We finally ended up getting a new carseat, but he should be able to use it for quite a while. He almost completely filled the other one. I think he likes it though, what do you think?
In other news, we finally cleaned the fish tank and replaced the gravel (it was pretty bad, it mostly came out in large chunks). It looks about 1000 times bettter.
The last week has been pretty good. Ezra keeps sucking on his hand more and more. He just needs to figure out that trying to suck on his whole hand at once, and/or on his palm doesn't really work the greatest.
We put some of his hats on him the other day. Most of them are still too big, but it was cute, so here's one of them.
The last few days he has been really talkative. Its interesting to hear the new noises that he comes up with every day. He's starting making "m" and "b" sounds every now and then, but still likes the old standby "goo".
He likes his bouncer more and more. He get really excited when we put him in it. Its nice because it gives us enough time to eat dinner. He really likes the giraffe and elephant toys on it. See:
So, there are a few things that Ezra has started to do more. The first one is that he turns around while on his back. Surprisingly he doesn't cry when he gets stuck in his crib. He just continues to talk to the wall.
Which happens to be one of the other things he's doing more of. He loves to talk and have conversations with us. His favorite sound for us to make is "boo", which gets the biggest grins in response.
He seems to keep figuring out how to make new noises every day. It's entertaining, since you never know what he is going to say next. Sometimes it even sounds kind of like words that would have made sense in the conversations that others were having.
Ezra got his baby blessing this weekend. It was a neat experience. Shawn's parents and Lori were able to come down, and it was good to spend some more time with them. Doesn't he look adorable in his outfit that grandma made? He was good for the blessing, I think he slept through most of it, but that's okay.
Good morning mama...
The week and a half has been fairly uneventful, other than Ezra still growing. Its amazing how big he has grown in such a short time really. Just looking back at pictures of him a month ago, there is a pretty decent change. He's been sleeping in a bit longer spurts at night, though he still manages to wake us up fairly often. The good thing is that when he's actually awake, he seems to entertain himself pretty well. He continues to "talk" more and more. He's been working on trying to push himself up a bit more when we put him on his tummy, but gets frustrated sometimes because he can't crawl around yet. When he finally gets that figured out, we're in for it, because he is pretty curious. Enough talking, on to the pictures:
He sleeps in all sorts of random positions, like this one.
Its really hard to get a picture of him really smiling. He gets a big grin on his face, and by the time you get the camera its gone. Here's a bit of an attempt at getting a smiling picture. You can see his dimple at least!
Here's him yesterday in an outfit that we got as a gift. We were surprised that he actually left the visor on. He normally takes any sort of hat off right as you put it on him, but he didn't seem to mind this one.
A happy mom and her boy.
This last couple of weeks has been quite eventful. We went out to NM for Kelly's wedding. It was really fun to see everyone, and to see my sister get married in at the temple in Albuquerque.
But even though her last name has changed, she's still Kelly.
Ezra has been getting big, he's like 11 1/2 lbs now. Craziness! Everyone was really excited to see him. He's been going through some growth spurts, so he has been eating and sleeping more.
The good thing is that he's starting to be a lot more alert and interacting with things around him. Its great to hear him "talk" to everything around him (not really talking per se, but making noises).
The most interesting is the fake cry that he learned. It sounds like he's crying but then you look at him and he just looks back at you with a weird look on his face and/or a smile.
So its been a while since we've posted anything. We've been a bit busy again. Thankfully this weekend we have some time to recooperate.
Ezra has been growing a lot. He's about 9lbs 12oz now.
Kelly's wedding is this next weekend, so that will be a good excuse to get away from everything for a while. We'll just see how long the drive takes us. Who knows, he could sleep the whole way...... right..... :P
Enough talking, onto the pictures:
