Ezekiel - my Pickle Boy

It feels like Ezekiel is growing into a little boy so quickly.  He doesn't do these huge milestones all the time like when he was learning to sit up or learning to crawl; now it is the little things that you have to look for.  For example, he just discovered that he has pockets.  He puts his little hands in his pockets and walks around all tough-like.  He will stop and look at you with his eyebrows raised as if to say "I know you are impressed".  I've tried to take a video of it, but he sees the camera and starts hamming it up immediately. 

He is pee-peeing all the time on the potty now.  He has to stand up like Daddy does though.  He actually has excellent aim (thank goodness) and then he dumps his potty out into the big toilet and cleans up after himself.  It is super funny.

Here is Ezekiel and Shamus (his cousin):


Flip the t.v. on and both of them are immediately sucked in:


Having a baby over exhausts Ezekiel.  I think he feels like his household-status is being threatened.  After Shamus leaves, Ezekiel has constant temper tantrums and then in bed at night, he has nightmare after nightmare.  My heart just breaks for him because as many times as I explain to him that no one can take the place of him, he still gets this nervous energy that takes a whole day to shake (he actually dry-washes his hands when Shamus is here).  Here they both are though after I exhausted them with loads of play:


We went to the store the other day and Ezekiel was such a good boy that I told him he could have whatever he wanted.  He didn't pick out toys...  he picked out these rain boots - they have cows on them - and the candy necklace.  He calls the boots his "cow boots" and insists on wearing them quite frequently.


Here he is being our bath time baby:




This is his favorite toy ever.  It does not belong to him (he was at Mandy's playing with it) and we cannot find it anywhere.


He is all about dinosaurs right now.  Or dino-roars as he calls them.  Today we bought him a dinosaur encyclopedia that already he has spent about an hour looking at.

Yesterday, we had Angie's baby shower to go to.  We really wanted to get Ezekiel a haircut (it gets a little old having your son constantly referred to as "that cute little girl").  We made a last minute appointment to have it done right before we had to be at Jeff's and Feather's.  Here he is with his curls still in place:


As a chocolate-faced fishie:


My little guy:


And after the haircut..  I'm not really sure what I think of it.  It takes some adjusting to because he looks so much like a little boy and not a baby:




At Angie's baby shower, his best friend Jazzie showed up.  They are so hilarious together.  Jazzie is 4, yet E. is bigger than she is.  He simply loves her.  They hold hands every where they go (if Jazzie starts to walk off without Ezekiel, he says "hey, hey, hands!!" and she comes back and grabs his hands.  They will be playing together, and then they will just stop and hug each other or give each other a kiss.  It is so, so sweet.  I don't remember a time when Ezekiel had such a little friend that he got along with so well.

Here he is, going in for the kiss:


That's Ezekiel's little chubby arm - it is around Jazzie.  The other arm is around Shamus.


Trying to impress by drinking out of a big kid cup (although, really, he prefers the regular cups to sippy cups):




Trying to get Byrum-the-Dog to come see them:


Pulling Jazzie along by the hand:


Ezekiel is not allowed soda to drink (or Dah as he calls it).  Can't you tell?






And... he walks off with it to finish it later:


With so much sugar and soda running through his system, he starts getting a little rowdy.  First, he attacks Feather from behind.






He's obviously pleased with himself:


Then he does a "walk by ripping" to "help" open gifts:


You can see the buzz slowly wearing off


HAHA, trying to escape from Uncle Jeff.  He is looking at me as if to say 'please help'


Doesn't Angie look great?  As Marty said "she looks so classicly 70s and so healthy"


Seriously?  The cutest belly I've ever seen.  It could be in magazines.  **side note:  Angie, if you hate this picture being up, I WILL erase it :)


Vinnie getting Angie giggling.  I think it was about this time that Vin was trying out the various bibs:


Here's Nana with Ezekiel:


And Marty with Shamus:




And Angie walking into her baby shower:


Well, Marty is putting Ezekiel to nah-nights right now and I never get a break from doing that, so I'm off to go enjoy myself :)

New Pics from tonight 1/9/2009

The Pull-Ups are really working!  ....    as a hat.



He always wants to show off his belly:



He's so proud of himself:



Daddy trying to get him to smile..


CHEESE!


Decided to try some really, really spicy food.  He loved it but his cheeks and face turned bright red (that's hot sauce all over his face)

Christmas Videos

Trying to post Christmas Videos....

