Summer time!!

Ethan loved eating fresh watermelon. Yipee for summer. :)

15 months and getting big!

Today we did a photoshoot at the beach for Ethan's 15 month old celebration... well not really, it just happens that the day we picked to do pictures fell on 4/20/08. :)

So we have a TON of pictures for your viewing pleasure... but just in case you don't have time to flip thru all the pics linked -- here are just a few from the collection:

He smiled
did flips
'What do you want?!?!'
Dug holes
and chased the water. He even ate lots of Sand! Yuck!
















Now here is one that makes a momma's heart just melt! Erich and Katie (the photographer) were slowly walking back to the car... I had run ahead to get stuff to clean up the little man. At the top of the stairs I turned to look at my boys and Ethan looked up saw me on the stairs and started grinning and pointing at his momma. Look at that smile! AWWWWWWWWW! :)

What a weekend

What a weekend. It is crazy that while most people will be well rested
this morning for work-- I feel like I need a vacation or a weekend for
sure.

- Samantha
Sent from my iPhone

Ethan's EEG

>> Hey everyone. Today was the day for Ethan to go get his EEG. This
>> really is just a precaution since the doctor is pretty sure this is
>> just your average breathholding case. But better safe than sorry.
>>
>> So per doctor orders I kept ethan up late last night (read not fun)
>> and got him up early to go to the doctors office-- with no nap. We
>> got there and were escorted to a room with a table, an exam bench
>> and a computer. The nice lady showed everything to ethan by puting
>> it on his hand first so he could check it all out and not be
>> frightened.
>>
>> She took a marker and drew dots all over his head then scrubbed
>> down each spot. Then the fun began. 20+ electrodes all gooed down
>> onto the scrubbed spots. He left them alone for a bit but
>> eventually I had to hold his hands while she finished dressing out
>> the wires and bandageing his head. Look how silly he looked;
>>

Erich's Trip to Seattle!

One serious workout!

Yeah baby!
What a way to spend an afternoon :)

What are you up to today? ;)

Pretty arm decorations

See the pretty henna a friend did for me?

More Birthday pictures

New pics added to the birthday album... check them out!

Ethan's 1st Birthday

So I am good! All before his birth time, I made the album, uploaded it and got this posted. Enjoy the pictures!

1 year down :)

Ethan turned 1 today and we had a ball of a party! 12 Feet of Party subs, vegies, fruit, a few cakes, lemonade, live music by the Tucker Brothers (Opa and Uncle Joel) and Ray Tucker (Great-Grandpa), and lots of friends and family made for one heck of a party!

I am working on getting all the pics loaded... but that may take a few days as clothing needs washing, food cooking, and so forth. In the mean time, everyone please send me any pics you took at the party :) PLEASE :) I really need to have them all :)

Thanks for comming and having fun with us all on this 1 year anniversary!

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What a cutie!

Check out all the cool pictures of the little man in my life! These are just a few of the high points. :)

Some people suck

that is all I have to say about that!

Tommy's 1st Birthday

A Picture says a thousand words! :)




Yep! That is sign language for "More" ... he wanted more cake :)





I think he had enough what say you?










So Tommy turned 1 today and he is such an adorable little ham! :) Check out all the fun pictures from the day:

http://mirabal.org/albums/tommy%20alexander%27s%201st%20birthday/

Tommy's 1st Birthday - The movie

Ethan's First Christmas!

It is amazing how big Ethan is getting so darn fast! And he is so adorable (says the unbiased mom ;) )!!! It will be neat to see how he reacts to boxes and how he is already enjoying christmas trees!


Of course everyone thought they were twins! :) It was funny!








Here are all the rest of the pictures: http://mirabal.org/albums/tommy%20alexander%27s%201st%20birthday/

A day at the park (11/15/07)

Last Thursday Marjie took us out to lunch at the park and snapped a few pictures. We had a great time and enjoyed the great food and company!

This is my heart

enough said... sob

Where does the time go?

It was just yesterday that the little one was 19.25", 8lbs, and basically a sleep machine. Now he is a movin' 20 lb machine. I look back at the pictures of him from the beginning and find my self thinking "WOW... he was so small" some of the time and other times thinking "OMG... he s so huge! when did that happen?"

