A Mish Mash of a Month's Past

I have so much catching up to do on Ezekiel's site! My goodness! When I get extra time, I really, really need the time lately to just relax and sleep. I am pooped out!! This is really a mish-mash of dates from the last 4-5 weeks.

These first photos are from our first trip this year to D.E.W. Animal Kingdom. We hadn't been with Ezekiel since he was about 6 months old, so it was really exciting for him. When we first got there, we thought that we would put him in the stroller to be able to see everything. Yah, right!! He told us "no stroller" and refused to ride in it. He wanted to get up close and possible with as many of the animals as he could. He got licked by a huge deer (which is one of his most favorite stories to tell), he was petrified of the goats, and he loved the fact that he *finally* got to pet a live kangaroo (or kangaroon as he calls them). Here he is with Daddy getting ready to feed some of the animals. This was the llama and sheep section. He was a little nervous about them, but a real trooper (with Daddy's encouragement)!







He loved, loved, loved the bears! They have a tube set up so you can buy "bear food" and put it down the tube for them to eat. One of the bears stands at the end of the tube waiting for food. Ezekiel LOVED that! Here he is standing on the stump feeding the bears:






Here's Marty and E. at the end of our trip. You can tell that they are both pretty tired!


Ezekiel did his best to stay awake for the rest of the night, but he crawled in Marty's lap and ended up crashing (while holding a chinese meat stick!! haha):


Ezekiel went over to Grammy's the other day and stole one of her necklaces that the kids made her. He loves that thing now!
I think he might think it is candy...






Watching t.v. and zoning out:




Ezekiel LOVES his bike! He calls it his "Bicycle Helmet". He has finally mastered the pedals so he can go "fast, fast!"





This one..... I'm not really sure.....


Marty and I take Ezekiel on "special dates" to get ice cream. He gets his ice cream cone, we park the car and then he gets to come sit with us in the front seat to eat it. He always tells us that this makes him feel "really, really big-boy". He especially likes to rearrange the rear-view mirror so that he can watch his every ice cream bite. He loves himself.