Ezra – Page 16

October 30, 2009

Photo Friday – 10.30.09

awwww… We hadn’t taken any sleeping baby pictures yet because we are so afraid of waking one or the other up, but Noah was taking a ridiculously long nap so I snapped one.

Noah figured out how to go backwards on Tow Mater, now he can get into stuff with his brother.

Petting the elephant

Ezra stuck trying to crawl over Tow Mater

Folding Laundry

Hanging out in our jammies

Their faces clearly say nap-time! We received these shirts as hand-me-downs, aren’t they cute? I promise I was going to put pants on the boys, but after wrestling with Noah for 5 minutes, who btw is way easier to dress, I gave up. Ezra picked out the flames himself.

Also, I was only able to get one pic before baby attack!

Yesterday this cat tried to attack mine through the window. It was hilarious! She kept trying and she was growling and smacking the window, giving both my guys the stink eye! (we have tried to rescue her, but she is very wild, she is the momma of the kittens I rescued last spring, my neighbor feeds her, so she hangs around, but I have never seen her attack my cats)

October 29, 2009

Baby It's Cold Outside

The temperature dropped very drastically here yesterday and we actually had to break out the boys’ warmer clothes. Matt took them for a walk last night, we put them in hoodies for the first time and also had to put a blanket over them.

Apparently the hoodies make their heads too heavy to look up at daddy!

Ezra saying, “I am going to get you!”

Got you!

Standing over his brother, yes I said STANDING! He has been working on this new trick all week and is getting very good at it.

October 23, 2009

Photo Friday – 10.23.09

Reading the paper

Helping dad do some work

Drumming on the solar oven

Figuring out how the piano works

Hi mom I can now crawl up to you and grab your pants!

Still toothless 🙂

His new favorite way of playing with the jumper

Playing with Carter!

October 21, 2009

Wordless Wednesday – 10.21.09

October 16, 2009

Photo Friday – 10.16.09

I am going to get you!

Noah eating his first injera, he liked it!

Our week started off with lots of drool and snot!

You see that mesh thing that is pushed down? That is supposed to prevent limbs from hanging out, but Noah pushes it down during the night.

I love this machine! It spins and it spins!

Ez discovered the cat toy and he actually had the cat playing with him.

mmmmm glass!

Yes there are four sides to the table, but only this one will do.

Ez knows where are the exits are in the house and he is ready to escape!

This way?

Cute Fire Fighter. 🙂

Taffi took it upon herself to make sure none of that formula goes to waste!

ATT38339

This I just find funny.

October 14, 2009

11 months!

The regularly scheduled wordless Wednesday is interrupted to celebrate 11 months of Noah and Ezra! I cannot believe in just one month they will no longer be babies and welcoming toddlerhood, well at least Ezra will, Noah might not be doing any toddling!

Ezra is now getting in to everything! He loves exploring the house and finding new things to play with. He is figuring out how to open closets, drawers, and take down baby gates. He is also practicing his balance, he is frequently letting go of things to see if he can stand.

Taking out his immobile brother

Noah loves to stand, but refuses to pull-up! I think he is now thinking about crawling, he dove out of my lap the other day into the crawling position, and now when we put him down on his belly he will scoot backwards.

They both now say momma, but only when they are upset. More than one person has heard Ezra say “Tank,” so I guess that is his official first word. Matt heard Noah say “Ezra” the other day when trying to get his brother to play with him!

Ezra now has his first tooth, I would try to get a picture of it, but it is a serious wrestling match just to let me look at it.

Noah claps all the time and I have been working on high-five with him. I’ve also been trying to teach them some baby signs, I need to be a little more consistent and I think they would catch on quickly.

They seem to be self-weaning, they will hardly take bottles during the day, I have tried to get them to drink their formula from sippy cups, but they won’t drink much that way either. The only bottles they drink regularly are before bed, the middle of the night, and their morning bottle (that one they don’t always drink.) I keep trying and they do get a decent amount throughout the day even if it is just 1 ounce at a time.

