Ethan's Rendition of Ebby

This is a picture that my seven year old nephew drew of Ebby during church. Isn't it SO good. There are so many things I love about this picture. Ebby's name (Eddy), the blue pacifier, his argyle sweater (which he was really wearing) and his shoes. But I particulary like the rattle and tic-tac-toe game.

What's Up

I'm so sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. Andrew, Ebby and I went to Southern California for Thanksgiving and celebrated Christmas with the wonderful Beesley family. We had SO much fun. Unfortunately we all got a little sick when we came home. I guess we never should have left. ;) We didn't get as sick as Grandma Sharon (thank goodness) but it was enough to make us all a little too lazy.
In about a week and a half we're going to Utah for Christmas with the awesome Nielsen family. I can hardly wait to see my family again. I'm sad that I won't be seeing everyone but I'll be seeing about half of them. That's really good with a family our size. Oh, I can't wait.
I'm trying to make a video of the pictures I took and of Ebby but I'm not as computer savvy as Andrew - and we don't have a program yet that will do it. Until then, here's a video of Ebby at Disneyland. He was so excited and happy. He didn't sleep all day. Which was ok with me only because he was so happy.

This past week was Ebby's first week with real food. If rice cereal could be called real. Which it can't, of course. He was completely disinterested when I (Andrew) first tried to feed him, but he did much better with Joy on his second attempt. He's still dissatisfied with the taste, but we think that's the taste of the water rather than the cereal. Although, given the blandness of the cereal, it may not be the taste of the water after all.
Ebby is also starting to try to talk, moving his mouth and tongue to mimick us as we chatter away to him in half-comprehensible sentences. It is the awesomest thing ever, not least of all because he hasn't quite figured out yet that talking requires you to move air past your vocal cords. So half the time he's 'talking' no sound comes out, and he ends up looking like a dubbed movie character. Nothing quite like watching a live-action version of the 'Meet the Robinsons' Asian film spoof.

Take That!

So the fact that Ebby didn't have any type of mobile to play with was driving me crazy. So, lucky me, I found one for like 5 bucks. Yeah! Unfortunately Ebby doesn't like playing with it the "proper way". Oh well, at least he's playing with it, right?

Boo!

Happy Halloween

Ebby's first Halloween was great! Both Andrew and I are pretty dead. We have another D&D session this Friday that I'm trying to get ready for (19 miniatures!) and Andrew has another test on Friday. Yeah and Yuck. Anyway, so we're really tired and we're not going to write a lot. Suffice it to say Ebby looked great as a bee - as you can see. I was a peasant whatever and Andrew was a doctor. Since he's not a doctor yet we figured it was still allowed.