Phone Book & Lemons

We let Ezra just play with the phone book that we got the other day, since we don't really use it. It kept him entertained for quite a while.

We were making lemon chicken for dinner, and he kept reaching up and pointing like he wanted the lemons, so we gave him a slice.

He seemed to like it at first.

He liked it up until the point where he started chewing on the bit of the lemon peel, and then threw it down and started crying. We'll have to remember to take the peel off next time.

The lemon chicken turned out great though. It looked especially nice on the fine china platter that Susan found for $3 at Savers.

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We had a really great time on an extended vacation out to California. It was nice to get away from the heat for a while. The first week was spent up in Morgan Hill at Susan's parents' house. Ezra got to play with his cousin Sadie a bit more. It was cute to see them together.


Ezra loved all the time that he got to spend outside, as we all did. We took a morning walk through grandma and grandpa's garden. He had to point and pick at everything.


Whenever we got him outside for very long, Ezra enjoyed collecting leaves. He'd pick up a bunch of them and then would proceed to tear them apart and throw the pieces over his shoulder.

We took a family trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Ezra loved seeing all of the fish. He has a fascination with anything that swims.

It was a lot for him to take in, and he just had this amazed look almost the whole day.

He kept pointing at everything and saying, "This!"


They had a kids area and he had fun playing with the toy starfish.

Grandpa even soaked his feet in one of the exhibits (that has things you can reach in and touch).

Overall, it was just a really fun day.

We all really enjoyed being able to spend a bunch of time outside.


The beginning of this week we went down to San Clemente State Beach for a family reunion for part of Shawn's side of the family. Here's the view from the front door of our tent.

We got to go play down on the beach for a good part of the day on Tuesday. We all had a lot of fun.

Ezra was a little apprehensive about the water at first, but after a while he really started to enjoy it. Whenever a wave would come up, he would kick his feet in the water and laugh.

We only got minor sun burns (though some of the relatives got it pretty bad). Ezra was completely wiped out after the couple of hours that we spent at the beach and passed out for a couple of hours when we got back to the tent.


Though it was fun to get away, it's nice to finally be home.