This will be my day by day diary of being a parent. Keep in mind my spouse and I are both 17 years old. Thanks to both of our parents we can still lead a healthy and regular life. I work for my dad at his company and she is just finishing school. Time is something we don't get a lot of in this life and it is really hard to cope with that. Our son's name is Ethan Joseph.

He could easily be the happiest baby I know. I love him with all my heart. So, when nikki isn't in school she is taking care of him during the day. His bed time is at 8:00 PM sharp. Once he's asleep we occasionally go out. When your 17 and you have a kid there is no such thing as 'party'-ing. Which sucks in a way but, it isn't so bad once you get the hang of it.

So, were starting this on 12/31/07 Ethan is 6 Months and 9 Days old.

I am really interested in teaching babies sign language.

Almost everytime I talk I try to sign to him like dad, mom, bath, love, cat, dog, bird, water, bottle, help, please, milk, baby, boy, girl, etc. Just the basic signs. But, he seems to be catching on, and its even cooler to watch brieanne my almost 2 year old neice sign to you. Even though no one in our close family is deaf, its still a GREAT language to learn and when you speak english to them while signing it really helps.

Theres videos on youtube of 9 month olds who can't even talk but they can sign and kind of make the word shape with their mouth. I want Ethan to be like them! :)

So he's teething, anything and everything in reach is in his mouth like a little puppy. Your face, finger, arm, shirt... Doesn't matter he'll find a way to chew on it. And the whole teething bit is giving him some bad fevers, which cause MUCH higher levels in the cranky-ness department. This weekend was pretty exausting due to that. He usually wakes up talking and happy but, with the fever and pain he wakes up screaming and angry. But, there is an upside to all this bad stuff.. He wants to nap allll the time and I am the king of getting him to sleep. No doubt. I really just want him to get his chompers in and be my happy ball of sunshine like he used to be.

Well, I guess its that time.

- Andy :]