So We have wanted to get some fun pics of the boys and their cousin abby. So I set up some hobo DIY style photo backdrop and lights from ikea. Here are some cute ones.
Wordless Wednesday
8 months
Ezra and Noah are 8 months old today! Also tonight marks 4 weeks home. It is hard to believe we were landing at about this time 4 whole weeks ago! It has been great getting to know them over the last month and watch them grow.
The boys have been busy trying lots of new things. Both of them are sitting up now and that is the way they prefer to be, none of that lying on their tummies or backs anymore. Ezra can roll over, but doesn’t like to do it, and Noah has absolutely no interest in it.
They both push up great now, they weren’t doing that when we met them.
Both are very smiley and giggly. Ezra laughs out loud quite often. Noah loves to click his tongue. Ezra taught Noah how to blow juicy raspberries. Sometimes a bit too juicy. Both boys are playing a lot more. Last month toys were for us to play with them trying to entertain them. Now they play on their own a lot.
They have tried all sorts of new foods in the last month. They were only on formula just one month ago, now they are having three additional meals a day. Noah’s favorites are anything we feed him and Ezra’s are sweet potatoes and banana. Avocado is also a big hit, with its gooey green being smashed into our hair, nose and ears as the boys are very into wanting to help with the spoon.
All the animals are doing really well with having babies in the house.
Taffi really loves them
Last night was their first bath in the big tub together. 🙂
Wordless Wednesday
Happy 4th of July!
Happy Independence Day! We didn’t not celebrate the 4th in a traditional sense today. The boys cannot stay up late enough for fireworks and all the people we normally would BBQ with are out of town (we weren’t ready to throw our own BBQ yet), but we still had a great day.
Our 4th started out checking out all the water left behind from last night’s storm. My rain gauge had 1.5 inches in it, which for the desert is a ton!
The baby pool is now disgusting and full! It was clean and only had about 2 inches of water in it before.
Lake Miramar is full! (Lake Miramar is our neighborhood name for the retention basin down the street, it has very deep dry wells at the bottom too, so it is impressive when it fills)
After that, it was time to go to the Farmers’ Market!
As you can see it was met with great excitement.
Our bounty from the market. Most of this is to make more baby food. Look at those giant sweet potatoes, Ezra will be so happy!
Then we took naps, okay the boys did, Matt and I did stuff around the house. When nap time was over cousin Abby came over and we went swimming.
This is fun!
Dad and Noah
Mom and Ezra
Auntie Michelle and Abby
Noah really likes to lick towels, blankets, pretty much anything
Thanks to our neighbors who lent us their pool in their absence! It was a great day for swimming.
Wordless Wednesday
One Week Home
We have survived our first week home! The jet lag plus having two infants made for a challenging week, but thankfully we had lots of help and lots of food. Here are some highlights from the first week, sorry I am sure more happened but I cannot remember all that much!
- The first doctor appointments went well. We came home with NO ear infections and Giardia does not seem to be present.
- I overheard Matt telling his mom that cloth diapering is just as easy as disposables. 🙂
Drying some on the line right now
- The boys are super chatty and giggly.
- Noah is super close to sitting up.
- Ezra loves to sing.
- Noah loves to jump in the jumper. seriously. he jumped over an hour today (video proof of the fun).
- We have tried rice cereal and sweet potatoes. Ezra doesn’t like the cereal, but the sweet potatoes are yummy.
- Matt is amazing with the boys, he was so worried before, but it seems to come natural to him.
- The animals are all adjusting well, yes even Tank.
The boys in their bumbos.
My Handsome Guys
We received more pictures of our boys today. Thanks to Stefany for taking them! We are so happy and extremely lucky that CHI started allowing traveling families to take pictures for families waiting to travel. We have been able to see the boys grow and are thankful to everyone who took pictures for us. You all are a tremendous blessing!
Look who’s not crying!
I added the rest of the pics to the photo gallery.
Good News All Around
First, Congratulations to Gregg and Meg, Sam officially became their son today and he is adorable.
Second, Abby made it to the 3rd and final round of Baby Idol! Please keep voting for her!
Matt took this adorable shot and is very excited to see her make it so far. It doesn’t hurt that she is just so freakin’ cute!
Third, Our visa appointment was confirmed for June 11. We leave June 6! We are so excited to finally be leaving and super excited to meet those two cute little boys of ours! We will be back home to begin our new life together June 16!!!
New Pics of Noah & Ezra
thanks to John and April for taking new photos of our boys. We are always excited to see them!
Anyone else noticing a trend here? Ezra is not usually a happy camper. You can tell he was crying, and in all the other pics John & April sent he is crying. While Noah is cool as a cucumber. im sure once Ezra is held more, and grows up a bit he will settle down. Otherwise maybe he and our niece Abby can exchange tips on being crabby (im kidding, abby isnt that crabby, sometimes she’s quite giggly and happy)
Noah & Ezra!
Introducing Noah Esrael and Ezra Yakob born on November 14, 2008!
Ezra is on the left, Noah on the right. Angie was so sweet to take this video for us when she was there!
Here are their referral photos taken February 10, 2009:
Ezra Yakob
Noah Esrael
I am sensing a theme in their daily lives, two different families traveling weeks apart have both sent me this scene:
Ezra crying and Noah giving him a look
Lots more pictures in the photo gallery!
Hanging with Abby, Court tomorrow
Yesterday Abby and I hung out for a few hours. We had a lot of fun. She is getting very talkative! She loves to rollover and play in her exersaucer. Can’t wait to see her and the boys play together.
Tomorrow is our 2nd court date. We received word this morning that the piece of paper has been corrected and everything should be fine tomorrow. Please pray that court is held, that we pass, and that there is electricity so our in-country representative can let us know what happened. I am really hopeful that we can finally share our boys with you tomorrow. Monday was three months since we first saw their sweet faces. I cannot believe it has been that long already.
Today was not the day :(
We didn’t pass court today. One piece of paper did not have both boys names on it. Something so simple! We are both bummed. I really wanted to share the boys with ya’ll today, more than anything.
Our new court date is May 14. So please pray for that one stinken piece of paper to come back correctly.
6 days until court!
Today is the day!
I am so excited to find out the news today. I truly believe court was a positive outcome. We will hopefully find out by 11 am our time, but that isn’t a guarantee.
On another note, yesterday we figured out for sure that the boys are not identical. We were originally told they were, but I always had my doubts. They always looked slightly different in pictures, but we told ourselves it was the camera angle or the lighting and chose to believe the medical reports. With the most recent set of pictures and the video we received, I just couldn’t believe they were identical. So, I asked Angie who took the pictures and she said she never would have thought they were identical. They are both cute as can be and I can now easily tell them apart. 🙂
I hope to share the pictures with you sometimes in the next few hours!