Ethan's a Black Belt

Ethan is officially a black belt in karate. He had his black belt testing this past weekend and he did really good. The testing place was super crowded so we didn't get many good pictures, but we of course got some! I spent most of the time in the car with Brody since he wouldn't stay quiet and he wanted to move around. Although, I was able to see Ethan get his black belt from the instructors which was pretty exciting. Here are a few pics! Way to go Ethan!

The past couple of days have been pretty hard on Mr. Brody. Since he starts daycare on Monday (UGH!), I was trying to adjust his schedule to the schedule he will be on. Weird as it is, he has transitioned pretty well. They only take one nap during the day, which he was used to taking 2 so that was a big change and he now eats with us at night, which is around 6:30 or so. He has also transitioned to milk officially......and that has been a bear. For the past week, he has wanted nothing to do with the sippy cup when it had milk in it. He would drink from it some when we put half juice/half water, but not with the milk. He still gets a bottle before bed time and that has been no problem so I was assuming it was the fact that he wasn't getting the bottle anymore. Well, tonight, we decided to warm up the milk a little bit and give it to him in the sippy cup! Success! Hopefully, that is the ticket!

Also, as we were finishing dinner, he looked a little glassy eyed and Ted felt his head and he felt hot. I took his temp and it was 100.9. Hopefully, it is from teething, which I think he is doing, and not that he is getting sick. We made it the whole first year with no sickness (thank God!) so hopefully this isn't his first. I know there will be many sick days for us once he starts daycare, but hopefully it isn't starting now. I gave him some Tylenol and put him to bed a little early. I just checked the monitor and he is just laying there in the crib. I think he is pretty tuckered out!

Other than that, not much else is going on! Brody is just walking, walking, walking! Hopefully he will give me a nice work out chasing after him! :) Here is a video I took of him last week. Forgive me for my voice in the background....calling his name many, many times!! I hate hearing my voice on video! You can see my little bow-legged man walking all around the living room. Looks like he just got off a horse! :)