Sentences, Projects, Monsoons...

We got the pictures back, and they turned out great. Thanks everyone for putting up with the heat for these. Here's a really good one of Ezra and Lizzie.


Ezra has taken to saying a few new sentences:

"Come back here ... NOW!!" when you wander off on him.

"Give it back" when you take something from him, or when he just wants something that you have.

"Going on?" when he wants to know what everyone is doing. This one is heard a lot at night when he comes to his door when he's supposed to be asleep.

He likes to help with things. He helped Susan make a pound cake this evening. Every time she would turn the mixer on, he would start banging on the counter with a measuring cup and yelling, "OH YEAH!"

The two kids get along really well. Ezra likes to come up to Emma and in a sweet, higher voice say "Hi Emma" over and over again. She smiles at him most times.

She rolls over all the time now, though sometimes she gets a bit frustrated if there is something in her way. It is almost automatic for her to flip from her back to her stomach. She can roll back onto her back, but doesn't quite as often.


We sorted through a bunch of stuff that was stuffed in the closet this weekend. It was like Christmas all over again for Ezra. We even found Shawn's old toy dog and attached a new string to it. Ezra has been pulling it around the house. He gets a little frustrated at it when it falls over and catches on things, but he gives it a good, "Come here... NOW!" and that seems to help.

It has been really humid as of late, thank you monsoons. The storms initially didn't do too much cooling, so it was fairly miserable for a week or so. It has cooled it down quite a bit the last couple of days, and we've been able to go outside in the evenings. Ezra has been quite happy about that.



Looking around in the yard, we've come to find that we have a new resident. On the tangelo tree there is a 2" praying mantis. That should keep the other bugs away...