We are currently dealing with our first stuffy, snotty nose. I know we are very lucky to have made it this long without it, but the boys are driving me nuts! They are very cranky and want to be held constantly and don’t want me to hold them at the same time. It has made for a long couple of days.

October 10, 2009

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

I spent a good portion of morning nap time fixing up the Noah and Ezra photo album and adding more pictures. There are plenty to see of their chubby cheeks, so enjoy!

October 9, 2009

Photo Friday – 10.09.09

I have been asked by more than one person why there aren’t more photos on the blog, well I could give you two good reasons, but instead I’ll suck it up and try to share more photos.

Noah sporting some pants

Ezra and his baby legs, yes I am fully aware they do not match, but his pants were seriously hampering his crawling

Ez discovering he can now get to stuff on the table

and share it with his brother

and later cousin Abby

hmmmm some sort of barrier?

take that stupid barrier!

drool!

Abby is fun to make a mess with!

Showing off my jumping skills

October 5, 2009

Cooler weather shocks new mom!

Fall has finally arrived in Arizona and the mornings and evenings are a bit cool, not too bad, but enough I should put some pants on my kids.

Long sleeve shirts, check! Sweat shirts, check! Jackets, check! Ummm, pants not so much.

We do own two pairs (each) in 12 months, and after much digging I did find one pair of 6-9 months, of course, after I had dressed them in pajama pants. The one pair I found are super cute and totally appropriate for going out in, thank goodness, but we do need to get the boys some more pants so they don’t run around looking like this anymore:

Exhibit A

Matt put Noah in these yesterday after he realized he was cold. Now these are 6-9 months the correct size, but we are not sure if they are supposed to be pants (on a super short baby) or shorts (on a super tall baby) or manpris as we like to call them.

Exhibit B

Today’s pajama pants, size 3-6 months, a little short and Noah’s are kinda girly.

I promise I love my kids!

October 3, 2009

Sharing & General Cuteness

I caught the boys sharing these Mr. Potato Head lips the other day. They would take it from each other and then giggle, oh how I wish they would take that feature into toddlerhood and then childhood.

His eyebrows always make me giggle!

Nothing like chewing on stuff together.

Oh the camera!

Enjoying the Mr. Potato Head lips

October 2, 2009

Look Mom!

I can stand up in my crib!

He is also already into the sagging look. Oh brother!

October 1, 2009

Exciting Times

When daddy comes home there is a lot of excitement in the house. I wish I would have grabbed the camera as soon as he came in, but here is a video of the tail end of their excitement:

Hooray Daddy is Home! from Stephanie Adams on Vimeo.

September 28, 2009

Rice Box Fun

Sometime during the never ending heat of the summer I remembered an idea I had read online forever ago, an indoor rice box. This idea was to get through the long, cold winter. Since we don’t have those I thought I could use the idea to get through the long, ridiculously hot summer. Rice is better than sand for at least two reason, eating it not so bad and easier to clean up. Yes the boys still make a giant mess and it goes every where, but not nearly as bad as sand would. All you need is a tote with a lid, under the bed sizes work great, and rice. I bought one of the giant bags from Sam’s Club. The boys like making an mess and it gives them something different to do.

They have lots of options:

eating the rice box toys,

playing with the rice in or out of the box,

and swimming in the rice,

not pictured, splashing in the rice, lots of fun for the boys and very messy!

September 26, 2009

Splish-Splash

Someone finally found the dog water yesterday. I knew it was going to happen eventually but was hoping I still had a while.

The dogs were just a little concerned and kept their distance.

What are these new words I am hearing, “no and don’t?”

What to do with the dog water? Pick it up and just put it back down during nap-times? Matt said I should just keep an eye on him, duh I hadn’t thought of that (insert rolling eyes). Sometimes I have another baby that needs something and can’t keep Ezra from crawling away. He’s is getting pretty fast and loves exploring the house. I don’t want to have to cage him every time I have to walk away. I am more of a “free-range” baby kind of person. So to all the experienced pet owners/parents out there, what did you do with your dog water? There isn’t a spot in the house that the dogs can get to that the babies can’t. For now I will just be picking up the water when I am home alone.