Catching up...Seattle Trip

So now that ive caught up on my holiday posts i can update everyone on current Holmes family activities!

Weve moved! yay! we are no longer living in our parents' basement apartment. We found a great duplex and Ethan now has his own bedroom ! YAY!

Ethan is into everything, crawling , and quickly approaching the walking stage. He can walk great assisted by a little walker-car, so all he needs to do is work on balance. He is a very happy little person, mostly in the morning (like his mommy) and has gotten into a wonderful one-nap routine. He's eating solid foods now in addition to the usual baby fare (mom's milk) and his favorites are bananas and cooked zucchini and bread! man does that kid love bread! amazing how strong some family genes are.... weird.

His sense of humor is beginning to show, he likes to get you involved in a laughing match making fake cough noises to get your attention and then cracking himself up. He can say words like DA DA and NANA, and MA MA but we dont know if he knows what he's saying yet. .. sometimes he will just yell at the top of his lungs BA BA BRAH! and we just joke that he's talking to his imaginary friend Barbara...

here's some recent pics of a family trip we took to seattle..

hotel pillows are the best!

watching the cars go by..

at the top of the Space needle!

yep, thats my boy with the platinum blond hair! He didnt get it from me! :)

Christmas/New years post (in February)

So its been a while. I am so awful at updating! by the time the photos make it FROM the camera to the computer its months later. Sorry about that. So since so much has gone on, ill post twice...:)

Christmas for the Holmes family was really awesome. It was fun to have our first "family" Christmas. We were totally blessed with so many fun new toys for Ethan. He got new clothes of course which are always appreciated. Ethan got to meet his Great Grandma Ellen which was really awesome.

I have a few silly pictures to post of our little elf. :) he decided to cut his first 2 teeth and crawl the week before Christmas so he is a very busy little boy! He is growing so quickly and changes every day. He is fast approaching his older cousin's height and we think he will be a really big guy.

New years was spent with some friends and my brother, sister-in-law and our Nephew Jason. we stayed up just long enough to watch the ball drop and then crashed. other than pizza and board games it was pretty un-eventful.

It has only snowed once here this winter, and it was a dissapointing 2 inches. hopefully before the winter is over!

Seth and I continue to be busy with work. But we are hoping to save to buy our first house in the next year!

his shirt in this photo reads "silent night, yeah right!"

so so true.

First time we caught him standing up on his own!Pepsi is such a good sport!not sure how he got here! :)