering from a cold! That's my little trooper!)
Ethan also had his first injury at the end of September. His little foot/ankle got caught underneath my leg as we were going down the slide at the park one Saturday afternoon. He would not put any weight on his foot so a few days later I took him in to the doctor and he had his first X-ray. To say he did
not want to cooperate is a huge understatement! They were able to finally get a clear picture though and everything looked good - what a relief!
The doctor assured me that Ethan would start walking on it again and to just give it a couple days. He finally started walking on it but then he was limping! At first this seemed normal but after a week had passed and he was still limping I decided to take him to my chiropractor. Wonderful Dr. Jennifer Sabourin checked Ethan over and said she thought it was something with the meniscus in his knee. She did an adjustment on his knee and a few days later he was back to normal. This is why I
love my chiropractor! :D
October 2011 - Ethan went trick-or-treating at West Acres Mall. He was an ADORABLE puppy dog and such a trooper - he even left the hood part of his costume up the entire time! Unfortunately the material on the bottom of his costume was slippery on the nicely waxed floor so Brent had to carry Ethan around to all of the different stores. Next year I will try to get a costume where walking (indoors and outdoors) will be possible! He didn't really understand the whole concept of trick-or-treating; however, as soon as we were done he took his little pumpkin and dug in it for candy. Apparently he
did understand that people were putting yummy goodies in his pumpkin though!