It is really amazing how much he has changed in these last few months. Happy 9 months to us! Now we are just waiting for daddy to come home from his worldly travlels so we can all hug, play, and have fun. :)

Agile Thunder

So I am now in the UK for the first day. The flight was nice since I flew in first class.

This first night sucks, though, as there is no internet in the hotel room and so I am downstairs in the nasty lobby of this gloomy brit hotel posting these notes and images.

I have gotten to see one cool thing, which was Stonehenge. And that was about it. That will also probably be about it for the rest of the trip since I will be stuck in a hole of a place. I posted more pictures on MySpace.

More another day.

3, 2, 1 -- Lift off!

In case you are wondering what I have been doing at work lately... here is a clue:

At 8:22pm the first of these satellites lifted off out at the Cape. I am on the team dealing with our part for the next 3 of them. We build the little antenna's hanging off of the side of the satellite. Neat!

Here is some basic background info on the program: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/americas-wideband-gapfiller-satellite-program-02733/

And here is a thread that tells all about the launch: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=9971&start=1

Proof of Life

OK, so Brennan *is* still alive people! If you know him, then you know that the best way to capture his existence is to say 'SSDD' and that's all I have to say about that. I am glad I got to hang out with him for a good while. We went to lunch to a very good Greek restaurant where the lamb was delicious.

Seattle has been cloudy and rainy most of the time, but the temperature has been a nice change from the brutal Florida heat.

More later.

LSUcks, but Ethan is still cute

I don't want to think about the LSU loss too much since it just makes me angry. So in that respect, I am trying to block our pathetic game where we snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.

Here is an alternate memory for that night. Fred and Susan came over and Ethan really enjoyed it. I am really taking the fear out of Ethan and making him into a daredevil... which I will eventually regret, I'm sure.

Orange!!!!!!!!!!

Being Gators, of course we dress little Ethan in proud colors every weekend. More times than not, he is sporting this cute one (Thanks Lisa and Kevin!)

Playing at Lisa's

When I am at work, Ethan is off playing with his buddy's at Lisa's house. Right on schedule, Ethan is starting to develop separation anxiety and is sad when we drop him off and gets sad in the afternoon waiting for us to come get him. I hope this does not last too long, because it makes me miss him a lot! anyway, check out these pictures Lisa took one day while they were playing...

here he is being a ham :)
more fun
Looking for mommy out the window...
hanging with his buddy :)
Lisa, Bella, and Ethan -- he is starting to look angry :)
looking like a little devil .. yikes!

Pictures from August

So I have decided I am a horrible blogger since I do not get on here and blog often. I Grabbed some fun shots from August and made an album for you all to check out - Click Here below are a few of the highlights from the album.

Ethan is sure to be a dare devil! He worked intently on getting ON the box and then really worked to balance on the edge!

such a cute little duck we have!

The boys just hanging!

and of course... "Helping" mom with the dishes -- LOL!

Epcot on 9/3/07!

So We went to Epcot for the first time with Ethan and met some friends there - Mary, Brad, Fred, Susan, Elaine, and Fred (I need to call Elaine and Fred to see if I can get the picture from them that has us all since i only have a few pics and none of everyone...) I must admit, I was quite nervous taking Ethan for the day, it was hot and it is at least a 50% out door activity.

Well we packed his diapers, grabbed a sling and a mei tai baby carrier and took off -- and no stroller - and yes no stroller is much eaiser! Anyway, It was a lot of fun. Ethan was great! He slept in the carrier, laughed, yanked on my hair and overall I think he had fun, no real crying episodes except when we left him with one of our friends to go on a ride. He was tired and hungry so not the best combo to leave with someone and no bottle to solve part of it...

Disney has a nice little baby care section that we visited a few times to get him to eat and to cool off for a bit. It has a private nursing room, changing room, a store with baby essentials, and a little play room -- nice little setup. My only complaint would be its location. I kind of wish Disney had 2 centers, one near the front of the park and one near the back. It sure is a long walk if you are on the other side of Epcot's world.

