Outside and Baking

The past three weeks have flown. We used to keep fairly regular with posts, but you get what you can get.

Emma is pushing up and on the cusp of being able to crawl. If there is something that she wants bad enough she manages to get to it. She spends a lot up time up on her hands and knees rocking back and forth. She loves playing in her blankets and will wrap herself up in them and just chatter away.

She's such a happy little girl, and we're so blessed to have such a wonderful daughter.

Ezra keeps learning. He's as rambunctious as ever. He likes to sing recently. He'll sing "Baa baa, black sheep", "Old McDonald had a farm", and "Wheels on the bus".

Ezra likes to try and help out with his little sister and everything else that is going on around him. He loves to go outside, and we've been able to go out a little bit more since it has started to cool down slightly. It's still not as cool as it would normally be, but that's what we get for having a late start to summer I guess. The lemon tree hasn't seemed to mind it though.


We finally went out and got some more house plants. It has made a big difference in how our room feels, which is nice. We replaced a shrub that had randomly died out in the front yard, and one of our hibiscus bloomed again this last week. Just one bloom, but hopefully we'll see more as the weather eases up again.

The pink hibiscus died finally. Its only been in it's death throes all summer long. Apparently the pink ones don't do so well in the heat without some extra shade. We replaced it with a much larger one with peach colored flowers.

Hopefully this one will stay. Susan planted some poppy and sunflower seeds around them, so hopefully everything will come up and look nice for us this fall.

Of course once we start doing things, we have a tendency to do more. Susan found a recipe for pretzels so we made pretzels this morning. They were really good! Needless to say they didn't last the day.


And since we'd started baking, Ezra got the choice of cookies or cake, and he picked cake. Susan made a beautiful pound cake this evening. Yum!

Doo... Doo.... Doo.... Lookin' out my back door

It is always really inviting, looking out the door at the back yard. It makes you want to go outside; well, at least until you remember that it is close to 110...
Emma has been growing a lot the last little bit. Her hair is getting longer. She's just shy of crawling. She can kind of scoot a bit, and when she really figures that out the rest of the way she'll be mobile. Unlike Ezra, she just sticks everything she can in her mouth. That's going to make for exciting times.

We've all been a little sick the last bit, but that's life I guess. (random colds and stuff the last few days). We'll get better soon hopefully.

Emma got a new toy. She always wants to be sitting up so that she can see everything, but it does a bit of a number on one's back to hold her all day long. She loves it. Ezra likes playing with it too. (Though we have had to explain to him that he's too big to fit in it).

Ezra keeps coming up with new things. The last week or so, his affirmative answer to a yes/no question has gone from always being "OK" to mostly being "Of course." Every now and then he'll say "yeah" or "yup", but not usually.

We've noticed random perfectly straight lines of toys fairly often. Ezra likes to arrange things this way for whatever odd reason. Couldn't have anything to do with all of the engineers on both sides of the family could it?