ethan's first step

Ethan just took his first step! just one, but he stood there for awhile, and then while blake and I were both watching him, he took one step with his right foot, stood there for another second, and then sat down and raced (crawling) across the room.

besides the "yay first step"-ness of it all, this is also pretty funny. my friend audria (who has b/g twins 2 months older, both of who have been walking for about 2 months) was saying that they prob just needed to see her kids walk and then they'd start walking. well, we went over there yesterday, after not having seen her for awhile, and what happened? her kids saw mine and started crawling again! hahahaha. but apparently ethan retained a little bit! we'll see if it was an isolated incident or real progress, but it was ethan's first step that didn't result in him on his face on the floor. :)

in other news, we bought a house yesterday. there were lots of back and forths and this last week or two we didn't think we'd close on time, but in the end our lender did pull through and we closed yesterday! more on that later probably. but yay for first steps and new houses!