Memorial Day, Projects, and the kids...

The kids have both been growing like crazy. Ezra is approaching his 2nd birthday. He's really interested in the world around him, and has started talking quite a bit more clearly. He still hasn't quite figured out that his sister is smaller than him, and he needs to be a bit more careful sometimes, but he's still young.

He likes his books. We just have to make sure that he doesn't rip stuff up. He had a tendency to like to do that recently. He tore the back cover off of one of his coloring books, and will gladly shred any junk-mail that we give him.



Yesterday we got out a water toy that we had bought last summer, now that we finally have a decent place to put it. He wasn't quite sure at first, but he really liked it. It took a while to blow everything up though. Hopefully it will get him to where he likes taking baths again; for whatever reason he's not too keen on them recently.

Emma has been starting to "talk" a bit, and smiles fairly often now. She's still at the stage of mainly just eating and sleeping, but she has a few wakeful times throughout the day.


She's big for her age, and has strong neck muscles. She already holds her head up by herself pretty well.


We took her to church for the first time on Sunday, and she slept almost the entire time. We learned that with her we have to take two bottles. She took one at the beginning of church, and then when she woke up later we had to make a hasty exit to get another one for her.

This weekend we worked on a few projects. We got the accent wall in our room painted. We haven't taken pictures of that yet, so we might show that later sometime.

We got our picnic table for the back patio all stained. We just have to seal it and put it together. It has turned out really well so far.

Shawn also cut the grass for the first time. The lawn isn't completely filled out, but it seems to be doing pretty well. Everything seems to have perked up a little bit with the heat.

We've started hitting triple digits. I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, at least this year it was later.