Busy days...

The last few weeks have shown themselves to be fairly busy, or at least it has seemed that way. Susan made us a cheesecake last week. It was really good!!!


Work for Shawn has been pretty busy, but it helps the days go by faster.

We're looking forward to family coming over for Thanksgiving. It will be nice to see everyone.

Ezra got some new pajamas, and before we could pull his hands through the sleeves he ran off and then started clapping.

It was pretty funny.



He's trying to start using a spoon at meals, like mommy and daddy, but hasn't really got a hold of it yet. He tried to share some ice cream tonight, but ended up kind of frustrated when it got taken away when he started trying to stick his hand in it.



We got one more room painted. It turned out well, though was a bit more work than the last room. Semi-gloss is a bit more difficult to paint with since it's so thick. It makes us think of the beach for whatever reason.

Happy Halloween!

So this was the extent of Ezra's 2nd Halloween. We started watching Nightmare Before Christmas, but he lost interest after about 10 minutes. Next year we'll probably do something a bit more though. We didn't even get any trick-or-treaters, so I guess we'll be eating the bowl of candy ourselves. At least it's good candy!


Smile, people will wonder what you've been up to!

Our project this weekend was painting the front room. You saw the before picture in the previous post. Here's the after picture:
It turned out really well. It went fairly quickly too. We spent probably 2 hours all together on it. We have paint for some of the other rooms as well, though we'll see when we get around to them.

Ezra loves his apples. We gave him one the other day and he just walked around taking little bites off of it for quite a while.

Play that funky music white boy ....

We broke down and bought Ezra the little keyboard that we had seen. He loves it! He was kind of grumpy the night when we got it, but when we got home and opened it, he spent about 20 minutes playing on it.


It is by far his favorite thing now. Of course, we saw a nicer one at a different store for cheaper after we already had this one, but oh well. Ezra likes it and that's what matters.


Singing along ...
In other news, we've all had a cold this weekend. Ezra is basically over it, and the two of us are on the last stages of it. It made this weekend seem more busy than it already was.

We figured now that we've got a lot of stuff unpacked that we could take some pictures of the house. Ezra has his own little corner for toys, though they generally end up all over the house.


The walls are a little bare still, but we'll get around to putting up pictures here eventually. Its been nice being in our own place. We walked down to the park late this afternoon and ran into some more of our neighbors on the way over. It was nice to see that we have such a friendly new neighborhood. Its pretty quiet, but we'll see how it all is after they finish building houses in the blank area across from us.

Ezra played a bunch with his toy tractor today. He kept running it over his shoes though and it would get stuck. With a little help from dad he was able to get free though.


Susan made a cake tonight, and we're waiting for it to cool. It looks really good.


The recipe was interesting because there's no dairy or eggs in it, but we thought we'd give it a try.

New Haircut

So we finally broke down and gave Ezra a hair-cut. The clippers freaked him out a bit, but he was pretty good for it.

Recently, Ezra has been copying us whenever either of us yawns. He just opens his mouth real big and then kind of sighs as he closes his mouth. It's really funny.


We went to our new ward today. Its kind of crazy. They are working on splitting it I guess, but it sounds like that has been in the works for quite a while. We meet at the stake center, and sacrament meeting fills up the first 2/3 of the gym. There are two elders quorums, and 7 sections of nursery with 11-13 kids in each, that's like 80 little kids!!! Craziness!!!

Moved In

So, no real pictures of the house yet. We've still got stuff just piled all over, so I'll spare you until we get everything somewhat situated. It has been nice though, just having our own place. Ezra loves it because he can just run around all over. Its been a busy month. I was looking at things and we've only taken about 5 pictures this month, whereas we usually have around 50 or more by the end of the month. Its a lot of a work moving into a new place, especially with a very active 16 month old. He likes to try and help out though.

Ezra loves music. He tries to sing along to whatever he hears. We're probably going to get him a little keyboard soon. We were at the store the other day and walked by one and his eyes just lit up.

He's not our baby anymore, but a little boy. It's so interesting to see him learn new things every day, and to see him become a little more independent. His own personality comes through more and more.

"I dropped my raisins!"

"DAD!"

Things have been busy the last couple of weeks, and they only look to get busier until after we get moved. We sign papers and do our final walk-through this week. We're so anxious to move. It will be nice to not have a staircase to have to go up and down. The funny thing is that the stairs didn't bother us so much until we found this house that doesn't have any.


Ezra hit another growth spurt again. He learns so much every day. His most recent thing is to say "DAD!" all the time. He can say mom, but seems to only say mom when he's hurt or sad.

Ezra has figured out how to climb up onto the couches by himself. I think he likes to see how close he can get to the edge, much to Susan's dismay. He likes to get a hold of the remote and push buttons on it. The other day it got real quiet, and when Susan looked over, Ezra was just sitting on the couch with the remote and a huge grin of triumph on his face.


He loves his books. Always books.


Its a good thing though. With the two of us as his parents, I guess its not too surprising.


Ezra likes to "sing" too. Whenever he hears people singing he makes noise too. He loves anything that makes music. We're going to have to get him something to play with, a little keyboard or something.

Boo!

A couple of days ago I ran and got the camera when I saw Ezra in the morning. He was sitting in his crib with the blanket wrapped up over his head and jabbering away. He had moved by the time I got back, but I said, "Say boo" and he said "Boo, boo, boo!" It was cute.

We've all three been passing a cold around for the past week or so, which has made things interesting.

We went out to the house today, and its getting so close to being done. We're really excited. Here's a picture of our new kitchen. Obviously not 100% done, though it will be soon. Just 3 1/2 more weeks and we'll be closing, and then another week and a half to two weeks and we'll be moved in.


Ezra has been bouncing around everywhere as of late. His latest escapade tonight involved running head-long into the side of the couch. He somehow managed to get a cut right by the side of his eye. He freaked, and we both kind of freaked until we got him to calm down enough for us to get a good look at it. He's a little trooper though. When we were cleaning it, he yelled louder for the fact that we were holding him down than for the peroxide. Hopefully it will heal fairly quickly.