A lot of busy nothings

Things have been fairly busy around here, though I can't say that we've done a whole lot out of the ordinary.

Work has been really busy for Shawn, but seems like it should ease up a bit here soon, especially since we're going to be going on a decent amount of vacation here soon. It will be nice to have a reason to be away during part of the hot summer months.

Ezra has had his second tooth pop through the surface. He's starting to walk a bit, when we trick him into it. He seems fairly content to just crawl, but takes a few steps from time to time.

Susan hung up a bird feeder in the backyard, and now we have a flock of little birds all over the yard all the time. Its nice though. Ezra likes to sit and watch them.


We got Ezra a new toy that he just loves to play with. Its a little wooden train that you can take all of the pieces apart. He really enjoys anything that he can take apart.


Speaking of new toys, we got a new chef's knife at Home Goods for pretty cheap. Its nice! Hopefully it will keep its edge for quite a while.


We finally actually got a new picture taken of the two of us. We thought we'd share it, since mainly all that you see here are pictures of Ezra.


"What is this thing? How do you turn it on? Where are the batteries? Does it taste good?"

Summer is upon us

So summer is basically here. Its been getting over 100 the last few days. Its hot, but doesn't seem quite as bad as previous years, probably just getting used to it I guess.

Our gardenias that we planted a few weeks ago have started blooming, they're really pretty.


Kelly and Cameron were here this weekend looking for a place now that Kelly will be working not far from here. It will be fun to have them around.

We also saw Tammie, Paul & Daniel. Ezra is a little bit bigger than Daniel, but Daniel is walking now. We had to keep Ezra from trying to grab Daniel's shoulders to pull himself up.

It looks like Ezra is going to get his second tooth soon. He's been jabbering a lot more, and every now and then he seems to say things that almost sound like words. He eats like crazy, he seems to always be hungry, but if I were growing as fast as him I guess that I would be too.


He's getting to the point where he probably could walk if he would try. He can stand on his own and will even squat down to pick stuff up when he drops it. We've tricked him into taking a couple of steps every now and then, but for now he prefers to crawl.


He laughs a lot now. Kelly had him giggling the whole time they were here. He seems to be just a fun-loving little guy.

Susan and I got to go out on a date last night. It was nice to get out and have dinner with just the two of us. We went and saw Star Trek. It was awesome! One of the better movies that I've seen in quite a while.

Projects

So we've had a busy week. Work has been crazy for Shawn. We have been working on getting our projects done. One of the projects was to recover the chairs that our landlord included with renting the house. They were all stained; why anyone would get white chairs I honestly don't know. We've gotten to all of one chair so far, but here it is beside one of the uncovered chairs:


Improvement, no? The big project this weekend has been stripping a wallpaper border out of Ezra's room and then painting over where it had been. It was quite the job, and took all of Friday night and most of the day Saturday (with a few breaks, since its hard to work on this stuff with a 10 month old awake). The wallpaper was basically falling off of one of the walls. Before:

During removal:



After:


I think it looks a lot better, even if you can tell that it was amateurs that painted it.

We were still able to find a decent amount of time to play while Ezra was awake though. He loves chasing Susan around the house. She'll run a little ways and then wait for him to chase her, and then run a little more before he catches her. He laughs up a storm (especially when he's tired).

We were talking last night a bit, and Ezra was just playing around in the living room. We turned around and he had plunged head first into his toy bin. By the time we got the camera, he had righted himself. He was pretty proud of himself for climbing into the toy bin all by himself.
This afternoon was just a lazy afternoon, once Ezra went down. He didn't get a morning nap since we were at church, and he wasn't about to fall asleep in a new exciting place. It will be nice to have him back in his own room again. Two nights doesn't seem like much, but he likes to have his own space to play. We like to have an easy place to watch him too. We took a bunch of pictures of him, playing around with the camera. Here are some of the best ones:




Isn't he cute?