Here is Ethan and I in his Kozy




Here We are in our solarveil sling about to sleep heading home for the day

Milestone Listing...

Here are Ethan's Major milestones to date...

0 days -- Ethan was born 9:36pm, 8lbs 3oz at birth, 7 lbs 7 oz at discharge
6 weeks -- Ethan is starting to smile
8 Weeks -- Consistantly smiling
10 - 12 Weeks -- Flipping from front to back and back to front
14 Weeks -- Laughing boy
4.5 months -- Rocking Baby
5 Months -- Crawling Baby, practicing getting things (spoons) into his mouth
5.25 Months -- First unassisted pull up to standing position. Standing while holding on to furniture by self. Will walk while holding onto fingers
5.5 Months -- Sitting up by self, 16 lbs 4oz
6 Months -- 16lbs 15 oz, 1st food = avacado, crusing furniture
6.5 Months -- will balance on own for 2 seconds (ok- this is not a real MS, but we were excited about it)
7.5 months - first bottom tooth pokes thru just barely

A gator Haiku!

Troy the Trojans try
Victory they seek in vain
Gators will bring it!

Teeth a comming....

YIKES! Teeth are a comming -- yesterday evening i felt his little gums and sure enough there was the faintest little razor. You could not see it but you could feel it. Tonight i felt around some more and now you can feel 2 little bumps sticking up from the same tooth. Still not much to see... but soon... too soon! I really hope he does not bite! Nursing could be interesting for a while.

6.5 Month Photos

This past weekend we went to Cocoa Village and had some pictures taken. Ethan was such a doll and let us get in a bunch of good photos before he had enough! Check them out!

Then and Now...

How time flys! Check out a quick photo study I did of Ethan Face shots. Looking back at the pics from the first week, he was a bit weird looking :) That is OK -- He is pretty now!!!
The pics below show him at 1 week old and 6.5months old!

Seriously cool!!!

Check out this video! I love the song and the video is just amazing!

Ethan's First Food...

Well today Ethan turned 6 months at our 6 month check up we weighed 16lbs 15oz and measured 27"long. What a way to grow... to date, Ethan has been a mama's milk only baby and today we decided to try our first taste of food to see how Ethan took it. Organic ripe avacado is what we decided to attempt. It really was not eating.. i mean, he did lick his hands a bit, but for the most part, he was just smashing it around. What a mess! It was funny to see his weird reaction to having his hands taste like something new. Too Cute!

Click here to see the rest of the pictures.

New world...

Picture this... Ethan is sitting on the edge of the carpet where the vinal starts and he leans over and pats the carpet and rubbs it, than he reaches over and pats/rubbs on the vinal. For about 15 minutes this continued. You could almost see the gears in his head turning trying to figure out why they felt different. It was so cute!

Anyhow, he weighed 16lbs 6.8oz today and this week he has figured out sitting up pretty well. AND next week he will be 6 months old. WHERE DID THE TIME GO!!!!!!

Ethan's Last week with JJ before she moves

Tomorow is Ethan's Last day with JJ before she moves to Georgia with her family. For the past 3 months she has been watching him on days we work! Thank you for keeping our little guy safe! Have fun in GA, we will miss you!

ARGG!!!!!

So let's see... On the 5th We experienced our first nursing strike. I really think it is due to the fact that he is teething (or at least feeling teeth movement). Now he is nursing, but not sleeping. It is 9:45pm and he usually is asleep by 8pm and guess what, he is still awake and wants to play. I am exhausted and want to sleep... Oh -- He is also spitting up like a mad man. We have been treating him for reflux, and his spitting had gone down, but for some reason this evening he is spitting king. OK... time to go try to put him to bed again. BYE!

Stare Down!

While down visiting Oma, Opa, Stef , Jeff and Tommy... Ethan and Stefanie were locked in a stare down... Ethan sat that way for nearly 5 minutes. I only caught a bit on film, but it was so funny!

New Photo Albums!

I have not been diligent about posting the million and one photos we take of Ethan so I figured I would start trying to catch up. Here are two albums. One was the weekend before the 4th, It was my dad's Birthday and Ethan and I were down visiting. The second is from the last time we visited Erich's family.

