Time flies

The last couple of weeks have gone pretty fast. We all got over our second round of the cold last weekend, finally. We've kept pretty busy with various projects, and chasing after Ezra.

Ezra has started trying to put random clothes on himself. Sometimes he'll end up with pants on his head, or a shirt on his legs, but he's working on it.


The weather has been interesting. It has been raining about once a week for the past month or so. And you thought we lived in the desert, huh? It's supposed to be raining tonight too, but we haven't seen anything of it yet.

Kelly and Cameron came over last weekend, originally with the intent of helping with some yard projects, but we got rained out. We had fun visiting though; it's always nice to see them. Ezra especially likes to see them. He wasn't sure exactly what to think at first when he got animals put into his pockets, but he kept trying to put everything in his pockets for the next few days.


Ezra got a new fleece blanket today from some fabric that we got this morning. He loves his new monkey blanket.


In the background you can see signs of the backyard project. The sprinkler system is going in, slowly, but going in. The constant rain has both helped, by softening up the clay, and also hindered the project, by making it too muddy to work on a lot of days. It hopefully shouldn't extend too much longer.


We hung pictures up in the nursery, and so now all that it's missing is the baby. She'll come soon enough, we're thinking probably around Easter sometime (nobody seems to think that Susan is going to make it to April 15th). It will change everything quite a bit again for us, which will be interesting, but we're excited as well to have our little girl. Hopefully Ezra will learn to be gentle with her and be a good brother for her.

Happy Valentine's Day

So we all got over our colds. Ezra, however, has started in on another round of teething and a growth spurt. It has made for a long couple of nights. Last night he seemed to do better, and tonight he's slept well so far. He tried to give up his nap today. Before church, he decided that he just wouldn't go to sleep at his normal nap time. He got pretty grouchy after the first hour of church, so we ended up bringing him home. We put him down for nap again, and he wasn't happy about it. A few minutes later we went back to his room and found him like this in front of the door:


He had just completely crashed, so it was probably good that we brought him home. Other than that, it's been a nice relaxing day.

Susan is counting off the days until her due date. She's ready to be done with the pregnancy already. Luckily, this one has not been quite as hard as the last.


On Saturday evening, we went out and bought a stand mixer. Susan has been wanting one for a long time, and having a 20% off coupon and an attached rebate helped as well. It will be, and has already been, a welcome addition to our kitchen. Within the first 24 hours of opening the box, we've already made cookies and bread with it.

Projects...

So the backyard is still muddy, thanks to the rain last night. That's okay, the desert could use the rain, and so can our trees. The yard has random trenches all over it (the start of a sprinkler system), but they have a tendency to fill up with silt every time it rains again. The fun that good old clay soil is.

We're finally just about done with our colds completely. Ezra has a bit of a cough lingering, but it's almost gone. He's back to his normal rambunctious self. We got him a small table and chairs that are his size for him sit on and color at. He really likes it, and it keeps him from climbing on the dining room chairs so much.

So we finished the nursery on Saturday. We had painted the walls two weekends ago, the trim last weekend, and just had to put it up and do some touch-ups. We also got a dresser and put it together. Not bad for amateurs. Ezra grabbed a couple of the smaller pieces of trim and held them up against the wall while we were trying to get them all put up. He always likes to help.

The couch is well-loved (read "old") but it will stay for a while longer. It's crazy to think that in about 2 months we'll have our little girl taking naps in here.