Christmas Post

I just really want to post my Christmas pictures before too much timegoes by.  There won't be too much commentary on these.  Our Christmaswas really nice, but really, really busy.  Ezekiel has SO many new toysand new clothes it is just amazing.  We could open a toy store with theamounts of toys that he now has.  The cool thing is is that he playswith all of them!

Daddy and E. getting ready to go on Christmas Eve.  Don't they both look so handsome.


Random shots/video from Christmas Eve (I can't seem to get my videos to post.  Unsure of why...)










Christmas morning was spent at my mom's house.  Once again, Ezekiel had a blast.

Birthday Gifts from Away

For Ezekiel's birthday, Grandaddy Jack and Angie (or Gammy Gee-Gee as Ezekiel calls her) sent Ezekiel some surprise packages.  It was hilarious how they ended up coming.  The first day, we got a package and in it was a Go Diego Go bed set.  Ezekiel was incredibly excited.  So I went and got his mattress and we set up his bed on the floor so he could try out his new sheets and blankets.  He loved it.  He went and got all of his new toys, and set them up all over the bed to play with them.  I was a little weary of letting him sleep in the bed because the mattress had already gone through two kids and it was ripped up.  I promised him we would go buy him a new mattress.  So the next day, I look out my door and I see this huge thing.  I go drag it in, and low-and-behold it's a mattress!!!  So I bring it in, and Ezekiel is jumping, jumping, jumping everywhere in his excitement!  A new bed has come!!  So we set up the new mattress and once again, he is so excited (for Diego-go as he calls it).  I call Marty at work and tell him about the gift and say "we should really go buy him a bed, so the mattress can be set up correctly".  We agree to do that "next week".  So....the next day, I hear this pounding on the front door.  It's UPS again.  They've got another package.  IT'S A BED!!!  hahaha.  It was so awesome - a beautiful cherry sleighbed.  I brought it in, and immediately set it up.  Four hours later (in which Ezekiel probably learned some new cuss words.  The first time I put the bed together, I put the rails on backwards.  sigh...) I had it completely set up and Ezekiel was SO happy.  He was so proud.  When Marty got home, he ran into the bedroom and made Marty come in and he showed him everything and how it was set up.  That first night, he INSISTED that he would be sleeping in Diego-go.  So we put him in and he fell asleep.  And Marty and I cuddled...until about 1 in the morning when Ezekiel lost his Nuk and cried.  Marty and I were both like "we miss him, let's bring him back" .. so we did.  We are shmucks I tell you.  But, he still is in love with his Diego-go.  Here he is, getting ready and super excited (he wouldn't look at the camera)


And here are some more of him, just because he looks so cutie-pie in his new ducky p.j.s

Ezekiel’s Birthday (Finally Posting!)

December 5th was Ezekiel's SECOND birthday.  (I am so sorry that it took so long to actually write and post this blog.  I still have Christmas to catch up with too!)

We decided that since his birthday fell on a Friday, we were just going to have a quiet celebration with the three of us and enjoy his favorite food (Pizza) and watch his favorite t.v. show (Go Diego Go) and just stay up late and have fun.  That's what we did and it was some great fun.  The next day, Saturday, we had a birthday party for family that we held at my mom's house.  I'm pretty sure that Ezekiel had a TON of fun.  He is still such a little socialite.  Running and playing with all of the kids.  He got tons and tons of toys too.  He loved that.  It was funny though, as soon as he opened his first gift, he didn't want to give it up to open up other gifts.  Every time I would try to take it so he could open his other gifts he would say "NO.  MINE."  Finally, I just opened his presents for him and showed them to him.  (Then I had to open each one...break all of the seals, and let him play with those too).  I got some pictures - but I had to use my mother's camera and it was experiencing some odd problems. 

We showed up early at my mom's to set up the birthday decorations and have lunch (PIZZA AGAIN much to Ezekiel's excitement).  Here Ezekiel is relaxing and reading the Funnies.  He loves to read the Funny Papers.  He will sit for like an hour, just looking at them.  It is really like he is reading the newspaper.







Then he spent some time coloring some pictures (he also LOVES to color):


Getting bored waiting...


So he harasses Papa for a bit...




Then he tries to figure out what the gifts are that are already out...


Then he discovers the Kitty Door and he discovers his inner Kitty-Cat!


Finally people started showing up and the party got going.  One of his favorite gifts was the sled that my sister Beckie gave him.  He insisted that he sit in it and that the older kids dragged him around in it.