Opa's Birthday Photos

Photos from visiting with Abuela Y Abuelo

More to come...

Ethan is getting so big and strong! Today he weighed in at 16 lbs 4 oz. that is 11 oz in the past 2 weeks. Mommas milk does a body good! LOL

Anyway, I think I want to post about his milestones to make sure they are all captured, but for now just a few videos for your viewing pleasure... I will post more later after I put E down for his nap

Ethan starring as Gene Simmons (KISS)

Ethan and I went for a ride today to go visit the grandparents and family in North Palm. On the way here is what I got :)

Crawling man

We have been watching Ethan schooch all over the place and rock on all fours and flail trying to crawl. Well guess what, 2 days ago he finally figured out how to coordinate hands and feet and he is slowly crawling now. So today we caught him on camera. Check him out!



Here he is chasing a phone

Outdoors with the family :)

Jeff, Stef and Tommy have been here in Palm Bay and I think we have been having some fun! Today we all went to the Turkey Creek Sanctuary and walked the boardwalk. I really like it out there... so peaceful and nature everywhere. I must admit, I do not like it when nature gets on me :) (ie. ants) but other than that the trees, squirrels, turtles, barracudas, etc are all neat to see. I think the heat and walking may have been more than our guests planned for, but I thought it was fun... I hope they come up again sometime to hang out more. It is cool having the boys together.

Here are some pics for your viewing pleasure

Videos are fun!

I am loving the video feature of my digital camera so much that i am now wanting to go get a true digital video recorder. I doubt everyone else thinks they are as neat as i do, but its MY blog, so I will post the ones I like! :)

Till later!

Mexican Babies?

My sister, Stefanie, and her fieance, Jeff, and Tommy came to visit this weekend. They came, us girls went to look for wedding dresses and then joind up with the men in our lives to go to dinner.

Ethan and Tommy were the highlight of the restaraunt tonight. Everyone HAD to stop and see the two little quys and flirt with them. It was fun watching them play around and mess with each other. Check out the video below where Tommy was enjoying chewing on Ethan. So FUNNY!!!



Here are some still pictures we took today! Click the link and enjoy.
Mexican Babies!

Atlantis Shuttle Launch - Perfect!

We went to the beach today with a few friends (Maryum and Brad) to watch the shuttle launch and feel the rumble. It was a neat sight. Check out the picts we took at the launch -- All of the Shuttle Launch Pictures from the beach at Patric Airforce Base

Here are a few of our favoriate pictures from the album!

Rocking Baby!!!

Ethan has been learing new tricks almost daily... well over the past few days he has been getting up on his knees rocking back and forth than flopping to the ground. He so wants to move and is just working so hard to get going. I caught him on camera today and it is sooo cute. (not biased at all ;) )


Here he is rocking back and forth


Here is a funny one of Ethan becoming a burrito:


He is just so cute:

Website changed

Since I still have not bothered learning my new website editing software, I have (ok, I directed erich) redirected my domain to my blog so that it serves as my home page. My old page is still online, but it will be a few days before the link is available. So now I do not have to remind everyone to check the blog... they can just come to our site as usual.

Bye Granddaddy!

I will blog more later. But for now... we love you Sugar! Have fun telling Granny all about the family and great-great grandkids!!! 1909-2007

Friends and Family

I am not in a very sharing mood right now (names that is) -- it is much to early in the AM and I cannot sleep. Ethan is sleeping peacefully and I am awake. Arg.... anyway I figured I would blog with as few details as possible just to amuse myself. Sorry...

Hehehehe... we have friends who are newly expecting... well 12 weeks or so along. I've known for a few weeks now and, when I am sure they are telling all, maybe I will share... anyway -- I am super happy for them and it will be so neat to have babies so close in age. Congrats Guys!

Also, someone dear to me is newly engaged (4/20) and will be getting married some time next year. The guy is really nice and they are both really happy. I will be the matron of honor. I am really happy for them and can't wait to start the wedding planning! Love ya!

Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo which happens to me my great grandfathers birthday. He will be 98 years old I think. We will be driving down to go spend time with him on his birthday.