Happy 4th!!

Our family took another trip up to Logan this weekend to celebrate the 4th. Kyle's family has a tradition of having a barbecue on the 3rd to celebrate his grandma's birthday and go to the Logan fireworks afterward.

Ethan wasn't interested in the yummy food we all enjoyed, so his grandma Morrey gave him not one, but two ice cream cones!! He was in heaven. He had chocolate ice cream all over his face and soaked through his shirt got all over his chest. This picture doesn't do it justice, but it is the only one we were able to get.

This was Ethan's first time to see a fireworks show. He slept through them last year. At first he started to cry, but then he was just glued to the sky and nestled in Kyle's arms. He didn't move and he was completely limp during the whole show. It was as if he was asleep, but his eyes were open. We hadn't ever seen him like this. When we were leaving, however, he acted like he wanted to go back to where we were sitting for more. The next day he pointed to the sky and jabbered to his grandma as if he was telling her all about it.


This week our baby girl is the size of a spaghetti squash (approx. 11 in and just under 1 lb):

Morrey Family Reunion

We just got back from great reunion at Bear Lake. While we were there, Ethan went for his first swim. He wasn't so sure about being in the water at first, but he got more comfortable as we played with him. he also loved to play in the sand on the beach, and he had a blast at the playground. He loved having Grandma push him around in the stroller. We just hope that he won't get used to going to bed at 11:00 at night (of course it doesn't matter what time he goes to bed; he still wakes up at 7:00 am).

One of the highlights of the reunion was when Uncle Steve took many of us for rides in his Russian fighter plane (Jen and baby didn't go, of course). Here is a video that cousin Matthew put together of our flights. It was a blast! Kyle is only featured in the first two minutes of footage, but it is funny to see the different reactions others had to the aerobatics (Kyle's brother John blacked out for a little while).

Our baby is now as long as a carrot (about 10 1/2 inches):

Fun at the Park

The other night, Dad took Ethan to the park just around the corner from our house to give Mom a break. Ethan learned how to go down the slide all by himself. It was really cute. So cute, we're posting some footage of it here. (Note that some of the footage is sped up so it doesn't get too boring.) He went up and down the slide probably fifteen times.

Ethan also had a lot of fun swinging on the swing.
With the Olympics coming, Ethan is getting excited for his career in boxing. Just kidding. He just loves having any kind of gloves on his hands, even video boxes. Here he is wearing oven mitts. (Note that they are on the wrong hands...)
Now that we know that we're having a girl, we've been hitting up the garage sales to start collecting clothes. We found a bunch of clothes, and Jen doesn't want to put them away, because seeing them laying out on the couch makes her excited. It's fun to think about.

This week our daughter is as long as a banana.

The Results are In...

After record high numbers in the voting over the last few days, the results are in! Unfortunately, these results did not take into account the text messages we received, and after a heavily weighted vote from the ultrasound technician, America has decided that we will be having a ...
GIRL!!!

So, without further ado, we're proud to introuduce you to our daughter. (her head is on the right side...)

Ultrasound this Week...

In anticipation of the ultrasound on Tuesday, we decided to have America vote to decide what the gender of the baby will be.

(If the poll doesn't show up here, you can go directly to the website hosting the poll...we noticed some problems accessing it ourselves, so thought we'd provide an alternate way to get to it.)


This week the baby will as big as a large heirloom tomato (about 6 inches, head to rump). The tomato in the picture may be a little big, but you get the idea...

Bubble Baby

Today we pulled out the bubbles for Ethan to play with. He was more interested in the bubble-blowing wand than the bubbles themselves.

It was still fun to see him get excited about the bubbles though.
Last Saturday, we were hitting the garage sales again, and at the last one we stopped at, they had this cute little play house for toddlers. We put Ethan in it to play while we looked at the rest of the stuff. He had a fun time in it, but we decided not to buy it, since it we figured it would just be a novelty and he would be tired of it in a week. When we pulled Ethan out of it to leave, he started putting up such a fuss that the mom who was selling it told us we could just take it (she was goig to donate it to the DI in a few minutes anyway). Ethan has liked to play with it, but it seems like the novely has started wearing off already...
Ethan's audiologist asked us to buy a cheap pair of headphones and get Ethan used to wearing them so he would be better behaved at our next appointment later this summer. We finally got around to trying them out today, and after just a little bit of resistance, he ended up loving to wear them.
In other news, last summer our back yard grass didn't do so well. We figured we probably had grubs, and treated it this spring to avoid a repeat of last year. Well, this weekend, we were out stirring our compost heap, and found hundreds of them all having a party. We think we chased them out of our lawn and into our compost. We're not really sure if this is a good thing or not. They're probably good for our compost, but it'll be bad if they get into the yard. We're open to any thoughts on what we should do with them...

Our baby is about this big this week.

Company Picnic

Kyle's company picnic was on Saturday at the State Fair Park. There were lots of games and blow up slides for kids, bingo, lots of good food, and Polynesian dancers. Unfortunately Ethan was too small for most of the rides and slides, but we did take a train ride. We played two games of bingo with about 200 people and Kyle won the first game and I won the second! It was pretty cool.

Ethan really enjoyed this cookie we gave him. At first he didn't really know what to do with it since in the past we would just give him small piece of cookie to eat, never a cookie this big. It didn't take too long to figure out how to get it into his mouth.

Here is our train ride.
The picnic was supposed to be kind of a luau. The dancing at the end included this fire dancer.
It was a hot afternoon, so we took advantage of the nearly all you can eat shaved ices. Yum!!

In other family news, we got our fence finally put back up! We were working on it on Monday evening and having issues with our saw. The man renting the house next to us (who we hadn't really met and thought looked a little rough and scary) rushed over to give us a hand. He ended up helping us get the whole length of fence up in less than 4 hours (which we planned on taking all week). It turned out that he was a builder who said he was bored because work has been slow lately. We really owe him!

Baby is doing well growing and making mom's tummy bigger and bigger. Here is how big he/she/they is/are: